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MANDEL PUBLIC LIBRARY
OF WEST PALM BEACH
HURRY UP!
HOW TO USE HURRY UP! STORYTIME KIT
Use the link on the Virtual Storytime Page to watch
Hurry Up! Storytime.
This page is password protected. Password has been provided by the program administrator.
After watching the storytime, use the components from the class Storytime Kits
provided by the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach to:
1. Enjoy Rhyme Cards with your class.
2. Practice the Word of the Week with your class.
3. Complete this week's craft.
4. Introduce this week's Literacy Tip into your curriculum.
5. Encourage children to use their stress ball when they are feeling frustrated or
anxious as a way to slow down and destress.
STORYTIME WITH MS. ANGELA
Hurry Up! storytime is available on the Storytime Video Access page of this website. This page is password protected and accessible only to preschools participating in
the Mandel Public Library's Virtual Storytime and Kit program.
The password has been provided to you by the program coordinator.
BOOK:
HURRY UP!
For one busy boy, life is all hurry up, hurry down, hurry round and round and round!
That is until he takes a big breath...and a big break...and slows down to see all the
wonderful things in the world around him.
RHYME: FIVE LITTLE CATERPILLARS
Five little caterpillars
Sitting on a leaf
One little caterpillar
Fell asleep
When he woke up
He found he could fly
Now there’s four caterpillars
And one butterfly!
(Count down 4, 3, 2, 1 caterpillars)
HURRY UP! WORD OF THE WEEK
Use this week's Word of the Week, STOP, to extend your learning:
1. Say and trace each letter of this week's word.
2. Sound out a word letter–by-letter.
3. Think of other words that rhyme with stop. These can be real words
or made-up ones that are silly and non-sensical!
Link to printable Word of the Week sheet here:
CRAFT
Children will create their own colorful butterfly with the supplies provided in the
Storytime Kit from the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach. Use this craft to remind children to slow down as they move through the world throughout their day ...
just like their beautiful butterfly!
Directions:
Each child will receive:
1 Butterfly
Tissue Paper Squares
1 Craft Stick
1. Decorate the butterfly with crayons in colors and patterns for your choice.
2. Glue the tissue paper squares onto the butterfly to add more color and design to your butterfly.
Link to butterfly template here.
LITERACY TIP
We often want to build on children's curiosity but don't always know the answers to their questions. We can often discover the answers together in books. Knowledge about the world, even in very young children, is key to understanding. In Hurry Up! our main character learns to slow down and enjoy the natural world that surrounds us all. Combining a story and a factual book on nature or science helps expand children's scientific knowledge.
Some factual books about nature and science that you can use
to extend learning with your children include:
Hippos Are Huge by Jonathan London
A Nest is Noisy by Dianna Hutts Ashton
Up in the Garden, Down in the Dirt by Kate Messner
Outside Your Window: A First Book of Nature by Nicola Davies
Little Kids First Big Book of ... (Series) by National Geographic