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MANDEL PUBLIC LIBRARY
OF WEST PALM BEACH
A FOXY STORYTIME FEATURING
ONE FOX: A COUNTING BOOK THRILLER
HOW TO USE A FOXY STORYTIME KIT
Things you'll need from your supplies for this storytime:
Shaker Eggs
Use the link on the Virtual Storytime Page to watch A Foxy Storytime featuring
One Fox: A Counting Book Thriller.
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.
STORYTIME WITH MS. KRISTINE
A Foxy Storytime featuring
One Fox: A Counting Book Thriller
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:
ONE FOX: A COUNTING BOOK THRILLER
Author & Illustrator: Kate Read
One hungry fox with two sly eyes is on the prowl…three plump hens had better watch out! Rich and colorful illustrations plunge the reader into a dramatic and exciting story set in a moonlit farmyard. With something different to count on each page, learning to count from one to ten has never been so thrilling! This surprisingly simple counting book with a gripping tale, great for early education and read-alouds, has a hugely satisfying ending that's sure to delight generations.
RHYME: FOXY LOXY
Foxy Loxy touch your toes, Foxy Loxy touch your nose.
Foxy Loxy pat your head, Foxy Loxy go to bed.
Foxy Loxy wake up now, Foxy Loxy take a bow.
Foxy Loxy touch the ground, Foxy Loxy turn around.
Foxy Loxy sit back down.
Foxy Loxy don’t make a sound.
Printable Rhyme Cards Available Here
ONE FOX: A COUNTING BOOK THRILLER WORD OF THE WEEK
Use this week's Word of the Week, FOX, 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 fox. These can be real words
or made-up ones that are silly and non-sensical!
Link to printable Word of the Week sheet here:
fox
CRAFT
Children will make their own fox craft with the supplies provided in the
Storytime Kit from the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach.
Directions:
Each child will receive:
1 large orange heart
2 halves of a white heart
2 small orange hearts
2 small white hears
3 black circles
1. Glue the small white hearts onto the small orange hearts to create the fox's ears.
2. Glue the two halves of the white heart onto the large orange heart to create the fox's face.
3. Glue two black circles to the face to create the fox's eyes, and one to the
bottom of the large orange heart to create the nose.
4. Glue the two ears to the back of the large orange heart.
LITERACY TIP
You don't actually need to read books aloud to children in order for them to benefit. Simply looking at and talking about the illustrations in books helps children build comprehension, vocabulary, oral language, inferring and predicting skills. Having children "picture walk" through a book and describe what they see helps introduce the concept of building narrative and reinforces that images can help to tell a story, sometimes as much as or even without words.
Have your children "picture walk" through One Fox: A Counting Book Thriller and explain
what the characters are feeling, and why.
Some other books with few (or no) words that are great for picture walks include:
The Lion and the Mouse by Jerry Pinkney
Where's Walrus by Stephen Savage
Truck by Donald Crews
Goodnight, Gorilla by Peggy Rathmann
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs