Take Home Storytime: Animals in the Snow

  • Program goals
    • Pass on early literacy message and encourage families to continue early literacy at home
    • Encourage circulation and storytime attendance
    • Reach families who are unable to attend storytime
  • Notes
    • Last used January 2017
Miss storytime? You can practice many of the early literacy concepts we use in storytime at home! Don't forget to sign up for text alerts so you can make it to the next storytime!

Theme: Animals in the snow

Use the five early literacy practices; talking, singing, reading, playing and writing with these books and projects!

TALK about the books. What animals do you see in the books? How do they behave in the snow? Are they real animals or pretend animals?

Get ready to WRITE by using fine motor skills to make a rainbow snowflake.
  • You will need scratch paper (newspaper or paper bags), paintbrush, and water
  • Instructions - put your snowflakes on the scratch paper. Lay your bleeding art tissue on the snowflakes. "Paint" them with water and watch the colors bleed onto the snowflake!
SING a song or do a fingerplay rhyme. Rhyming and clapping rhythms helps children hear the sounds in words, part of phonological awareness. The following rhymes are great for recognizing rhythms and there are several versions online.

Five little penguins
Five little snowmen standing in a row
Search online for "learning with snow by Jean Warren" for more activities and songs

PLAY in the snow! What kind of things do animals do in the snow? Can you copy them? Can you look for animals in the snow?

READ together! The following books talk about real animals in the snow and fun stories about playing in the snow.

The fox in the dark by Alison Green
Animals in Winter by Martha Rustad
When Winter Comes by Nancy Van Laan
Kitten's winter by Eugenie Fernandes
Duck skates by Lynne Berry

For more library events, new books, and more, check out our website at www.elkhorn.lib.wi.us, join us on Facebook, or talk to a librarian. Please let me know if you have suggestions or questions!

Jennifer Wharton, Youth Services Librarian
jwharton@elkhorn.lib.wi.us, 262-723-9143

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