- backpacks or book bags
- Between the Lions library cards
- chairs (4)
- fiction and nonfiction books on different topics and genres
- Lola at the Library (book)
- borrow
- library
- library card
- return
MA Standards:
Literature/RL.PK.MA.9: With prompting and support, make connections between a story or poem and one’s own experiences.
Language/L.PK.MA.6: Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, listening to books read aloud, activities, and play.
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.1: Participate in collaborative conversations with diverse partners during daily routines and play.
Head Start Outcomes:
Social Emotional Development/Self-Concept and Self-Efficacy: The perception that one is capable of successfully making decisions, accomplishing tasks, and meeting goals.
Approaches to Learning/Cooperation: An interest and engagement in group experiences.
Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation and Knowledge: The interest in books and their characteristics, and the ability to understand and get meaning from stories and information from books and other texts.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature: Relate themes and information in books to personal experiences.
Health Education: Practice independence and self-help skills.
EEC:
PW45: The older toddler develops self-help skills.
Off to the Library!
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Set up two rows of two chairs to serve as a pretend car. Encourage children to pretend that they are getting ready for a trip to the library.
- Show the page in Lola at the Library where Lola and her mom are preparing for their trip. Review what they take with them: books to return, a backpack to carry the books, and a library card.
- After children are packed and ready, encourage them to get in their cars (the four chairs) and drive to the library.
- Sing “A Hunting We Will Go” (library version) on your drive!
A-Hunting We Will Go (library version)
A-hunting we will go,
A-hunting we will go,
We’ll find ourselves a favorite book (or a fairy tale, a lion book, etc.)
And then to home we’ll go.
English Language Learners: Say aloud these words: book, backpack, and library card. Ask children to repeat the terms after you. Then have children find these objects in the room. Ask them to point to the object and name it for you again.