STORYTIME May 6th and 7th 2014

Your Kind of Mommy
What kind of mommy is just right? An octopus mommy with eight arms to hold you? A shaggy dog mommy with a big tail to wag for you? A buzzy bee mommy with a sweet honey treat for you? The right kind of mommy is all of these, and the right kind of mommy is the one you have.

Marjorie Parker’s joyful, reassuring text pairs beautifully with Cyd Moore’s exuberant art showing all kinds of loving animal moms and their babies to create a picture-book celebration of love.

Mama Always Comes Home 

Mama Bird and Mama Cat and even teensy-weensy Mama Mole must leave their little ones from time to time; but in the end, mamas always come home.

Karma Wilson's reassuring text, paired with Brooke Dyer's colorful and comforting mother-child illustrations, shows that -- rain or shine, in a tree or in the sea -- mamas everywhere find their way home with cozy hugs and lots of love, because Mama Always Comes Home.

Above book discriptions from Amazon.com

LITERACY EXTENDERS:

• Go through each page of the book, and identify the animals on each page, ask your child what noise they make, ask them if the babies hatched from eggs.
• Ask you child how they feel when you have to go some place away from....but remind that you always come home
• Ask them to make a list of games or activites they can do while you are gone.
• Make a schedule together create time slots for the day with two columns, one marked as your own and one marked as your child's. In each box write what each of you are doing, this may give your child a sense of closeness even though you are not with them, they know what you are doing and can correlate with the time of day and what they are doing.

CRAFT: Mother's Day Card

For this craft you will need, a colored stamp pad, a 8.5 x 11 sheet of white paper, crayons and glue.

• Fold the white sheet of paper in half
• Trace your child's hand on the outside of the folded paper towards the bottom or middle.
• Next let them color it in green
• Using the stamp pad let them use their fingers to make the petals to a flower (the hand will be the stems)