Welcome to Week Three of Storybook Summer! The Book of the Week is Caps for Sale. This is a fun book that children love. Those monkey are so curious and they make such a fun little noise!
The goal of Storybook Summer is to spend time reading with your children and engaging them in academic learning. No matter what the age of your child, he or she will love spending time reading a book with you! The lesson plans posted here are very informal but will give you ideas of activities you can do with your children every day related to the weekly book theme. Don’t feel like you need to do everything on the lesson plan. Go ahead and make revisions, additions, and deletions. Visit your local library and check out the Book of the Week at the library to save money (just remember to return it on time).
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“Caps! Caps for sale! Fifty cents a cap!” If these words are not familiar to you then you haven’t read Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina. If this isn’t an instant favorite at your house give it until the end of the week to retire this book to the shelf permanently. Kids have so much fun pretending they are monkeys, shaking their fingers and going “Tsz, tsz, tsz.”
Monday June 28th:
Read: Caps for Sale
Sing: 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Craft: Make monkey masks out of white paper colored brown or brown consruction paper
Math: Name each coin
Coloring Sheets: Here and Here
Vocabulary: Peddler, wares
Tuesday June 29th:
Read: Caps for Sale – lots of emphasis on the monkeys!
Sing: 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Game: Play Barrel of Monkeys
Activity: Balance books and/or hats on your heads. Time the balancing act or count the objects that are piled
Math: Name each coin
Craft: Make stick puppets of five (or more) monkeys
Wednesday June 30th:
Read: Caps for Sale
Sing: 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Sing: Five Little Monkeys up in a Tree
(Five little monkeys up in a tree, teasing Mr. Crocodile mean as can be. Along came Mr. Crocodile quiet as a mouse, then SNAP (4, 3, 2, 1) little monkeys up in a tree ……. (repeat song)
Baking: Make a banana treat – banana bread, banana cookies, dehydrated bananas, frozen bananas
Math: Name each coin
Thursday July 1st:
Read: Caps for Sale – lots of emphasis on the peddler
Sing: Five Little Monkeys up in a Tree
Math: Name each coin, talk about value. Introduce the $ and ¢ signs
Language Arts: Talk about feelings – tired, sleepy, angry, surprised
Friday July 2nd:
Have child read: Caps for Sale
Sing: Five Little Monkeys up in a Tree
Language Arts: Talk about rhyming words for cap
Craft: Create a tree with brown paper and make thumbprint monkeys on it. Draw caps on the thumbprint monkeys.
Math: Coin rubbings – place coins underneath paper and run them crayons
For the very ambitious I found this site that I think is really neat. We may adapt some of the lap book this week. We will be in the car a lot since the girls start swim lessons.
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Leandrea is a married mom of two girls, ages 10 and 12, living in Atlanta, GA. She is passionate about helping people save money one coupon at a time. Read more