September – Heidi
October – first and fourth week (park dates?) depending on baby’s arrival, skipping second and third weeks.
November – J
December – K
January – Heidi
February – J
March – K
April – Heidi
May – J
June – K

We’ll be meeting for about an hour and each week will read a storybook then do a storychart (character, setting, plot, theme) and an activity then a snack (fruits or veggies since we’re doing close to dinner and have various allergy needs) and a few minutes of play time before everyone heads home. I’m really excited!

We have 12 kids (we’re not counting the one that will sleep through co-op once she arrives) including 3 two year olds and the other 9 kids are almost nine years down through almost four years.

Plans:
And to Think That I Saw it on Mulberry Street – I decided to use the activities from the Cub Scout geography belt loop:

Draw a map of your neighborhood. Show natural and manmade features. Include a key or legend of map symbols.

Learn about the physical geography of your community. Identify the major landforms within 100 miles. Discuss with an adult what you learned.

Use a world globe or map to locate the continents, the oceans, the equator, and the northern and southern hemispheres. Learn how longitude and latitude lines are used to locate a site.

Green Eggs & Ham – discuss our tongue and salty, sweet, bitter, sour. Use various foods to let the kids taste test.

Alice the Fairy – make crowns/tiaras.

Fox in Socks – I’ll make socks out of cardstock or cardboard and hole punch some for the younger kids but have the older kids cut out & hole punch it themselves. We’ll wrap a little piece of tape around the end of yarn and have the kids sew the socks (Who sews Sue’s socks?)

I wanted to do activities that would engage all of the kids but obviously some are aimed more at older some weeks, younger kids other weeks. We’ll see how it goes.

Various poetry books: discuss a very, very brief overview of what a poem is and have kids make greeting cards with a verse of poetry in it.

Johnny Appleseed: cut open apple, look at seeds and discuss plants briefly, have kids collect and trace leaves, discuss why leaves change colors in fall.