Story Port has been fun the last few weeks! We have 5 kids signed up this semester. Most of them are around kindergarten age. Here's what we've been doing the last few weeks:
1. The first week we read The Great Turtle Drive by Steve Sanfield. For our activity, we made stained glass turtles by melting crayon shavings between to pieces of wax paper. Here's a couple of pictures: 
2. The second week we read Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel by Virginia Lee Burton. The Houghton Mifflin website has wonderful activities posted for use with this book. We used a few of them.
3. The third week we listened to a CD of the author reading Lu and the Swamp Ghost by James Carville. We fingerpainted pictures of our own versions of swamp ghosts. The recipe for fingerpaint was found online and can be made at home from ingredients you probably already have in your cupboard! Here's a picture of my fingerpainting:
4. The fourth week we read The Hungry Thing and The Hungry Thing Returns by Jan Slepian and Ann Seidler. We did an activity page created especially for this book. If you missed this week and would like to have a copy of the activity page, contact the library.
