Flannel Friday Chick Week! Cheep, Cheep, Cheep!

Here a chick, there a chick...

Chicks, listen up! Shake a tail feather!  It's chick week.  We're loud! And plentiful!  Birds of a feather...and all that!!

Lucy Cousins book, Count with Maisy, Cheep, Cheep, Cheep! inspired chickens in every story time this week.  

My plan: a white hen with blue dots, like Maisy has!
My flannel supply: green or pink with white dots. Bummer. Balk! Balk! Balk!  I really wanted a blue and white mama hen named Dottie!

Plan B:
Pull out the flannels in all the colors I "was feelin" and start from there.  And that's how I have a blue hen with paisley patterning. The baby chicks are rather traditional.  They probably get fancy feathers later!

Count with Maisy has flaps to lift and chicks to place on the flannel board now.  Participation heaven.  A chick week "must have" is Chicken Little.  I adore telling this story

 

And we added the book The Cow who Clucked from one of my most favorite author/illustrators, Denise Fleming.  I love reading aloud the moment when the cow is ultimately defeated and ..."and she headed for the barn" I hold that page for a few extra beats.  Drama!  You gotta know when to hold 'em!  The next page is equally as dramatic...don't say a word for about 8 seconds!

Our Yoga for 2 attendees had time to make their very own Chicken Little.  I have this saying...color like you mean it...and using the oil pastels surely gets a lot of pigment on the paper.  Satisfying color, much more fun than markers.  One of the little Yoga chicks wanted to make her Chicken Little ((((crazy))))  I think she succeeded!  This is my "kinda" art!

P.S. (Piper Script): Jane's Chicken Little story telling rendition is pretty shout-out ((((Crazy)))).  "Oh my goodness, oh my gracious...the sky is falling....run for your lives!!!"  

Drama....chick!

Flannel Friday and Chicken Little

Chicken Little by Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberely

Spoiler: Feathers make Fox sneeze!
(thank goodness)

Here's how my life the story goes!
(borrowing from Rebecca Emberley)

Once upon a time a lovely lady discovered books, children and a little silvery black dog. She was very happy. On Wednesday when she was doing nothing, her "usual pastime,"something "hit her on the head"  And being the very "excitable" and "prone to foolishness" person that she was - off she ran with a "very scrambbled noggin' " and absolutely no plan!

Hmmm, maybe I have my stories confused.  Not surprising!

Let's start all over again.
There's a really great story about Chicken Little and the anxious little flock that follows him:
Henny Penny
Ducky Lucky
Goosey Loosey
Turkey Lurkey.
There is an acorn and a very crafty FOX cave
Oh, and a cute cloud umbrella
"OMGoodness, OMGracious" are generally part of the story along with "the sky is falling"

Maybe you would like to tell the story? Oh, go on, give it a try!  I'll  help a little.

One day....

(not the brightest chicken in the coop)

(and was knocked senseless)

(...awk, bonk, into Henny Penny)

(awk, bonk, into Lucky Ducky)

(awk, bonk into Goosey Loosey)

(awk, bonk, into Turkey Lurkey)

( omg, omg, the sky is falling. run for your lives!)

(ut-oh)

NOOOOO

WAIT!  STOP!  Piper says we need to go to the book - hold on

(Maybe you should close your eyes!)

(Oh no, quick! Open your eyes!  Quicker!)

Totally yucky cave.  Is it a cave?

(Watch out, here it comes!!

Here come the feathers)

(Whew - we made it)  God Bless that sneeze!

(happily ever after.  THE END!)

 I think I took over your story.  Sorry :(

(Like Chicken Little, I am very excitable!)

P.S. (Piper Script)  Look at my idea:

 Chicken Little: the Sequel

A.K.A. Don't Let the Chicken Have an Acorn!

Oh, the actors guild mandated that I let you know  

the part of the acorn was played by:

Everyone else" played" themselves

Okay, go read the book with your little one and come back and tell the story again.  

OMGoodness, OMGracious...where have I been?  My niece informed me about Ed Emberley fabrics!  So very cool for a librarian who likes to wear aprons.  Oh yeah.  Click this link

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The Sky is Falling!

This just in:  

Flannel falls from sky in Farmington!

I know that sounds a bit bizarre - but take a look at our lead character today.  It's Chicken Little, "not the brightest chicken in the coop" according to the talented father/daughter team  Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley, author and illustrators.  

It really doesn't take much to get this little chicken, Chicken Little, to go overboard.  Sentences like: "Oh my goodness, oh my gracious!" make this story so much fun.  Everyone has to say it with me, say it loud!

Oh my goodness

Oh my gracious

The sky is falling

The sky is falling

Check out this line:  "Momentarily they ran into Loosey Goosey" The words are perfect!  Oh but the artwork is beyond, it's over the moon!  (Books like this just make you write sentences using "over the moon"!)  

I am still working out these characters. OMGracious, I just don't know if I want Chicken Little on a paint-stirrer-stick.  I actually think I will make two Chicken Littles!  Wow, imagine the drama!!  

In the book, when Chicken Little is "knocked senseless" by an acorn, his eyes fill with stars...and I plan to create a layer to reflect that.  But wait...let's back up - KNOCKED SENSELESS!  Honestly, how perfect!

I will post the completed version next week.  In the meantime, get your umbrellas ready, do you have yours?  Hold on tight.  We need to "run for our lives"!  But be careful or BONK! AWK! You may bump into Henny Penny!  

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