THE HANDS-IN SITE FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD POCKET LOVERS
Put a secret in your pocket and a smile on your face, and you'll always have a friend in each and every place. The secret warms your smile, and brings you secret fun. The pocket keeps your secret as warmly as the sun. So put a secret in your pocket and a smile on your face, and you'll always have a friend in each and every place.
By Christine Petrell Kallevig, excerpted from page 11 from the book, All About Pockets: Storytime Activities for Early Childhood
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Interested in attending a workshop with Christine Kallevig? Download the bibliography from a recent presentation for school librarians and be amazed at the wonderful pocket themed resources available for pre-k and primary children!
Christine Kallevig often presents programs at schools, libraries, and conferences. Call her at 440-838-4881 if you need a speaker with lots of pockets and REALLY BIG PANTS!!!
When is a pocket like two letters of the alphabet? When it's MT!
Why is an empty pocket always the same? Because it has no change in it!
Which side of a pocket is most empty? The outside!
TOP TEN REASONS TO LOVE POCKETS
10. Where else can you hide your secret stash of M&Ms? (They melt in your mouth, not in your pockets...)
9. Everybody's doing it - loving pockets, that is. (You may as well give in and go along this one time...)
8. Railroad conductors need them for their pocket watches. Otherwise their watches dangle on those long chains and snag our stockings!
7. Criminals would start stealing our fabulous, high-paying early childhood teaching jobs without so many pockets to pick.
6. Pockets unify generations, classes, races, religions, genders, and a few animals, too! (Think kangaroos, hamsters, and pelicans...)
5. Billiards would be an annoying cardio-vascular workout without them!
4. Where else would Bill Gates keep his loose millions?
3. Losing important stuff out of pocket holes is the only universally accepted excuse for running late.
2. Without pockets, rivet makers would go out of business and ruin the economy.
1. And finally, the NUMBER ONE reason to love pockets: WHAT WOULD NERDS POSSIBLY HAVE TO PROTECT WITHOUT THEM?
Are you wondering how pockets can help your early childhood learners? Watch this video clip and then check out these photos for some fresh ideas. The first photo shows one of several walls of pockets created by the wonderful and enthusiastic students at an elementary school in Ridgway, PA in preparation for a visit by author Christine Kallevig. Each student decorated a pocket, made something to put in it, and then wrote descriptive clues about the object.
TOP TEN REASONS POCKETS ARE GREAT LEARNING TOOLS
Pockets are naturally....
10. Inexpensive
9. Sturdy
8. Safe
7. Practical
6. Plentiful
5. Mysterious
4. Fun
3. Supported by tons of FREE library resources!
(At this point, you should know that ALL ABOUT POCKETS reviews and cross-references 85 different picture story books and poems that feature pockets!)
2. Pockets are perfect for learning games, silly songs, short stories, and finger plays, all targeted at early childhood academic, social, and motor developmental goals.
1. AND FINALLY, the number one reason pockets are great learning tools: The use of pockets is already planned and organized in 126 pages full of lessons and activities in the book, ALL ABOUT POCKETS! (Which is also inexpensive, sturdy, safe, practical, etc.)
Look at the early childhood pocket themed books and the award-winning DVD, Storywatchers Club: Keys To Imagination, listed below. These are just a few of the GREAT pocket resources that are already out there, waiting for us! Check your local library first, but if you want to read sample pages and reviews or buy them now, just click on the links to Amazon.com where they have tons of current information and a secure credit card process.
Click HERE for information about Storywatchers Club: Keys To Imagination It was released in February 2006 and features Christine Kallevig telling the story, Penny's Paper Pocket, pages 40-42 in her book, All About Pockets. It also has five professional storytellers, including Barbara Schutzgruber (with her amazing string stories) and Charlotte Batin (dressed as Cinderella's fairy Godmother) and LOTS of funny, kid-friendly puppetry and music. Click on the DVD picture to see all its awards and rave reviews!
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CLICK HERE ...to tell us why YOU love pockets, too. We'll add your reason to the Top Ten List! How have you used pockets in your preschool or kindergarten classroom? We'll share your ideas.
How to contact the publisher: Email: storytimeink@att.net - Telephone: 440-838-4881 - Fax: 1-270-573-4913 Mail: Storytime Ink International, P. O. Box 470505, Cleveland, OH 44147-0505
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