In honor of Leap Year we celebrated with a Leap Day story time! Lots of jumping and leaping stories and activities! In keeping with the theme I created a flannel board based on the book Boing! by Nick Bruel.
Also make sure to check out my Leap Day story time plan for more ideas!
A young kangaroo (joey) attempts to jump, but instead goes flop!
Her good friend Frog steps in to show how it is done. Jump, jump, jump!
But, Kangaroo still can’t go Boing!
Grasshopper decides he is the one to show Kangaroo how to jump so off he goes high into the air. Kangaroo watches and tries, but still he can’t jump.
Another friend comes along who really knows how to jump…Rabbit! Up into the air he goes. Kangaroo watches, but still can’t jump.
She is feeling very discouraged. Along comes her friend Koala who had been watching Kangaroo very closely…He asks Kangaroo an important question. What does she have in her pocket? Hmmm…Kangaroo thinks and then starts emptying her pocket. Look at everything she had stuffed in there!
Once Kangaroo emptied her pocket she finally could go…BOING! BOING! And, she had so much fun jumping with her friends!
