Kit theme: HATS
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Book titles included:
1. Milo’s Hat Trick by Jon Agee
2. The Hat by Jan Brett
3. Aunt Lucy Went to Buy a Hat by Alice Low
4. Who Took the Farmer’s Hat? by Joan Nodset
5. Do You Have a Hat? by Eileen Spinelli
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DVD: A Three Hat Day
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CD & Book: Caps For Sale
Additional titles available at the Johnson County Library:
Aunt Flossie’s Hat by Elizabeth Howard
Where’s Mary’s Hat? by Stephane Barroux
Scarecrow’s Hat by Ken Brown
Casey’s New Hat by Tricia Gardella
Jennie’s Hat by Ezra Jack Keats
What a Hat by Holly Keller
What’s on My Head? by Margaret Miller
While You Were Chasing a Hat by Lilian Moore
The Purple Hat by Tracy Campbell Pearson
The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss
A Hat for Minerva Louise by Janet Stoeke
This Is the Hat by Nancy Van Laan
See the back for activities to help children with these 6 by 6 Ready to Read early literacy areas:
Have Fun With Books
Notice Print
Talk, Talk, Talk
Tell Stories
Look for Letters
Take Time to Rhyme
Activity Ideas – Hats
Have fun reading! Children who enjoy books will want to learn to read. Make all the different
colored hats from Caps for Sale out of paper bowls. Have children reenact the cap seller’s actions
including when he throws his own checked cap to the ground. Children can act out the story
as you read, as they listen to the CD, or on their own.
H Collage. Draw a large hat on a piece of paper. Let children fill the hat by gluing on pictures
of objects beginning with “h.” Older children can do this activity by cutting out the letter “h” in
old newspapers or magazines and making two collages – one uppercase and one lowercase.
Where It’s At. Aunt Lucy Went to Buy a Hat is a perfect book for developing phonological
awareness - the ability to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words. In the story, she
meant to buy a hat, instead she bought a cat. What other sounds can you use at the beginning of
“-at” to make new words? You can also play “I spy with my little eye, something that rhymes
with sat.” Hearing those smaller sounds is an important skill to have when they begin to decode
and sound out words.
That’s Not A Hat! Talk about the objects Minerva Louise believes are hats in A Hat for Minerva
Louise. Research shows that children who have heard a lot of different words and have a larger
vocabulary find it easier to read when that time comes.
Action Rhymes and Fingerplays
My Hat
My hat, it has three corners;
(join thumbs and index fingers in a triangle
shape and place on top of head)
Three corners has my hat. (raise 3 fingers)
If it did not have three corners
(raise 3 fingers and shake head)
It would not be my hat!
(The first time through, sing all of the words
and do the movements. The second time
through, do not sing the word “corners”
(just do movement). The third time through,
Eliminate “corners” and “three”. Finally,
be silent on “corners,” “hat, “ and “three”.
Older children can increase the tempo.
(from Creative Fingerplays and Action Rhymes)
Mary Has a Blue Hat
(tune of “Mary had a Little Lamb”)
Mary has a blue hat on,
Blue hat on, blue hat on.
Mary has a blue hat on
Her head throughout the day.
(repeat with other names or colors
or materials)
(from Storytimes for Two-Year Olds
by Judy Nichols)