I am in the greatest volunteer program!

I just went and sat in on a session for the volunteer program I'm going to be doing, and that I'll be a substitute volunteer for next week. The program is called Play Partners and teams of two people go to day care centers or family day care homes 1 hour a week for a month, each time reading a book and doing activities based on that book, Because of grants received by the organization, the day care provider and each child in the group all get a copy of the book to keep at the end of the month. If there are infants in the group, they each get a board book every month too. The program has huge plastic storage tubs of materials to go with each of the books, as well. The book we did today was Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, and there were actually little stuffed animals or plastic figures for every animal in the book! A green frog, a yellow duck, a blue horse, etc. We began the session by singing a greeting song, calling each child by name and singing about the color he or she was wearing. Then, we read the book, with the kids, who had heard the book before, chiming in. Then, the woman who was leading hid the animals under a cloth, and picked up the cloth along with one animal, and the kids guessed which animal was missing. After that, we went into the kitchen where each child had two brushes and two colors of paint and we painted and talked about the colors and the results of mixing the colors. After painting, the children played with some toys that were also in the kit, a Lego Primo Set - Stack 'n Learn, a color and shape puzzle, and other toys emphasizing colors. The session closed with more songs,
including
Twinkle Twinkle Traffic Light
On the corner shining bright
Red means STOP! (Hold up red card)
Green means GO! (Hold up green card)
Yellow means go but VERY SLOW (Hold up yellow card.)
Twinkle twinkle traffic light
On the corner shining bright.
I talked with the day care provider who was very enthusiastic about the program, especially the library of books she has built through the program. She was particularly happy about how responsive the children are to the books after they have experienced them in a multisensory way.