Storytime for Wednesday, October 29: Halloween!
We had our Halloween party at the library yesterday. It was so much fun - the kids came dressed in their costumes and we went trick-or-treating around the library!
Opening: Open, Shut Them
Book: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
Fingerplay: Five Little Pumpkins
Transition Rhyme: Touch your ears and touch your nose
Book: In a Dark, Dark Wood by David Carter
Flannel Board: Swish-Swoosh
Based on the book "Clip Clop" by Nicola Smee
From Storytiming
There's a great explanation on Storytiming's blog about this flannel board story. Basically, I told the story using the words from "Clip, Clop" but I substituted the animals for Halloween characters and said "swish-swoosh, swishity-swoosh" as the refrain.
Song: Crazy Dance Contest from Jim Gill's CD "Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes"
Book: What's in the Witch's Kitchen? by Nick Sharrett
This book was a big hit with the kids. They loved it!
Craft: Cat Masks
We made cat masks by glueing the head, ears and whiskers on the cat. Then the kids decorated it and added the popsicle stick to make it look like a mask!
Thursday, October 30, 2014
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Community Helpers, Part II
Community Helpers, Part II!
On Tuesday, I visited a preschool to do my second community helpers storytime for them. We talked about specific types of community helpers, including veterinarians, carpenters, teachers, and more!
Opening: Open, Shut Them
Book: Bark, George! By Jules Feiffer
Song: The Wheels on the Bus
Transition Song: Touch your ears and touch your nose
Book: Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop by Lisa Shulman
Activity: Police officer, police officer, what do you see?
Based on the book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see? by Bill Martin
From: Themed Storytime Ideas
Police officer, police officer, what to you see?
I see a farmer looking at me.
Farmer farmer, what do you see
I see a construction worker looking at me
(continue with other community helpers)
I printed out pictures of different community helpers and glued them on card stock. Then I held each picture up as we named each community helpers.
Song: Icky Sticky Bubblegum
Flannel Board: Down around the corner; From Storytime Katie
Down around the corner in the bakery shop
Were five yummy cookies with sprinkles on top
Along came ______(insert name) with a dollar to pay
He/she buys a cookie and takes it away!
(continue with 4, 3, 2, 1)
After we'd taken away all the cookies, I brought out cookie monster and we fed him the cookies!
Book: Dinosaur Vs. School by Bob Shea
Song: Tutti Ta, from Johnny Only's CD "Kid's Music You Can Dance To!"
On Tuesday, I visited a preschool to do my second community helpers storytime for them. We talked about specific types of community helpers, including veterinarians, carpenters, teachers, and more!
Opening: Open, Shut Them
Book: Bark, George! By Jules Feiffer
Song: The Wheels on the Bus
Transition Song: Touch your ears and touch your nose
Book: Old MacDonald Had a Woodshop by Lisa Shulman
Activity: Police officer, police officer, what do you see?
Based on the book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see? by Bill Martin
From: Themed Storytime Ideas
Police officer, police officer, what to you see?
I see a farmer looking at me.
Farmer farmer, what do you see
I see a construction worker looking at me
(continue with other community helpers)
I printed out pictures of different community helpers and glued them on card stock. Then I held each picture up as we named each community helpers.
Police Officer! |
Farmer! |
Song: Icky Sticky Bubblegum
Flannel Board: Down around the corner; From Storytime Katie
Down around the corner in the bakery shop
Were five yummy cookies with sprinkles on top
Along came ______(insert name) with a dollar to pay
He/she buys a cookie and takes it away!
(continue with 4, 3, 2, 1)
After we'd taken away all the cookies, I brought out cookie monster and we fed him the cookies!
Yummy! |
Song: Tutti Ta, from Johnny Only's CD "Kid's Music You Can Dance To!"
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Red, Orange, and Yellow
Theme for Wednesday, October 22: Red, Yellow, and Orange!
Opening: Open, Shut Them
Book: Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds
Fingerplay: Way Up High in the Apple Tree; Adapted from Jen in the Library
Way up high in the apple tree (pretend to point to a tree)
Five little apples (hold up five fingers)
Smiled at me (smile)
So I shook that tree as hard as I could (pretend to shake tree)
And down came an apple (motion with your hand an apple falling)
Mmm it tastes good! (rub tummy)
Repeat with 4, 3, 2, and 1 apples
Transition Song: Touch your ears and touch your nose
Touch your ears and touch your nose
Now bend down and touch your toes
Wiggle your fingers and turn around
Now bend down and touch the ground
Clap your hands, count 1, 2, 3
Now sit down so quietly.
Book: Apple Farmer Annie by Monica Wellington
Flannel Board: Chocolate Chip Ghost! From Storytime with Miss Tara
What color are ghosts? They're white! After I placed the ghosts on the flannel board the kids and I talked about what kind of food ghosts eat - we came up with white-colored foods like vanilla ice cream, marshmallows, and mashed potatoes.
But then the first ghost finds a red strawberry! He eats the strawberry and he turns...red! I flipped over the ghost to show the kids the red-colored ghost.
Pretty soon all the ghosts have tried different-colored food:
The second ghost ate chocolate
The third ghost ate bananas
The fourth ghost ate broccoli
The fifth ghost ate a pink-colored popsicle
The sixth ghost ate some blueberries
The seventh ghost drank some orange juice
And the eighth ghost ate a chocolate chip cookie. What color did he turn?
Brown with chocolate chips!
Movement Song: List of Dances, from Jim Gill's CD Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes
Book: Lemons Are Not Yellow by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Movement Song: Silly Dance Contest from Jim Gill's CD Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes
Craft: Fall trees!
We colored in our trees and then glued on pieces of red, yellow, orange, and brown paper. I also handed out a basket for the kids to color and glue onto their pictures!
Friday, October 17, 2014
Community Helpers - Part I
Community Helpers!
This month, I'm visiting a preschool to talk about Community Helpers. Our first storytime was on Tuesday, and we talked about all the different types of people in our community and what sorts of jobs they do.
Opening: Open, Shut Them
Flannel Board Intro: Name that Tool! From Ms. Kelly at the Library
This was a fun way to introduce the storytime theme to the kids! I placed each tool on the flannel board and asked the kids what it was and which community helper would use it.
Book: Kitten Red, Yellow, Blue by Peter Catalanotto
Action Song: If You're Happy and You Know It
Transition Song: Touch your ears and touch your nose
Book: Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do by Kathryn Heling
Flannel Board Game: Pigeon, pigeon, are under the ______? From SLC Book Boy
The dump truck! |
Song with Puppets: Old MacDonald
We sang "Old MacDonald Had a Farm," and I pulled out a puppet each time we got to one of the animals. We had a cow, horse, dog, pig, and tiger on our farm today!
Book: Bear About Town/Oso En La Ciudad by Stella Blackstone
Song: "List of Dances" from Jim Gill's CD Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes.
Next week, we'll be reading more stories about community helpers!
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Pumpkins!
Theme for Wednesday, October 15: Pumpkins!
Opening: Open, shut them
Book: Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman
Fingerplay: Five Little Pumpkins; From Sunflower Storytime
Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate
The first one said, "Oh my it's getting late."
The second one said, "There are witches in the air."
The third one said, "But we don't care."
The fourth one said, "Let's run and run and run."
The fifth one said, "Isn't Halloween fun."
Then Woooo went the wind
And OUT went the lights
And five little pumpkins rolled out of sight!
Transition Song: Touch your ears and touch your nose
Book: Pumpkin Trouble by Jan Thomas
Flannel Board: Five Giant Pumpkins; From Read Rabbit Read
Five giant pumpkins sitting on the floor
One became pumpkin pie and then there were four.
Four giant pumpkins orange as they can be
One became a jack-o-lantern and then there were three.
Three giant pumpkins, enormous, it's true
One became a carriage for Cinderella and then there were two.
Two giant pumpkins underneath the sun
One got first prize at the fair and then there was one.
One giant pumpkin sitting all alone.
I picked it up and carried it home!
Song: We had a request for "Tutti Ta" from Johnny Only's CD Kids Music You Can Dance To!
Flannel Board: Jack-o-Happy; From So Tomorrow
This is jack-o-happy
This is jack-o-sad
This is jack-o-sleepy
This is jack-o-sad
This is jack-o-broken
Into pieces small
Baked into a pumpkin pie
That's the best of all!
YUM! YUM!
Book: Pumpkin Heads by Wendell Minor
Song: We had another request for "Penguin Dance" from Jack Hartmann's Get on Board the Transition Train!
Craft: Pumpkins!
The kids made pumpkins this week! Some of the kids colored their pumpkins with crayons, some of them glued on the orange and black paper to make a jack-o-lantern face, and some did a combination of both. Lots of the kids made two pumpkins so that they could take one home and leave one at the library!
Opening: Open, shut them
Book: Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman
Fingerplay: Five Little Pumpkins; From Sunflower Storytime
Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate
The first one said, "Oh my it's getting late."
The second one said, "There are witches in the air."
The third one said, "But we don't care."
The fourth one said, "Let's run and run and run."
The fifth one said, "Isn't Halloween fun."
Then Woooo went the wind
And OUT went the lights
And five little pumpkins rolled out of sight!
Transition Song: Touch your ears and touch your nose
Book: Pumpkin Trouble by Jan Thomas
Flannel Board: Five Giant Pumpkins; From Read Rabbit Read
Five giant pumpkins sitting on the floor
One became pumpkin pie and then there were four.
Four giant pumpkins orange as they can be
One became a jack-o-lantern and then there were three.
Three giant pumpkins, enormous, it's true
One became a carriage for Cinderella and then there were two.
Two giant pumpkins underneath the sun
One got first prize at the fair and then there was one.
One giant pumpkin sitting all alone.
I picked it up and carried it home!
I made the five giant pumpkins by glueing paper pumpkins onto felt pieces. |
And then I glued each "thing" the pumpkins had become onto the back of the felt. As I read the poem, I flipped over each pumpkin to reveal what it had turned into! |
Song: We had a request for "Tutti Ta" from Johnny Only's CD Kids Music You Can Dance To!
Flannel Board: Jack-o-Happy; From So Tomorrow
This is jack-o-happy
This is jack-o-sad
This is jack-o-sleepy
This is jack-o-sad
This is jack-o-broken
Into pieces small
Baked into a pumpkin pie
That's the best of all!
YUM! YUM!
Here's our pumpkin pie! |
Book: Pumpkin Heads by Wendell Minor
Song: We had another request for "Penguin Dance" from Jack Hartmann's Get on Board the Transition Train!
Craft: Pumpkins!
The kids made pumpkins this week! Some of the kids colored their pumpkins with crayons, some of them glued on the orange and black paper to make a jack-o-lantern face, and some did a combination of both. Lots of the kids made two pumpkins so that they could take one home and leave one at the library!
Wednesday, October 8, 2014
Hats!
Theme for Wednesday, October 8: Hats!
Opening: Open, Shut Them
Book: Who Took Farmer's Hat? by Joan L. Nodset
Fingerplay: My Hat Has Three Corners; From Anne's Library Life
My hat has three corners (Join thumbs and index fingers to form triangle and place on top of head)
Three corners has my hat (Raise three fingers)
If it did not have three corners (Raise three fingers and shake head)
It would not be my hat. (Join thumbs and index fingers to form triangle and place on top of head)
Transition Song: Touch Your Ears and Touch Your Nose
Touch your ears and touch your nose
Now bend down and touch your toes
Wiggle your fingers and turn around
Now bend down and touch the ground
Clap your hands, count one, two, three
Now sit down so quietly.
Book: A Hat for Minerva Louise by Janet Morgan Stoeke
Flannel Board Activity: Find Cat in the Hat's Hat (I'm not sure where I saw this originally).
The cat in the hat is looking for his hat! We went searching for it, and look what we found first!
A king's hat! But, that's not that cat's hat. What else do we have?
A party hat! But that's not it either...
A ski hat? Nope!
And finally, the cat in the hat has found his hat!
We went through about eight different hats, and after each one, I asked the kids who's hat I'd found instead. Usually, I do this flannel board during the holidays with Santa, but I thought it would be a fun one for our 'hats' storytime this week!
Flannel Board Game: Kitty cat, kitty cat, are you in the baseball hat? From Miss Mary Liberry
I made a couple different kinds of hats and hid a cat under one of them. Can you guess where the cat is hiding?
Under the top hat!
Book: Twelve Hats for Lena by Karen Katz
Song: Silly Dance Contest from Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Songs and Other Contagious Tunes
Craft: Witch! From I Heart Crafty Things
Since it's October, I thought it would be fun to make a witch with a hat!
We colored our witches and glued on the hair, googly eyes and hat!
Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Numbers and Letters!
Theme for Wednesday, October 1: Numbers and Letters
Opening: Open, Shut Them
Book: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr.
Movement Song: Five Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree; From Strings, Keys, and Melodies
Five little monkeys, swinging in a tree
Teasing Mr. Alligator,
Can't catch me, can't catch me.
Then along comes Mr. Alligator, as quiet as can be
And he SNAPS that monkey right out of the tree
Four little monkeys....
Three little monkeys...
Two little monkeys...
One little monkey...
Transition Song: Touch Your Ears and Touch Your Nose
Book: Eggs 1, 2, 3: Who Will the Babies Be? by Janet Halfmann
Flannel Board Activity: Counting Cakes; FromStorytime Katie
We stacked the cakes in numerical order and then we counted them in English and Spanish. (They just barely fit on the flannel board!)
Song: A-P-P-L-E; From Library Storytime ABCs
We began by spelling out the word "Apple" and placing the letters on the apples.
Then we sang our song to the tune of the "B-I-N-G-O
There was a farmer had some trees
His apples were so tasty.
A-P-P-L-E
A-P-P-L-E
A-P-P-L-E
His apples were so tasty!
For each verse we sang, I took down an apple, and we clapped instead of saying the letter (just like in BINGO).
Book: The Long, Long Line by Tomoko Ohmura
Song: Jumping and Counting from Jim Gill's Irrational Anthem and More Salutes to Nonsense
Craft: Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree
We colored our trees and glued them together. Then the kids glued on the letters to make it an offical Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree. (Most of them decided to use the letters to spell out their names!)
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