Being Healthy - October 28

Welcome Songs

Book: I Got the Rhythm by Connie Schofield-Morrison

Song: Jumping and Counting by Jim Gill

Book: Tickle Monster by Manceau

Book: Here are My Hands by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambeau

Song: Toe Leg Knee by Jim Gill

Book: Hop, Hop, Jump by Krosoczka

Book: Taking Care of My Teeth by Terri DeGezelle

Goodbye Song and Bubbles

Social Hour:
-Toothbrush painting
-Teeth and brush counting (with the awesome hand pointer)
-Book Display
-Free toothbrushes and handouts from Fall Creek Dental! (Thank you!!!)

PS - Haven't been here in a while?
WE LOOK DIFFERENT! Come check out the new arrangement!

ABC Storytime

What a great group of friends today! Lots of great interactions on each individual's level and comfort! And everyone stuck around to socialize and play afterwards!

Today: ABCs! I borrowed the ABCs & 123s Kit from IFLS

Welcome Song (from JBrary)

Book: Henry Finds His Word by Lindsay Ward

Felt: BINGO (we clapped and said the letter sound)

Felt: Each kid was given a letter. I did half of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom with the props. When it was their letter, they could bring it up and put on the tree.

Book: AlphaBlock

Song: Can't Wait to Celebrate by Jim Gill - with eggs

Activity: We made our bodies into a few different letters, inspired by Alphabet Fun

Activity: I demonstrated with each kid the alphabet tube then each kid went home with their own tube and a bunch of stickers!

Goodbye Songs














For Social Hour:

Leftover from our Scribble Party - stop in to create your own masterpiece!

Frog on a Log is still out, too!

ABC book display - I always have books out related to that week's storytime theme. Check them out :)

Cottonball Painting

Continue exploring Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!

Next week: 123s!! 

October 28 - Being Healthy (go home with free toothbrushes and more! Many thanks to Fall Creek Dental!)

November 4- Dinosaurs

Storytime Updates - Being Brave September 30 & My Body October 7

I haven't posted lately - been busy!! Here's from the last few weeks -

Being Brave

 Before storytime even started, I challenged them to balance on a beam! (Borrowed from IFLS - Being Brave Kit)

Welcome Songs: The More We Read Together (JBrary)

Book: Found by Yoon

Acted out The Rhyming Dust Bunnies  - also from the Being Brave Kit













Book: Bully by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Song: Can't Wait to Celebrate by Jim Gill

Book: When Lions Roar by Robie H. Harris

Book: Tickle Monster by Manceau

Fingerplay/poem: Little Mouse Felt (by your's truly)

Goodbye Songs and Bubbles

At Social Hour we had:

This is actually one of our self-directed programs right now :) Come make your own rhymes anytime you come in!

Billy Goats Gruff

My Body - October 7

We actually did not have anybody come this day, but this is what I had planned. I will re-use a few things for an upcoming Being Healthy Storytime

 Welcome Song (again from Jbrary) only this time we would have cut out the "read together" and added "dance together" with the scarves.











Book: I Love You, Nose to Toes!

Song: We Clap Our Hands by Jim Gill with egg shakers

Book: Tickle Monster by Edouard Manceau

Movement: Your Body Has Lots of Bones (song i came up with - will post in a few weeks)

Book: Wild Feelings by David Milgrim

Song: Toe Leg Knee by Jim Gill

Book: My Nose, Your Nose by Melanie Walsh
Action: Tickle Your.... i would have had adults/kids take turns tickling the other person's toes, elbows, hair, etc.

Goodbye Songs

For Social Hour I was going to have adults trace their children then they could color and add stickers to their body outline.

Soup Storytime - November 5

A whole storytime about soup?! Yup. If I had it my way, everyone would have gone home with a bucket of my mom's homemade pea or chicken dumpling soup... And sorry about the sideways photo...

Welcome Song

Book: Tiger in My Soup


Song: I Know A Chicken by Laurie Berkner with shaker eggs













Book: Stone Soup

Song that I made up this morning because I realized my pre-planned felt activity was not exactly finished (oops):

Find a pot of water (make arms into large pot)
Add the water (pretend to pour water and make water-y noises)
Boil boil boil (wiggle arms, body)
Drop in the veggies (drop to the ground)
Measure in spices (throwing motion)
Now stir..... (spin in circle or make stirring motion with arms)
And wait (STOP! HOLD STILL!)
And stir......
And wait
(repeat for a while)
And EAT!! (eating motions and noises)

Book: A Soup Opera

Goodbye Song and Bubbles

After storytime, we played with that floam stuff.

Next week: Rivers!

Mother Goose Storytime

Everything Mother Goose and rhyming today!

Welcome song

Book: A Farmyard Song
by Christopher Manson








Felt: Hey Diddle Diddle (borrowed the awesome kit from IFLS!)

Song: 2 Little Dicky Birds - first we used my fancy schmancy Dicky Bird thing (which I copied out of something and colored so long ago that I don't remember where it came from) and then we used our fingers and said the rhyme together a few times, each time faster than the previous. They always love this :)














Book: The Itsy Bitsy Spider by Iza Trapani

Movement Activity: Toe Leg Knee by Jim Gill

Interactive Story: Paper Plate Itsy Bitsy Spider -
after storytime, I gave each child a coloring page and 4 paper plates to make their own sequencing story version at home. I planned so I have enough for other patrons on our Take & Make Table.















File Folder Game: Baa Baa ______ Sheep

















Goodbye Songs & Bubbles

Activity: Put Humpty Dumpty back together - GOOGLE EYES! I got this idea from a Preschool Mailbox magazine. I pre-cut egg shapes and tore up little pieces of paper (I would usually have them do this but some of my families can't stay very long after storytime and I don't want those kids to feel left out). Glue pieces of paper onto the egg shape. Glue on google eyes. Now you have Humpty!

Next Week:
Tiny Tots Storytime - In the Mountains on October 14 at 10:30am
Library Storytime - Food Groups on October 15 at 9:30am

Walk In the Woods

I must say, most of today's storytime was "stolen" from Rob Reid (Thanks, Rob!) because it all sounded so fun! And it made my job easier coming up to a busy next few weeks full of preparation for other programs.

Soooo without further ado... Let's go for a walk in the woods...

I always display our songs so
parents can follow along.

Hello Song













Book: A Leaf Can Be... by Laura Purdie Salas













Musical Activity: Taking a Walk in The Woods (Rob Reid)

Book: Do Princesses Really Kiss Frogs? by Carmela LaVigna Coyle

Interactive Story: I took Mary Quattlebawm's book, Jo MacDonald Hike Through the Woods, and turned into a song with story cards. As we sang the song, I would switch the pictures in my hands so the kids could call out what they were (sometimes they got it, sometimes not... woodpeckers DO look like penguins).







Then, I showed them the book Blueberries for Sal and we discussed eating blueberries and bears and hibernation.







Then, we took turns rolling my large dice and feeding the bear that many blueberries. (The kids had a kick out of playing with this after storytime, too.)

Song: Squirrel, Squirrel
Squirrel, Squirrel shake your bushy tail.
Squirrel, Squirrel shake your bushy tail.
Wrinkle up your nose and crinkle up your toes.
Squirrel, Squirrel shake your bushy tail.

We sang it 3 times because it is awesome.

Goodbye Song: May You Always Have Sunshine by Jim Gill

Bubbles

After storytime, the kids could do leaf rubbings and look at leaves, bark, pine needles, pine cones under the kid-friendly microscope.

Next Week: COLORS! Fun activity planned! Don't miss it!

 

Camping Storytime June 18

Come try out our microscopes!

We have brand new hello and good-bye songs! It was great to have our storytime kiddos in the Library again... my Wednesdays just were not the same without them!

Hello Song: 

Let everyone clap hands like me.

Let everyone clap hands like me.

Come on and join into the game.

You'll find that it's always the same.

Let everyone wiggle like me.

Let everyone sing out like me.

Let everyone open books like me.

Let everyone sit down like me.

Book: Olivia Goes Camping

Song to dance around to: Boatman's Dance on "Can You Canoe" by The Okee Dokee Brothers

Book: I Can Go Camping by Edana Eckart

Movement activity:
I can sleep in a tent (make triangle)
I can cook over a fire (fizzles noises and wiggle)
And I can travel by car tire.  (roll arms)

I love to camp (hug self)
And stay up til dark (stretch up)
To watch the stars (point up)
And the fire spark (fizzle and wiggle)

I can swim in a lake (swim)
I can take a hike (walk in place)
I can look for animals (look around)
And I can ride my bike (hold handlebars)

I love to camp (hug self)
And stay up til dark (stretch up)
To watch the stars (point up)
And the fire spark. (fizzle and wiggle)

Book: Scaredy Squirrel Goes Camping by Melanie Watts

Poem: Two Voice in a Tent at Night from Toasting Marshmallows by Kristine O'Connell George (an volunteer who can read was needed)

Goodbye Song (mostly by Jim Gill - i added another verse):
We clap our hands when we get together.
Clap our hands to celebrate.
We clap our hands when we get together.
My friends and I can hardly wait....

To stamp our feet....

To bounce up and down...

We wave goodbye when we're done together,
Wave goodbye until next time.
We wave goodbye when we're done together.
Wave goodbye until next time.

I Am a Bubble and bubbles

Next storytimes: June 24 at 2:30 at Tiny Tots - That's Gross
June 25 at 9:30am in the Library - In the Treetops