Moldy Cheese Day Storytime

Today is National Moldy Cheese Day! FYI - we focused on the cheese, not the moldy, part!

Hello, How are You? by Dr. Jean

Cheese Please - i had a print out with the words and ASL for "cheese," "please," and "love" for the adults. The song goes like this:
Cheese, cheese, cheese, we love cheese
Please, please, please, give us cheese.
We love white cheese, yes we do.
Orange cheese tastes wonderful, too.
Yellow cheese for me and you
Oh, we love cheese.

We went through the signs then did the song twice.

Thanks, Mom! by Ed Emberly

Activity: Farmer in the Dell
I made character necklaces - one for each child and adult - and when we reached their character, they stood up and got to dance around.








Chorale Reading: I Went Walking

Taste Testing Chart
We tasted three different cheeses: sharp cheddar cheese, string cheese, and mozzarella cheese. While they ate their cheeses, I read "The Stinky Cheese Man." After they were done eating, they came up and marked a line under their favorite cheese. Then we counted out how many people liked each cheese, which had more likes, and which had the least.

Poem: "My Mouse is Rather Fond of Cheese" in My Hippo Has the Hiccups by Kenn Nesbitt

Goodbye Songs

After Storytime, I brought out some playdough mats and fun foam for the kids and adults to play with. BIG HIT!


Next week: PIZZA!! (Sorry, no taste testing!)

July 10 Storytime - I Dig Gardening

Welcome Song: Hello, How are You? by Dr. Jean

Fingerplay: Plant a Little Seed
Dig a little hole (dig with hands)
Plant a little seed (place "seed" in ground)
Pour a little water (pretend to pour)
Pull a little weed (pull "weeds" up)
Here comes the sun (arms in circle)
Warms seeds below (hug self)
Up springs the seed (jump to feet)
See it grow grow grow (reach up high)

One Mole Digging a Hole by Julia Donaldson

Song with large felt and construction paper leaves: The Garden Song from Rosenshotz's CD Rosenshotz Tickles You

Rabbit and Squirrel: A Tale of War & Peas by Kara LaReau

Then we did our chorale reading selection, The Carrot Seed, using an audio-recording of it.

Chicken Said "Cluck" by Judyann Ackerman Grant

Parts of a Flower by Dr. Jean - after Jenna's flub of the actions, we got it under control!

Poem: 4 Seeds in a Hole
4 seeds in a hole.
4 seeds in a hole.
1 for the mouse
1 for the crow
1 to rot
and 1 to grow!

Then we repeated Plant a Little Seed

Goodbye Songs

Next week: I Dig Big Machines!

Storytime Setlist Update

June 19 - I Dig Getting Dirty

Welcome song: Hello, How are You? by Dr. Jean

Fingerplay: 1 Little 2 Little 3 Little Bubbles
1 little 2 little 3 little bubbles. 4 little 5 little 6 little bubbles. 7 little 8 little 9 little bubbles. 10 bubbles in the air.
10 little 9 little 8 little bubbles. 7 little 6 little 5 little bubbles. 4 little 3 little 2 little bubbles. 1 bubbles on the ground. POP!

I'm Dirty by Kate and Kim McMullan

Felt: 5 Pigs so Squeaky Clean
5 pigs so squeaky clean.
Cleanest pigs you've ever seen.
Wanted to go outside and play
IN THE MUD!
1 jumped into the mud,
Landed with a great big THUD
Now there are 4 pigs squeaky clean.
4...3...2...1

Splish! Splash! Animal Baths by April Pulley Saye

Chorale Reading: The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss

Song with Scarves: Dirt by Phish (if you have not listened to Phish before, please be aware that many songs are not public library children's program appropriate)

10 Dirty Pigs, 10 Clean Pigs by Carol Roth (i did cut this one out as we ran out of time)

Bubble Bath Pirates by Jarrett Krosoczka

Repeat the Bubble Song - tried blowing bubbles at the kids, but it was all sorts of wrong as my bubble wand did not work well. On the list for purchase: a bubble blower!

Poem: Dirty Face by Shel Silverstein

Goodbye Songs

June 26 - I Dig the Earth

Welcome Song: Hello, How are you? by Dr. Jean

Fingerplay: Wiggle Worms
1 little 2 little 3 little wiggle worms. 4 little 5 little 6 little wiggle worms. 7 little 8 little 9 little wiggle worms. 10 wiggle worms in the ground. 10 little 9 little 8 little wiggle worms. 7 little 6 little 5 little wiggle worms. 4 little 3 little 2 little wiggle worms. 1 wiggle worm in the ground.

No Place Like Home by Jonathan Emmett

Song with scarves: Oh Groundhog on Catch the Moon by Lisa Loeb and Elizabeth Mitchell

A Look Inside a Burrow by Richard Spilsbury

Chorale Reading: The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss

Next, i brought out a child's play tunnel wrapped up in brown packaging paper ("soil") and we took turns crawling through it as everyone sang this song:
I can be a bunny.
I can be a mole.
Isn't it funny
Crawling through a hole?

We had SO many friends at the Library, we ran out of time for Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin.

Then we repeated the Wiggle Worm fingerplay.

Goodbye songs

This Wednesday, our theme is "I Dig Gardening" See you at 9:30am!

Storytime Is Back with a ROAR!

Our summer edition of storytime began today with I Dig Dinosaurs!

Hello, How Are You? by Dr. Jean

Fingerplay:
A dino lies under the surface
A dino lies under the sands
A dino lies under the surface
So let's dig it up with our hands.
Dig up, dig up, dig up this dino with me, with me.
Dig up, di up, oh dig up this dino with me.

Dinosaur Vs. the Library by Bob Shea - we all roared together!

Inside Outside Dinosaurs by Roxie Munro

With instruments and dancing, we listened to Joanie Bartel's song"Dinosaur Rock n Roll" on the CD Dancin' Magic

Chorale Reading Selection: Dinosaur Roar! by Paul and Henrietta Stickland

Game: One Dinosaur Went Out to Play - we sang the song and parents/children took turns with a dinosaur puppet in the middle of the circle. Excellent sharing and patience today!
One dinosaur went out to play
Upon a grassy hill one day
(S)He had such enormous fun
That (s)he called for another dinosaur to come.
HEY DINOSAUR
(stomping feet)

After everyone had a turn:
All the dinosaurs went out to play
upon a grassy hill one day
They had such enormous fun
and, tired, they laid down in the sun.

Stomp, Dinosaur, Stomp by Margaret Mayo

Repeat the first fingerplay

Then we read a few selections from Robert Weinstock's Can You Dig It

Next week, our theme is I Dig Getting Dirty! Come join us!

Insects Storytime

This was our second to last storytime. Again, we sat in a circle! Exciting stuff!

Song: Hello, How are You? by Dr. Jean

Then we played a guessing game with the same insects I used later for "There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Bugs" by Johnette Downing. I asked basic questions about each insect/critter (is the slug an insect??) and then put them on the felt.

Chorale Reading: I Like Bugs by Margaret Wise Brown. The kids are getting used to following directions and the parents used to reading along with me. Over the summer, we'll read the same book multiple times. Then the children will start memorizing the words and it will be great!

Book on CD: Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! by Weston Woods and Bob Barner

Song: The Bumble Dance on The Bee's Knees CD "We Share the Earth" Because of lower numbers, we were able to use TWO instruments to dance with!

Book with felt pieces: There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Bugs by Johnette Downing - As i read the story, the children took turns placing their insect on the felt. Each child was able to to do two insects.

Book: I Love Bugs! by Philomen Sturges

Song: The Itsy Bitsy Spider. We sang it through the "correct" way, then replaced rain with snow, sleet, and jellybeans. Then we replaced the word sun with pizza. Then we sang it with rain and sun, again.

Poem: Oh, Fly on page 6 in Jane Yolen's 'Bug Off! Creepy, Crawly Poems'

We ran out of time for the song Head, Thorax, Abdomen on Johnette Downing's CD "Boogie Woogie Bugs"

Goodbye Songs:
We waved buggy parts instead of human parts yesterday :)

Next week is our final school year storytime. We will have a party complete with treats, freebies, and an activity! We will resume again in June. Remember, the whole family is welcome to attend storytime. If you have an older child that might tag along, we always have books to read and other stuff set aside.

Jump Around - Storytime May 1, 2013

We sat in a circle today! O joy! O goody! O great job, everyone! Our focus today was anything music and movement.



Hello, How are You? by Dr. Jean

Book: The Maestro Plays by Bill Martin, Jr.

Book & Song: All God's Critters, illustrated by Kadir Nelson along with Peter Paul and Mary's version on their CD "In These Times"






Song: Head & Shoulders Baby 1 2 3
(point to that part of body and clap your hands when you count)
Head and shoulders baby 1 2 3
Head and shoulders baby 1 2 3
Head and shoulders
Head and shoulders
Head and shoulders baby 1 2 3
Shoulders, waist
Waist, knees
Knees, toes
Eyes, ears
Nose, mouth
Round the world (make a circle with your hips)
Shoot the Stars (pretend to shoot stars)
Kick the bucket (kick your legs out)
That's all. (quiet and sit down)

Song: Clap Your Hands by They Might Be Giants on the CD Here Come the ABCs

Copycat Game with beanbags: We put our beanbags on various parts of our body, did different dance movies and actions, and held them quietly.

Chorale Reading: I Went Walking - Each child had their own copy of the book and we read along together. We are going to try doing this more and more :) It's all sorts of exciting. It was great seeing the adults reading along and the kids following directions and holding the books themselves.

(We ran out of time for What a Wonderful World illustrated by Ashley Bryan and Willie Nelson's version on his CD What a Wonderful World)

Then we sang our regular goodbye songs with bell shakers, maracas, and jingle bell shakers.

Next week will be all about insects!

We have TWO storytimes left until June.