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.

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