tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37667216544669196522024-03-29T03:38:06.643-04:00Read It Again!Storytime plans for children ages 2 - 5 including book reviews, craft ideas, songs, and activities.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-52487174261226267412016-02-09T15:57:00.002-05:002016-02-09T15:57:52.397-05:00The Little Pea<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week's story time theme was peas and who knew there are so many activities and books to go along with this theme. My toddler group seemed to have fun with it, though they are young and obsessed with the toy closet - they know it is there but how to get in?<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">The princess and the pea</span></i></b> by Rachel Isadora: this was a good version of the classic tale for the younger crowd. The text is fairly simple and the illustrations are bright and colorful. The kids seemed to enjoy this one. It was the first book we did, so it did hold their attention.<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Little Pea </span></i></b>by Amy Krouse Rosenthal: this is a smaller book, so not great for a large crowd, but perfect for my small group. Little pea loves doing all pea things, except for eating candy! Candy every day is what a pea has to eat. This one actually grabbed the attention of the wanderers - the mention of candy will do that. they all loved the ending where we found out what peas like for dessert.<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Little green peas</span></i></b> by Keith Baker: Baker has several pea themed books. I picked this one as it features colors, something my young crowd can help me identify, and it repeats the phrase 'little green peas' several times. For the repeating phrase I gave all of the kids a stick with a photo of a pea taped to the end of it. They were told to wave it each time we said 'little green peas.' Most of them enjoyed doing this.<br />
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<b><u>We sang:</u></b><br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><i><b>Work your body</b></i></span> by Angela Russ from Smart Moves 1. This is a great movement song. I use it frequently at the preschool I visit. Kids do lots of stretching and bending movements along with the music.<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Pass the bean bag</span></i></b> by Georgiana Stewart from Bean bag activities. For this song I used 3 stuffed peas and had the kids pass them around. This required LOTS of parental help for these little guys. It was a bit rough going at first, but they did get the hang of it and got better about passing the pea along instead of trying to keep it.<br />
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<b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Shake your boom boom</span></i></b> by Angela Russ. I love this one and use it quite a bit. The boom boom could be any object, today it was shaker eggs. They move them around as instructed by the music. This group is not a 'dance-y' as other groups I have had, but this one did get them up and moving.<br />
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<b><u>Rhymes:</u></b><br />
<b><span style="color: #38761d;">5 plump peas:</span></b> I have seen this many places. I tried to get them to do the motions with me, but they mostly watched:<br />
5 plump peas in a pea pod pressed (make a fist)<br />
1 grew (1 finger up)<br />
2 grew (2 fingers up)<br />
And so did all the rest. (All fingers up)<br />
They grew, and they grew and they grew and never stopped. (Grow up from ground)<br />
The grew so big the pea pod POPPED! (Clap hands on popped)<br />
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<b><span style="color: #38761d;">Pea Soup:</span></b> I have seen this in many places too, however at <a href="http://kdr4xmom.blogspot.com/2013/03/yummy-for-my-tummy.html" target="_blank">Fun with friends at Storytime</a> I saw a cute version with pom pom peas that are thrown into the air at the end. I thought this would be fun for the kids to do themselves with pom poms in a bowl. I rounded up all the green (and a few yellow to be sure there were enough) pom poms and gave each kid 5 in a small paper bowl. They were instructed to put the peas next to the bowl and add one at a time as we did the rhyme:<br />
1 little pea hopped into the pot and waited and waited for the soup to get hot.<br />
2 little peas...<br />
3 little peas...<br />
4...<br />
5...<br />
And the soup got so hot that all the little peas hopped out of the pot! (Throw them in the air here.)<br />
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I thought it would be great fun, but the kids today were more interested in moving pom poms from floor to bowl, to my bowl, out of my bowl, to the floor, to their bowl, back to my bowl, out of my bowl...<br />
Oh well. At least moving those little pom poms worked their pincher grasp. and maybe they picked up on some counting?<br />
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I had so many different ideas planned that I never even got to show my lovely pea flannel board that I made. Guess I will save it for a different time. It goes with the story <b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">The Little Pea</span></i></b> by Eric Battut. The illustrations for this story are cute but rather small. My co-worker planned to do it as a draw and tell, but I could envision my group happily wiping away the story.<br />
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The story begins in a pea patch where all of the happy peas are in their pods looking very much alike.<br />
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Little Pea however does not want to be like all of the other peas, so he pops out of his pod and heads off into the world.<br />
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He meets a peacocks and ties a beautiful feather to himself.<br />
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He meets a tiger and paints stripes all over his body.<br />
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He meet an elephant and constructs a large nose from a blade of grass.<br />
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He returns home where all of the other peas laugh at him.<br />
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No matter. He is a seed so he digs himself a hole.<br />
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Spring comes.<br />
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And a new plant grows from the colorful little pea.<br />
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Check out the book for the full story.<br />
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Our craft was a cute version of a few valentines I saw on Pinterest that used the phrase 'Peas be my Valentine.' They got to decorate with stickers, paper, craft foam, paint stampers, and markers.<br />
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This week our story time theme was <b><span style="color: #783f04;">Boxes</span></b>. This is a fun theme, and there are several books that go well with this theme. I actually did 4 books (2 book form and 2 prop stories, more on that later) and there were others I liked but could not use.<br />
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Our letter of the day was <b><span style="color: #783f04;">B</span></b>, I tried to get fancy with my letter of the day and it has a brown paper texture like the paper that sometimes comes in boxes. The kids got the letter right away and we discussed some words starting with the letter B. Now that they know the drill the like to jump ahead of me and yell out the next picture, I may have to change how I present it.<br />
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We had a fun discussion about boxes. I asked them if a they had boxes at home or if they ever had one delivered to their house. This led to all kinds of stories about what they have at home in boxes and they were very detailed about if they boxes were big or small.<br />
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Our discussion led very well into our first story. We read<b><i><span style="color: #783f04;"> Special delivery</span></i></b> by Brigitte Weninger. In this story a box is delivered to a child's house and it has a new vacuum for his mother. A little while later mother discovers another package at the door. This one is painted and addressed to 'mother.' She makes a few guesses at what might be in the box and when she can take the suspense no more she opens it up for a fun surprise. The kids enjoyed this one. They kept trying to guess what was in the box, but none of them were close. They did like the surprise at the end too.<br />
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After reading <i>Special Delivery</i> we danced around to the <i><span style="color: #783f04;">Hokey pokey</span></i> from the Songs for wiggleworms album. They had fun with this, it is the traditional song with an upbeat track.<br />
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We followed <i>Sitting in my box</i> with Carole Peterson's <i><span style="color: #783f04;">Ring those bells</span></i>. Each of the kids got bells and rang them to the song as well spun around, touched our toes, jumped up high, etc. They do repeat the phrase 'for winter time is here.' We waved the bells in the air for that part.<br />
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I decided to squeeze in the book <b><i><span style="color: #783f04;">Dear zoo</span></i></b> by Rod Campbell here. I had another prop story to use, but we were doing good on timing and the kids were sitting well, so I threw it in. In this classic book the narrator writes to the zoo looking for a pet. The zoo sends various animals (in boxes or crates) but most are not suitable pets. Each crate lifts up to reveal an animal such as a lion, elephant, giraffe, snake etc. I let the kids name the animal and then asked them if they wanted it for pet and why it might not make a good pet (though one little girl was very insistent that a camel would make a great pet). I have also done this one as a flannel board.<br />
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Next we danced to <i><span style="color: #783f04;">Dance, freeze, melt </span></i>by the Learning Groove. This is a fun one where they obviously dance, then freeze, then melt to the floor. Each action is done to a count of 8, so you can count along as you go. In subsequent verses the dance action is replaced with twirling, jumping, and running (in place).<br />
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We put out materials for kids to make a 'Box Monster' or to just decorate a box if they wanted. We had pictures of Box Monsters from Pinterest if they needed a guide. We collected several tissue boxes and for decoration just pulled out anything from the craft cabinet that might be fun to use. There were feathers, pipe cleaners, foam stickers, construction paper, sticky felt, and a few other random things to use.<br />
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For play time we put out lots of boxes for them to stack or play with. My co-worker cut a few that could be used as tunnels, houses, etc. The kids used them more for putting things in. I was expecting tall towers and buildings but they enjoyed hiding the toys in the boxes instead.<br />
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As an activity sheet I made up a 'Not a box' coloring page. This was really easy as you can see below :) The idea is that they will draw something incorporating the box. Or, as one girl did, just write box all over it. She was practicing writing, so that is fine with me!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-34834007252578168582015-02-12T13:13:00.001-05:002015-02-12T13:13:44.553-05:00How are you feeling?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week's story time theme was <b><span style="color: blue;">Feelings</span></b> featuring the letter <span style="color: blue;"><b>F</b></span>. It worked out well with Valentine's weekend coming up that we could talk about feelings but not have to be all mushy and gushy (which is fine, just some years it us nice to do something else too).<br />
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We looked at our letter F and talked about some of the words that might begin with an F like Firetruck, Fireworks, Flowers, Frog, and then we had the Faces. Face starts with F, but then we discussed what might make your face change, and talked about different feelings and how your face would look with each one.<br />
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The first book that we read was <b><i><span style="color: blue;">My many colored days</span></i></b> by Dr. Seuss. This was a great book for feelings as it pairs different feeling with colors and discusses how we don't feel the same each day. The kids enjoyed yelling out the colors. Older kids might enjoy trying to guess the feelings that will go along with the colors, but for the toddlers we just worked on the colors.<br />
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Of course the most classic feelings song is <i><span style="color: blue;">If you're happy and you know it</span></i> so we danced to the version by MFLP Band. In this rendition the kids stomp there feet when they are mad along with clapping hands, patting knees, beeping noses, and shouting Hooray. The actions accumulate as you go, so the kids have multiple things to do with each verse. It is slow enough that the toddlers could easily follow along and it a nice alternative to the traditional one that they all know.<br />
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The second book that we read was Anna Dewdney's<b><i><span style="color: blue;"> Llama, llama, mad at mama</span></i></b>. Little llama is not happy to be drug along on mama's shopping trip. He was perfectly happy playing at home. As the errands drag on Llame begins to lose his patience and then his temper. He flings items from the cart in a rage at mama. Mama explains she doe snot like errand either and they both clean up, finish the shopping and get a treat. (Personally, I think little llama is rather lucky to get the treat after the fit he throws.) The kids were really able to relate to this story - even though they all claimed that they never behaved this way.<br />
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We followed the llama book with Angela Russ's <i><span style="color: blue;">Shake your boom boom</span></i>. This is a fun, up-beat song that you can use with scarves, bells, shakers, or sticks - whatever you want to use for a 'boom boom.' We generally use the shakers.<br />
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After shaking our boom booms we did another song, this one about how <i><span style="color: blue;">Old MacDonald is feeling</span></i>. I found the song on <a href="http://jeninthelibrary.com/2013/10/12/grumpy-preschool-storytime/" target="_blank">Jen in the Library's </a>blog. I changed the names of the feelings a bit from what hers were, but the song went like this:<br />
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<i>And when he's happy he goes like this HA HA HA HA HA.</i><br />
<i>With a HA HA here and a HA HA there,</i><br />
<i>Here a HA, there a HA, everywhere a HA HA. </i><br />
<i>Old MacDonald felt so happy, HA HA HA HA HA.</i><br />
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<i>Mad: NO NO NO NO NO</i><br />
<i>Sad: BOO-HOO BOO-HOO HOO</i><br />
<i>Silly: NA NA NA NA NA</i><br />
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I put up the faces one at a time and the kids told me what they thought he was feeling. They got most of them rather quickly, the Silly one was a little troublesome.<br />
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Our final book was<b><i><span style="color: blue;"> My heart is like a zoo</span></i></b> by Michael Hall. This was a great one to use to tie in Valentine's day. All of the illustrations are made from hearts and the book talks about different ways the heart can feel. All of the comparisons are made to animals, so there are things like 'silly as a seal' 'crafty as a fox' 'brave as a lion,' etc. The text is simple and the illustrations are very colorful.<br />
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We went with a simple Valentine craft for the week. There was paper, some cut into hearts, doilies, sequins, stickers, and markers for the kids to make a valentine of their own design.<br />
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We found a cute activity sheet for the kids, though I am not sure any of them grabbed one. It has half a face and the kids are supposed to draw a picture of how they are feeling. Hopefully they took it home and talked about it some! They did seem to check out more of the displayed books than normal, guess the grumpy books just draw them in.<br />
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This past week at story time we had a <a href="http://misssarahsstorytime.blogspot.com/2015/02/story-time-royalty.html" target="_blank">royalty theme</a>. While looking for a good flannel story to go along with my books I came across an idea for using different colored crowns at <a href="http://storytimesecrets.blogspot.com/2011/11/preschool-story-time-fantasy-theme-117.html" target="_blank">Story Time Secrets</a>. I figured that could be an easy flannel story, have a princess who keeps changing her crown and we could sing to the tune of <i>Mary wore her red dress</i>. Then, when looking for a princess clip art to use as a guide for my flannel I saw a picture of Queen Elsa and decided to go with that. Thus <b><span style="color: #0b5394;">'Queen Elsa's Crowns:'</span></b><br />
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<i><span style="color: #0b5394;">Queen Elsa wears her BLUE crown, BLUE crown, BLUE crown</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: #0b5394;">Queen Elsa wears her BLUE crown every MONDAY.</span></i><br />
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I put up the picture of Elsa and had 7 crown options, each a different color (one was many colors and we called it rainbow). Then, we went through the days of the week and at the start of each new verse I would ask the kids which day came next. Sometimes we had to start at the beginning, but that helped them both remember and learn. I also took suggestions for the crown color. (There were a few little girls who took this responsibility <i>very</i> seriously.)<br />
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Of course they <b>LOVED</b> this. Even the boys were into it - mostly for shouting out the days of the week - and they all were singing along.<br />
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Normally I prefer to make my flannels, but I do have to admit using clip art and a laminator made it super easy. I may have to try a flannel Elsa though, that would be a fun challenge!<br />
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Checkout this week's Flannel Friday round-up at <a href="http://hatisbridgetreading.blogspot.com/2015/02/flannel-friday-roundup-for-february-6.html" target="_blank">What is Bridget Reading?</a> or visit the <a href="http://flannelfridaystorytime.blogspot.com/p/schedule.html" target="_blank">Flannel Friday blog</a> for more information including how to participate. You can also visit the Pinterest page (click the button on your right) for ALL Flannel Friday postings arranged on rather helpful boards.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-1388635063307565332015-02-03T13:59:00.000-05:002015-02-17T14:48:21.586-05:00Story Time RoyaltySo our story time theme this week was technically <b><span style="color: purple;">Royalty</span></b>, but I thought that for toddlers that could get confusing given that I give them a letter and then a picture from our theme that starts with said letter. I decided to make our letter of the day K for King, since he is the head of all the royals. That was I wasn't giving them the letter R with a picture of a King or Queen and spending half of story time explaining things. (I tend to over-think stuff like this.)<br />
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We talked about other words that start with a letter <b><span style="color: purple;">K</span></b> - it was a bit concerning when they called the kangaroo a Horse (???) but they got the Kite, Kitty, King, and, with a little help, the Kiwi.<br />
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The first book that we read was <b><i><span style="color: purple;">Lullabyhullaballoo</span></i></b> by Mick Inkpen. Little Princess is trying to go to sleep, but some of the royal subjects are just too noisy. With the help of the story time friends we shushed those noisy subjects so that the princess could get some sleep. This story has rhyming text and some lift the flap pages as you tell various fantastical creatures to SHHH!<br />
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We followed <i>Lullabyhullaballoo</i> with The Learning groove's <i><span style="color: purple;">Dance, freeze, melt</span></i>. I have used this a few times with outreach groups this winter and it is always a hit. As the song says the kids dance, then freeze, then melt. With each action you count to 8 then to the next thing. In subsequent verses they twirl, jump, and run, but each of those are always followed by the freeze and melt.<br />
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Our second book was <b><i><span style="color: purple;">King Bidgood's in the bathtub</span></i></b> by Audrey Wood. Once upon a time I had a projector reel with this book and an accompanying song. I loved to show it, the song is great. Sadly, it has not been transferred to DVD or CD. I requested a tape of it, but it did not arrive in time for story time. So, I read the book - which is still great. I just have to watch myself as I really want to sing some parts. The kids seemed to enjoy this one. King Bidgood refuses to get out of his tub. He battles, lunches, fishes, and dances from the bath. Will anyone in the kingdom be able to get him out? There is great repetition in this book and fun illustrations.<br />
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After <i>King Bidgood</i> we got out the shaker eggs and ran around to Mr. Eric's <i><span style="color: purple;">I can shake my shaker egg</span></i>. This song is set to the music of In the hall of the mountain king (my sisters and I used to dance frequently to this in our living room growing up) and it starts slow and gets faster. Mr. Eirc has the kids sneak, walk, then run around the room with their shaker eggs in the fun, energy burning song. <br />
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Since the kids were a little keyed up after that song we followed it with an active rhyme I found called '<i><span style="color: purple;">Castle Capers</span></i>.' It is posted <a href="https://dtdlstorytimes.wordpress.com/2013/02/26/royal-storytime/" target="_blank">here</a> at the Delta Township District Library Storytimes page. It goes:<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">I am the king of running,</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">I run and run and run.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">My subjects all run with me,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">And we have so much fun!</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">I am the prince of turning,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">I turn and turn and turn.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">My subjects all turn with me</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">It’s an easy thing to learn!</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">I am the princess of dancing,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">I dance and dance and dance</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">My subjects all dance with me</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">And dance when they get the chance!</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">I am the Queen of jumping,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">I jump and jump and jump.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">My subjects all jump with me</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">And sit down with a bump.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">To go along with the rhyme I made up some visuals using Disney characters. We have Mickey the King, Minnie the Queen, Donald the Prince, and Daisy the Princess. To help me remember the rhyme I wrote a few lines on the back (so, the visuals were more for me).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"><span style="color: #414141;">The last book that we read was </span><i><b><span style="color: purple;">The foggy, foggy forest </span></b></i><span style="color: #414141;">by Nick Sharratt. This book shows shadows in the foggy, foggy forest and kids can guess what they are. Then, turn the page to see what it is. Every picture has a fun twist, such as, they were able to guess the witch on the broom, but the surprise was she had a motorized broom. The kids LOVED this book.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"><i>Queen Elsa wore her purple crown, purple crown, purple, crown.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;"><i>Queen Elsa wore her purple crown, every Sunday!</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">Our craft was a crown that they were given to decorate. We put out glitter, jewels, feathers,stickers, and crayons. More kids than normal did he craft, so they must have liked this one.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #414141; line-height: 19.2000007629395px;">I forgot to take a picture of the activity sheet this week, but it was just a house made with different shapes so that they could work on tracing shapes. For play time we pulled out the princess dresses, though no one seemed that interested in them, instead they played with the castle play set and had tea parties.</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-56714332232318186572015-01-29T20:24:00.000-05:002015-01-29T20:24:01.982-05:00Flannel Pizza FridayFriday seems to be a rather popular pizza day, so I feel that it is appropriate to share the flannel pizzas that I used in story time this past week for Flannel (Pizza) Friday. You can read about the books and songs we used for <a href="http://misssarahsstorytime.blogspot.com/2015/01/pizza.html" target="_blank">pizza week here</a>, below are the flanneled parts.<br />
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Whilen looking for a flannel story or activity for our pizza theme I came across this fun song posted by <a href="http://jeninthelibrary.com/2012/09/01/pizza-pizza/" target="_blank">Jen in the Library</a>. It is a pizza song much like Bingo and goes:<br />
<i>There is a treat that's fun to eat </i><br />
<i>And Pizza is it's name-o.</i><br />
<i>P-I-Z-Z-A, P-I-Z-Z-A, P-I-Z-Z-A</i><br />
<i>And Pizza is it's name-o.</i><br />
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Then, because it looks so yummy, we ate one. The kids LOVED this. I held out the flannel slice and we all happily pretend chewed it up. We went back to the song and replaced the P with a clap and then ate another slice and so on until we had eaten all of the pizza.<br />
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When I sang the song with my toddler group we kept saying Pizza, even if the letters said IZZA or ZA etc. I could not remember how the Bingo song goes (this is what happens when you start to get older and accumulate too many children's songs in your head - just wait until you forget the tune to Twinkle little star!). I think I have heard Bingo sung both ways, so we just kept going with the full word. And, if you just go with it like your way is right everyone will follow along and figure maybe <i>they</i> had it wrong :) (Until a 3 year old informs you of your error, I had one in tears over Little Bunny Foo-Foo once and I sang that one 'correctly'.)<br />
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The pizza slices are made of flannel and decorated with various toppings. I made each one with different toppings just for fun. I did color the white flannel with yellow and brown sharpies to get a better looking 'cheese' layer. The letters are paper that was laminated with a velcro piece on the back. I figured this way I could take them off if I ever needed pizza slices for another story.<br />
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For play time after story time I wanted to incorporate the pizza theme so I made up some flannel pizzas. There is crust, sauce, cheese (cut yarn), and various toppings. I saved a few pizza boxes over the weekend and lined them with some cardstock and let the kids use those to serve and deliver their pizza creations. They had a great time with it.<br />
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You can find the rest of this week's Flannel Friday submissions over at <a href="http://storytimekatie.com/2015/01/29/flannel-friday-round-up-130/" target="_blank">storytime katie</a> and for the best ever collection of flannel ideas check out the <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/flannelfriday/" target="_blank">Pinterest boards</a>.<br />
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Who does not love pizza? I am sure that there is some crazy people out there who do not prefer gooey cheese and tomato sauce on bread (I assume this is due to food allergies?) but in a room full of toddlers you do not find those people. When I revealed today's theme one child shouted 'I love pizza!' and many others followed suit adding in what kinds of toppings they enjoy. I think that given the theme we could have done almost anything pizza related and they would have loved it.<br />
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The letter of the day was <b><span style="color: #660000;">P</span></b> which many of them got quickly (though we have a few over 3 year olds who know their letters). And we had a few pictures of <b><span style="color: #660000;">P</span></b> words such as a Penny, Penguins, a Peacock, and a Pumpkin.<br />
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The first pizza book we read was <b><i><span style="color: #660000;">Ding dong gorilla</span></i></b> by Michelle Robinson. This book is a little deceiving in that it doesn't look very pizza themed. A little boy opens the door expecting to find the pizza man but instead discovers a gorilla! The gorilla invites himself in and proceeds to wreck the house (of course it was the gorilla who dumped out all of the toys). Throughout the story the little boy keeps explaining that there is bad news, but it is not that the gorilla broke things, made messes, scared away the real pizza boy, or disappeared. Can you guess what the bad news is? I was worried this might be a little long for the 2's and 3's, but they sat and listened really well.<br />
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After reading <i>Ding dong gorilla </i>we got up and moving with Angela Russ' <i><span style="color: #660000;">Work your body</span></i>. This song is a toddler exercise song. The kids stretch their arms, do some squats, and kick (very carefully!) their legs. It is simple enough for the smaller ones and really helps get the wiggles out.<br />
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Our second book was <b><i><span style="color: #660000;">Pete's a pizza</span></i></b> by William Steig. This is a classic pizza story. When a little boy is grumpy that he can't go outside and play his dad decides to turn him into a pizza. He kneads the dough, adds some ingredients, and pops him into the oven (or onto the couch). This is a fun way to talk about how pizza is made, although in this story the pizza runs away and is a bit ticklish.<br />
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We followed <i>Pete's a pizza</i> with Carole Peterson's song <i><span style="color: #660000;">Snowflake snowflake</span></i>. I like using scarves for this one. We wave them in the air to the soothing music then when directed put them on our noses and toes. The kids love when we make them into a ball and toss them up into the air and watch them float down (I do this when there is a long stretch of music with no instructions).<br />
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The flannel board this week was a song, so I put it before one last book. I saw the idea <a href="http://jeninthelibrary.com/tag/pizza/" target="_blank">here</a> at Jen in the Library. The song was simple, you take the Bingo song and replace it with pizza so you sing:<br />
<i>There is a treat that's fun to eat</i><br />
<i>And pizza is it's name-o</i><br />
<i>P-I-Z-Z-A, P-I-Z-Z-A, P-I-Z-Z-A,</i><br />
<i>And pizza is it's name-o.</i><br />
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Then, I pulled off a flannel pizza and we 'ate" it. They all really loved this part as they got to pretend to eat the flannel pizza. There we lots of giggles as they ran up and pretended to bite. Then we replaced the letters we ate with claps in the song until we had eaten all the pizza.<br />
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I made the letters separate from the pizza so that I can pull them off and use just the pizza if need be. The letters are printed out on cardstock and laminated and have a half velcro dot on the back.<br />
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The last book we read was everyone's favorite <i><b><span style="color: #660000;">Hi, pizza man!</span></b></i> by Virginia Walter. A hungry little girl is getting impatient waiting for a pizza to arrive. To pass the time her mother asks what she will say when the pizza man comes. But, what if it is a pizza woman, or a pizza kitten? What would she say to them? Things get a bit crazy when they start to imagine pizza snakes and dinosaurs. Finally, the doorbell rings, who will it be? The kids really loved this one.<br />
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Our craft for the day was making a pizza out of a paper plate. They were given some markers to color with, paint stampers for sauce, pom poms for meatballs, red stickers for pepperoni, and yellow paper they could cut or tear for cheese. They also could have some model magic to use as dough and many of them enjoyed kneading and stretching it just like pizza dough.<br />
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I also brought in this really cute Melissa and Doug pizza set that I have at home. My own kids still really enjoy playing with it. It is made of wood and the toppings stick on with velcro.<br />
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I managed to find a few pizza activity sheets to put out. One lets the kids trace the word PIZZA and color a picture. The other they can color and count the number of various toppings. I put the sheets on the table so the kids can do them there, but many take them home which I think is great as they help them extend the books at home as well as work on math and literacy skills with their parents or caregiver.<br />
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This week's theme for story time was <b><span style="color: #351c75;">Hats</span></b>. Talking about hats was appropriate this week as it is rather cold out and everyone wore at hat to story time today. We began with our usual letter of the day -H- along with some '<b><span style="color: #351c75;">H</span></b>' words like horse, hand, heart, and helicopter. Then we talked about hats and why we might have worn one today.<br />
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The first book that we read was <b><i><span style="color: #351c75;">A hat for Minerva Louise</span></i></b> by Janet Morgan Stoeke. This book fit right in with the weather today as it was snowing and in the story Minerva loves snowy mornings but all the other hens stay inside with their heads buried under their wings. Minerva decides to go out and explore, but she needs to stay warm in the snow. She looks for warm clothing and sees a scarf (a garden hose), shoes (gloves), and begins to search for a hat. She tries on a flower pot and a boot before deciding of a mitten and discovers that now she has two hats - one for her bottom! The kids enjoyed this and were able to tell me what the 'hats' really were.<br />
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We followed A hat for Minerva Louise with the song <i><span style="color: #351c75;">Hat, jacket, pants, and boots</span></i> by Carole Peterson. This is a version of head, shoulders, knees, and toes but you sub in the words for clothing. I like this version as it begins rather slow, but is then repeated 4 times getting faster with each repetition. The kids were able to keep up at the end too, which is always a plus with toddlers and preschoolers.<br />
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The second book that we read was Brian Won's <b><i><span style="color: #351c75;">Hooray for hat! </span></i></b> Elephant wakes up grumpy but is cheered up when he finds a box that contains several hats. He set off to show his friends who are all also grumpy but cheer up when Elephant shares a hat with each of them. However, Giraffe is not feeling well and they have run out of hats! The solution - everyone puts their hat into a box and they present it to Giraffe. this is a great book that has lots of repetition and shows how friends can cheer you up.<br />
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After reading Hooray for hat we sang another Carole Peterson song, this one called <i><span style="color: #351c75;">I like my hat</span></i>. In this song she sings 'I like my hat so I put it on my __' and names a variety of body parts that are not the head. This resulted in lots of giggles today (especially when we put the hat on our bottoms). In the past I have used this song with scarves (once I folded paper hats) but we have a small collection of doll sized straw hats, so I passed those out to the kids. It was very amusing before the song to watch them all put the small hats on their heads and then tell me that the hats didn't fit them!<br />
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Our last book was <b><i><span style="color: #351c75;">Which hat is that?</span></i></b> by Anna Grossnickle Hines. In this story a small mouse talks about what she is going to do and describes the hat that she will wear. Then, the kids can guess the type of hat and we lift a flap to see if they got it right. They enjoyed getting to shout out the answers on this one.<br />
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We ended with the flannelboard game <b><i><span style="color: #351c75;">Little Cat</span></i></b>. I have seen many versions of this, some with a mouse in a house, some with a bug in a rug, etc. The rhyme goes;<br />
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<i>Are you in the ___ hat?</i><br />
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You could do this with colors, but we had more occupational type hats. The kids really enjoyed this game. I can see why many librarians use it weekly. I let them pick which hat we would look under. We found the cat about half way through, but as a surprise I also hid a grumpy cat, so we looked for him too.<br />
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I also made up a career hat match game where they could match a hat to a mode of transportation. I put it out as a game during playtime, but we also talked about it before ending story time.<br />
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As always we ended with Carole Peterson's <i><span style="color: #351c75;">B-bananas</span></i>. I am always surprised when they get so excited for this song (the parents too). Although, as a result it is impossible for me to eat a banana and not sing this song.<br />
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Our craft was a very simple color/decorated a hat. I gave them the outline of the hat, markers, tissue paper, feathers, and pompoms and let them decorate as they wanted.<br />
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During playtime we put out all of the costume hats that I could round up in the library. Many of them enjoyed playing with these.<br />
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Finally, as an extra activity or take home, we put out some hat coloring sheet that my co-worker found. They had to read (or be told) the color and then color the hat accordingly. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-25665188437232291382015-01-13T14:34:00.001-05:002015-01-13T14:34:45.501-05:00Birds flying around Story TimeWe resumed story times this week and once again January has been off to a very cold start. According to the Weather Channel this morning it felt like 2 degrees about the time we were starting story time. So, I am hoping the lower numbers are due to that. Or, they all stayed up late to watch the Buckeyes beat the ducks (doubtful, but you never know).<br />
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Our books were about <b><span style="color: #990000;">Birds</span></b> today and featured the letter <b><span style="color: #990000;">B</span></b>. When I was making my B sign with pictures of things that start with B last week I was convinced that story time was on Monday, before the OSU football game and made a scarlet and grey B and added a picture of Brutus the Buckeye. I printed everything off and realized that it was for Tuesday story time, the day after the game. So, I just hoped for a win (we got it - have you figured out that I live in Ohio yet?)<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_kY6wCNE_omnySVX4nYAW5tOUnsaUG_fDIG6NURD6YmGEnI9Eda6bO9SPg1PVPkEYKj7dIqLhr5ubzAhAWMZFCXf9SHP6z6_tZLLjzybERVRTGGgJlpST7gbIykAdN336pkoFPiH3V1v-/s1600/owl+babies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_kY6wCNE_omnySVX4nYAW5tOUnsaUG_fDIG6NURD6YmGEnI9Eda6bO9SPg1PVPkEYKj7dIqLhr5ubzAhAWMZFCXf9SHP6z6_tZLLjzybERVRTGGgJlpST7gbIykAdN336pkoFPiH3V1v-/s1600/owl+babies.jpg" height="166" width="200" /></a>The first book that we read was <b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Owl babies</span></i></b> by Martin Waddel. This is a great story for kids from 2 - 6 years old. In this story 3 baby owls are waiting for mommy to come back. But, as they wait they begin to worry causing the one owl to repeatedly cry 'I want my mommy!' (They all love that part, especially if you really play it up.) I think the kids enjoy this one as many can relate to the worry about where mommy is when she is away.<br />
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We followed Owl babies with Carole Peterson's <span style="color: #990000;"><i>Penguin Song</i></span>. This is a cumulative movement song where the kids move one body part at a time until they are moving arms, legs, and nodding their head. It is not too hard and the premise is that the kids are penguins, so it fit well.<br />
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The second book we read was Lucy Cousins' book <b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Peck, peck, peck</span></i></b>. In this story a father woodpecker is teaching his little guy how to peck. Excited with his new skill little woodpecker heads off to see what he can ind to peck. After pecking a hole in a door the little guy finds himself in a house with a whole LOT of things to peck. Cousins' illustrations are bight and colorful and include actual holes in each item the bird pecks so as you turn the page you can see how many holes little woodpecker has made. The kids really seemed to enjoy this one as well.<br />
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After reading Peck, peck, peck we got out the shaker eggs for Laurie Berkner's <i><span style="color: #990000;">I know a chicken</span></i>. This is a good egg shaker song where the kids get to shake the eggs fast and slow - they really get into the fast shaking. I cut the song short, it is a little long for the 2's and 3's, but if you keep going with older kids they can shake the eggs in circle, up and down, and around and around.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQdr7DqcUo-Yom0eLqO7rWY6gDe9SLXiZqrrKNUBQ9vWp5g5Pm1olT7FSOMLyBnuE0hV0jLZrfUV-AZfPmGny7l7FnDXNHC9YDbdt1rAbP93Y0aMMBLYT3gkKimv75Lwr30h1HUBg_Nq42/s1600/Penguins+014.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQdr7DqcUo-Yom0eLqO7rWY6gDe9SLXiZqrrKNUBQ9vWp5g5Pm1olT7FSOMLyBnuE0hV0jLZrfUV-AZfPmGny7l7FnDXNHC9YDbdt1rAbP93Y0aMMBLYT3gkKimv75Lwr30h1HUBg_Nq42/s1600/Penguins+014.jpg" height="150" width="200" /></a>Our final story was the flannel board <b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Pippa's penguins</span></i></b> written by Susan M. Daily. Before the story we talked about the penguins at the zoo. Our city has a great zoo with a penguin exhibit that you see as soon as you enter the zoo. Most of the kids were able to tell me what a penguin looked like, so that was a good starter for the story. Pipp goes with her grandma to the zoo and loves the penguins so much that she wants to draw one when they get home. Grandma tries, but just can't quite get it right. She makes a green penguin, a red penguin, a purple polka dotted penguin, a blue striped penguin, a penguin in a bathing suit, a penguin in a fancy suit and finally a black and white penguin. You can read more about the story with pictures of the flannel board <a href="http://misssarahsstorytime.blogspot.com/2012/02/flannel-friday-pippas-penguins.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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We finished as always with Carole Peterson's B-Bananas.<br />
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The craft featured owls like in the story Owl babies. I found it on Pinterest, you can see the original post <a href="http://queenbeecoupons.com/easy-owl-craft-for-kids-make-your-own-line-up-of-owls-using-cotton-batting/" target="_blank">here</a>, below are some of the owls our kids came up with.<br />
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For playtime I turned our plastic wading pool into a bird's nest. My co-worker added some birds and big eggs. She also had the brilliant idea to use it during her story time and put kids in it for the rhyme 5 in the nest (like the song 10 in the bed but they roll out of the nest instead). The kids played with it a little bit, but not as much as I had hoped.<br />
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I also put our some bird activity sheets that I found on worksheetfun.com. This site has a lot of great printable activity sheets for free. For the toddlers I try to look for sheets that have tracing, shapes, or letters and numbers that aren't too small. We had a tracing owl and counting birds!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-74012038648881538302014-12-19T13:58:00.000-05:002014-12-19T13:58:56.489-05:00Eric Carle Story TimeThis week we did an entire story time featuring <b><span style="color: blue;">Eric Carle</span></b> books. I probably could have planned several weeks of Eric Carle books with no repeats as so many of them are great for a story time setting.<br />
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We featured the letter <b><span style="color: blue;">C </span></b>since to find most of Eric Carle's books you need to look in the C's under Carle. Sadly, none of the kids could recognize the letter C! So, we talked about it a little longer and the sound that the letter C makes.</div>
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We followed our story up with <i><span style="color: blue;">Singing in the rain</span></i> by Carole Peterson. This is a good dancing song. It is a lot like Dr. Jean's Tooty-ta if you have ever heard that one.</div>
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After our second story we did another song by Carole Peterson as we danced to the<i><span style="color: blue;"> Shaker Hop</span></i>. This song goes to the tune of the bunny hop, but the kids each have a shaker that they put in, out, and hop with. There is a spot where music plays with no directions and while sometimes it is fun to free dance I have found that many kids will just stand there unless I tell them what to do. So, we make our shakers go high, low, on our head etc. whatever I feel like having them do.</div>
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We ended with a quick reading of the <b><i><span style="color: blue;">Artist who painted a blue horse</span></i></b>. Normally I would just have moved on to a song, but we had a great crowd of kids who were sitting very nicely so we read the book and I introduced the craft where they were going to free paint. We talked about how in art you can make something look however you want.</div>
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We have been ending every week with the<i><span style="color: blue;"> </span>Banana song<span style="color: blue;"> </span></i>(<i><span style="color: blue;">B-Bananas</span>,</i> again by Carole Peterson). This is a camp type chant where the kids will 'be' a banana, 'peel' bananas, 'eat' bananas, and 'go' bananas. It has become a favorite with all my groups. Several preschoolers ask for it as soon as they see me.</div>
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Storytime ends with playtime where the kids can play with age appropriate toys as well as do crafts and activities that I put out. Many will do the crafts, though on paint days I have noticed many will just play. We did provide t-shirts for the kids to put over their clothes.</div>
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As part of play time I decided to put out a few literacy activities that I have from other programs. There is a sheet my co-worker found where the kids fill in the missing alphabet letters. I had found road letters on Pinterest and printed them out for a different program, so I put a few out with some cars to give parents ideas of things that they can do at home to build literacy skills.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-24148268128580663522014-04-03T15:20:00.003-04:002014-04-03T15:20:43.347-04:00Story Time FoxEver since I heard the song The Fox (what does the fox say?) by Ylvis I knew it would make for good fun in story time. Kids love animal sounds and that song has a lot of them. Then, the picture book came out and I knew it was time. So, a few weeks ago we did a Fox themed story time.<br />
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I will say, it was hard to find lots of books with nice foxes. There were a few, but most were too long for my toddlers. I decided not to worry about how the fox was portrayed, just like in real life not everyone is nice.<br />
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Our first story was <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Fox tale soup</span></i></b> by Tony Bonning. This is a re-telling of the classic tale Stone soup featuring a travelling fox who stops by a barnyard looking for something to eat. When none of the animals offer up food he asks for some water and finds a stone to make stone soup. Soon, the curious animals are rushing off to find things to add to the soup until the fox has a nice vegetable soup brewing. I think the overall point of this story was a little lost on my toddler crowd, but the text was simple enough that it was not too long, so they probably thought it was a nice story about soup!<br />
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After reading <i>Fox tale soup</i> we did Sue Schnitzer's song <i><span style="color: #cc0000;">All the fish</span></i>. This song has lots of animal movements with a fun 'Splash!' at the end of each verse.<br />
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The next book we read was Richard Waring's <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Hungry hen</span></i></b>. The fox in this book has his eye on a hen who lives at the farm on the hill below him. But, each day as he watches the hen eats he decides he should wait a little longer for the hen to get bigger. As the hen grows bigger the fox grows slimmer and weaker. When he finally decides to make his move, the poor fox is so weak that he is in for a surprise!<br />
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We followed <i>Hungry hen </i>with Johnette Downing's song <i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Scarves up, down, and around</span></i>. The kids had fun waving the scarves as well as throwing them into the air and trying to catch them.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoZUNjzKX7jviuzcGmjyrD79uQg5JH2B6eBVdmsa1i0XD5BwY9Z0rgGsuviCYo2Vf9Ir4-2V0unTr_YHhpvFUTQ-9apDkHCQM67__g9letRkSNXN_JNh-lR7wWiW1VSnmMx3HlmcVqmaoU/s1600/fox+nest+bucket+scarf+muffs.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoZUNjzKX7jviuzcGmjyrD79uQg5JH2B6eBVdmsa1i0XD5BwY9Z0rgGsuviCYo2Vf9Ir4-2V0unTr_YHhpvFUTQ-9apDkHCQM67__g9letRkSNXN_JNh-lR7wWiW1VSnmMx3HlmcVqmaoU/s1600/fox+nest+bucket+scarf+muffs.jpeg" height="149" width="200" /></a>Our last story was a flannel version of the book <b><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">The fox with cold feet</span></i></b> by Bill Singer. I found an adaptation on the Storytiming blog and you can see that version <a href="http://storytiming.com/2011/07/22/flannel-friday-the-fox-with-cold-feet/" target="_blank">here</a>. In this story fox is looking for some boots to warm his cold feet. Unfortunately for fox, he has never seen a pair of boots before. So, other animals dupe him into doing tasks for him in exchange for 'boots.' Soon, fox is wearing a nest, a pail, earmuffs, and a scarf on his feet. It doesn't take him long to determine that boots hurt! Kicking them off fox decides boots aren't for him after all.<br />
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Of course, we could not end story time without doing something with the song <i><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Fox (what does the fox say?)</span></i>. I made a quick flannel using clip art of all the animals mentioned in the first verse of the song. As I put them up, I would say 'dog says____' and the kids would shout out the sound that the animals made. They loved this and got louder and more animated as we went. Once all the animals were up I looked at the kids and said 'but what does the fox say?' I was met with blank stares and silence. It was fairly amusing. Finally, one kid (mine) shout out 'AAAARRRROOOOO.' Like one part of the song.<br />
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After that flannel board I played the Kidz Bop version of The Fox (what does the fox say?) and they all danced around while I pulled out the parachute. We ended story time with some parachute play, which the kids loved. I put some scarves in to bounce around. I had planned on using stuffed animals from the song, but they seemed too heavy. I thought about using the flannel board, but since it was cardstock I was worried a child might end up with a paper cut. Really, they did not care about bouncing things out, they just wanted the adults to make it a 'tent' over their heads.<br />
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Our craft was a tissue paper and torn paper fox that I found via Pinterest. We gave the kids watered down paint and a straw to make the tree and they decorated a fox head and body cut out that they then glued to the paper.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-76558733588153368992014-03-12T12:29:00.003-04:002014-03-12T12:29:40.022-04:00Feeling Grumpy Story TimeIt seems that around March is a rather Grumpy month. Many of us are ready for spring to come (especially this year with the extra cold weather we have had) but March likes to hold on to the cold and snow creating grumps all over the place.<br />
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So, for this week's preschool visit I decided that I would do stories about being <b><span style="color: #134f5c;">Grumpy</span></b>. I discovered that there are several great books for kids with a grumpy theme. Lots of authors must be hanging around with grumpy preschoolers. And, since weather leads to much of the grumpiness around here, I threw in a song about rain and my snowmen flannel board. Little id I know that as I was doing story time we would be able to watch rain turn to snow, I could not have planned it better! (I am probably the only person around here who was happy to see more snow.)<br />
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I have been starting off my visits with <i><span style="color: #134f5c;">A new way to say hello</span></i> from the Exercise Party album, so we began with that.<br />
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Our first book was the <b><i><span style="color: #134f5c;">Pout-pout fish</span></i></b> by Deborah Diesen. I love this book. It features Mr. Fish, a pout-pout fish with big pouty lips who thinks that it is just his nature to be pouty. With a pout like his he just can't help it, and no amount of cajoling and cheering up from his friends will change him. I really like that this book has a repeating refrain by Mr. fish about why he is pouty and it ends with three gloomy 'bluuubbbs.' It is catchy enough that many of the kids were saying it along with me by the second or third round. Mr. Fish does cheer up in the end, but you'll have to read it to see how.<br />
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We followed <i>Pout-pout fish</i> with the song <i><span style="color: #134f5c;">If you're happy and you know it</span></i> by the MFLP Band from the album Apples and Bananas. This version has the kids clap their hands, pat their knees, stomp their feet (for this verse they sing 'if you are mad...'), beep their nose, and shout 'hooray.' At the end of each verse you also add the previous motions, so at the end you shout, beep, stomp, pat, and clap. It is a nice little twist to the version they all know.<br />
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The second book that we read was <b><i><span style="color: #134f5c;">Grumpy Bird</span></i></b> by Jeremy Tankard. In this story bird wakes up grumpy (all of the kids claimed that they did not wake up grumpy). Bird is even too grumpy to fly, so he starts walking. His friends see him walking and decide to join him (I have no idea why because he grumpily tells each one that he is walking, but it is a good opportunity to discuss how to speak to your friends - especially when bird starts yelling). However, bird discovers that doing things with his friends causes him to forget to be grumpy.<br />
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After reading <i>Grumpy bird</i> we sang Carole Peterson's version of <i><span style="color: #134f5c;">Singing in the rain</span></i>. It was rather appropriate since it was raining when we started this morning. (I did this song before during a drought and it was raining as we ended the song, so I am wondering if the rain might be my fault...) This song mashes Singing in the rain with motions like form Dr. Jean's Tooty-ta, so very fun and active.<br />
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Our third book was <b><i><span style="color: #134f5c;">Crankenstein</span></i></b> by Samantha Berger. This book came out late last year and was a favorite with my kids at home. It features a little boy who looks very Frankenstein-ish and who says 'mmmmwwwwhhhhhheeerrr' or something like that, when he becomes Crankenstein. The book explains all the things that might bring out Crankenstein, like; waking up, rain, melting pops, long lines, a cold Halloween, etc. Luckily, Crankenstein goes away once he meets another Crankenstein - which is hilarious. The kids really enjoyed that spread. The one class especially liked how the pictures of the author and illustrator had been 'zombie-fied.'<br />
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We followed <i>Crankenstein</i> with the song <i><span style="color: #134f5c;">Toes, knees, shoulders, and head</span></i> by Kimmy Schwimmy. Obviously it is like head, shoulders, knees, and toes backwards. Between verses kids can point to or move other body parts. Another fun twist on a classic. I like those as the kids basically know what to do, but it is still new and a little different.<br />
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The last 'story' that we did was my <b><i><span style="color: #134f5c;">Melting snowmen</span></i></b> flannelboard. Since we had snow in the forecast we tried to preemptively melt it away. However, as we were doing the rhyme we could see the rain turning to snow. I'm really starting to feel like I have some kind of weather power. The kids liked this one so much that we did it twice - so bring on more snow! You can see the snowman rhyme and how I made the flannel <a href="http://misssarahsstorytime.blogspot.com/2011/09/flannel-friday-five-snowmen.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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To end my visit we did the <i><span style="color: #134f5c;">Banana song</span></i> by Carole Peterson. The real title is <span style="color: #134f5c; font-style: italic;">B-Bananas </span>(you can find it on her album Stinky Cake) but all the kids ask for the banana song as soon as they see me. My toddler crowd has started to do the same thing. We do it every week. It is just that fun.<br />
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I live in a place where there is no escaping winter. A few weeks ago we were having record cold temperatures with wind chills below 30. And, after a little warm up, it looks like the mercury is going to plunge again. The best way to embrace this weather is with a story time - in a warm room of course.<br />
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Our letter of the day was <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">W</span></b>. I went with a more vague <b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Winter</span></b> theme so that I could throw in all kinds of winter themes, such as snowmen, warm clothing, snow, etc. W was a little difficult for the kiddos, one of them guessed 'M' which was close. So we talked about W and its sound along with the other pictures I had.</div>
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The first wintry book that we read was <i><b><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Snow </span></b></i>by Uri Shulevitz. In this story a boy and his dog get excited when they see one single snow flake. Every one keeps telling him that the flake will melt, as will the next one, and the next one... There is no snow in the forecast. But, the snow does not know that, and it begins to fall faster and faster, blanketing the city with white. This book has very simple text that is good for the little kids and it is fun to watch the snow 'accumulate' on the pages.<br />
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After reading <b><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Snow</span></i></b>, we did Carole Peterson's song <i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">We're marching in the snow</span></i>. This is a fun and active song where the kids march, run, slide, roll, etc. in the snow.<br />
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Our second book was Karla Kuskin's <b><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Under my hood I have a hat</span></i></b>. This is a great story for a winter or clothing theme. The little girl in the book talks about all of the layers of clothing that she wears for a cold day in the snow. We talked before the book about all of the items of clothing that the kids had put on that day to go out in the cold weather. The book has simple, bold illustrations that are easy for the kids to see despite the fact that the book is a little smaller in size. I especially love the end when the little girl talks about how when she goes out she mustn't fall down, as it is hard to move with all the layers she is wearing.</div>
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We followed <i><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>Under my hood </b></span></i>with another Carole Peterson song,<i><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> Ring those bells</span></i>. Basically you do lots of bell ringing while Carole sings that Winter time is here. Always good for mid-winter story times, though I have found it you try it before January the parents give you lots of eye rolls.<br />
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Since I wasn't planning a snowman theme this year I brought out my<b><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> Melting Snowmen</span></i></b> for our winter week. You can read more about them<a href="http://misssarahsstorytime.blogspot.com/2011/09/flannel-friday-five-snowmen.html"> <b><span style="color: #351c75;">here</span></b></a>. They have a rhyme and each one melts away after each round of the rhyme. This is always a hit with the kids. Especially once they join in with the rhyme.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Our final story of the day was a version of <b><i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">There was a cold lady who swallowed some snow</span></i></b> by Lucille Colandro. I decided to make this more of a participation story, so I made pieces for all of the kids to feed the cold lady as we told the story. In the book, the lady eats various items that make up a snowman and then hiccups out a completed snowman.</span></div>
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Here is the lady. I made her from a shoe box. To make her face I just used circles and crescents in a word file. Then i taped the picture on the box and cut out her mouth with a knife and taped around the opening. I taped white yarn to the top of the box for hair and stuck a hat on here (this is the spare I keep in the car for my son).</div>
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These are the pieces to give the kids. I had extra coal and snowflakes to ensure that there were enough pieces to go around. </div>
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This is the back of the box. I just taped on black construction paper so that from the front the mouth looks black but there is a gap to slide the snowman through at the end.</div>
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During the story the completed snowman is velcroed to the hat in the back. As I read the book the kids brought their pieces up to feed the lady. Many of them needed a little prompting, but they got them all in there.<br />
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We finished story time with yet another Carole Peterson song (what can I say, her music is great for toddlers and preschoolers). This one was called <i><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Snowflake snowflake</span></i> and in the song there are snow flakes softly falling. I don't know if the song was meant to be used with scarves, but I gave all of the kids tissues. For starters, the kids just love getting to pull one from the box. Secondly, during the song you try to hold the 'snowflake' in the air by blowing at it. I figured that if the kids were to have any success with this at all we needed something very light, so the tissues did nicely. Plus. we threw them away at the end so no worries about spit being blown on the scarves. The kids did enjoy this one, they had a little difficulty getting those tissues to blow around, but they had fun trying.<br />
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Our craft for the day was a simple hat and mittens. Each kid got a hat with two mittens cut out of construction paper. They also had a piece of card stock with a circle on it to be their face. They could decorate with foam snow stickers and makers.</div>
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Instead of having Sparky my dragon reveal the letter today we had a guest monkey. We talked about the words on the paper that start with the letter M and then talked a little bit about monkeys.<br />
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Our first book was Steve Haskamp's <b><i><span style="color: #274e13;">Eight silly monkeys</span></i></b>. In this version of monkeys jumping on the bed the monkeys the monkeys do a different action on each page as you count down from eight to none. So, you have monkeys that are spinning, dancing, sliding, and more. The kids enjoy the repetition with this book and many of them were doing the '<i>mama called the doctor</i>' part along with me.<br />
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After reading <i>Eight silly monkeys</i> we sang <i><span style="color: #274e13;">Five little monkeys</span></i> by Eric Litwin and the Learning Groove. This is a nice bouncy version of the rhyme and we jumped along with those five monkeys.<br />
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The second book that we read was <b><i><span style="color: #274e13;">Two little monkey</span></i></b>s by Mem Fox. This is the story of two monkeys, Cheeky and Chee. When danger is nearby they have to scamper to safety. This story has a nice rhythm and rhyme and the illustrations are great for sharing in story time. The kids enjoyed trying to figure out what the monkeys were running from. We were also able to discuss some new words as the monkeys 'scamper' and 'tremble' so hopefully a few kids went home with a bigger vocabulary.<br />
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We followed <i>Two little monkeys</i> with Hap Palmer's song <i><span style="color: #274e13;">Five little monkeys</span></i>. Another version of the song, but this one has the kids jumping, hopping, and turning. It ends with all the monkeys jumping outside (because there is nothing wrong with jumping outside) and then they all fall down - a perfect landing for the start of the next story.<br />
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Our last story was a prop story. The previous library I worked at had a stuffed palm tree with monkeys that could velcro to the leaves. It was great for the rhyme <i><span style="color: #274e13;"><b>Five little monkeys and the crocodile</b></span></i>. When I started planning a monkey story time I found myself missing it, so I had to make a replacement. I decided to go big and make an almost life sized prop story.</div>
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For the rhyme I had 5 monkeys with the hands that velcro together. I pulled them out one by one at the kids counted as I velcroed the monkeys' hands around the metal bit on the underside of the umbrella. I hind site I should have added some velcro to the underside of the umbrella and stuck the monkeys to that. They went on fairly easy, but were a little hard when it came time to pull them off. </div>
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So, here we have all monkeys on the tree and we did the rhyme:<br />
<i>5 little monkeys swinging in a tree,</i><br />
<i>Teasing Mr. Crocodile 'you can't catch me.'</i><br />
<i>Along came Mr. Crocodile, quiet as can be,</i><br />
<i>And SNAPPED a monkey right out of the tree.</i><br />
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Repeat until all the monkeys are gone. We did have an alligator puppet, but I thought that would be a bit 'graphic' for 2 and 3 year olds. We 'snapped' with our hands instead.<br />
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When I was doing the rhyme I just held the umbrella. That worked fairly well, it was a little harder getting the monkeys on, but I was able to make them 'swing' in the tree. The trunk in the picture is a roll of brown paper. Next time, I might leave it on the trunk to put the monkeys on, then pull it off for the rhyme.</div>
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In addition to me doing the rhyme, the kids also had a version to use. Someone who was here before me made a large number of these sheets:</div>
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So, each child in story time had their own sheet and they could pull off the monkeys with me. They seemed to enjoy this, though many of them got ahead of themselves and pulled all the monkeys off as fast as they could. They adults with them were great about stepping in to help and we worked on counting our monkeys that were left each time one was removed.</div>
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We had two monkey crafts. The first, above, is made out of cardstock and pipe cleaners. I put a monkey head on an oval and the kids colored it and taped pipe cleaners to the back. They used 3, one for the arms, one for the legs, and one for the tail. They bent the pipe cleaners for feet and the tail so that the monkey could stand.</div>
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The second monkey craft was a smaller version of the above monkey. Instead of pipe cleaner arms and legs they folded paper.</div>
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We used the smaller monkeys to decorate the bulletin boards in our story time room. The kids really liked being able to pick out a spot for their monkey and tape it up there.</div>
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I started with the story<b><i><span style="color: red;"> Santa's new suit</span></i></b> by Laura Rader. In this story Santa discovers that all of his red suits are dirty, torn, or too small, so he goes shopping for a new suit. But, while he is out he decides that he will go in a different direction and picks a suit that is not red. This does not go over well as the elves and reindeer hate the new outfit and the kids don't recognize him. What will Santa do? This is cute as a book, but I have also seen it as a flannel board. You can find one version here with the <a href="http://thestorytimelady.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/santas-new-suit/">storytimelady</a>.<br />
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We also read the story <b><i><span style="color: red;">Santa Duck</span></i></b> by David Milgrim. When Duck finds a package with a red Santa coat and hat he is thrilled. He sets off to find Santa to give his wish list, but along the way is repeatedly stopped by the other animals who give their own lists to duck. This is a cute book and the kids really liked the quacking holiday song that duck sings a few times.<br />
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The next book didn't quite make it in time for my preschool visit, but I was happy it arrived for the in-house story times as it is a fun book. <b><i><span style="color: red;">Have you been naughty or nice </span></i></b>by Ethan Long is about duck, who is fairly sure that he is on the nice list this year. That is until he eats all of the cookies that were intended for Santa. Then he is certain that he will be on the naughty list. Does duck have time to get back on the nice list? This fun story is great for very dramatic reading.<br />
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I decided to use the flannel story that I came up with last year. Since I moved to a new library no one here has heard it :). The story is called <b><i><span style="color: red;">Away flew Santa's hat</span></i></b> and the idea is that on a windy Christmas Eve Santa's hat keeps flying away. Each time a hat goes someone lends him a new hat, although at one point he is in a bind and has to use underpants. You can read the full story<a href="http://misssarahsstorytime.blogspot.com/2012/11/pete-cat-christmas-extravaganza.html"> here</a>. <br />
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I managed to find some songs that weren't too Christmas-y. We danced along to Carole Peterson's <i><span style="color: red;">Freeze</span></i>. The music is the song <i>Let It Snow</i>, but they do not sing the words. The kids dance to the music and occasionally it will stop and they have to freeze. Some kids like this as they get to dance however they want (they are very enthusiastic) others just sit there and stare at you.<br />
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Carole Peterson has another song <i><span style="color: red;">Jingle bells and stop</span></i>. Similar to the freeze only with bells. This song has the kids jingle their bells and stop periodically. In this one the stopping is more predictable as there are words and you stop at the end of each verse. During the song you jingle bells high, low, fast, and slow.<br />
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We also used Laurie Berkner's version of <i><span style="color: red;">Jingle bells</span></i>. She adds a little extra verse of her own at the beginning, so we just jingled through it. Then the kids got to sing along to the traditional verse which they all loved.<br />
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As an extra activity, we did Santa exercises. We sang 'ho, ho, ho' to the tune of Jingle bells and stretched up, down, out, and in. We started with our hands out in front like we had a really big belly. This was a good movement activity to help get the wiggles out.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-76514314140297213872013-12-09T16:06:00.000-05:002013-12-09T16:06:20.042-05:00Those Silly BabiesLast month we started visiting a local Head Start program. I went and did a story time for 2 of the classes there. Generally I would use a theme that I was already doing for story times, but since story time is on a break I decided to use the theme '<b><span style="color: #741b47;">Silly Babies</span></b>.'<br />
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The first book that we read was <b><i><span style="color: #741b47;">Mustache baby</span></i></b> by Bridget Heos. This book has been a favorite at my house (so much so that we bought our own copy). Even my husband likes it and he is NOT into picture (or any other books). This is the story of baby Billy who was born with a mustache. His parents are told that they have to wait and see if it will be a 'good-guy' or 'bad-guy' mustache. This is a very cute and funny story.<br />
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Our second book was Simon Puttock's <b><i><span style="color: #741b47;">The baby that roared</span></i></b>. In this story Mr. and Mrs. Deer are unable to have a baby of thier own, but as luck would have it they find one! However, the poor little baby will not stop roaring. The Deer send for help but oddly their friends keep disappearing when they are left alone with the baby. This silly story has a bit of a surprise ending, adults will see it coming, but kids may not.<br />
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The third story that we read was <b><i><span style="color: #741b47;">The cow that laid an egg</span></i></b> by Andy Cutbill. Poor Marjorie the cow is sad that she cannot do any special tricks like the other cows. But, when she lays an egg she gets all sorts of special attention. The other cows are suspicious that the chickens have something to do with this odd event, but they all just have to wait for the egg to hatch to find out what the baby will be.<br />
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Since I do my 'on the road' story time much like my in-house story time I took along my ipod. Sadly the dock quit working (despite the fact it had been fine a few days earlier). But, as luck would have it, each of the classes that I visited had a dock, which was great as the alternative was using my phone and that speaker is not very loud, or having me sing sans music. So, there was music and dancing...<br />
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We started with the song <i><span style="color: #741b47;">Shake a Friend's Hand</span></i> by Carole Peterson. This is a good group song as it has the kids shaking hands, bumping hips, and scratching the backs of their neighbor.<br />
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I had them counting with Mr. Eric and the Learning Groove's <i><span style="color: #741b47;">1,2,3, Whee! </span></i> This song is very fun as the kids love to throw their hands up into the air and yell 'whee!' They also get to jump and shake.<br />
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I took the library shaker eggs and we sang <i><span style="color: #741b47;">Shake your boom boom </span></i>by Angela Russ. While your 'boom boom' can be anything, we use the shakers and move the shaker a directed in the song, such as up and down, in and out, back and front.<br />
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We ended with the '<i><span style="color: #741b47;">Banana Chant</span></i>' or <i><span style="color: #741b47;">B-Bananas</span></i> by Carole Peterson that I used all story time session. I enjoy this fun chant and the kids always seem to enjoy it. It is nice that this version repeats so that the kids can do it once to get the hang of it and then they get to do it again.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-6650776005476878042013-11-09T13:48:00.000-05:002013-11-09T13:48:35.484-05:00Sing a song in Story TimeThis past week our story time theme was books that you can sing. This theme is always fun because there are a lot of great books that can be sung. And, you tend to get lots of audience participation when you pick songs that are well known by your toddler crowd.<br />
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Our letter of the day was <b><span style="color: blue;">S</span></b> for <b><span style="color: blue;">Sing</span></b>. Many of the kids knew the letter S and were able to tell me the sound that it makes. They had a little more trouble coming up with words that started with an S, but they had a few that started with the letter C, so that was close.<br />
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The first book that was sang was <b><i><span style="color: blue;">If you're happy and you know it</span></i></b> by Jane Cabrera. This is a fun one since the kids know the song but it adds lots of extra motions like flapping your wings, nodding your head, or turning around that get the kids up and moving. And, Jane's illustrations are always nice and bright making them easily visible for story time.<br />
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Our second sung book was Lenny Hort's<b><i><span style="color: blue;"> The Seals on the bus</span></i></b>. This is another familiar tune with the toddler crowd, so many of them sang along. Though, in Hort's version there are many animals on the bus who make different noises. To get the kids more involved I would ask them if they knew which animal was on the bus and what sound they made. And, I really like the ending of this book when the skunks get on the bus...<br />
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This was our last story time for the fall session and though Thanksgiving is most of the month away I thought we could throw in the <b><i><span style="color: blue;">Turkey song</span></i></b>. I actually did this one last year, but that was at a different library and even still it is a fun one. You can read about how I made the turkey<a href="http://misssarahsstorytime.blogspot.com/2011/11/flannel-friday-did-you-ever-see-turkey.html"> here</a> and watch the video to get the song lyrics. The song is about colors of the turkey feathers, so it is good for the little kids. I did modify it this time around and put the turkey on a paint stirrer stick. I used velcro to stick the turkey on the front and added another piece of velcro to the back to put the feathers on. This made changing the feathers easier since I did not need to pull the turkey all the way off of the flannel board to add new feathers.<br />
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We sang Carole Peterson's version of the song <i><span style="color: blue;">Shoo Fly</span></i>. In this one there are animal actions in between each verse so the kids are up and acting like alligators, birds, etc. I have also done this in the past with scarves that the kids wave around to 'shoo' the fly.<br />
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We got out our shaker eggs for another Carole Peterson song and did the <i><span style="color: blue;">Shaker Hop</span></i>. This is a fun song to the tune of the Bunny Hop where the kids are putting the shakers in and out and then hopping around.<br />
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It was Carole Peterson day as we threw in the song <i><span style="color: blue;">Tommy Thumb is up</span></i>. This is a great finger play song that I use quite a bit to transition from a movement activity to a book. It is kind of like Where is thumbkin, but you only use the thumb, pointer, pinkie, and then all of the fingers (skipping the 'bad' one and the hard one!) And we ended with her song <i><span style="color: blue;">B-Bananas</span></i>. We have done this song every week of the session at the end of story time and the kids have really enjoyed it.<br />
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Our craft was a kazoo. This was a very simple one. Each kid got a toilet paper roll and a piece of white paper that was cut to fit around the roll. They decorated the paper with markers and paint stampers then taped it to the roll. Then, they used a rubber band to cover one end of the roll with wax paper. When they sang or talked into the roll it made a funny sound.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-23334507516822444792013-10-29T16:15:00.000-04:002013-10-29T16:15:11.462-04:00Pretending at Story TimeThis week our story time theme was <b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Pretend</span></b> to kind of go along with <span style="color: #b45f06;">Halloween</span>. Sometimes I will embrace a holiday and plan a story time around it, other times I will pick a theme that kind of goes with aspects of the holiday (i.e. pretend or dress up for Halloween, gifts or toys for Christmas etc.).<br />
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So, our letter of the day was <b><span style="color: #b45f06;">P</span></b> for <b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Pretend</span></b>. This was little harder of a concept. For the letter of the day I have been printing of a very large letter and putting it up with a picture that goes with our theme (like a big A and a picture of an Apple). Most weeks, they can get the letter and the word easily with the picture. Today many of them knew the letter 'P,' but we got to have a little chat about what it means to pretend. They liked this part because they got to tell me what they were pretending to be today (I had told them all to come in costume).<br />
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The first book that we read was <b><span style="color: #b45f06;">You're a lion: and other fun yoga poses</span></b> by Taeeun Yoo. This books was a LOT of fun for the kids. It goes through different animal yoga poses. The poses are simple enough for all of the toddlers to do (and for me to do whilst holding a book). I really like that the directions for the pose are given on one page and then you turn the page to find out what animal you are. This allowed the kids to guess what they thought it was and then yell out the answer when they saw the pictures. Then, when appropriate, we made the animal sounds. This was a super fun book that would be great for any animal, pretend, yoga, exercise, movement etc. theme.<br />
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Our second book was Anne Margaret Lewis' <b><span style="color: #b45f06;">Fly blanky fly</span></b>. In this story a little boy pretends his blanky is all sorts of things, such a a rocket, camel, whale, airplane, and snake. For this book I passed out our scarves and told the kids to pretend that the scarves were their blankies. During the story they used the scarves to do the motions of the blanky swooping, wooshing, marching, etc.<br />
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The last story that we did was a flannel board that I made for Halloween based on Pete the Cat: I love my white shoes by Eric Litwin. In my story Pete goes out to trick or treat and meets some 'scary' charaters. But, he is not scared as he knows that they are just other cats dressing up in costume. But, what happens when he comes across a pumpkin dog? You can read the <a href="http://misssarahsstorytime.blogspot.com/2013/10/flannel-friday-halloween-with-pete-cat.html">full story here</a>.<br />
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To go with the Halloween side of the theme this week we did my favorite monster songs. First was Laurie Berkner's <i><span style="color: #b45f06;">Monster boogie</span></i> where the monsters boogie and wiggle around the room.<br />
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We also sang The Learning Groove's <i><span style="color: #b45f06;">We are monsters</span></i> where the monsters stomp, clap, shake, and roar around the room. <br />
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Since Halloween is a few days away and we all have candy on the brain we ended story time with a little parade though the library and a very quick trick or treat where the kids got to pick one piece of candy and a pouch of fruit snacks.<br />
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Our craft this week was a simple mask. The kids got a white card stock mask that they could decorate with feathers, markers, and foamie stickers. Then, they could tape the mask onto a jumbo craft stick to hold it up to their face.<br />
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In addition to the craft we had a few activities. I did a Halloween party for a family program last week and my son (who my mom brings to my toddler time) <i>really </i>wanted to do the games. So, we had a few games added to our play portion of toddler time.<br />
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Spider ring toss: I wrapped white yarn around an empty picture frame. The kid threw spider rings at the web and tried to get them to stick.</div>
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Ghost bowling: I added white tissue paper to our bowling set to make the pins ghosts.</div>
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I also set up a <a href="http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2011/10/spider-web-gross-motor-activity.html">Spider Web Walking</a> game that I found via Pinterest from the notimeforflashcards blog. You can click on the link to see how the original poster set her game up. Mine was a little simpler, there was a web and I taped spiders at various spots. The kids were supposed to walk along the web and hop over the spiders when they got to them. Although, a few kids used the bean bags and tried to toss the bean bags onto the spiders, so that game was fun too!</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-72702259143281556452013-10-24T19:11:00.002-04:002013-10-24T19:11:53.981-04:00Flannel Friday: Halloween with Pete the CatSo, if you have read this blog in the past you may know that I have a little bit of an obsession with Pete the Cat. I have made both a Christmas and Valentines version of Pete the Cat stories. Now, I have a Halloween version. This story is much like the original Pete the Cat: I love my white shoes by Eric Litwin. In this story, Pete is off for a night of trick-or-treat fun.<br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: inherit;">Trick-or-treat featuring Pete!</span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was Halloween night so Pete the cat put on his grooviest
costume and headed out for trick-or-treat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As he walked he sang to himself:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Trick-or-treat,
trick-or-treat. Can I have something
yummy to eat? …Please?’</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When all of a sudden,from out from the shadows jumped a
scary witch!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Was Pete scared?</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Goodness no!</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">That witch is just a
cat you know.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">So Pete kept walking.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Trick-or-treat,
trick-or-treat. Can I have something
yummy to eat? …Please?’</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;">All of a sudden, from out from the shadows jumped a frightening
monster!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Was Pete scared?</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Goodness no!</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">That monster is just
a cat you know.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">So Pete kept walking.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Trick-or-treat,
trick-or-treat. Can I have something
yummy to eat? …Please?’</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All of a sudden, from out from the shadows jumped a creepy
mummy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Was Pete scared?</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Goodness no!</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">That mummy is just a
cat you know.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">So Pete kept walking.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Trick-or-treat,
trick-or-treat. Can I have something
yummy to eat? …Please?’</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All of a sudden, from out of the shadows jumped a chilling
ghost!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Was Pete scared?</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Goodness no!</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">That ghost is just a
cat you know.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">So Pete kept walking.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">‘Trick-or-treat,
trick-or-treat. Can I have something
yummy to eat? …Please?’</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">All of a sudden, from out of the shadows jumped a pumpkin
dog!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Was Pete scared?</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well…
maybe a little.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">But, Pete, he knew just
what to do.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">He looked at that dog and he
said:</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">BOOOOOO </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">and </span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Happy Halloween!</i><br />
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You can find the rest of this week's round-up with Katie at <a href="http://storytimekatie.com/2013/10/24/flannel-friday-round-up-1025/">storytime katie</a>. Check out the <a href="http://flannelfridaystorytime.blogspot.com/">blog</a> for all things Flannel Friday or stop by the <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/flannelfriday/">Pinterest</a> boards for all Flannel Friday submissions. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-10447090774709455702013-10-19T16:32:00.001-04:002013-10-19T16:32:04.805-04:00Story Time ZooI have fallen WAY behind on getting some of my story times posted. I guess that is what happens when life gets busy!<br />
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Anyway, a week ago our story time theme was the <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Zoo</span></b> and we had a lot of fun with it. We featured the letter<b><span style="color: #38761d;"> Z</span></b> for <span style="color: #38761d;"><b>Zoo</b></span>. I have started putting a picture with my letter of the day to help clue them in on the sound and start making the association between letters, sounds, words, and reading. My crowd has been rather young, so when we reveal our letter of the day I get lots of random letters. At least they are giving me letters and not numbers.<br />
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The first book that we read was Eric Carle's <b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">From head to toe</span></i></b>. This is a great book for the toddler crowd as it can be very interactive. Each page gives an animal and a movement that they can do (i.e. the elephant stamps his foot) so the kids can do that move too. It also has repetition which is great for early literacy.<br />
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Our second book was<b><i><span style="color: #38761d;"> Monkey and me</span></i></b> by Emily Gravett. They way this book reads I really thought that I could sing it, but I was unable to come up with a tune that worked well. (Let me know if you come up with one!) Instead I did the book as a chant. I would say a phrase and the kids and parents would repeat it. This added one extra sentence to each page (the book has you say 'monkey and me' three times) but it worked out really well. Then, every other page features the animals that the little girl and her monkey saw at the zoo. Since the kids were already in 'chant mode' most of them went ahead and yelled out the animal - which is exactly what I wanted them to do.<br />
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Our flannel board was the ever popular <b><i><span style="color: #38761d;">Dear Zoo </span></i></b>by Rod Campbell. The actual book is a lift the flap book which is fun and the flaps are big enough to work in story time. However, we already had a version that someone had made into a flannel board. I actually had made one at my previous job but had to leave it behind. You can see mine<a href="http://misssarahsstorytime.blogspot.com/2011/11/flannel-friday-dear-zoo.html"> here</a>.<br />
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We sang Sue Schnitzer's <i><span style="color: #38761d;">All the fish</span></i>, which features lots of animals. They are more of the pond than zoo variety, but lots of zoos have pond animals, right?<br />
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For Raffi's <i><span style="color: #38761d;">Going to the zoo</span></i> we got out the scarves. I had all of the kids wave them around as Raffi sang about Mama taking us to the zoo tomorrow and then we did the animal motions in between.<br />
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We have been ending every story time with Carole Peterson's <i><span style="color: #38761d;">B-Bananas</span></i>. The kids really seem to enjoy the repetition and the chant is fun to do. <br />
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We had 2 crafts to pick from, though many of the kids end up just playing with the toys. For the crafters we had the outline of a letter Z and they could tear paper and glue it inside for stripes on a zebra. There was also some yarn that they could add on as a mane.<br />
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The second craft we used cars to drive black paint lines onto a blank zebra to add stripes. The kids really enjoyed this craft. I had the zebras pre-cut and they could add the stripes then mount it to a piece of green paper. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-787830148634128902013-09-21T10:06:00.002-04:002013-09-21T10:06:40.670-04:00Fabulous Flannel Round-Up 9.20.13<br />
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Here is the Flannel Round-Up for September 20, 2013. Thanks to all of the contributors this week. We have a great round-up with several seasonal posts if you are still looking to fill in a few fall themes.<br />
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Kathryn of <b>Fun with Friends at Storytime</b> is hitting the trails with her <b><a href="http://kdr4xmom.blogspot.com/2013/09/happy-trails-to-youcowboys.html">Cowboy themed storytime</a>.</b></div>
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Ms Shaia from <b>Thrive after Three</b> bring us her version of <b><a href="http://thriveafterthree.com/2013/09/18/pete-the-cats-groovy-buttons/">Pete the Cat and his four groovy buttons</a></b> (always a favorite)!</div>
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Christine at <b>Felt Board Ideas</b> shares several felt boards that can be used with a <b><a href="http://feltboardideas.blogspot.ca/2011/12/transportation-felt-activities.html">Transportation</a></b> theme. You can never have too many ideas for this theme, it is always a popular one.</div>
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Miss Kristen from <b>Let the Wild Rumpus Start</b> brings us a <b><a href="http://www.libraryvillage.blogspot.com/2013/09/flannel-friday-socks.html">Sock matching game</a></b> with some very adorable socks as well as a flannel for the book <i>Ducks don't wear socks</i>.</div>
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Sharon of <b>Rain Makes Applesauce</b> has some beautifully made <b><a href="http://wp.me/pMt8P-PO">Birds sitting on a line</a>.</b></div>
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Analisa of <b>The Preschool Procrastinator</b> (love the name of her blog!) has a great poem and flannel board that she made to go along with the book <b><a href="http://thepreschoolprocrastinator.blogspot.com/2013/09/the-kissing-hand.html">The Kissing Hand</a></b>.</div>
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<span style="color: #073763;"><b>SLCbookboy </b>has </span><b><a href="http://slcbookboy.wordpress.com/2013/09/19/magic-sneezes/" style="color: #073763;">Magic Sneezes</a></b><span style="color: #073763;"> for us this week. I was thinking that magic sneezes sounded fun, but after reading this cute story I may re-think that. However, sneezing in story time (for the story, not from germs) is always fun.</span><br />
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Miss Tara from Storytime with <b>Miss Tara and Friends</b> gives us an extremely cute, seasonally appropriate story with <b><a href="http://storytimewithmisstara.blogspot.com/2013/09/ouch-by-ragnhild-scamell.html">Ouch!</a>.</b> Check out some of Miss Tara's other recent posts if you are looking for more ideas for apple themes (as many of us are this time of the year).</div>
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Bridget from <b>What is Bridget Reading?</b> shares with us a lovely <b><a href="http://whatisbridgetreading.blogspot.com/2013/09/flannelfriday-fall-set.html">Fall flannel set</a></b> that she made inspired by Mel's Desk.</div>
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Andrea at <b>Roving Fiddlehead Kidlit</b> takes us on<a href="http://rovingfiddlehead.com/kidlit/flannel-friday-safari-animals/"> <b>Safari</b></a><b> </b>with her African animals. In addition to her lovely flannel animals she shares a LOT of rhymes to use with them.</div>
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Melissa of <b>Mel's Desk</b> shares with us both a <b><a href="http://melissa.depperfamily.net/blog/?p=5026">Picnic</a></b> flannel board and an idea for staff story time training.</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Anna from <b>Future Librarian Superhero</b> has</span><a href="http://www.futurelibrariansuperhero.com/2013/09/apple-bingo-inspired-by-flannel-friday.html" style="color: #660000;"> <b>Apple Bingo</b></a><span style="color: #660000;"><b>!</b> (The song - not the game.) I love how she uses some 'eaten' apples.</span><br />
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Shawn at <b>Read, Rhyme, and Sing</b> has a flannel version of <b><a href="http://readrhymesing.blogspot.com/2013/09/flannel-friday-who-stole-cookies-from.html">Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar</a>! </b> I love cookies - it was probably me who stole them! </div>
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The Library Lady from <b>Story Time with the Library Lady</b> sings a fun song called <b><a href="http://libraryladystorytimes.blogspot.com/2013/09/not-flannel-friday-at-all-but-cool-song.html">Everybody know that I love my toes</a></b> for us with her ukelele this week. Very cute song that would work with a variety of ages, the kind every storytimer needs several of 'just in case.' </div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Jane of <b>Piper Loves the Library</b> shares a very detailed tutorial for how to make some adorably stylish </span><b><a href="http://piperlovesthelibrary.blogspot.com/2013/09/flannel-friday-how-to-make-flannel-sheep.html" style="color: #0b5394;">Sheep</a><span style="color: #0b5394;">.</span></b><br />
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And there you have this week's Flannel Round-up. Check <b><a href="http://www.pinterest.com/flannelfriday">Pinterest</a></b> for a wonderfully organized collection of ALL Flannel Friday posts. Visit the <b><a href="http://flannelfridaystorytime.blogspot.com/">Blog</a></b> for more information about how you can get involved by hosting, contributing, or pinning.<br />
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Speaking of getting involved, we are currently looking for round-up hosts for the end of this 2013 and early 2014. Go <a href="http://flannelfridaystorytime.blogspot.com/p/get-involved.html">here </a>for more information. Hosting is really easy, basically all you need is a few posts and then do some cutting and pasting to move the links from blog comments. Some have even used linky tools that cut out the cutting and pasting.<br />
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Next week's host is Angela at <b><a href="http://valleystorytime.wordpress.com/">ValleyStorytime</a></b> so be sure check in with Angela next week for another installment of Flannel Board fun!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-83336033581349857102013-09-18T12:55:00.000-04:002013-09-18T12:55:17.113-04:00Flannel Friday Placeholder for 9.20.13<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am happy to be hosting the awesome flannel board round-up this week. If you want to contribute all you need to do is leave a link in the comments and I will compile them into a post that will be ready either late Friday or Saturday am. Keep an eye on the Flannel Friday Facebook page to know when the round-up is done.<br />
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If you are interested in hosting a Flannel round-up we are looking for hosts for later this year. You can e-mail flannelboardfriday at gmail dot com to express your interest (it is a lot of fun, always exciting to see new ideas - plus you get a ton of blog visits!)<br />
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Happy Flanneling!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-76598796575663122002013-08-16T14:39:00.007-04:002013-08-16T14:39:54.571-04:00In the garden story timeRight in with the SRP theme of Dig into Reading was our garden story time for week 2. Luckily, the messiness of mud week had not scared the toddlers (or their mommies and caregivers away) and we had a bigger crowd than we did for the first week.<br />
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The first book that we read was Zoe Hall's The surprise garden. In this story some children are given seeds and plant them without knowing what they are. They look at how the seeds are different from each other and then plant them in the ground, marking them to know where they are. Then, they tend their garden and wait for the seeds to pop up. This book has nice, bold and colorful illustrations and is great for a discussion about gardening.<br />
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The last story we did was the pop-up flannel board that I created. You can read more about how I made it <a href="http://misssarahsstorytime.blogspot.com/2013/06/flannel-friday-pop-up-flannel-boards.html">here</a>.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">One little seed planted in the ground,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Give it lots of sun, and water all around.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Now we have to wait and see,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">For a sprout to pop up,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">What will it be?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Then the kids told me what popped up from the seed. They really liked this one. At the end the worm popped up so we talked about how worms do not grow from seeds but not all seeds grow into a plant. We also talked about how worms help the plants to grow.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Another fun fruit song is Carole Peterson's B-bananas. This is a fun chant where the kids are bananas, they peel bananas, eat bananas, and go bananas. Of course it is so much fun that then you do it again!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Our craft for the week was a parts of the flower craft. I found the idea on Pinterest, and you can see the pin <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/15762667418490370/">here</a>. I think it is from the blog <a href="http://mrsmayaskinders.blogspot.com/">Mrs. Mayas' Kindergarten</a>, but someone only pinned the main website and I had trouble locating the post.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-19241914334002136242013-07-11T10:41:00.001-04:002013-07-11T10:41:12.848-04:00Flannel Friday: A rainbow horde of dinosaursDinosaurs have been a big part of summer reading this year with the digging theme and all. So, of course no story time session would be complete without a dinosaur week. There are so many options for dinosaur books and flannel boards that I had a hard time picking ones to use.<br />
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So, as I made my flannel board I tried to keep in mind the multiple possibilities and create pieces that could serve several purposes. Thus I give you my rainbow horde of dinosaurs!<br />
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I made the same dinosaur in all the colors of the rainbow, plus two with rainbow spots just for fun. (I really had to hold myself back on making some glitter dinos, maybe in the future.) You can use them with all sorts of dinosaur rhymes and stories. If you need some ideas just check the <a href="http://pinterest.com/flannelfriday/dinosaurs/">Flannel Friday Dinosaur Pinterest Board</a>.<br />
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With my Baby Time group we used the dinosaurs for the story 'Dinosaur, dinosaur what do you see?' (Much like brown bear only the colors of the dinos change so the kids or parents shout out the next color of the dinosaur. This is a great concept that you can use with many different themes.)<br />
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For toddler time we did a story my co-worker passed along from Jean Warren called <a href="http://www.preschoolexpress.com/story_station04/story_station_aug04.shtml">Dotty the Dinosaur</a>. I modified the original story some, mostly because I did not want to memorize the rhyme, so my story was a little more like the Chocolate Chip ghost.<br />
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So, we have a dinosaur who is green because she eats only green foods:<br />
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One day she finds some new food and tries that, but she finds that there is a crazy side effect to eating something not green. Since turning different colors is fun, she tries a new food each day. <br />
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Finally, she decides to eat all of that yummy food a once and...<br />
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She likes the fun colors and decides that she is going to keep eating all that yummy (and healthy) food and be a rainbow dinosaur forever.<br />
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I had also planned to sing 5 little dinosaurs but we ran out of time. I found the song that I wanted to use at <a href="http://thestorytimelady.wordpress.com/2012/02/24/five-dinosaurs/">Recipes for Reading</a> and it goes like 5 little ducks but involves lots of roaring.<br />
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You can find this week's round-up with Miss Angie at <a href="http://mrsandreslibrary.blogspot.com/2013/07/flannel-friday-placeholder.html">Mrs. Andre's Library</a>. All things Flannel Friday can be found at the <a href="http://flannelfridaystorytime.blogspot.com/">BLOG</a> and all contributions a pinned to the <a href="http://pinterest.com/flannelfriday/">Pinterest Boards</a>.<br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3766721654466919652.post-57729733470177900762013-06-29T16:14:00.002-04:002013-06-29T16:14:39.233-04:00Fun in the MudWe decided to add a new program this summer at our branch - toddler story time! Yay! I was worried about it some. We got rid of a baby time to have a spot for the toddler time which meant that the only baby time is now in the evening. But, the 'babies' that were coming to the morning baby time we replaced were mostly 2 year olds anyway.<br />
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Thankfully, it seems that the toddlers in this area were looking for something to do, we had 12 kids the first week and 22 by the third! <br />
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Our first week of toddler time featured <b><span style="color: #660000;">Mud</span></b> to go along with the summer reading program <b><span style="color: #660000;">Dig into Reading</span></b>.<br />
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We read <b><i><span style="color: #660000;">Stuck in the mud</span></i></b> by Jane Clarke. This is a cute story about a chick who is 'stuck' in some mud. Mother hen tries to pull him out to no avail. Despite the icky mud other animals around the farm jump in to help and they all end up getting stuck as well. This is a fun rhyming story with a surprise ending. You could use this with an older group and have then act out some of the parts as the animals are repeatedly pushing and pulling.<br />
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The second book that we read was <b><i><span style="color: #660000;">Mud </span></i></b>by Wendy Cheyette Lewison. This book is technically a reader, so it is a smaller size than I prefer to use, but the illustrations are big so they were not hard for the kids to see. What I really enjoyed about this book is that in the story there is mud on various parts of the kid in the story so the kids could point to themselves to show where mud was. One phrase 'mud everywhere' was repeated a few times, so when we got to that point we waved our arms around in the air.<br />
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Our last story was a flannel version of Emma Dodd's <b><i><span style="color: #660000;">Dog's colorful day</span></i></b>. As dog goes through his day he gets various spots of color on him until he is so dirty that he needs a bath. This is a good book for both color recognition and counting. I like to have the kids call out the color as I put it on dog. Then before his bath we count all of the spots.<br />
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Because you can't have mud without a little bit of rain first we sang Carole Peterson's <i><span style="color: #660000;">Singing in the rain</span></i>. This is a fun song with added motions at each verse. In between the motions you 'sing in the rain' so we put our hands up and dance.<br />
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I found a great idea for a song about mud puddles with Tara of <a href="http://storytimewithmisstara.blogspot.com/2013/05/pre-k-dig-into-reading.html">Storytime with Miss Tara and friends</a>. She gave all the kids yarn to make a mud puddle to dance in as they sang <i><span style="color: #660000;">Mud puddle jump</span></i> by Kindermusik. This was a lot of fun, though some of the younger 2 year olds just kind of watched the rest of us. They were really excited when they found out that they got to take the brown yarn circles (aka mud puddles) home with them.<br />
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Because I like to use shakers or scarves with every program we sang The Learning Groove's <i><span style="color: #660000;">Hip hop body rock</span></i>. It really had nothing to do with mud, but has the kids shaking a shaker by various body parts. It tied in well with the book mud and is great for working on body parts as well as following direction.<br />
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Our craft was '<b><span style="color: #660000;">mud painting</span></b>' where the kids get to finger paint with chocolate pudding. They LOVED this. I am not sure the parents were so keen on it (most of the crafts were left behind) but I think this is one of those activities where the experience is more fun than the end result. Some of the kids were happy to just sit and smear the pudding around. One little guy kept at it for 30 minutes and was covered up to his elbows. Luckily we have a sink just off of the program room, so washing up was really easy.<br />
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