Autumn!

October 14, 2014

Autumn!

A storytime devoted to book about autumn and fall and leaves and acorns and all that stuff!

Books:

The Bear Who Shared by Catherine Rayner
Mouse's First Fall by Lauren Thompson
The Busy Little Squirrel by Nancy Tafuri

Songs:


Opening Song: Where is Thumbkin? – Kimbo

Song 2: Skinny-Marinky-Dinky-Dink – 100 Singalong Songs for Kids Vol 1

Song 3: Dance Your Fingers/Clap Along With Me – Wee Sing for Baby

Song 4: Shake My Sillies Out – Raffi – More Singable Songs for Kids

Song 5: Let Everyone Clap Like Me – Wee Sing in the Car

Song 6: Happy and You Know It – Kimbo

Song 7: Wheels on the Bus – 100 Singalong Songs for Kids

Felt/Magnet Board:

 This week we did Five Autumn Leaves from Miss Tara and Friends. It's a cute little rhyme and the kids enjoyed counting along with me and making the woooshing wind noises.

Five Autumn Leaves

Five autumn leaves hanging from a tree (five fingers)

I wonder if they'll fall for me (shrug)

The wind comes blowing wooooosh round and round (big arm movements)

And one little leaf comes fluttering down (flutter fingers down to ground)

We let the kids sit down during the magnet board (no standing!)  and we made a bigger deal of the woooshing wind than in the rhyme.


For the magnet board itself I found black and white clipart of leaves and a tree and colored them with washable marker. I then thought it would be a neat technique to dribble water on the leaves so that they looked a little more natural - some worked better than others :-) .

Craft:

This week we made a Plaid Autumn Fox from the lovely people at Oriental Trading. Unfortunately, the fox is no longer available, so I'm definitely glad we got him when we did.

Red Things!

October 7, 2014

Red Things!

A storytime devoted to things...that are red!

Books:

Big Red Tub by Julia Jarman
Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney
Lemons Are Not Red by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Songs:

Opening Song: Where Is Thumbkin? - Kimbo

Song 2: Skinny-Marinky-Dinky-Dink - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids

Song 3: Dance Your Fingers/Clap Along With Me - Wee Sing for Baby

Song 4: Let Everyone Clap Just Like Me - Wee Sing in the Car

Song 5: Wheels on the Bus - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids

Song 6: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Felt/Magnet Board:

This week we used out Brown Bear, Brown Bear story pieces that can be found here for our magnet board (it does include a RED bird afterall). This is always a hit with kids and easy to pull off - I show the kids the picture of the next animal and have them call it out before continuing the story.

Craft:

This week we recreated a Big Red Tub for our craft! This is one from our Library Files so I have no credit to give it to. The concept is pretty simple - we could clipart of some of the animals that jump into the Big Red Tub with Stella and Stan and printed them onto colored paper. Once again, our Summer Volunteers helped us cut all of this out ahead of time. Then the kids glued the animals to the tub picture that had been traced onto red construction paper and VOILA! A Big Red Tub craft!

Monkeys!!

September 30, 2014

Monkeys!

A storytime devoted to monkeys and all their shenanigans!

Books:

Songs: 

Opening Song: Where is Thumbkin? – Kimbo

Song 2: Skinny-Marinky-Dinky-Dink – 100 Singalong Songs for Kids Vol. 1

Song 3: Dance Your Fingers/Clap Along With Me – Wee Sing for Baby

Song 4: Let Everyone Clap Just Like Me – Wee Sing in the Car

Song 5: Three Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed – Wee Sing Animals, Animals, Animals

Song 6: Five Little Monkeys Swinging from a Tree – Wee Sing Animals, Animals, Animals

Song 7: Wheels on the Bus – 100 Singalong Songs for Kids Vol. 1

Felt/Magnet Board:

This week we did Five Little Monkeys Swinging From a Tree as our magnet board. For the magnet board I printed out a few clipart images from Microsoft Word. We sang the song and I acted out the words on the magnet board. The rhyme goes:

Five Little Monkeys

Swinging in a tree

Teasing Mr. Alligator

“Can’t Catch Me”

Along came Mr. Alligator

Quiet as can be……

SNAP!

Four…

Three…

Two…

One…

Craft:

This week we did a simple Monkey Paper Bag Puppet! Thanks to our Summer Volunteers the pieces were already cut out and ready to go - the kids just needed to color and glue them onto the paper bag! This craft was found in out old library files and I have searched high and low all over Google trying to find a match for the template and cannot so unfortunately I can't credit a source.

Buggy Books!

September 23, 2014

Buggy Books

A storytime devoted to bugs - not the creepy ones though, just the cute ones! :-)

Books:

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Very Lazy Ladybug by Isobel Finn
Butterfly Butterfly: A Book of Colors by Petr Horáček


Songs:

Opening Song: Where is Thumbkin? - Kimbo

Song 2: Skinny-Marinky-Dinky-Dink - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids Vol. 1

Song 3: Eensy Weensy Spider - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids Vol. 1

Song 4: Baby Bumblebee - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids Vol. 3

Song 5: Let Everyone Clap Like Me - Wee Sing in the Car

Song 6: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi - More Singable Songs

Song 7: Happy and You Know It - Kimbo

Song 8: Wheels on the Bus - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids Vol. 1

Felt/Magnet Board:

Since we have a new, slightly younger, crowd coming through the library I decided to use our Butterfly Garden rhyme since it highlights colors. I first saw it at Storytime Katie. I got a few of the stanzas mixed up while I was reading, but no one seems to notice!

 

  Butterfly Colors

The first to come to the garden bed
Is a lovely butterfly of brilliant RED.
Then in comes another and that makes two.
Fly right in, my friend of BLUE.
“The garden is fine, the best I’ve seen,”
says the butterfly of softest GREEN.
Our garden needs a sunny fellow,
Fly on in, butterfly with wings of YELLOW.
Little friend of PURPLE, fly in too.
The garden is waiting for a color like you.
ORANGE, orange, you’re waited so long.
Fly right in, where you belong.
Butterflies, butterflies, you’re such a sight!
Flying together – what a delight!

Craft:

 

This week we made a Caterpillar Paper Bag Puppet. Again, this was a craft awesomely prepared by our volunteers, which meant No Cutting. That also means I have no idea where the craft came form :-) I did a search of the Internet and can't find a matching picture so... I'm chalking this one up to the Library Files!

 

Mice!

September 16, 2014

Eep! Mice!

A storytime about the smallest, cutest animals anyone's dared to write a picture book about: mice!

Books:

Little Mouse and the Big Cupcake by Thomas Taylor
My Friend Rabbit by Eric Rohmann
Ten in the Den by John Butler

Songs:

Opening Song: Where is Thumbkin? – Kimbo

Song 2: Skinny-Marinky-Dinky-Dink – 100 Singalong Songs for Kids Vol.1

Song 3: Shake My Sillies Out – Raffi

Song 4: Let Everyone Clap Like Me – Wee Sing in the Car

Song 5: Hickory Dickory Dock – The Best of Wee Sing

Song 6: Dance Your Fingers/Clap Along With Me – Wee Sing for Baby

Song 7: The More We Get Together – 100 Singalong Songs for Kids Vol. 1

Song 8: The Wheels on the Bus – 100 Singalong Songs for Kids Vol. 1


Felt/Magnet Board:

The Mouse and Thunder

I came across this story in a regular old Google search and boy is it cute! It's a selection from Early Childhood Themes Through the Year by Debbie Thompson and it's available (mostly) on Google Books.

The story is basically this:

Once there was a mouse who was afraid of thunder and all the other mice made fun of her because of it, which made her pretty sad.

One day, the mouse went for a long walk on a hot day. Before long, she became very thirsty and wanted a drink of water.

Just then - it began to THUNDER! And the mouse became frightened. But - she came across a frog. The frog said, "Oh! Thunder! Now my pond won't dry up! Hooray!"

Then she came across a duck. The duck said, "Oh! Thunder! Mud is nice! I like mud! Hooray!"

"Hmm..." said the mouse, "the frog likes thunder...and the duck likes thunder...?? I know! When it thunders, it usually rains too. And rain is good! And if it rains...I will have a drink of water because I am so thirsty!"

And it did rain, and the mouse was able to get her drink of water. And she was never afraid of the thunder again!  The End!!

We played the story up with lots of Hoorays and applause to keep the kids on track.


Craft:

This week we pulled an oldie from the library files and made a Mouse Mask. This was one of our crafts that was had the summer volunteers prep for us so No Cutting! Unfortunately, that means any identifying marker was lost - so I have no idea where it came from exactly. But - it was cute nonetheless!!