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!!

Farm!

September 9, 2014

Farm

A storytime devoted to those animals that moo and cluck and oink!

It's been a nice vacation! After summer reading we were able to have a break for the month of August and now we're back and ready for action!

Books:

The Cow Who Clucked by Denise Fleming

Grumpy Goat by Brett Helquist

Farmer Duck by Martin Waddell

Time for Bed by Mem Fox

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 Like Me - Wee Sing in the Car

Song 5: Happy and You Know It - Kimbo

Song 6: Old McDonald Had a Farm - 100 Singalong Songs for Kids

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

Felt/Magnet Board:

This week we used our Old McDonald magnet pieces to help us sing along with the song. It made it easier for the kids (and parents...and well...for us too) to keep up track of the repeats in the songs!



Craft:

This week, with the help of some lovely summer volunteers, we were able to do a Cow Paper Bag Puppet with no cutting required! One of the many projects we had our volunteers do this summer was making sure we had plenty of pre-cut crafts for the year. Saves a lot of trouble!! The kids loved the cows!!