Category: Toddler Storytime

My Dad

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We won’t be having storytimes during the Father’s Day (we’re off for the summer), so I thought that we’d do some stories about daddies. I hope that everyone comes next week for our last storytime of the year–we will have lots of fun (as always)!

Stories Shared:
Daddies Give You Horsey Rides by Abby Levine
What Daddies Do Best by Laura Numeroff
My Dad by Anthony Browne
From Head to Toe by Eric Carle (Story pattern here.)

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet–Spring 2009):
Sometimes
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Five Little Monkeys
Five Little Sausages
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Open, Shut Them
Stretching Fun

Music:
Sharon, Lois & Bram: Great Big Hits
Me and My Bean Bag (Take that Bean Bag)

Mothers Love Us!

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Happy Mother’s Day to all of you mommas out there!

Stories Shared:
Does a Kangaroo Have A Mother, Too? By Eric Carle
Whose Baby Am I? by John Butler (Story Pattern here.)
I Love My Mommy Because… by Laurel Porter-Gaylord
Lots of Moms by Shelley Rotner

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet–Spring 2009):
Open, Shut Them
Where is Thumbkin?
Tony Chestnut
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Five Little Monkeys
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Music:
Dr. Jean & Friends (Mother Goony Bird)

For All Our Friends

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Today’s storytime was all about FRIENDS! I am so happy to have lots of storytime friends come visit me every week. The more we get together, the happier we’ll be!

Stories Shared:
Being Friends by Karen Beaumont
Little Quack’s New Friend by Lauren Thompson
Splendid Friend, Indeed by Suzanne Bloom

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet–Spring 2009):
Where is Thumbkin?
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Tony Chestnut
Old MacDonald
Open, Shut Them
Stretching Fun

Bonus Song:
“Five Little Ducks” (Lyrics and melody can be found here.)
(Flannel set available through Artfelt.)

Music:
Raffi: Singable Songs for the Very Young
Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes (Silly Dance Contest)

Baker's Man, Bake Me Some Cookies!

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Today’s books were all about bakers and baking…yum! Only four more weeks of storytime left:( We’ll have information about our summer reading program out soon, though… so stay tuned!

Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Pat-a-Cake
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man.
Bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Pat it and roll it and mark it with “B”
And put it in the oven for Baby and me.

Books Shared:
The Baker’s Dozen by Dan Andreasen
Who Took the Cookies From the Cookie Jar? by Bonnie Lass
It Looked Like Spilt Milt by Charles Shaw
The Gingerbread Man

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet–Spring 2009):
Tony Chestnut
Hammer Song
Five Little Monkeys
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
If You’re Happy and You Know It
I’m a Little Teapot
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Music:
Carole Peterson: Sticky Bubble Gum and Other Tasty Tunes (Hokey Pokey)

Firefighters to the Rescue!

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We had a very “smokin'” storytime today all about firefighters.

Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Jack Be Nimble
Jack, be nimble,
Jack, be quick,
Jack, jump over the candlestick.

Books Shared:
“Fire! Fire!” Said Mrs. McGuire by Bill Martin, Jr.
Fire Truck by Peter Sis
Firefighters to the Rescue! by Kersten Hamilton

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet–Spring 2009):
Skidamarink
Where is Thumbkin?
Sometimes
Five Little Sausages
Stretching Fun
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Bonus Rhyme:
Birthday Cake
Ten candles on a birthday cake (Fingers up)
All lit up for me! (Fingers wiggle)
I’ll make a wish and blow them out. (Fingers up)
Watch and you will see. Whhh! (Blow and bend fingers down)

Bonus Song:
The Wheels on the Bus
(Melody and lyrics can be found here.)
(Patterns can be found here, though link does not always work.)

Music:
John Denver: All Aboard!
Carole Peterson: Sticky Bubble Gum and Other Tasty Tunes (Little Old Wagon)
Barney’s Favorites Volume 1 (Hurry, Hurry Drive the Fire Truck)

The Farmer in the Dell

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Today’s stories were about farming and gardening (and pesky rabbits!). I hope that everyone has a good Easter weekend!

Stories Shared:
The Farmer in the Dell (pictures by Mary Maki Rae)
This is the Farmer by Nancy Tafuri
The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
Mrs. Wishy-Washy by Joy Cowley

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet–Spring 2009):
If You’re Wearing Red Today
Where is Thumbkin?
Old MacDonald
Open, Shut Them

Flannel:
Little Mouse, Little Mouse, Are you in the [insert color] house?
(Underneath different colored flannel houses, I place different flannel animals. Using a cat puppet, we go in search of the mouse flannel…)

Bonus Song:
“Little Bunny Foo Foo” (Music and lyrics can be found here.)

Music:
Julian Lloyd Webber: Lullaby
Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes (I Took a Bath in a Washing Machine)

If You See a Piece of Garbage, Pick it Up!

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Welcome back to storytime! We took a spring break last week…but came back strong this week with stories about GARBAGE!

Stories Shared:
We Need Garbage Collectors by Lisa Trumbauer
Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman
Smash! Mash! Crash! There Goes the Trash! by Barbara Odanaka

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet–Spring 2009):
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Hammer Song
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Open, Shut Them
Where is Thumbkin?
Five Little Sausages
I’m a Little Teapot

Bonus Rhyme:
(To the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It”)
If You See a Piece of Garbage, Pick it Up!
If You See a Piece of Garbage, Pick it Up!
If You See a Piece of Garbage,
If You See a Piece of Garbage,
If You See a Piece of Garbage, Pick it Up!

Music:
Sesame Street: Platinum All-Time Favorites (I Love Trash)
Carole Peterson: Sticky Bubble Gum and Other Tasty Tunes (The Wiggle Song)

Craft:
For a simple craft, we glued cut-out clip art images of a garbage truck and a trash can to a piece of paper. We also glued onto the paper some paper shreds (“garbage”).

I Love My Sisters…and Brothers, Too!

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My sister Mari is visiting me this week! In her honor, we did stories about siblings today…

Stories Shared:
Hello, Lulu by Caroline Uff
My Little Sister Ate One Hare by Bill Grossman
Kitty’s Cuddles by Jane Cabrera
Minnie and Her Baby Brother by Melanie Walsh
The Three Little Kittens

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet–Spring 2009):
Skidamarink
Tony Chestnut
Hammer Song
Open, Shut Them
I’m a Little Teapot
If You’re Happy and You Know It

Music:
Brother Yusef: Kids Get the Blues Too
Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes (Silly Dance Contest)

A Lil' Storytime

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Today’s storytime was all about people and animals that are little/small… like leprechauns! Happy early St. Patricks Day, everyone! We’ll have storytime again next week… but we are taking a one-week break on March 27th. Also: photos from last week’s Royalty Storytime are now posted on my Flickr page (see the sidebar on this blog).

Stories Shared:
Pot O’ Gold by Kelly Green
What Shall We Do with the Boo-Hoo Baby? by Cressida Cowell
Whose Baby am I? by John Butler (pattern pieces here)
The Enormous Turnip (traditional folktale, pattern pieces can be found here)

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet.):
If You’re Wearing Red Today
Sometimes
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Old MacDonald
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Stretching Fun

Music:
Greg and Steve’s Kids in Motion (Animal Action)

It's Easy Being Green!

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Yesterday, I did a guest storytime over at our Buena Vista library. We did stories about things that are the color GREEN in honor of St. Paddy’s Day coming up! (I’m still doing my regular storytime this Friday, though I’m planning on doing some different stories…)

Stories Shared:
Pot O’ Gold by Kelly Green
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Wide Mouthed Frog by Keith Faulkner

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet.):
If You’re Happy and You Know It
If You’re Wearing Red Today
Sometimes
Five Little Sausages
I’m a Little Teapot
Stretching Fun

Bonus Rhyme:
Five Green and Speckled Frogs
Five green and speckled frogs,
Sitting on a speckled log,
Eating the most delicious flies…yum, yum.
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool.
Then there were four green speckled frogs. Ribbit Ribbit!

Continue until only one frog is left

One green and specked frog.
Sitting on a speckled log,
Eating the most delicious flies…yum,yum.
He jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool.
Now there are no green speckled frogs.

Music:
Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes (Silly Dance Contest)