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Rainy Day

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It’s raining, it’s pouring, it’s time for a story…….

Stories Shared:
Raindrop Plop! by Wendy Lewison
Little Cloud by Eric Carle
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw (flannel pieces here)
Jack—It’s a Rainy Day by Rebecca Elgar (pull-the-tab book)
The Napping House by Audrey Wood (pop-up version)

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet.):
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Rain is Falling Down
Tony Chestnut
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
Open, Shut Them
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Ten in the Bed
Thank You

Music:
Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes (Silly Dance Contest)
Raffi: Rise and Shine (Ducks Like Rain) (with shakers!)

All About Love Pajama Time

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This week, we had a “love”-ly pajama storytime to prepare ourselves for Valentine’s Day!

PROGRAM
Entrance Music: A Father’s Love: Golden Slumbers
Opening Song: If you Want to Hear a Story
Flannel: The Little Cockroach Martina (from The Flannel Storytelling Book by Judy Sierra)
Song: Tony Chestnut
Book: The Frog Prince by Susanna Davidson
Song: Five Green and Speckled Frogs
Book: Snog the Frog by Tony Bonning
Song (with flannels): Barnyard Gate [version available on Ed McCurdy: Children’s Songs: the Greatest Hits (I Had a Little Rooster)]
Book: No More Kissing! by Emma Chichester Clark
Song: Will You Be My Valentine?

AFTER PROGRAM VIDEO
A Kiss For Little Bear (32 minutes)

Will You Be My Valentine?
(Sing this to the tune of “The Muffin Man”)
Oh, will you be my valentine?
My valentine? My valentine?
Oh, will you be my valentine?
And love me every day?
Oh, yes, I’ll be your valentine,
Your valentine, your valentine.
Oh, yes, I’ll be your valentine,
And love you every day.

Snow in California?

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Today we brought “snow” to California with a snowy storytime!

FYI: I will be presenting a Pajama Storytime over at Buena Vista next Tuesday night at 7 pm. Wear your pjs and bring your teddy. We’ll be reading stories about love, and we’ll have a movie encore afterwards.

Stories Shared:
Snow by Uri Shulevitz
Snowballs by Lois Ehlert
Frosty the Snowman by Steve Nelson
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin (Templates here)

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet.):
If You’re Wearing Red Today
Where is Thumbkin?
Fun with Hands
Open, Shut Them

Bonus Flannel Rhymes:
Six Little Snowmen
Six little snowmen
All made of snow,
Six little snowmen
Standing in a row.
Out came the sun
And stayed all day.
One little snowman melted away.
Five little snowmen all made of snow.
Five little snowmen standing in a row.
Out came the sun and stayed all day.
One little snowman melted away. (continue)

Cute Little Snowman
A cute little snowman
Had a carrot nose
Along came a bunny,
And what do you suppose?
That hungry little bunny,
Looking for his lunch,
Ate the snowman’s carrot nose,
Nibble, nibble, crunch!

Music:
Carole Peterson: Sticky Bubble Gum and Other Tasty Tunes (I am a Fine Musician)
Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes (Silly Dance Contest)

Many Colored Sheep

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We’re baaaaaaack! Time for another fun session of storytime! This week’s storytime was not only fun…it was colorful!

Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Baa, Baa Black Sheep
Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir,
Three bags full;
One for the master,
One for the dame,
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane.

Stories Shared:
Wow! Said the Owl by Tim Hopgood
Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet.):
Rain is Falling Down
If You’re Wearing Red Today
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Tony Chestnut

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…)

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

Let it Snow! in the Winter

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HO HO HO– I hope that everyone is having a great holiday season! I’ve started doing some monthly pajama family storytimes over at Buena Vista. This month, I did some winter stories. It was a delight to see families cuddled up in their pjs enjoying the stories and singing Christmas songs. Tomorrow, Buena Vista is holding a special holiday storytime at 10 am… I will be making a special appearance there (along with SANTA CLAUS!).

PROGRAM
Entrance Music: Hap Palmer: Holiday Magic
Opening Song: If you Want to Hear a Story
Book: Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan London
Song: If You’re Wearing Red Today
Book: Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing by Judi Barrett
Book (Sung): Frosty the Snowman by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins, version illustrated by Richard Cowdrey
Book: Snowmen at Night by Carolyn Buehner
Song: Raffi’s Christmas Album (Jingle Bells)
Storytelling: The Mitten
Closing Song: We Wave Goodbye

AFTER PROGRAM VIDEO
Disney’s Sing Along Songs: Very Merry Christmas Songs (approx. 30 minutes)

Food and Turkey Day!

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Yum Yum! I am getting hungry just thinking about today’s storytime about FOOD. I can’t wait to eat all sorts of delicious food on Thanksgiving Day!

The sad news is that today was our last storytime in 2009. We’re taking a break for the holidays this year. I’ll be back doing my thing over at Buena Vista starting Wednesday, January 20th (registration starts Wednesday, January 6th) and at Central Friday, January 22nd (drop-in, no registration is necessary). Until then, we will have many other fun activities for kids to do during December, so please check our website and our flyers at the library to find out what’s happening. There are holiday movies, a special Christmas storytime, a PJ Storytime and more! Happy Holidays!

Stories Shared:
The Turkey Ball by David Steinberg (board book)
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! by Mo Willems
Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? by Karen Beaumont
It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw (Used Artfelt flannels)
The Enormous Turnip (Traditional) (Patterns found here)

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Tales Rhymes sheet. Extra copies available at the Library.):
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Ten Little Fingers
Five Little Sausages
Apples
My Turkey

Bonus Song:
“Hello Mr. Turkey” (to the tune of If You’re Happy and You Know It):
Hello, Mr. Turkey
Hello Mr. Turkey, how are you?
Hello Mr. Turkey, how are you?
With a gobble, gobble, gobble
and a wobble, wobble, wobble
Hello Mr. Turkey how are you?

Music:
Laurie Berkner: Victor Vito
Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes (Silly Dance Contest)
Dr. Jean & Friends (Tooty Ta)

A Beary Good Storytime

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A big teddy bear hug to all of my storytime friends! Be sure to come again next week for our last storytime of the year. We are taking a long holiday break this year, but we will resume again in mid-January.

Stories Shared:
Teddy Bears, Teddy Bears by William B. Winburn
Thank You Bear by Greg Foley
Can You Growl Like a Bear? By John Butler
Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin (Patterns can be found here.)

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Tales Rhymes sheet. Extra copies available at the Library.):
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
Fun with Hands
Tommy Thumb
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
My Turkey

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…)

Music:
Bill Shontz: Teddy Bear’s Greatest Hits
Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes (Silly Dance Contest)

If You're Wearing Clothes Today…

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If you’re wearing clothes today, stand up and shout Hooray! HOORAY! Today, we had a fun storytime about clothes.

FYI: We’re nearing the end of our fall storytime session. Just two more weeks to go…and then we will break for the holidays (until January). Also: we will be closed next Wednesday for Veteran’s Day, so no storytime at BV next week. Regulars are invited to attend my Friday session over at Central next week (10 or 11) or go to Donna’s storytime on Thursday at BV (10 or 11).

Stories Shared:
Who’s Under That Hat? by Sarah Weeks and David A. Carter (lift-the-flap)
New Socks by Bob Shea
Whose Shoe? by Margaret Miller
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet.):
Silly Hat Song
Animals on the Bus
Ten Little Fingers
If You’re Wearing Red Today
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

Music:
Carole Peterson: Sticky Bubble Gum and Other Tasty Tunes (I am a Fine Musician)

Happy Halloween!

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It’s almost trick-or-treating time!

Stories Shared:
In a Dark, Dark Wood pop-up version by David Carter
Pumpkin Heads! By Wendell Minor
Five Little Pumpkins by Iris Van Rynbach
Brooms are for Flying by Michael Rex
Sweets and Treats by Toni Trent Parker

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet.):
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Once there was a Pumpkin
Fun with Hands
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

Bonus Rhyme:
Pumpkin, pumpkin, round and fat
Turned into a jack-o-lantern just like that!
(Two-sided flannel pieces can be purchased here.)

Music:
Wee Sing: For Halloween
Me and My Bean Bag (Take that Bean Bag)

Go Away, Monsters!

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Rawr! This storytime about Monsters did not scare ME! We had a lot of fun over at BV today. I am leaving town on Friday to go to Savannah for the weekend, so Miss Cathleen will be filling in for me over at Central. See you all next week!

Stories Shared:
Little Monsters by Jan Pienkowski (pop-up)
Five Ugly Monsters by Tedd Arnold
Go Away, Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley (Puppet available here.)

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Tales Rhymes sheet. Extra copies available at the Library.):
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Silly Hat Song
Apples
Five Little Sausages
Tommy Thumb
If You’re Wearing Red Today

Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Little Miss Muffet
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,
Eating her curds and whey.
There came a big spider,
He sat down beside her.
And frightened Miss Muffet away!

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