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MMMilk and Cookies!

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Today was our final Milk and Cookies storytime for the summer. I thought it only appropriate that I tell a “batch” of cookie stories 🙂 I was especially happy to finally be able to read Karma Wilson’s The Cow Loves Cookies at storytime… it was a hit!

We will be having more storytimes at Panera in the fall. Dates will be posted on the Library website soon!

In the mean time, I will repeat this storytime over at the Gail Borden Library tomorrow at 10:15 am in the Youth Services patio area. No registration required! Next week, I’ll be repeating my Let’s Cook Up Some Fun storytime same time, same place.

OPENING:
Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story

PROGRAM:
Read-aloud #1: The Cow Loves Cookies by Karma Wilson
Song (with finger puppets): The Animals on the Bus
Read-aloud #2: Who Ate All the Cookie Dough? by Karen Beaumont
*Fingerplay: Mix the Batter
Flannel: It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles Shaw (flannel pieces here)
Fingerplay: Open, Shut Them
Read-aloud #3 (Big Book): If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff
**Fingerplay: The Quiet Mouse
Fingerplay: Fun with Hands
Read-aloud #4 (Story Cards): The Best Mouse Cookie by Laura Numeroff

CLOSING:
Closing Song: We Wave Good-bye Like This

*Mix the Batter
Mix the batter, stir the batter,
(curve one arm to make a bowl; pretend to stir with other hand)
Shake some flour in.
(stirring hand shakes over “bowl” arm)
Mix the batter, stir the batter,
(repeat first movement)
Pour it in a tin.
(hold up bowl in two hands; tip)
Then sprinkle little raisins on
(make sprinkling motion with one hand)
Put batter in to bake.
(Two hands out as if holding cake pan)
Open up the over door.
(opening motion with one hand)
Out comes a delicious cake!
(Two hands out as if holding cake pan; lift pan to nose and take deep sniff!)

**The Quiet Mouse
Once there lived a quiet mouse
(Hold out fist with index finger extended)
In a quiet little house.
(Insert index finger into other fist)
When all was quiet as can be,
Out Popped He!!
(Throw arms and hands apart)

Fun and Fruity!

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The food stories keep on being served… and the kids keep gobbling them up! This week, we read fruit stories. Again, “seconds” will be served tomorrow at Gail Borden at 10:15 am in the Youth Services patio area. No registration required!

I’ll be back at both Panera (registration only, last session for the summer) and Gail Borden next week!

OPENING:
Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story

PROGRAM:
Read-aloud #1 (Big Book): Jamberry by Bruce Degen
*Flannel: Fruit Faces
Read-aloud #2 (Big Book): The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don Wood
Fingerplay: Way Up High in the Apple Tree
Read-aloud #3: A New House for Mouse by Peter Horacek
**Flannel: Five Little Apples
Storytelling Activity: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (using story props)
Song/Fingerplay: Hands Up High
(May use One Little Blueberry by Tammi J. Salzano tomorrow)

CLOSING:
Closing Song: We Wave Good-bye Like This

*Fruit Faces
(Used homemade fruit flannels with corresponding faces… also had the children make the different faces with me)
Here is an “apple” who’s happy!
Here is an “orange” who sighs!
Here is a “banana” who’s sleepy!
Here is a “pineapple” who cries!
Here is a “pear” who’s angry!!
Here is a “lemon” who’s sad!
Here is a “strawberry” who’s noisy!!
Here is a “watermelon” who’s glad!

**Five Little Apples
(Chanted to Five Little Monkeys Teasing Mr. Crocodile)
Five little apples hanging in a tree,
Teasing Mr. Slinky Worm “you can’t eat me”,
Along comes Mr. Slinky Worm quiet as can be…
and…CRUNCH!
(Chant with 4,3,2,1)
(Used tree flannel, 5 apple flannels and a worm finger puppet)

Eat Your Veggies!

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Another “Reading is sooooo delicious” storytime at Panera! This week, we had some tasty vegetable stories. “Seconds” will be served tomorrow at Gail Borden at 10:15 am in the Youth Services patio area. No registration required!

I’ll be back at both Panera and Gail Borden next week, too… so come on over and feast on some fine stories 🙂

OPENING:
Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story

PROGRAM:
Read-aloud #1: Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming
Song: Little Bunny Foo Foo (with finger puppets)
Read-aloud #2 (Big Book): The Carrot Seed by Ruth Krauss
Flannel: The Enormous Turnip
Read-aloud #3: Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
*Fingerplay: Five Fat Pods
Read-aloud #4: Mrs. Fickle’s Pickles by Lori Ann Ries
Song: Fun with Hands

CLOSING:
Closing Song: We Wave Good-bye Like This

* Five Fat Pods
Five fat peas in a pea pod pressed (hold hand in a fist)
One grew, two grew, so did all the rest (put thumb and fingers up one by one)
They grew and grew (raise hands in the air very slowly)
And they grew and they grew
They grew so fat
That the pea-pod POPPED! (clap)

Let’s Cook Up Some Fun!

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This summer, our Summer Reading theme at my library is “Reading is soooo delicious!” So, I’m cooking up some fun at storytime with food-related stories, songs and finger-plays. This week was dedicated to the “art/act” of cooking… Bon apetit!

OPENING:
Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story

PROGRAM:
Read-aloud #1: Pete’s a Pizza by William Steig
*Song with flannel pieces: I am a Pizza
Fingerplay: Five Fat Sausages
Read-aloud #2: Chicks and Salsa by Aaron Reynolds
Song (with finger puppets): Old MacDonald
Read-aloud #3: The Wolf’s Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza
Flannel: Stone Soup poem (template found here)
Read-aloud #4: Warthogs in the Kitchen by Pamela Duncan Edwards
**Flannel song: Aiken Drum

CLOSING:
Closing Song: We Wave Good-bye Like This

*I am a Pizza
I am a pizza, with extra cheese.
From tomatoes, sauce is squeezed.
Garlic and mushrooms, oregano.
I am a pizza, ready to go.

**Aiken Drum
There was a man lived in the moon,
lived in the moon, lived in the moon,
There was a man lived in the moon,
and his name was Aiken Drum.
And he played upon a ladle,
a ladle, a ladle,
He played upon a ladle,
and his name was Aiken Drum.
And his eyes were made of gum drops…
And his nose was a banana…
And his mouth was a watermelon…
And is hair was made of green beans…
(Templates can be found in the book 52 Programs for Preschoolers: The Librarian’s Year-Round Planner by Diane Briggs.)

Why didn’t Tom Turkey want dessert?

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Wow, I can’t believe that I did the following storytime six years ago! Time flies when you’re having fun! I hope that everyone has a very happy Thanksgiving:)

Thanksgiving Funfare with Jennifer: November 18, 2004

OPENING:
Discuss Thanksgiving, turkeys, feasts, etc.
Tell joke: Why didn’t Tom Turkey want dessert? He was stuffed!
*Opening song: If you’re happy and you know it/Hello Mr. Turkey
**Warm up fingers: Ten Little Fingers
Opening fingerplay: Ten Fat Turkeys
Are you ready for storytime?!
Gobble, gobble, gobble

PROGRAM:
Read-aloud #1: I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson
Poem: “Leftovers” from It’s Thanksgiving! by Jack Prelutsky
Felt board: food galore-put on the board food felt pieces and talk about all the different yummy food you can have at a feast
Song: Thanksgiving Dinner (in Jane Cobb’s I’m a Little Teapot…)
Read-aloud #2: This is the Turkey by Abby Levine
***Fingerplay: A Turkey is a Funny Bird
Fingerplay: Mr. Turkey Went Out One Day (see fall rhyme sheets)
Read-aloud #3: Hungry Hen by Richard Waring

CLOSING:
****Song: Turkey Jurky
Song: Shake My Sillies Out, Raffi
Song: Turkey in the Straw (play while handing out stickers)

WORDS & LYRICS:
*“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?

**Ten Fat Turkeys
Ten fat turkeys standing in a row
(hold up ten fingers)
They spread their feathers and tails like so
(spread fingers)
They strut to the left
They strut to the right
(move fingers left and right)
They Gobble, gobble, gobble
in the bright sunlight!

***A Turkey is a Funny Bird
The turkey is a funny bird,
His head goes wobble, wobble.
All he know is just one word,
Gobble, Gobble, Gobble.

***“Turkey Jurkey” (to the tune of The Hokey Pokey):
You put your wing in
You put your wing out
You put your wing in
And you flap it all about
You do the Turkey Jurkey and you turn yourself around
That’s what it’s all about!

You put your other wing in
You put your other wing out
You put your other wing in
And you flap it all about
You do the Turkey Jurkey and you turn yourself around
That’s what it’s all about!

You put your beak in
You put your beak out
You put your beak in
And you shake it all about
You do the Turkey Jurkey and you turn yourself around
That’s what it’s all about!

You put your tail feathers in
You put your tail feathers out
You put your tail feathers in
And you shake them all about
You do the Turkey Jurkey and you turn yourself around
That’s what it’s all about!

Soup’s On!

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It’s a great time of the year to slurp some delicious homemade soup. A “soup” themed storytime is also appropriate for Thanksgiving-time. It’s all about the food! Yum!

Soup’s On! Preschool Storytime with Jennifer: January 30, 2007

OPENING:
Play “Animal Crackers in my Soup” as audience enters
Have alligator puppet “eat” various ingredients of Stone Soup
Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story

PROGRAM:
Read-aloud #1: Wolf’s Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza
Rhyme (with puppet): Alligator Pie
Read-aloud #2 (big book): Mean Soup by Betsy Everitt
Flannel: Stone Soup poem (template found here)
Read-aloud #3: To Market, To Market by Anne Miranda
Flannel/Song: Barnyard Gate [version available on Ed McCurdy: Children’s Songs: the Greatest Hits (I Had a Little Rooster)]
Song: “I Feel Crazy So I Jump in the Soup” from Laurie Berkner’s Victor Vito

VIDEO:
Chicken Soup with Rice (5 minutes)

CLOSING:
Closing Song: We Wave Good-bye Like This

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)

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)

Food, Glorious FOOD!

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Happy New Year! It was sure great to see familiar smiling faces at storytime today. Today’s theme was FOOD…YUM!

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”
Put it in the oven for Baby and me.

Stories Shared:
Round is a Pancake by Joan Sullivan Baranski
Today is Monday by Eric Carle
Slop Goes the Soup by Pamela D. Edwards
Hi, Pizza Man! by Virginia Walter
Who ate all the Cookie Dough? By Karen Beaumont

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet):
I’m a Little Teapot
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Five Little Sausages
Old MacDonald

Flannel:
The Enormous Turnip (Traditional folktale. Pattern pieces can be found here, though link does not always work.)

Bonus Flannel Song:
Aiken Drum
There was a man lived in the moon,
lived in the moon, lived in the moon,
There was a man lived in the moon,
and his name was Aiken Drum.
And he played upon a ladle,
a ladle, a ladle,
He played upon a ladle,
and his name was Aiken Drum.
And his eyes were made of gum drops…
And his nose was a banana…
And his mouth was a watermelon…
And is hair was made of green beans…
(Templates can be found in the book 52 Programs for Preschoolers: The Librarian’s Year-Round Planner by Diane Briggs.)

Music:
Sharon, Lois & Bram: Mainly Mother Goose
Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes (Silly Dance Contest)

Craft:
Paper Donuts (Idea from this website.)

Pease Porridge Hot! for Thanksgiving

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Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Pease Porridge Hot
Pease porridge hot,
Pease porridge cold,
Pease porridge in the pot,
Nine days old;
Some like it hot,
Some like it cold,
Some like it in the pot,
Nine days old.

Books Shared:
The Turkey Ball by Davis Steinberg
Cows in the Kitchen by June Crebbin
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Slop Goes the Soup by Pamela D. Edwards

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Tales Rhymes sheet. Extra copies available at the Library.):
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Apples
Autumn Leaves

Music:
Laurie Berkner: Victor Vito (I Feel Crazy So I Jump in the Soup)

Hello Mr. Turkey song (to the tune of If You’re Happy and Yo 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?

Stone Soup poem:
Can be found at this website