Doggies

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ARF!

Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Where has my little dog gone?
Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone?
Oh where, oh where can he be?
With his ears cut short and his tail cut long
Oh where, oh where can he be?

Books Shared:
Pigeon Wants a Puppy by Mo Willems
Where’s Spot? By Eric Hill
Bark, George by Jules Feiffer
Hunky Dory Ate It by Katie Evans

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet.):
I Wiggle My Fingers
Not Say a Single Word
Animals on the Bus
Mr. Turkey Went Out One day
If You’re Happy and You Know It

Bonus Song:
Do Your Ears Hang Low? (Lyrics and Melody can be found here. Miss Jennifer made the song extra silly by wearing pantyhose on her head and pretending the “legs” were her ears! We only sang the first verse.)

Music:
Sandra Boynton: Philadelphia Chickens (Snuggle Puppy)
Laurie Berkner: Victor Vito (I Feel Crazy So I Jump in the Soup)

Little Mouse, Little Mouse…

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Another enjoyable mouse storytime…SQUEAK!

Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down!
Hickory Dickory Dock.

Books Shared:
A New House for Mouse by Petr Horacek
Busy, Busy Mouse by Virginia Kroll
Mouse Mess by Linnea Riley

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet.):
Apples
Ten Little Fingers
The Quiet Mouse
One Elephant
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Fun with Hands

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

Craft (Once a month, we do a simple craft. The other weeks of the month, we do a fun coloring sheet…) :
Mouse Paper Bag Puppet (Instructions and templates can be found here.)

Halloween Cats

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Happy Halloween, Friends! Black cats are a must for Halloween fun, so today’s storytime centered mostly on cats with a few Halloween treats thrown in.

Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down!
Hickory Dickory Dock.

Stories Shared:
In a Dark, Dark Wood pop-up version by David Carter
Kitty’s Cuddles by Jane Cabrera
What Will Fat Cat Sit On? by Jan Thomas
Three Little Kittens illustrated by Lorianne Siomades
Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet.):
I Wiggle My Fingers
The Quiet Mouse
Old MacDonald
Apples
Fun with Hands

Bonus Rhyme:
Pumpkin, pumpkin, round and fat
Turned into a jack-o-lantern just like that!

Music:
Wee Sing: For Halloween
Raffi: More Singable Songs (Shake My Sillies Out)

Jungle Animals

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Hello, everybody!!! Miss Jennifer is back! I missed everyone while I was out sick last week with bronchitis:( But, I am so happy to be back sharing stories with all of my friends. Today’s theme was Jungle Animals. We had a wild and fun time!

Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe
Catch a tiger by the toe
If he hollers let him go,
Eeny, meeny, miny, moe.

Stories Shared:
Walking through the Jungle by Julie Lacome
If You’re Happy and You Know It (Jungle Edition) by James Warhola
Peek and Pat: Hiding in the Jungle by Emma Davis

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet.):
Ten Little Fingers
If You’re Happy and You Know It
One Elephant
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Not Say a Single Word

Bonus Rhyme:
Teasing Mr. Crocodile (Words can be found here. Felt board set came from Artfelt.)

Bonus Rhyme:
“Five Elephants in a Bathtub” felt board rhyme
(My Five Elephants in the Bathtub felt board set came from Artfelt.)

One elephant in the bathtub going for a swim.
Knock, Knock,
(Clap twice with “Knock, Knock.”)
Splash, Splash,
(Slap knees twice with “Splash, Splash.”)
Come on in!
(Motion with both hands to come in.)

Two elephants…
Three elephants…
Four elephants…

Five elephants in a bathtub
Going for a swim.
Knock, Knock,
Splash, Splash,
They all fell in!

Music:
Carol Hammett: Toddlers on Parade
Carole Peterson: Sticky Bubble Gum and Other Tasty Tunes (I am a Fine Musician)

Farm Animals, E-I-E-I-O!

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Wowsers! We were all very good listeners today, so we got to read lots of books about farm animals. Miss Jennifer was very silly…she balanced lots of animals on her head: a pig, a chicken, a dog, a cat and a sheep! She also had a BOOK on her head…and it didn’t fall off when she walked across the room! So silly! Storytime is so much fun 🙂

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.

Books Shared:
Cows in the Kitchen by June Crebbin
Barn Sneeze by Karen B. Winnick
Moo, Baa, La La La! by Sandra Boynton
Clip Clop by Nicola Smee
The Farmer in the Dell (pictures by Mary Maki Rae)
Silly Sally by Audrey Wood

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet.):
Old MacDonald
Mr. Turkey Went Out One Day
I Wiggle My Fingers
Not Say a Single Word
If You’re Happy and You Know It

Music:
Music for Little People: A Child’s Celebration of Folk Music
Laurie Berkner: Buzz Buzz (Pig on Her Head)
Greg and Steve’s Kids in Motion (Animal Action)

Deep in the Forest…

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Today’s storytime was all about FOREST ANIMALS! Owls! Bears! Wolves! Oh my!

Stories Shared:
Who’s There? by Mary Serforzo
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin and Eric Carle
The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don Wood
The Three Little Pigs

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet.):
I Wiggle My Fingers
Animals on the Bus
Apples
The Quiet Mouse
Fun with Hands

Music:
Raffi: Everything Grows
Me and My Bean Bag (Take that Bean Bag)

More Bugs at Storytime

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Hooray! Storytimes have started up again!!!! We still have some bug decorations left up from our “Catch the Reading Bug” summer reading program, so I thought that I’d start off the year with some more buggy stories…

We always start out with The More We Get Together…
And finish up with We Wave Goodbye Like This
(Words available on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet.)

Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Itsy Bitsy Spider
The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout.
Down came the rain, and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun, and dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again

Stories Shared:
Itsy Bitsy Spider illustrated by Lorianne Siomades
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet.):
Ten Little Fingers
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Animals on the Bus
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Apples

Bonus Song:
“Flutter, Flutter Butterfly” (to the tune of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)
Flutter, flutter, butterfly.
Floating in the summer sky.
Floating by for all to see,
Floating by so merrily.
Flutter, flutter, butterfly,
Floating in the summer sky.

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

It's almost time for Storytimes to begin!!!

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Storytime sign-ups for both our Toddler and our Preschool Storytimes are now going on at all of our Burbank Libraries. I (Miss Jennifer) will again be presenting the Toddler Tales storytimes on Friday mornings at 10am and 11am over at the Central Library starting Friday, September 26th. I am really looking forward to seeing old friends as well as meeting new ones! New posts and new ideas will be coming soon.

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf???

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Sometimes (especially during the summer), I get to take my show on the road and present storytimes at schools/daycares and outreach events. It’s kind of fun getting out in the community! This week, I did Wolf Storytimes for Bright Horizons and for the Relay for Life (both in Burbank).

Stories Shared
Book! Book! Book! (Storytold) (Not about wolves…but lead nicely into the next story about wolves and chickens!)
The Wolf’s Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza
The Three Little Pigs (Storytold)
Wolf! by Becky Bloom
Gunniwolf (Storytold)

TumbleBooks and Virtual Storybooks

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Looking for something to do this summer? Looking for different ways to share books with your child? Do you miss storytime? (I do…)

The Burbank Public Library (as well as many other public libraries across the nation) offers its patrons an excellent electronic resource that can help get kids excited about books and reading: TumbleBooks!

By clicking on the library’s website and then following the link for “TumbleBooks” found on the homepage, our library users can gain access to an online collection of animated, talking picture books and games. From the comfort of your own home, you can gain unlimited remote access to this FREE program. [This is available to Burbank Public Library cardholders. People in other communities will have to check with their own local libraries to see if this service is available.]

**Here are some of the great features of TumbleBooks…**

Story Books: This is the collection of animated picture books that include favorite titles such as “Jack and the Beanstalk”, “The Paperbag Princess” and “Dairy of a Worm”. Users have the option of having the book read aloud to them or reading the book independently (without audio narration). (This collection is especially geared for toddlers, preschoolers and beginning readers.) There are also corresponding electronic puzzles and games to go with the books.

Tumble Readables: For older, more established readers, there is a collection of e-book classics such as “Anne of Green Gables” and “Black Beauty” for students to read independently (without the bells and whistles of animation and sound effects).

Language Learning: There is also a growing collection of books in Spanish and French as well as bilingual titles. (You also have the option of viewing the website in these languages.) This collection could be useful for ESL, bilingual, Spanish and French language learning and instruction.

Audio Books: Also for older students, there is a collection of full length, unabridged, streaming audio books for listening.

**Another website for free Virtual Storybooks**

Storyline Online: Online videos of actors reading picture books aloud.