Phew! I finally uploaded some cute pics from Toddler Tales Storytime as well as from my recent Goldilocks and the Three Bears Super Saturday Stories program. Check them out at my Storytime Flickr Photos (under Links). Enjoy the memories!
Category: Grade School Stories
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
ROAR! Did I scare you??? Didn’t think so. Every now and then, I go over to the Buena Vista Branch Library to do a special Saturday morning storytime geared towards early elementary kids. Today, I presented a “beary” fun Goldilocks and the Three Bears storytime. We went on a bear hunt, we sang songs, we listen to and acted out some bear stories, and we even watched a silly Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears cartoon. The kids were a blast, and I even had one child comment that I was the best librarian ever! How precious. I love being a li-BEAR-ian:) I’ll post some pictures on my Storytime Flickr Photos soon!
OPENING:
Intro Music: Bill Shontz: Teddy Bear’s Greatest Hits
Opening Song: Let Everyone Clap Hands with Me
PROGRAM:
Storytelling Activity: Bear Hunt (based on Michael Rosen’s version)
Read-aloud #1: Goldilocks and the Three Bears retold by James Marshall
Storytelling Activity: Goldilocks and the Three Bears (Children dressed up and acted out the parts.)
Read-aloud #2: Dustylocks and the Three Bears by Susan Lowell
Storytelling Activity: Sody Sallyrytus (based on Margaret Read MacDonald’s version in Twenty Tellable Tales: Audience Participation Folktales for the Beginning Storyteller; also a similar version retold by Aubrey Davis)
Song: The Bear Went Over the Mountain (Melody and lyrics can be found here.)
MOVIE:
Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears (Looney Tunes Golden Collection)
CRAFT OR HANDOUT:
Bear Ears Headband
Frog Prince
OPENING:
Intro Music: The Renaissance Album
Opening Song: Let Everyone Clap Hands With Me
PROGRAM:
Readers Theater: The Frog Prince adapted from the book by Susanna Davidson
Read-aloud #1: The Frog Prince Continued by Jon Scieszka
Song: Five Green and Speckled Frogs
Read-aloud #2: The Horned Toad Prince by Jackie Mims Hopkins
MOVIE:
The Tale of the Frog Prince (Faerie Tale Theater)
CRAFT OR HANDOUT:
Paper Crowns, Coloring Sheets and Heart Suckers
Little Red Riding Hood
This month, the library introduced a new program: Super Saturday Stories. Last Saturday, I presented a storytime for kids in grades K-3 that highlighted the favorite folktale, Little Red Riding Hood. We had a blast recreating the traditional tale by having the children do a readers theater presentation, reading variant books and poems, storytelling, and watching a video of a Bugs Bunny version. I hope to do another “Super Saturday Stories” program in the future and play with other fairy tales and folktales. Also: be on the lookout! I will be posting a podcast version of Little Red Riding Hood in the near future…and hope to be posting monthly podcasts of favorite traditional stories.
OPENING:
Intro Music: Pete Seeger: American folk, game & activity songs for children
Demonstrate storytelling doll and talk a little about Children’s Book Week.
Opening Song: Let Everyone Clap Hands With Me
PROGRAM:
Readers Theater: Little Red Riding Hood by Moira Butterfield
Read-aloud #1: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
Tandem Poem: “Red Riding Hood” from You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman
Read-aloud #2: Little Red Cowboy Hat by Susan Lowell
Storytelling Activity: The Gunniwolf
MOVIE:
Little Red Riding Rabbit (Looney Tunes)
CRAFT OR HANDOUT:
Basket with goodies (oreos) and CBW bookmark