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Birdie Second Grade Visits

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Turkeys weren’t the only birds featured in this visit! Hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving next week 🙂

Poem: “Leftovers” from It’s Thanksgiving! by Jack Prelutsky
Fiction Book: Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein
Fiction Book Bite: read parts of Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? by Jon Agee and the rest of the coop (various illustrators)
Nonfiction Book Bites: read/showed snippets from DK Smithsonian’s Everything You Need to Know About Birds, Click with Your Chick by Giene Keyes (chickens can learn tricks!), and National Geographic Kids Ultimate Explorer: Birds by Julie Beer*
Storytell: “Chickens!” (I learned this “boo baby” story from storyteller Priscilla Howe)

*from which I got the joke: What kind of key doesn’t open a door? A turkey!

Feathers!

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Gobble, gobble… it’s nearly Turkey Time! Today’s storytime was all about birds (including lovable–delicious?– turkeys.)

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

PROGRAM:
Read-aloud #1: Ten Fat Turkeys by Tony Johnston
*Song: Hello, Mr. Turkey
Fingerplay: Mr. Turkey Went Out One Day
Read-aloud #2: Wow! said the Owl by Tim Hopgood
**Flannel: Mr. Turkey’s Feathers
Song/Fingerplay: Hands Up High
Song/Fingerplay: Blackbirds
Read-aloud #3: Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog by Mo Willems
Fingerplay: Five Fat Sausages
***Flannel: Five Hungry Pilgrims
Read-aloud #4 (Story Cards): The Enormous Carrot
Fingerplay: Way Up High in the Apple Tree
Action Song: Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
Action Rhyme: I Clap My Hands
Dancing Song (with shakers!): “I Know a Chicken” from Laurie Berkner’s Whaddaya Think of That?

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

*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?

**Mr. Turkey’s Feathers
(Make a flannel of a turkey sans feathers. Also make red, blue, green, orange, yellow, purple, black, white and brown feather pieces to add to the turkey as the rhyme progresses.)
Mr. Turkey was so sad,
He lost the feathers he once had.
Now he wants us to help him find
All the feathers of his kind.
We will look both high and low,
We will find them, don’t you know.
Here’s a RED one and a BLUE,
Look, we’ve found a GREEN one, too.
Here’s an ORANGE one and a YELLOW,
Soon he’ll be a feathered fellow.
Now we’ve found the PURPLE one,
BLACK and WHITE, we’re almost done.
If we just look up and down.
I know we’ll find the feather BROWN.
Now Mr. Turkey is so glad,
For we have found the feathers he once had!

***Five Hungry Pilgrims (Source unknown)
Five hungry pilgrims were in a grumpy mood.
The first one said, “I’m ready for some food!”
The second one said, “Some turkey would be nice.”
The third one said, “Or a pumpkin pie slice.”
The fourth one said, “Mashed potatoes, please.”
The fifth one said, “And some nice green peas!”
With a chew and a gulp and a munch, munch, munch,
The five little pilgrims were a happy bunch.

For the Birds!

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Our last Milk and Cookies Storytime at Panera was all about birds… including turkeys. Now that Halloween is over, we might as well start getting excited about Thanksgiving 🙂

Our next Panera storytime won’t be until around Valentine’s Day… but we do have a pajama storytime (Family Reading Night) over at the Dundee Library Thursday, November 15 at 7 pm. The theme will be “Once upon a Time” (fairy and folk tales). Come one, come all. No registration necessary.

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

PROGRAM:
Read-aloud #1: The Big Woods Orchestra by Guido Van Genechten
Song/Fingerplay: Hand Up High
Song/Fingerplay: Blackbirds
Read-aloud #2: Wow! said the Owl by Tim Hopgood
*Flannel: Mr. Turkey’s Feathers
**Song: A Turkey is a Funny Bird
Read-aloud #3: Hungry Hen by Richard Waring
Fingerplay: Way Up High in the Apple Tree
Fingerplay: Five Fat Sausages
Read-aloud #4: The Little Red Hen retold by Heather Forest
**Fingerplay: Ten Fat Turkeys
Fingerplay: Mr. Turkey Went Out One Day
Read-aloud #5: Turkey Trouble by Wendi Silvano

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

*Mr. Turkey’s Feathers
(Make a flannel of a turkey sans feathers. Also make red, blue, green, orange, yellow, purple, black, white and brown feather pieces to add to the turkey as the rhyme progresses.)
Mr. Turkey was so sad,
He lost the feathers he once had.
Now he wants us to help him find
All the feathers of his kind.
We will look both high and low,
We will find them, don’t you know.
Here’s a RED one and a BLUE,
Look, we’ve found a GREEN one, too.
Here’s an ORANGE one and a YELLOW,
Soon he’ll be a feathered fellow.
Now we’ve found the PURPLE one,
BLACK and WHITE, we’re almost done.
If we just look up and down.
I know we’ll find the feather BROWN.
Now Mr. Turkey is so glad,
For we have found the feathers he once had!

**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.

***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!

Mr. Turkey and His Feathered Friends

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Gobble Gobble Gobble! Quack Quack Quack! Today’s storytime was all about different kinds of birds including turkeys, chickens and ducks. Next week, the Library will be closed next Thursday for Turkey Day as well as the day after…so no storytime next week. We’ll be back in two weeks with more fun stories, songs and rhymes. Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Sing a Song of Sixpence
Sing a song of sixpence,
a pocket full of rye.
Four and twenty blackbirds,
baked in a pie.
When the pie was opened,
the birds began to sing.
Wasn’t that a dainty dish
to set before the king?

Books Shared:
Whose Chick are You? By Nancy Tafuri
The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! By Mo Willems
Charlie Chick (Pop-Up Book) by Nick Denchfield and Ant Parker
I Know an Old Lady who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson
The Little Red Hen

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Storytime Rhymes Sheet.):
Mr. Turkey Went Out One Day
Ten Little Fingers
Apples
If You’re Happy and You Know It

Music:
Peter, Paul and Mary: Peter, Paul and Mommy, too
Laurie Berkner: Buzz Buzz (Pig on Her Head)

Bonus Song:
“Five Little Ducks” (Lyrics and melody can be found here.)

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?

Bonus Song (and Dance!):
“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!