{"id":1289,"date":"2018-08-24T12:38:30","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T17:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2018-09-07T11:54:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T16:54:45","slug":"bark-meow-toddler-storytime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=1289","title":{"rendered":"Bark! Meow! Toddler Storytime"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s one of my favorite themes: Dogs and Cats!<\/p>\n

*Opening: The More We Get Together
\n*Rhyme: Where is Thumbkin?
\nBook: Bark, George by Jules Feiffer
\nProp: Swallowing “George” Puppy (with finger puppets inside; I put on latex gloves and removed the animals from inside George)
\n*Rhyme: Old MacDonald
\n**Flannel: Five Little Cats
\nBook:\u00a0What Will Fat Cat Sit On? by Jan Thomas
\n*Rhyme: Apples
\nPuppet Story: Who Said Meow? from the book by Maria Polushkin (See librarian Steven Englefried\u2019s\u00a0YouTube demonstration<\/a>.)
\n*Rhyme: Beehive
\nDancing Song: \u201cAnimal Action\u201d from Greg and Steve\u2019s Kids in Motion
\n*Closing: We Wave Goodbye<\/p>\n

Craft: Dog and Cat popsicle stick puppets<\/p>\n

*Rhymes can be found on the August\/September 2018 Toddler Rhyme Sheet<\/a><\/p>\n

**Five Little Cats <\/em>(Source Unknown)
\n5<\/em> little cats were playing near the door.
\nOne ran away, and that left 4.
\n4<\/em> little cats were underneath a tree.
\nOne heard a dog bark, and that left 3.
\n3<\/em> little cats were wondering what to do.
\nOne chased a butterfly, and that left 2.
\n2<\/em> little cats were sitting in the sun.
\nOne ran to chase his tail, and that left 1.
\n1<\/em> little cat was looking for some fun.
\nHe heard his mommy calling… and now there are none!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s one of my favorite themes: Dogs and Cats! *Opening: The More We Get Together *Rhyme: Where is Thumbkin? Book: Bark, George by Jules Feiffer Prop: Swallowing “George” Puppy (with finger puppets inside; I put on latex gloves and removed the animals from inside George) *Rhyme: Old MacDonald **Flannel: Five Little Cats Book:\u00a0What Will Fat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[33,50,146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}