{"id":182,"date":"2009-05-20T22:43:49","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T22:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=182"},"modified":"2009-05-20T22:43:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-20T22:43:49","slug":"the-little-red-hen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=182","title":{"rendered":"The Little Red Hen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who will help me tell these chicken stories??? Last Saturday, I did some traditional storytelling for a family audience over at our Buena Vista Library. The kids had a blast helping me act out and participate in various chicken stories. I have a special partiality to chicken stories, so this was an &#8220;egg-cellent&#8221; treat for me as well. And, I got to exercise my &#8220;oral storytelling&#8221; muscle! There are a couple of pictures from the event posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sillylibrarian\/\">my flickr page <\/a>(Programs for Older Kids).<\/p>\n<p>Intro Music: Chicken Dance<\/p>\n<p>Opening Song: Let Everyone Clap Hands with Me (Pete Seeger)<\/p>\n<p>Story #1: \u201cBook! Book! Book!\u201d (This is a well-loved librarian anecdote about a chicken that comes into the library. One version, \u201cThe Well-Read Frog\u201d can be found in Margaret Read MacDonald\u2019s <em>Three Minute Tales<\/em>. There is also a picture book, <em>Book! Book! Book!<\/em> by Deborah Bruss that expands this tale.)<\/p>\n<p>Story #2: \u201cThe Little Red Hen\u201d (This is a traditional folktale, possibly of Russian-origin. Children dressed up and acted out the parts. I used a singing refrain from storyteller Heather Forest\u2019s sound recording <em>Sing Me a Story<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>Story #3: \u201cPoule and Roach\u201d (This is a Louisiana French tale about a chicken who marries a cockroach. One version can be found in Margaret Read MacDonald\u2019s <em>Celebrate the World<\/em>. I was also inspired by storyteller Priscilla Howe\u2019s recording \u201cPoule and Blatt\u201d on her cd <em>Chickens! and Other Stories for Young Children.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Song: \u201cBarnyard Gate\u201d (This is a traditional song that I learned by listening to Pete Seeger recordings. The children used puppets and made the appropriate animal sounds.)<\/p>\n<p>Story #4: \u201cHenny Penny\u201d (This is an old fable with African origins, also known as \u201cChicken Little\u201d or \u201cThe Sky is Falling\u201d. Children dressed up and acted out the parts. I was partially inspired by a version I watched on You Tube from the TV-series <em>Golden Girls<\/em>.)<\/p>\n<p>Movie: \u201cThe Wise Little Hen\u201d (Disney\u2019s <em>The Mickey Mouse Club\u2014Week One<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who will help me tell these chicken stories??? Last Saturday, I did some traditional storytelling for a family audience over at our Buena Vista Library. The kids had a blast helping me act out and participate in various chicken stories. I have a special partiality to chicken stories, so this was an &#8220;egg-cellent&#8221; treat for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[34,83,94,145,146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"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=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}