{"id":489,"date":"2011-06-29T16:03:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T16:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=489"},"modified":"2018-05-22T10:20:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T15:20:29","slug":"royal-rinse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=489","title":{"rendered":"Royal Rinse"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sorry for the lack of posting! I’m adjusting to getting back into “storytime mode”. It’s been a blast! This past Monday, I read at Culvers on Randall Road in South Elgin<\/strong>… I’ll be back there for more royal reading Monday, July 11 at 5:30 pm<\/strong>… come join me for food and stories! I’m also at McDonald’s on Larkin in Elgin on Wednesdays at 5:00 pm!!!<\/strong>
\nLast week, we had a fun storytime about baths\/washing up!<\/p>\n

OPENING:
\n*Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story<\/p>\n

PROGRAM:
\nRead-aloud #1: King Bidgood’s in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood
\nSong: “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”
\nPoem: “Take Me Out of the Bathtub” from Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs by Alan Katz
\nRead-aloud #2: The Great Dog Wash by Shellie Braeuner
\nSong\/Fingerplay: Five Green and Speckled Frogs
\nRead-aloud #3: Froggy Learns to Swim by Jonathan London
\nStorytelling (with finger puppets): Mrs. Wishy Washy by Joy Cowley
\nRead-aloud #4: To the Beach by Thomas Docherty<\/p>\n

(BONUS BOOK: For some of the families, I also read If… by Sarah Perry. It doesn’t really go with the theme but is a fun imagination-stretcher especially for the older kids.)<\/p>\n

CLOSING:
\nClosing Song: We Wave Good-bye Like This<\/p>\n

*If You Want to Hear a Story<\/strong>
\nTune: \u201cIf You\u2019re Happy and You Know It\u201d
\nIf you want to hear a story, clap your hands!
\nIf you want to hear a story, clap your hands!
\nIf you want to hear a story,
\nif you want to hear a story,
\nif you want to hear a story, clap your hands!<\/p>\n

Other verses:
\n\u201cnod your head,\u201d
\n\u201crub your tummy,\u201d
\n\u201csit real still,\u201d etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sorry for the lack of posting! I’m adjusting to getting back into “storytime mode”. It’s been a blast! This past Monday, I read at Culvers on Randall Road in South Elgin… I’ll be back there for more royal reading Monday, July 11 at 5:30 pm… come join me for food and stories! I’m also at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[192,5],"tags":[12,129,146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"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=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1246,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/1246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}