{"id":541,"date":"2012-01-06T21:25:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T21:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=541"},"modified":"2012-01-06T21:25:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T21:25:42","slug":"baby-party-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=541","title":{"rendered":"Baby Party Animals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s &#8220;party&#8221; into the New Year with some baby storytimes!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Animal Tales Bibs to Books Storytime with Jennifer: October 13, 2006<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>OPENING:<\/p>\n<p>*Opening rhyme: Brown Bear<br \/>\nOpening Rhyme\/Song: \u201cIf You\u2019re Happy and You Know It\u201d<\/p>\n<p>PROGRAM:<\/p>\n<p>Song (with Velcro pieces and apron): \u201cFive Little Ducks\u201d<br \/>\nBook: Old MacDonald by Amy Schwartz<br \/>\nSong (with finger puppets and barn): \u201cThe Animals on the Bus\u201d<br \/>\nSong (with shakers): \u201cShake Your Sillies Out\u201d from Raffi\u2019s More Singable Songs<\/p>\n<p>BOOK SHARE (I brought out a bin of board books for the caregivers to share with their babies. Usually, we spent about 10-15 minutes on this portion.)<\/p>\n<p>Rhyme (song): I Love Books<\/p>\n<p>TOY TIME (I brought out a bin of toys for the families to share and play with for about 15 minutes.)<\/p>\n<p>Rhyme (with puppets): This Little Piggy<br \/>\n*Rhyme: Tick Tock<\/p>\n<p>Note: I sang \u201cClean Up\u201d (Barney-style) while the babies helped clean up books and toys.<\/p>\n<p>CLOSING:<\/p>\n<p>Rhyme (song with finger puppet): Flutter, Flutter Butterfly<br \/>\n*Closing rhyme: Tickle the Clouds<\/p>\n<p><strong>RHYMES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Brown Bear<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBrown Bear, Brown Bear, who do you see? I see <em>Child\u2019s Name<\/em> looking at me.\u201d<br \/>\nGo around the circle and have stuffed brown bear &#8220;see&#8221; and name each child.<\/p>\n<p><em>Tick Tock<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tick tock, tick tock.<br \/>\n(shift weight of child from knee to knee)<br \/>\nI\u2019m a little cuckoo clock<br \/>\nTick tock, tick tock.<br \/>\nNow it\u2019s striking one o \u2018 clock.<br \/>\nTick tock, tick tock.<br \/>\n\u201cCuckoo!!\u201d<br \/>\n(lift child into air)<\/p>\n<p>Tick tock, tick tock.<br \/>\nI\u2019m a little cuckoo clock.<br \/>\nTick tock, tick tock.<br \/>\nNow it\u2019s striking two \u2018o clock.<br \/>\nTick tock, tick tock.<br \/>\n\u201cCuckoo!!  Cuckoo!!\u201d<br \/>\n(lift child into air two times)<\/p>\n<p>Tick tock, tick tock<br \/>\nI\u2019m a little cuckoo clock.<br \/>\nTick tock, tick tock.<br \/>\nNow it\u2019s striking three \u2018o clock.<br \/>\nTick tock, tick tock<br \/>\n\u201cCuckoo!  Cuckoo!  Cuckoo!\u201d<br \/>\n(lift child three times) <\/p>\n<p><em>Tickle the Clouds<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tickle the clouds<br \/>\nTickle your toes<br \/>\nTurn around and tickle your nose<br \/>\nReach down low<br \/>\nAnd reach up high<br \/>\nStory time\u2019s over \u2014<br \/>\nWave good-bye!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s &#8220;party&#8221; into the New Year with some baby storytimes! Animal Tales Bibs to Books Storytime with Jennifer: October 13, 2006 OPENING: *Opening rhyme: Brown Bear Opening Rhyme\/Song: \u201cIf You\u2019re Happy and You Know It\u201d PROGRAM: Song (with Velcro pieces and apron): \u201cFive Little Ducks\u201d Book: Old MacDonald by Amy Schwartz Song (with finger puppets [&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":[196],"tags":[7,9,146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541"}],"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=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}