{"id":647,"date":"2012-10-01T21:04:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T02:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=647"},"modified":"2018-05-22T09:58:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T14:58:24","slug":"so-many-ways-to-say-hello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=647","title":{"rendered":"So Many Ways to Say Hello"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had an awesome outreach visit last week. I helped out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elginliteracy.org\/\">Literacy Connection<\/a> by presenting a storytime during one of their family literacy classes held at a local elementary school. Most of the adults are only just learning English&#8230; and the kids are still learning, too. So, it was a little bit of a challenge&#8230; but they wanted me to present in English to help immerse these families in the language. This group was one of my most active groups ever&#8230; EVERYONE (adults, too!) got into it! (The kids ranged from preschool to grade 4.) I am looking forward to future family literacy storytimes.<\/p>\n<p>This &#8220;hello&#8221; theme was very appropriate for this &#8220;first day&#8221; of ESL&#8230; We even learned how to say &#8220;hello&#8221; in a bunch of different languages!<\/p>\n<p>OPENING:<br \/>\nOpening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story<\/p>\n<p>PROGRAM:<br \/>\nRead-aloud #1: Bark, George by Jules Feiffer (Also: use swallowing \u201cdog\u201d puppet with various animal finger puppets inside)<br \/>\nSong (with finger puppets): Old MacDonald<br \/>\nRead-aloud #2: excerpts from Hello World!:Greetings in 42 Languages around the Globe! by Manya Stojic<br \/>\nRead-aloud #3:Say Hello! by Rachel Isadora<br \/>\nSong\/Fingerplay: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=d_VSFF4zgy4\">Hands Up High<\/a><br \/>\nSong\/Fingerplay: Where is Thumbkin?<br \/>\nRead-aloud #4: Hello, Hello! by Miriam Schlein (how animals say hello!)<br \/>\nFlannel: Hi, Harry! by Martin Waddell<br \/>\nRead-aloud #5: Say Hello by Jack and Michael Foreman<br \/>\nFingerplay: Fun with Hands<\/p>\n<p>CLOSING:<br \/>\nClosing Song: We Wave Good-bye Like This<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had an awesome outreach visit last week. I helped out the Literacy Connection by presenting a storytime during one of their family literacy classes held at a local elementary school. Most of the adults are only just learning English&#8230; and the kids are still learning, too. So, it was a little bit of a [&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":[245,192,4],"tags":[214,211,212,213,146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647"}],"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=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}