{"id":758,"date":"2013-08-21T14:44:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T19:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=758"},"modified":"2013-08-21T16:14:21","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T21:14:21","slug":"happy-birthday-to-meeeeeeeeeee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=758","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to Meeeeeeeeeee!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow (Thursday) is my birthday, so I threw myself a little birthday party storytime on Monday. All of my little &#8220;guests&#8221; were happy to get bubbles party favors \ud83d\ude42 What was extra funny was that TWO of the moms had their birthday on Monday!<\/p>\n<p>OPENING:<br \/>\nOpening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story<\/p>\n<p>PROGRAM:<br \/>\nRead-aloud #1: Little Gorilla by Ruth Bornstein<br \/>\n*Fingerplay: Make a Cake<br \/>\nRead-aloud #2: A Birthday for Cow! by Jan Thomas<br \/>\nFlannel: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kizclub.com\/storypatterns\/turnip(C).pdf\">The Enormous Turnip<\/a><br \/>\n**Fingerplay: The Quiet Mouse<br \/>\nRead Aloud #3 (Story Cards): Mouse&#8217;s Birthday by Jane Yolen<br \/>\nFingerplay: Birthday Cake<br \/>\n(Read Aloud #4: If You Give a Pig a Party by Laura Numeroff)<br \/>\nAction Song: Fun with Hands<br \/>\n(Fingerplay: Ten Little Fingers)<br \/>\nRead Aloud #5: Don&#8217;t Spill the Beans! by Ian Schoenherr (I had the kids whisper, &#8220;It&#8217;s Ms. Jennifer&#8217;s birthday!&#8221; every time the bear whispered the secret to a friend.)<br \/>\nSong: Happy Birthday<br \/>\nActivity: Present kids with a colorfully wrapped box. Open up the present (be dramatic and throw the paper everywhere while shaking the box). Inside there are bubbles for everyone! (In the past, I wrapped up stickers.) Hand out the favors at the end of storytime.<br \/>\n(\u201cDancing\u201d Song: \u201cThe Freeze Dance\u201d from Music for Little People: Birthday Party! Singalong)<\/p>\n<p>CLOSING:<br \/>\nClosing Song: We Wave Good-bye Like This<\/p>\n<p>*<em>Make a Cake<\/em><br \/>\nMix the batter, stir the batter<br \/>\n(make a stirring motion with one arm\/hand)<br \/>\nShake some flour in<br \/>\n(make a shaking motion with one arm\/hand)<br \/>\nMix the batter, stir the batter<br \/>\n(make a stirring motion with one arm\/hand)<br \/>\nPlace it in a tin<br \/>\n(pretend to pour)<br \/>\nSprinkle some candy in<br \/>\n(pretend to sprinkle)<br \/>\nPop it in the oven<br \/>\n(open both hands, palms up, and slide them forward)<br \/>\nOpen wide the oven door<br \/>\n(pretend to open door)<br \/>\nAnd out comes the cake!<br \/>\n(open both hands, palms up, and slide them forward)<\/p>\n<p>**<em>The Quiet Mouse<\/em><br \/>\nOnce there lived a quiet mouse<br \/>\n(Hold out fist with index finger extended)<br \/>\nIn a quiet little house.<br \/>\n(Insert index finger into other fist)<br \/>\nWhen all was quiet as can be,<br \/>\nOut Popped He!!<br \/>\n(Throw arms and hands apart)<\/p>\n<p>***<em>Birthday Cake<\/em><br \/>\nTen candles on a birthday cake<br \/>\n(hold up hands with palms facing out and fingers extended)<br \/>\nAll lit up for me<br \/>\n(wiggle fingers)<br \/>\nI\u2019ll make a wish and blow them out<br \/>\nWatch and you will see.<br \/>\n(blow and bend fingers down)<\/p>\n<p>Additional &#8220;Birthday&#8221; Books: Ask Mr. Bear by Marjorie Flack, Not Last Night But the Night Before by Colin McNaughton, Who Made This Cake? by Chihiro Nakagawa, Birthday Zoo by Deborah Lee Rose, Happy Birthday Bunny! by Elizabeth Garton Scanlon, The Fairytale Cake by Mark Sperring, and The Birthday Queen by Audrey Wood<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow (Thursday) is my birthday, so I threw myself a little birthday party storytime on Monday. All of my little &#8220;guests&#8221; were happy to get bubbles party favors \ud83d\ude42 What was extra funny was that TWO of the moms had their birthday on Monday! OPENING: Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story PROGRAM: [&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":[192,5],"tags":[20,184,230,146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758"}],"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=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":761,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions\/761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}