{"id":846,"date":"2014-03-24T11:54:54","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T16:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=846"},"modified":"2014-03-24T11:54:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T16:54:54","slug":"ive-got-the-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=846","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;ve Got the Blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boo Hoo. Will it ever be Spring? \ud83d\ude09 We continue our &#8220;Colors&#8221; series with BLUE.<\/p>\n<p>OPENING:<br \/>\nOpening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story<\/p>\n<p>PROGRAM:<br \/>\nRead-aloud #1: The Deep Blue Sea by Audrey Wood<br \/>\nFingerplay: Rain is Falling Down<br \/>\n*Flannel: Raindrops<br \/>\nAction Song: The Itsy Bitsy Spider<br \/>\nRead-aloud #2: Little Blue Truck by Alice Schertle<br \/>\nFlannel song: The Animals on the Truck (to the tune of &#8220;The Wheels on the Bus&#8221;, use animal noises)<br \/>\nFingerplay: Blackbirds<br \/>\nRead-aloud #3: Grumpy Bird by Jeremy Tankard<br \/>\nAction Song: If You\u2019re Wearing Red Today<br \/>\n**Flannel: The Kitten and the Missing Blue Mitten<br \/>\nRead-aloud #4: Pete the Cat and His Magic Sunglasses by James Dean<br \/>\nDancing Song: \u201cDancing Scarf Blues\u201d from Carole Peterson: Dancing Feet<\/p>\n<p>CLOSING:<br \/>\nClosing Song: We Wave Good-bye Like This<\/p>\n<p>*<em>Raindrops<\/em> (source unknown)<br \/>\nRaindrops, raindrops, where did they fall?<br \/>\nThey fell on a red bug, but that&#8217;s not all.<br \/>\nRaindrops, raindrops, where did they fall?<br \/>\nThey fell on a green frog, but that&#8217;s not all.<br \/>\nRaindrops&#8230; <em>continue with purple flower, orange cat, blue bird, yellow coat<\/em>&#8230; but that&#8217;s not all.<br \/>\nBecause up in the sky out came the sun,<br \/>\nAnd the rain made a rainbow for everyone.<\/p>\n<p>**<em>The Kitten and the Missing Blue Mitten<\/em> (source unknown)<br \/>\nMy poor little kitten lost her mitten<br \/>\nAnd started to cry, &#8220;Boo-hoo.&#8221;<br \/>\nSo, I helped my kitten to look for her mitten,<br \/>\nHer beautiful mitten of blue.<\/p>\n<p>I found a mitten just right for kitten<br \/>\nUnder my mother&#8217;s bed.<br \/>\nBut, alas, the mitten was not the right mitten,<br \/>\nFor it was colored red.<\/p>\n<p>I found a mitten just right for kitten<br \/>\nUnder my father&#8217;s pillow.<br \/>\nBut, alas, the mitten was not the right mitten,<br \/>\nFor it was colored yellow.<\/p>\n<p>I found a mitten just right for kitten<br \/>\nUnder the laundry so clean.<br \/>\nBut alas, the mitten was not the right mitten,<br \/>\nFor it was colored green.<\/p>\n<p>I found a mitten just right for kitten<br \/>\nUnder the kitchen sink.<br \/>\nBut, alas, the mitten was not the right mitten,<br \/>\nFor it was colored pink.<\/p>\n<p>I found a mitten just right for kitten<br \/>\nInside my favorite shoe.<br \/>\nAnd this time the mitten was just the right mitten,<br \/>\nFor it was colored blue!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boo Hoo. Will it ever be Spring? \ud83d\ude09 We continue our &#8220;Colors&#8221; series with BLUE. OPENING: Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story PROGRAM: Read-aloud #1: The Deep Blue Sea by Audrey Wood Fingerplay: Rain is Falling Down *Flannel: Raindrops Action Song: The Itsy Bitsy Spider Read-aloud #2: Little Blue Truck by Alice [&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":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846"}],"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=846"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":848,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/846\/revisions\/848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}