{"id":872,"date":"2014-06-11T12:26:30","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=872"},"modified":"2014-06-11T12:31:36","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T17:31:36","slug":"its-a-jungle-out-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"It’s a Jungle out there!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that we are in the thick of Summer Reading, it really is<\/em> a jungle out there in the children’s department! So much going on! It’s not too late to sign up! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Here’s our “jungle” themed storytime:<\/p>\n

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

PROGRAM:
\nRead-aloud #1: I’m the Scariest Thing in the Jungle! by David G. Derrick, Jr.
\nFlannel: Teasing Mr. Crocodile (Words can be found here<\/a>. Felt board set came from Artfelt<\/a>.)
\nFingerplay: Open, Shut Them
\nRead-aloud #2: Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed by Eileen Christelow
\nSong\/Fingerplay (with finger puppets): Ten in the Bed
\nFlannel: Five Elephants in the Bathtub<\/a>
\nRead-aloud #3: Abigail by Catherine Raynor
\nAction Song: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
\nFlannel: Giraffe with Many Spots (had a blank giraffe, put on colored spots; children named colors and counted spots)
\nAction Song: If You\u2019re Wearing Red Today
\nRead-aloud #4: If You\u2019re Happy and You Know It (Jungle Edition) by James Warhola
\nDancing Song: \u201cElephant Swing\u201d from Animal Walks by Georgiana Stewart<\/p>\n

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

–NOTE: Originally, I had wanted to do an all giraffe storytime… but decided to expand it to “jungle” to make planning easier. Besides Abigail by Catherine Raynor, there are a couple of other new and fun giraffe books: When Elephant Met Giraffe by Paul Gude AND The Short Giraffe by Neil Flory. I could have also done Giraffes Can’t Dance by Giles Andreae. Maybe someday…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Now that we are in the thick of Summer Reading, it really is a jungle out there in the children’s department! So much going on! It’s not too late to sign up! \ud83d\ude42 Here’s our “jungle” themed storytime: OPENING: Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story PROGRAM: Read-aloud #1: I’m the Scariest Thing […]<\/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":[7,248,146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872"}],"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=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}