Our last fall storytime ended with a bang! Lots of Halloween fun… including kids previewing their cute costumes \ud83d\ude42 We’re now on break until January 2015… I will miss everyone! Happy Holidays! Keep reading!<\/p>\n
OPENING:
\nOpening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story<\/p>\n
PROGRAM: CLOSING: *Floppy Scarecrow<\/em> **Once there was a pumpkin<\/em>
\nRead-aloud #1: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams
\n*Flannel: Floppy Scarecrow
\nSong\/Fingerplay: Hands Up High<\/a>
\nSong\/Fingerplay: Blackbirds
\nRead-aloud #2: Pumpkin Trouble by Jan Thomas
\n**Fingerplay: Once there was a pumpkin
\n***Flannel: Pumpkin, Pumpkin
\n****Flannel: Here is a Jack-o-lantern
\nRead-aloud #3: Shivery Shades of Halloween by Mary McKenna Siddals
\nAction Song: If You\u2019re Wearing Red Today
\n*****Flannel: Five Little Witches
\nRead-aloud #4: What\u2019s in the Witch\u2019s Kitchen? (flap book) by Nick Sharratt
\nRead-aloud #5: Brooms are for Flying by Michael Rex
\nDancing Song: \u201cShake My Sillies Out\u201d from Raffi\u2019s More Singable Songs<\/p>\n
\nClosing song: We Wave Goodbye <\/p>\n
\nThe floppy, floppy scarecrow guards his field all day.
\nHe waves his floppy ______ to scare the crows away!
\n(Have children do the action poem and listen for the different body parts.)<\/p>\n
\nOnce there was a pumpkin. (Make a circle with hands.)
\nAnd it grew, And grew, And grew. (With each \u201cgrew\u201d, make imaginary pumpkin bigger.)
\nNow it\u2019s a jack-o-lantern And smiles at you! (With a smile, point to each other.)<\/p>\n