{"id":1018,"date":"2016-06-15T13:29:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-15T18:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=1018"},"modified":"2016-06-15T13:29:18","modified_gmt":"2016-06-15T18:29:18","slug":"i-know-a-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=1018","title":{"rendered":"I Know a Chicken!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had SO MUC<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1019\" src=\"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0-698-11374-8.jpg\" alt=\"0-698-11374-8\" width=\"201\" height=\"254\" \/>H FUN at storytime today! I really need to start thinking about finding a steady storytime home. Today, we did one of my favorite themes:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/0-698-11374-8.jpg\"><strong>Chickens!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OPENING:<br \/>\nOpening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story<\/p>\n<p>PROGRAM:<br \/>\nRead-aloud #1 (Big Book): Rosie\u2019s Walk by Pat Hutchins<br \/>\n*Fingerplay: Beehive<br \/>\nStorytelling (with puppets):\u00a0\u201cBook! Book! Book!\u201d (This is a well-loved librarian anecdote about a chicken that comes into the library. One version, \u201cThe Well-Read Frog\u201d can be found in Margaret Read MacDonald\u2019s Three Minute Tales.)<br \/>\nRead-aloud #2:\u00a0The Wolf\u2019s Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza<br \/>\nFlannel: The Little Red Hen (I used\u00a0a singing refrain from storyteller Heather Forest\u2019s sound recording Sing Me a Story.)<br \/>\n**Fingerplay: Chook-Chook-Chook<br \/>\nRead-aloud #3:\u00a0Most Wonderful Egg in the World by Helme Heine<br \/>\nDancing Song (with shakers!): \u201cI Know a Chicken\u201d from Laurie Berkner\u2019s Whaddaya Think of That?<\/p>\n<p>CLOSING:<\/p>\n<p>Closing Song: We Wave Good-bye Like This<\/p>\n<p>*The Beehive<br \/>\nHere is a beehive<br \/>\n(Make a fist.)<br \/>\nWhere are the bees?<br \/>\nHidden away where nobody sees.<br \/>\nWatch as they come out of their hive\u2014<br \/>\nOne, two, three, four, five,<br \/>\n(Extend fingers one at a time.)<br \/>\nThey\u2019re alive! Buzzzzzz!<br \/>\n(Wiggle your fingers.)<\/p>\n<p>**\u201cChook-Chook-Chook\u201d<br \/>\nChook, chook, chook<br \/>\nGood morning, Mrs. Hen. (Hold up both thumbs)<br \/>\nHow many chickens have you got?<br \/>\nMadam, I\u2019ve got ten. (Show ten fingers)<br \/>\nFour of them are yellow. (Show four fingers on one hand)<br \/>\nAnd four of them are brown (Show four fingers on the other hand)<br \/>\nAnd two of them are speckled red (Show two fingers)<br \/>\nThe nicest in the town.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MY NEXT STORYTIME:<\/strong> Wednesday, June 29, 10:30 am @ Rakow Branch Library in Elgin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had SO MUCH FUN at storytime today! I really need to start thinking about finding a steady storytime home. Today, we did one of my favorite themes:\u00a0Chickens! OPENING: Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story PROGRAM: Read-aloud #1 (Big Book): Rosie\u2019s Walk by Pat Hutchins *Fingerplay: Beehive Storytelling (with puppets):\u00a0\u201cBook! Book! Book!\u201d [&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":[34,62,146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1018"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}