{"id":660,"date":"2012-10-22T11:28:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=660"},"modified":"2012-10-22T11:28:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:28:37","slug":"monsters-dont-scare-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"Monsters don’t scare me!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As Halloween approaches, I find it fun to do a monster storytime \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Next week, we’ll be reading Halloween stories at Panera. Registration starts tomorrow!<\/p>\n

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

PROGRAM:
\nRead-aloud #1 (Pop-up): Little Monsters by Jan Pienkowski
\n*Song\/Fingerplay: 10 Little Monsters
\nRead-aloud #2: The Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone
\nPuppet Story: Go Away, Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley (Puppet available here<\/a>.)
\nRead-aloud #3: Leonardo, the Terrible Monster by Mo Willems
\n**Fingerplay: Scary Eyes
\nRead-aloud #4: If You’re a Monster and You Know It by Rebecca Emberley
\n***Action Rhyme: If I Were a Monster
\nRead-aloud #5: Halloween Sky Ride by Elizabeth Spurr
\nSong\/Fingerplay: Itsy Bitsy Spider<\/p>\n

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

*Ten Little Monsters<\/em>
\n(Tune: “Ten Little Indians”)<\/p>\n

One little, two little,
\nThree little monsters
\nFour little, five little,
\nSix little monsters
\nSeven little, eight little,
\nNine little monsters
\nTen of them can’t scare me!<\/p>\n

Ten little, nine little,
\nEight little monsters
\nSeven little, six little,
\nFive little monsters,
\nFour little, three little,
\nTwo little monsters,
\nOne of them can’t scare me!<\/p>\n

None of them can scare me!<\/p>\n

**Scary Eyes<\/em>
\nSee my big and scary eyes? (Form circles around eyes with fingers.)
\nGet ready for a big surprise. (Cover face with hands.)
\nBoo! (Uncover face peek-a-boo style.)<\/p>\n

***If I Were a Monster<\/em>
\nIf I were a happy monster, I’d go HA HA HA
\nIf I were a sad monster, I’d go BOO HOO HOO
\nIf I were an angry monster, I’d go STOMP STOMP STOMP
\nIf I were a scared monster, I’d go AAAH! AAAH! AAAH!
\nBut I’m not a monster! I’m (Miss Jennifer), so I’ll READ READ READ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As Halloween approaches, I find it fun to do a monster storytime \ud83d\ude42 Next week, we’ll be reading Halloween stories at Panera. Registration starts tomorrow! OPENING: Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story PROGRAM: Read-aloud #1 (Pop-up): Little Monsters by Jan Pienkowski *Song\/Fingerplay: 10 Little Monsters Read-aloud #2: The Monster at the End […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[81,101,146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660"}],"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=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":664,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}