{"id":692,"date":"2013-02-12T20:38:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T02:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=692"},"modified":"2013-02-12T20:38:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T02:38:39","slug":"valentine-be-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Valentine, Be Mine"},"content":{"rendered":"

All about LOVE to get excited about Valentine’s Day!<\/p>\n

Panera Storytimes have started back up… and I also started a brand NEW storytime over at our NEW Randall Oaks Branch Library! A very exciting time! (See the library calendar<\/a> for information about storytime dates and registration.)<\/p>\n

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

PROGRAM:
\nRead-aloud #1: Be Mine, Be Mine, Sweet Valentine by Sarah Weeks
\nSong (with finger puppets): Old MacDonald
\nRead-aloud #2: Snog the Frog by Tony Bonning
\nSong\/Fingerplay\/Props: Five Green and Speckled Frogs
\nFlannel: The Little Cockroach Martina (from The Flannel Storytelling Book by Judy Sierra)
\nRead-aloud #3: A Kiss Like This by Mary Murphy
\nRead-aloud #4: Stop Kissing Me! by Ethan Long
\n(For older kids, I might replace #3 and #4 with A Kiss for Little Bear by Else Holmelund Minarik)
\n*Fingerplay: Valentines (from Cobb’s I’m a Little Teapot book)
\nRead-aloud #5: Valentine Surprise by Corinne Demas
\n(“Dancing” Song: “Animal Action” from Greg and Steve\u2019s Kids in Motion)<\/p>\n

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

*Valentines<\/em>
\nValentines, valentines, how many do you see?
\nValentines, valentines, count them all with me
\nOne for father, one for mother (count on fingers)
\nOne for grandma, too
\nOne for sister, one for brother
\nAnd here is one for you! (make heart with thumbs and index fingers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

All about LOVE to get excited about Valentine’s Day! Panera Storytimes have started back up… and I also started a brand NEW storytime over at our NEW Randall Oaks Branch Library! A very exciting time! (See the library calendar for information about storytime dates and registration.) OPENING: Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a […]<\/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":[90,95,146,159],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692"}],"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=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}