{"id":731,"date":"2013-06-17T12:46:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T17:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=731"},"modified":"2013-06-17T12:46:38","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T17:46:38","slug":"i-want-to-ride-my-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=731","title":{"rendered":"I Want to Ride My Bike!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been lovely weather for bike rides!<\/p>\n<p>This week, I did another \u201cTransportation\u201d storytime. This one focused on bikes. I admit it didn&#8217;t go as well as I would have liked&#8230; The bike picture books out there aren&#8217;t as lively as I&#8217;d like&#8230; except &#8220;Duck on a Bike&#8221;, of course. Oh well. It wasn&#8217;t terrible. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>OPENING:<br \/>\nOpening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story<\/p>\n<p>PROGRAM:<br \/>\nRead-aloud #1: Wheels Around by Shelley Rotner<br \/>\n*Flannel: Parking Lot Rhyme<br \/>\nRead-aloud #2: Everyone Can Learn to Ride a Bicycle by Chris Raschka<br \/>\nAction Song: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanmdailey.com\/bikes.htm\">&#8220;My Bike&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nRead Aloud #3: Along a Long Road by Frank Viva OR The Best Bike Ride Ever by James Proimos<br \/>\nFingerplay: Open, Shut Them<br \/>\nAction Song: Tommy Thumb<br \/>\nRead Aloud #4: Duck on a Bike by David Shannon<br \/>\nSong\/Flannel: Five Little Ducks (Patterns found <a href=\"http:\/\/picklebums.com\/2011\/06\/14\/five-little-ducks-puppet-printable\/\">here<\/a>.)<br \/>\nRead Aloud #5: The Best Bike Ride Ever by James Proimos OR Who is Driving? by Leo Timmers<br \/>\nAction Song: Tony Chestnut<br \/>\n(\u201cDancing\u201d Song: \u201cHurry, Hurry Drive the Fire Truck\u201d from Barney\u2019s Favorites Volume 1)<\/p>\n<p>CLOSING:<br \/>\nClosing Song: We Wave Good-bye Like This<\/p>\n<p>*<em>Parking Lot Rhyme<\/em> (Source unknown)<br \/>\nThere are many machines to take us places.<br \/>\nHere they come to their parking spaces.<br \/>\nHere comes the fire truck, shiny and bright.<br \/>\nHere comes the ambulance, blinking its light.<br \/>\nHere comes the train; its whistle blows.<br \/>\nHere comes the bus; it stops and it goes.<br \/>\nHere comes the car with a family inside.<br \/>\nSo many machines in which to ride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been lovely weather for bike rides! This week, I did another \u201cTransportation\u201d storytime. This one focused on bikes. I admit it didn&#8217;t go as well as I would have liked&#8230; The bike picture books out there aren&#8217;t as lively as I&#8217;d like&#8230; except &#8220;Duck on a Bike&#8221;, of course. Oh well. It wasn&#8217;t terrible. [&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":[227,146,156],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731"}],"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=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":732,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}