{"id":734,"date":"2013-07-04T22:41:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T03:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=734"},"modified":"2018-07-09T16:19:54","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T21:19:54","slug":"story-sparklers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=734","title":{"rendered":"Story Sparklers"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had a fun time performing at the Lakeside Fest<\/a> in Crystal Lake today!<\/p>\n

It’s been a busy week. Not only did I travel to Crystal Lake for the Fest, I also volunteered at the Gail Borden Rakow Branch in Elgin this week. I will be doing more storytimes over there Wednesdays, July 10 and 17 at 10:30 am. I also continue to do storytimes for the Fox River Valley Public Library District<\/a> at Panera and the Randall Oaks Branch. Come enjoy some stories with the Silly Librarian \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

This happy Fourth of July, I shared some story sparklers…<\/p>\n

Big Books:
\nThe Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don Wood
\nClick, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin
\nKing Bidgood\u2019s in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood
\nMrs. McNosh Hangs up Her Wash by Sarah Weeks<\/p>\n

Storytelling:
\n\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.)
\n\u201cThe Little Red Hen\u201d (This is a traditional folktale, possibly of Russian-origin. Children dressed up and acted out the parts. I used a singing refrain from storyteller Heather Forest\u2019s sound recording Sing Me a Story.)<\/p>\n

Songs:
\n*If You Wanna Hear a Story
\nPeanut Butter and Jelly<\/a>
\nFive Green and Speckled Frogs
\nLet Everyone Clap Hands with Me (from Pete Seeger: American Folk, Game & Activity Songs for Children)
\n**We Wave Goodbye Like This<\/p>\n

Dancing Music:
\n\u201cCoconut Soap\u201d from Frank Leto\u2019s Time for Music<\/p>\n

**If You Want to Hear a Story
\nTune: \u201cIf You\u2019re Happy and You Know It\u201d
\nIf you want to hear a story, clap your hands!
\nIf you want to hear a story, clap your hands!
\nIf you want to hear a story,
\nif you want to hear a story,
\nif you want to hear a story, clap your hands!<\/p>\n

Other verses:
\n\u201cnod your head,\u201d
\n\u201crub your tummy,\u201d
\n\u201csit real still,\u201d etc.<\/p>\n

**We Wave Goodbye Like This (to the tune of “The Farmer in the Dell”)
\nWe wave goodbye like this.
\nWe wave goodbye like this.
\nWe clap our hands for all our friends. We wave goodbye like this.
\n(Repeat once.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had a fun time performing at the Lakeside Fest in Crystal Lake today! It’s been a busy week. Not only did I travel to Crystal Lake for the Fest, I also volunteered at the Gail Borden Rakow Branch in Elgin this week. I will be doing more storytimes over there Wednesdays, July 10 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[192,291],"tags":[269,228,146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734"}],"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=734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/734\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}