{"id":880,"date":"2014-06-16T11:58:41","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T16:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=880"},"modified":"2014-06-16T12:03:20","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T17:03:20","slug":"dont-let-the-goat-eat-the-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Let the Goat Eat the Books!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you think that letting a goat into a library would be a baaaaad idea? READING about goats at storytime is a good idea, though! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>OPENING:<br \/>\nOpening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story<\/p>\n<p>PROGRAM:<br \/>\nRead-aloud #1: Let&#8217;s Count Goats by Mem Fox<br \/>\nFingerplay: Ten Little Fingers<br \/>\nFlannel Story: No Sleep for the Sheep by Karen Beaumont<br \/>\nSong\/Fingerplay: Tommy Thumb<br \/>\nSong (with flannel pieces): Down on Grandpa\u2019s Farm<br \/>\nRead-aloud #2: There&#8217;s a Billy Goat in the Garden by Laurel Dee Gugler<br \/>\n*Fingerplay: Beehive<br \/>\n**Flannel: Here is a Spring Flower<br \/>\nSong: Let Everyone Clap Hands with Me (from Pete Seeger: American Folk, Game &#038; Activity Songs for Children)<br \/>\nRead-aloud #3: The Three Billy Goats Gruff, pictures by Stephen Carpenter<br \/>\nDancing Song: \u201cShake My Sillies Out\u201d from Raffi\u2019s More Singable Songs<\/p>\n<p>CLOSING:<br \/>\nClosing song: We Wave Goodbye <\/p>\n<p>ADDITIONAL BOOKS not used this time: Grumpy Goat by Brett Helquist, Unicorn Thinks He&#8217;s Pretty Great by Bob Shea, Bill Grogan&#8217;s Goat by Mary Ann Hoberman<\/p>\n<p>*<em>The Beehive<\/em><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>**<em>Here is a Spring Flower<\/em> (using flannels of flowers with emotional faces)<br \/>\nHere is a spring flower who\u2019s happy<br \/>\nHere is a spring flower who sighs<br \/>\nHere is a spring flower who\u2019s sleepy<br \/>\nHere is a spring flower who cries<br \/>\nHere is a spring flower who\u2019s angry<br \/>\nHere is a spring flower who\u2019s sad<br \/>\nHere is a spring flower who\u2019s noisy<br \/>\nAnd here is a spring flower who\u2019s glad!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t you think that letting a goat into a library would be a baaaaad idea? READING about goats at storytime is a good idea, though! \ud83d\ude42 OPENING: Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story PROGRAM: Read-aloud #1: Let&#8217;s Count Goats by Mem Fox Fingerplay: Ten Little Fingers Flannel Story: No Sleep for the [&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":[7,61,249,146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880"}],"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=880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":882,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880\/revisions\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}