{"id":934,"date":"2014-10-13T12:17:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T17:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=934"},"modified":"2014-10-13T12:19:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-13T17:19:33","slug":"sloths-hang-out-in-the-rainforest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=934","title":{"rendered":"Sloths Hang Out in the Rainforest"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s World Rainforest Week… and October 19 is Sloth International Day… so I found it appropriate to do a Sloth\/Rainforest Storytime. Plus I had sloth socks<\/a> and a sloth puppet<\/a> that I wanted to show off! \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

As the kids gathered for storytime, I showed them fun pictures of real sloths from A Little Book of Sloth by Lucy Cooke while my sloth puppet just hung around on my arm, snoozing. Later, I also showed them my cool rain stick!<\/p>\n

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

PROGRAM:
\nRead-aloud #1 (Big Book): Step Inside the Rain Forest by Meish Goldish
\nFingerplay: Rain Is Falling Down
\nAction Song: The Itsy Bitsy Spider
\nRead-aloud #2 (Nonfiction): The Sloth: World’s Slowest Mammal by Joy Paige
\nSong\/Fingerplay: Hands Up High<\/a>
\nSong\/Fingerplay: Blackbirds (Only I changed it to “Two little parrots…” for our rainforest theme)
\nRead-aloud #3: “Slowly, Slowly, Slowly,” said the Sloth by Eric Carle
\nFlannel: 5 Little Sloths<\/a> (Thank you, Storytiming blog for an awesome idea!)
\nAction Song: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star (We sang the sloths a lullaby)
\nRead-aloud #3: The Very Sleepy Sloth by Andrew Murray
\nFlannel: Head to Toe by Eric Carle <\/a>
\nDancing Song: “B-Banana\/Monkey See, Monkey Do” from Carole Peterson’s Stinky Cake<\/p>\n

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

ADDITIONAL BOOKS: Had my group been slightly older, I would have liked to have shared Sparky! by Jenny Offhill. Another fun “general” rainforest book is Way Up High in a Tall Green Tree by Jan Peck. <\/p>\n

*Rain Is Falling Down<\/em>
\nRain is falling down,
\n(Raise hands up high and flutter fingers down)
\nSplash!
\n(Slap floor with gusto)
\nRain is falling down,
\n(Raise hands up high and flutter fingers down)
\nSplash!
\n(Slap the floor)
\nPitter patter, pitter patter,
\n(Quietly. Flutter fingers delicately.)
\nRain is falling down,
\n(Flutter fingers down.)
\nSplash!
\n(Slap floor with gusto)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s World Rainforest Week… and October 19 is Sloth International Day… so I found it appropriate to do a Sloth\/Rainforest Storytime. Plus I had sloth socks and a sloth puppet that I wanted to show off! \ud83d\ude09 As the kids gathered for storytime, I showed them fun pictures of real sloths from A Little Book […]<\/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":[7,259,134,260,146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934"}],"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=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}