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Saturday, December 8, 2012
Library News: Bedbugs in Library Books
Friday, December 7, 2012
Cats Meow! Themed Storytime
Opening
song: Good Morning/ Buenos Días (See My Storytime Set for song lyrics)
Opening fingerplay: One Little Finger
Literacy: Who Likes Rain? by Herbert Yee
Song/movement break: Open Shut Them
Literacy: Have You Seen My Cat? by Eric Carle
New song/movement break: Where Oh Where Has My Little Cat Gone? (with puppet and felt pieces)
I modified this originally dog-theme song for my needs. The audience, my cat puppet and I sang the song together then, I would look for the cat somewhere: I had a big felt bed, big felt Jeep, big felt tree and big felt bathtub (They're all Artfelt felt pieces). So, it would go like this:
Literacy: Meeow and the Big Box by Sebastien Braun
Closing Fingerplay: Two Little Blackbirds
Post storytime activities:
Parachute Play: We sang Ring Around the Rosie and Fishies in the Ocean
Art activity: What can you make with a box? Collage. I don't have any pictures, but it doesn't matter because this art activity didn't really hit its mark. I expected that after reading Meeow and the Big Box parents and children might get the idea that a box is a blank slate for your imagination. So, here's some foam shapes, dot painters, crayons and markers for you to create something with a flat piece of cardboard. Nothing happened. They treated it like it was any old piece of paper and just stuck things on it willy-nilly and spelled out their names. Me and my big ideas, again!
Opening fingerplay: One Little Finger
Literacy: Who Likes Rain? by Herbert Yee
Song/movement break: Open Shut Them
Literacy: Have You Seen My Cat? by Eric Carle
New song/movement break: Where Oh Where Has My Little Cat Gone? (with puppet and felt pieces)
I modified this originally dog-theme song for my needs. The audience, my cat puppet and I sang the song together then, I would look for the cat somewhere: I had a big felt bed, big felt Jeep, big felt tree and big felt bathtub (They're all Artfelt felt pieces). So, it would go like this:
Sing or say with cat puppet:
Oh where, oh where has my little cat gone?
Oh where, oh where can she be?
With her pointy ears and her wiggly tail,
Oh where, oh where can she be?
Me: "Is she hiding underneath the bed?" Lift up
the bed so they can see she's not in there.
Audience: "No!"
Me: "I guess we'll have to keep looking for her."
Sing the song again.
Me: "Is she in the bathtub?..."
Literacy: Meeow and the Big Box by Sebastien Braun
Closing Fingerplay: Two Little Blackbirds
Post storytime activities:
Parachute Play: We sang Ring Around the Rosie and Fishies in the Ocean
Art activity: What can you make with a box? Collage. I don't have any pictures, but it doesn't matter because this art activity didn't really hit its mark. I expected that after reading Meeow and the Big Box parents and children might get the idea that a box is a blank slate for your imagination. So, here's some foam shapes, dot painters, crayons and markers for you to create something with a flat piece of cardboard. Nothing happened. They treated it like it was any old piece of paper and just stuck things on it willy-nilly and spelled out their names. Me and my big ideas, again!
Monday, December 3, 2012
My Baby-Toddler Storytime Set
So every librarian does
their storytime differently. This is how I structure my baby-toddler
storytimes and the regular songs and fingerplays that I use.
Opening song: Good Morning/ Buenos Días (Sung to the tune of Frere Jacques)
Good morning! Good morning!
How are you? How are you?
Very well I thank you.
Very well I thank you.
How about you?
How about You?
¡Buenos días, buenos días!
(Bweh-noes dee-ahs)
¿Cómo está, cómo está?
(Coe-moe ehs-tah)
¡Muy bien, gracias, muy bien
gracias!
(mwee bee-N grah-see-ahs)
¿Y usted, y usted?
(E ou-stead E ou-stead)
Opening fingerplay: One Little Finger
One little finger, one
little finger
One little finger goes
tap, tap, tap
Point to the ceiling
Point to the floor,
And place it in your
lap, lap, lap.
Two little fingers, two
little fingers…
Three little fingers, three
little fingers
Four little fingers, four
little fingers…
Five little fingers, five
little fingers
Five little fingers go clap,
clap, clap…
Literacy:
Book, felt or puppet story
Song/movement break: Open Shut Them
Open, shut them
Open, shut them.
Give a little clap, clap,
clap!
Open, shut them
Open, shut them.
Put them in your lap, lap,
lap.
Creep them, creep them,
Creep them, creep them,
Right up to your chin, chin
chin.
Open up your little mouth
(AHH!)
But do not let them in!
Literacy:
book, felt or puppet story
Song/movement break: I usually introduce one new or different song here
Literacy:
book, felt or puppet story
Closing fingerplay: Two Little Blackbirds
Two little blackbirds
sitting on a hill
One named Jack, one named
Jill.
Fly away Jack. Fly away Jill
Come back Jack. Come back
Jill
Two little blackbirds on the
go
One named Fast, one named
Slow.
Fly away Fast. Fly away Slow
Come back Fast. Come back
Slow
Two little blackbirds
sitting around
One named Up, one named Down.
Fly away Up. Fly away Down.
Come back Up. Come back Down.
Closing song/movement: Hokey Pokey
You put your right hand in,
You put your right hand out;
You put your right hand in,
And you shake it all about.
You do the Hokey-Pokey,
And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about!
You put your right hand out;
You put your right hand in,
And you shake it all about.
You do the Hokey-Pokey,
And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about!
You put your left hand in,
You put your left hand out…
You put your left hand out…
You put your right foot in,
You put your right foot out…
You put your right foot out…
You put your left foot in,
You put your left foot out…
You put your left foot out…
You put your whole self in,
You put your whole self out…
You put your whole self out…
I see you face. You’re
thinking three books? With toddlers? This girl is crazy! But it works a lot of
the time. Just have to have the right combination of song and movement
distractions, plus be prepared for wiggly kids. If you’ve lost your audience to
the wiggles, close the book and improvise.
Food! Yum! Themed Storytime
November 29, 2012
Opening song: Good Morning/Buenos Días (See My Storytime Set for song lyrics)
Opening fingerplay: One Little Finger
Literacy: The Red Hen by Ed and Rebecca Emberley followed by a feltboard Red Hen story.
With the feltboard Red Hen story, I had cue cards that had pictures of a cat, rat and frog on the front and what they say on the back. I held these up when it was time for the animals to speak and the audience said their lines along with me. I like to include a language element where ever I can and I saw this as the perfect opportunity. The cat said: "¡Yo no! Dice el gato." The rat said: "Not I!" said the rat." The frog said: "Ribbit, said the frog."
Song/movement break: Open Shut Them
Literacy: Potato Joe by Keith Baker
New song/movement break: One Potato Clap (can also be a bounce, too)
Literacy: Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett
Closing fingerplay: Two Little Blackbirds
Closing song/movement: Hokey Pokey
Post storytime activity: I usually choose between an art activity or a physical activity, but this morning we did both.
Parachute play: We sang Ring Around the Rosie and Fishies in the Ocean.
Art activity: Cotton ball clouds with tissue paper streamers. I didn't take a picture of the final product, but its such an easy craft I think you can get it just from my description. This is the cloud template I used. I gave the kids glue sticks and cotton balls to glue onto the clouds, which I printed on white cardstock and passed out as is. Then I gave them some long tissue paper strips to glue on for rainbow rays. Voila!
Opening song: Good Morning/Buenos Días (See My Storytime Set for song lyrics)
Opening fingerplay: One Little Finger
Literacy: The Red Hen by Ed and Rebecca Emberley followed by a feltboard Red Hen story.
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| She baked a cake and iced it all by herself. |
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| She decorated the cake all by herself. |
With the feltboard Red Hen story, I had cue cards that had pictures of a cat, rat and frog on the front and what they say on the back. I held these up when it was time for the animals to speak and the audience said their lines along with me. I like to include a language element where ever I can and I saw this as the perfect opportunity. The cat said: "¡Yo no! Dice el gato." The rat said: "Not I!" said the rat." The frog said: "Ribbit, said the frog."
Song/movement break: Open Shut Them
Literacy: Potato Joe by Keith Baker
New song/movement break: One Potato Clap (can also be a bounce, too)
1 Potato, 2 Potato
(Make
your hands into fists and stack them on top of each other while counting.)
3 Potato, 4!
5 Potato, 6 Potato
(Make
your hands into fists and stack them on top of each other while counting.)
7 Potato, More!
8 Potato, 9 Potato
(Make
your hands into fists and stack them on top of each other while counting.)
Count them up to 10…
(Hold
up all 10 fingers)
I will count all the
potatoes and I will count them all again!
(Clap along with the words. I end up
clapping 8 times.)
Literacy: Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett
Closing fingerplay: Two Little Blackbirds
Closing song/movement: Hokey Pokey
Post storytime activity: I usually choose between an art activity or a physical activity, but this morning we did both.
Parachute play: We sang Ring Around the Rosie and Fishies in the Ocean.
Art activity: Cotton ball clouds with tissue paper streamers. I didn't take a picture of the final product, but its such an easy craft I think you can get it just from my description. This is the cloud template I used. I gave the kids glue sticks and cotton balls to glue onto the clouds, which I printed on white cardstock and passed out as is. Then I gave them some long tissue paper strips to glue on for rainbow rays. Voila!
Monday, May 14, 2012
Mother's Day and Art Supplies Clean Up Craft
Last year we made Spoonfuls of Kisses, which was super easy. So I knew that this year I was not interested in anything more complicated than that. Looking around on the net I came across Tulip cards, which looked pretty easy. I've got all the supplies and a volunteer to cut out the template. Couldn't be any easier, could it? Well, that doesn't really matter because I won't make tulip cards ever again. There's nothing wrong with the craft. It is simple and easy, but the kids just didn't get it. None of them knew what tulips were in the first place and almost all of them made the card upside down. This activity just wasn't for them. Maybe older kids would have got it.Nonetheless, no one went home unhappy. If they didn't like their messed up tulip cards, they had the opportunity to make a craft from my Art Supplies Clean Up Kit.
What's that you ask? All the odds and ends, recycled boxes and containers and the last bits of art supplies that are just too little to use for a group craft that I've been saving. Makes for great collage art activities. I wrote about them before....
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