Outreach Storytime, Green

With St. Patrick's Day just around the corner I wanted to read books about the color green today.



We discussed some of the more unfamiliar Irish terms in the story like laddies and lassies, shamrock fife and shillelagh. I enjoy this book for the rhymes and pacing of the story-short enough to read for storytime, but more difficult language than most of the books I share.

Song: 5 Green and Speckled Frogs from DLTK.
Five green and speckled frogs sat on a speckled log 
Eating some most delicious bugs -- YUM YUM! One jumped into the pool where it was nice and cool Then there were four green and speckled frogs.

I love using the Bear books in storytime, although this is not one of my favorites for storytime sharing. The i spy feel would work better for one on one sharing.

Song: 5 Green peas from Toddler Storytime.
Five little peas in a pea pod pressed. 
1 grew, 2 grew and so did all the rest 
They grew and they grew
And they did not stop 
Until one day, that pod went, Pop! 

I used 5 jumbo pom poms and threw them in the air at the end. We repeated this song 4 times.