Storytime, bugs

A little longer, but what a great message about helping others and sharing! Adorable illustrations.

Can you move with me? From Preschool Education

Sung to: "Do Your Ears Hang Low"Can you wiggle like a worm?Can you squiggle? Can you squirm?Can you flutter? Can you fly like a gentle butterfly?Can you crawl upon the groundLike a beetle that is round?Can you move with me?Can you flip? Can you flop?Can you give a little hop?Can you slither like a snake?Can you give a little shake?Can you dance like beeWho is buzzing round a tree?Can you move with me?


I had the kids help me try to name all of the bugs in the book.

Baby Bumblebee
I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee.
Won't my mommy be so proud of me?
I'm bringing home a baby bumblebee.
OUCH! It stung me.



For our craft we made bumble- b's like the one I found from All Kids Network. I used yellow construction paper and black markers. Super cute!
 

Storytime, Dance

The second to last storytime of this 12 week session had ended, only 1  left until we break for summer. This is also my last storytime session at this job. :( I'm going to miss all my kiddos, but I'm only moving to a library that is 20 minutes away, so I can still come visit if I want to be the creepy adult with no kids hanging around the children's department.

We have been having lovely spring rain for this last week, so I wanted to get the kids up and moving today.



We talked about rhyme and pacing of the story, and I let the kids bust out their favorite dance moves like Gerald, the giraffe in the story.

We simply had to keep moving with several rounds of 'head, shoulders, knees at toes' and increasingly difficult speeds.

We don't usually stand while reading books, but we had so many wigglers this morning that we stood and marched to the sounds of:



Ducks flapped, bears stomped, ladybugs tiptoed and caterpillars wiggled in this simple rhythmic movement book.

For our craft I printed out giraffes from Edupics.com to color. Then we added brown paper strips to give the giraffe its trademark mane.

Outreach Storytime, Frog

This is my last storytime at this location. I start my new position in 2 weeks, so I am wrapping up my storytimes and outreaches for the last time. *tear* I have been seeing this group twice a month for the last six months. I wanted to share some of my favorite spring books with them.


I had all of the kids stand up as we sang this one. Love the twist ending-the kids couldn't stop laughing.

Then we sang 5 green and speckled frogs. I made my frogs out of a paper towel roll similar to this one at Librarian vs. Storytime. I used clip art frogs and colored them brown and green.



I love these cumulative song stories.  They have one for each season and most holidays now; this one is about Easter. The little old lady eats a chick, some grass, an egg, etc. The kids started to sing along at the end.

Instead of reading our final book the kids asked me to re-read a book from the last visit.


The kids love it, and I love performing it. In high school, I was on the speech and debate team for 3 years, and I was absolutely horrendous at it. This book reminds me of speech performances, but in a good way. I love that I can be silly and yell and make awkward and generally unprofessional noises that would, under any normal conditions, be frowned upon.

I am excited and nervous about my new position. Hopefully it will be a good change! I will continue to update with storytime posts and programs once I get settled in to my new job!!

Storytime, Spring

Spring break equals smaller storytime numbers this week. Only 3 people last night and 10 this morning.


This one is a little long for my storytime crowds, but Easter is in a few days and I wanted to share a secular Easter book. Love the theme of perseverance. This little pig won't let anyone tell him that he can't be the Easter bunny.

As a bonus, I discovered a bag of plastic eggs in the depths of my desk, so we incorporated those into a song.

I changed the words to this song from Perpetual Preschool.
Tune :My Darling Clementine
Yellow flowers, blue flowers,
red flowers I can see.
Pink flowers, orange flowers in the garden I can see.

I passed out plastic eggs and we sang:
pink eggs, pink eggs, pink eggs I can see.
Pink eggs, pink eggs, in the garden just for me.

We went through all of the colors of eggs and the kids handed them back to me when we got to their color.


This is the perfect book to start a discussion about activities that we can do in spring.