Storytime, Cows

It finally feels like spring! I just had to do a farm storytime this morning.


Love this cumulative story, the kids really enjoyed making all of the farm animal noises with me. A few kids were stuck on "how did the animal heads get on the bodies?'

Song: Old MacDonald had a farm. I had the kids help me choose three farm animals to sing about-we chose cows, ducks and roosters.


I have used this before in  outreach storytimes, and I was initially worried about using this title with younger ones, but they helped me tell the story. One little girl yelled 'The cow is going to get a time out, he's been bad!" so I knew that they got it.

Craft: I used the head and legs from this template 
I let the kids color the pieces and then glue them to an empty toilet paper roll.

Outreach Storytime, Animal Sounds

The word of the day is kerfuffle.

We usually go to this outreach at 9:30, and another staff member was scheduled to go. Due to a series of miscommunications, I arrived closer to 10. We usually see 3 groups of kids in 3 different rooms. The little ones have storytime from 9:30 to 9:50 and the two older groups go from 10:00 to 10:30 and 10:30 to 11am.

Today, the two smaller classes were lumped together and the older group was in a program and had to miss storytime today. :(

Since I had about 5 minutes notice before I had to leave, I grabbed a few books from a planned outreach for next week and a few books from the shelves.

We read: Dog's Noisy Day and The Seals on the Bus
 

We had fun naming animal noises with the Animal Sounds app on the iPad.