Turtles

Preschool Books

So Tortoise Dug

by Emmy Kastner

Nellie's Big Splash

Additional:

Scoot!

by Cathryn Farlwell

Family Books

Turtle-Turtle and the Wide, Wide River

by Jane and Will Hillenbrand

Melvin and the Boy

by Lauren Castillo

Additional:

Turtle Walk

by Matt Phelan

Movement and Music

My Hands Say Hello / Hello Friends (PS)

If You're Happy and You Know It (shout hooray {for Turtle-Turtle}) / Head, Shoulders Knees and Toes(PS)

A Very Simple Dance

My Hands Say Goodbye/Goodbye Friends (PS)

Flannel/Magnet Board

Turtle

T-U-R-T-L-E

Turtle, turtle

T-U-R-T-L-E

Turtle's what that spells

Turtles lie in the sun

Turtles swim for fun

T-U-R-T-L-E

Turtle's what that spells.

Tiny Tim

Activity

Do-a-Dot Turtle

Tiptoe Storytime

Books

Where There's a Bear, There's Trouble

by Michael Catchpool; illustrated by Vanessa Cabban

The Tiptoeing Tiger

by Philippa Leathers

Tiptoe Joe

by Ginger Foglesong Gibons; illustrated by Laura Rankin

Songs and Movement

Here is the Beehive

I Can Walk on Two Feet

If I was a Bird

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

Baby Storytime--Farm

Books

Hello, Day!

by Anita Lobel

Peek-a-Moo!

I Went Walking

by Sue Williams; illustrated by Julie Vivas

The Very Busy Spider

by Eric Carle

This is the Farmer

by Nancy Tafuri

Songs, Rhymes, and Bounces

You Ought to See My Baby

Good Morning to You

Old MacDonald had a Farm

My Body

I Have a Little Pony

Jack and Jill

The Itsy, Bitsy Spider

Toast

One Bright Scarf

Flannel

Over on the Barnyard

BIG Storytime

Books

I'm Not Small

by Nina Crews

Watch Out! There's a Monster Coming!

by Karl Newson; illustrated by Zehra Hicks

I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean

by Kevin Sherry

Songs and Movement

Roll, Roll Sugar Baby

Colors in Motion

The Monster Boogie

Laurie Berkner

My Hands

Magnet Board

Five Big Dump Trucks

Activity

Giant Coloring Sheets

Dinosaurs--Preschool and Family

I liked the preschool storytime better...(I did the family storytime first and glad I had a chance to try again with preschool...plus the new book "How Many Dinosaurs..." came in, which would have worked well with family storytime too).

Preschool Storytime (April 11)

Books

Triceratopposite

by Bridget Heos; illustrated by T. L. McBeth

How Many Dinosaurs is Too Many?

by Lou Peacock; illustrated by Nicola Slater

Dinosaur Roar!

by Paul Stickland and Henrietta Stickland

Songs and Movement

Hello, Friends

with sign language

Two Little Dinosaurs (magnet board)

(based on Two Little Blackbirds)

Sitting a a hill (Jack and Jill)

Flying in the sky (Low and High)

Standing tall like a pole (Fast and Slow)

Looking at the cloud (Quiet and Loud)

Roll, Roll Sugar Baby

Dinosaur, Dinosaur Turn Around

We are the Dinosaurs

Laurie Berkner

Dinosaur Stomp

Goodbye, Friends

Play

Playdough and Dinos

Dinosaur Pattern Blocks

Dinosaur Hunt

Family Storytime (April 1)

Books

Am I Yours?

by Alex Latimer

Triceratops Stomp

by Karen Patkau

Dinosaur Stomp!

pop-up

by Paul Stickland

Songs and Movement

Hello, Hello

Five Enormous Dinosaurs (flannel)

One Little Dinosaur went out to Play

Dinosaur Stomp

We are the Dinosaurs

Laurie Berkner

Dinosaur, Dinosaur Turn Around

Our Hands say, "Let's play!"

Play

Dinosaur Pattern Blocks

Dinosaur Hunt

Ducks--Toddlers

One more crack at ducks--this time with a small, young group at another library.  Not officially Toddler Storytime, but most of the children were toddlers!

Books

Ducks Away!

by Mem Fox; illustrated by Judy Horacek

Splish, Splash, Ducky!

by Lucy Cousins

Music and Movement

My Hands Say Hello

Five Little Ducks

with flannel board

I've Changed My Mind

Jim Gill

Popcorn Kernels

Are You Sleeping?

One Bright Scarf

Play and Learn

Plastic ducks in water

Ducks

Ducks two times at two different libraries.  Two newish books I wanted to use for the theme.  I did Seven Little Ducklings at both of the family storytimes.  It is such an adorable book...but the kids were just too young to really "get it".  And on some of the pages the illustrations of kind of small.  Duck, Duck, Goose (by John Hare) is also very fun, but geared more towards preschoolers.  

Books

Seven Little Ducklings

by Annette LeBlanc Cate

Splish, Splash, Ducky!

by Lucy Cousins

Ducks!

by Deborah Underwood; illustrated by T.L. McBeth

Songs and Movement

Hello, Hello!

Put Your Hands Up

(tune: Do Your Ears Hang Low?)

Put your hands up high

Put your hands down low

Put your hands in the middle

And wiggle them so

Put your elbows in front

Put your elbows in bakc

Put your elbows in the middle

And quack, quack, quack!

I Have a Little Duck

(tune: Wheels on the Bus)

I have a little duck that goes quack, quack, quack

Quack, quack, quack

Quack, quack, quack

I have a little duck that goes quack, quack, quack

All day long!

Bobs up and down

Splash

Waddle

Are You Sleeping?

When I asked for children what other animals we should do one said, "Moose!"  I asked what the moose would do.  The child didn't know.  Then another child said, "A fox!"  What will the fox do?  "Kill a chicken and eat it!"  We did the moose first and just held up our hands on our head for antlers and said moose, moose, moose.  I had pulled myself together by then and we did the fox, but the fox just "ate, ate, ate".

My Hands Say Let's Play

Flannel

Ducks Away!

adapted from Mem Fox

I love the book, but I didn't really enjoy doing it as a flannel.

Activity

It was our first really nice day of spring, so we played with plastic ducks in water on the patio!