Wednesday, December 18, 2024

Food and Eating Baby Storytime

Finally back at Baby Storytime after 5 weeks of Preschool Prime Time on Wednesday Evenings!  

Books


Applesauce is Fun to Wear
by Nancy Raines Day; illustrated by Jane Massey

Lunch
by Denise Fleming

Today is Monday
by Eric Carle

Songs, Bounces and Rhymes

You Ought to See My Baby

Good Morning! / Hooray!
(tune: Happy Birthday)
Good morning to _________
Good morning to _________
Good morning to _________
It's nice to see you.

(small group)
At storytime we have __________ today
We're so glad let's shout "Hooray!"

When Cows Get Up in the Morning

I Can Make My Hands Go Clap

Sittin' In My High Chair

Humpty Dumpty

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Toast

One Bright Scarf / Jingle Bells

Flannel Board

Three Little Cookies

Down 'round the corner in the bakery shop
Were 3 little cookies with frosting on top
Along came (an animal) with a penny to pay
She bought the (colored) one and took it away!

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Give a Gift Storytime

Books

Rabbit's Gift
by George Shannon; illustrated by Laura Dronzek

Thank You, Mr. Panda
by Steve Antony

Pip and Squeak
by Ian Schoenherr

Songs and Movement

Hello, Hello

If You're Happy and You Know It

Can You?

Jingle Bells

My Hands

Let's Play!

Prop Story

(nesting boxes)

Magnet Board

Where's the present hiding?

Coloring

Lift the Flap Gift
Who will you give the gift to?  What will you give them?

Friday, December 13, 2024

Animals Getting Ready for Winter

Books

Time to Sleep
by Denise Fleming

Hiders Seekers Finders Keepers: How Animals Adapt in Winter
by Jessica Kulekjian; illustrated by Salini Perera

Not Now Cow
by Tammi Sauer; illustrated by Troy Cummings

Songs/Movement

Hello, Hello

Are You Sleeping?

Jingle Bells

Flannel Board

Five in the Bed

Open Ended Art

Weaving with wooden frames and ribbon
(pretty much a bust with my young group...more appropriate for older kids)





I think they liked taking them apart more than putting them together!

Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Teddy Bear Storytime

Books

The Best Kind of Bear
by Greg Gormley; illustrated by David Barrows

Bears in Beds
by Shirley Parenteau; illustrated by David Walker


Where is Bear?
by Jonathan Bentley

Songs and Movement

Hello, Hello

Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

Bean Bag Song
Hap Palmer

Puppet

My teddy is looking all around
My teddy can spin around and around
My teddy is sleeping in his bed
My teddy is sitting on my hear
My teddy is looking at my toes
My teddy can kiss me on the nose
My teddy is whispering in my ear
What's he saying? Can you hear?
My teddy can hide behind me
But wherever I go my teddy will find me!


Magnet Board

Bears
(tune: Mary had a Little Lamb)

Grizzly bears are big and brown
Big and brown, big and brown
Grizzly bears are big and brown
And live in the woods

Polar bears are soft and white...
And live in the cold.

Teddy bears are just my size...
To cuddle with at night

Where is Teddy Hiding?

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Pie Storytime

I didn't set out to create a pie specific storytime, but as I pulled in different books about eating/food, I found three that would work together.  I was able to do this fun storytime at two family storytimes (at different locations)

Books
Pie in the Sky
by Lois Ehelert

All for Pie, Pie for all
by David Martin; illustrated by Valeri Gorbachev

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
by Alison Jackson, illustrated by Judith Byron Schachner
I actually used the Flannel Board I made several years ago

Songs and Movement

Hello, Hello

If I was a Bird

My Hands

The Ants Go Marching

Colors in Motion

My Hands say, "Let's Play!"

Magnet Board

Five Little Apples


Play and Learn

Playdough!

Pom Poms!

Friday, November 22, 2024

The Relatives Came...

Winter holidays usually means lots of relatives around. 

Books

Leyla
by Galia Bernstein

Full, Full, Full of Love
by Trish Cooke; illustrated by Paul Howard



What Aunts Do Best/What Uncles Do Best
by Laura Numeroff; illustrated by Lynn Munsinger

Songs and Movement

Hello, Hello

Five Little Ducks

Colors in Motion

Run, Baby, Run!

Hop, Hop, Stop!

Play and Learn

Paper Plate Art--faces

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Planes, Trains, and Cars!

Books

Train!
by Judi Abbot

My Bus
by  Byron Barton

The Cars and Trucks Book
by Todd Parr

Music and Movement

I made up actions for two parts from Train!
train--slap knees, airplane--arms out to side, car--clap, digger--scoop with hands

Train!
Train, plane, car
Train, plane, car
Digger, digger
Digger, digger
Train, plane, car!

Train, plane, digger, digger
Train, plane car!
Train, plane, digger, digger
Train, plane, car!

Drivin' In My Car

My Hands

The Wheels on the Bus

Let's Play!

Open Ended Art

Invitation to create a shape vehicle






Play and Learn

Train, cars, city, and vet


Flannel board to retell My Bus


Optional Book
Wake Up Engines
by by Denise Dowling Mortensen; illustrated by Melissa Iwai