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


Tuesday, November 5, 2024

Balloons

Balloon Storytime has been brewing for awhile now, so I'm glad I finally had an open week to do it.  It was a very large storytime, which made the day a bit challenging.

Books

Brown's Rabbit's Shapes
by Alan Baker

Perfectly Percy
by Paul Schmid

Don't Wake Up the Tiger
by Britta Teckentrup

Songs and Movement

Hello, Hello

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Can You?

A Very Simple Dance

My Hands say, "Let's Play!"

Imagination
Dig in the box and find a balloon that's your favorite color!  What color balloon did you pick you?
Let's blow it up!
Bigger, bigger, bigger
Let it go!  Whoosh!!

Get another balloon.
Let's blow it up!
Bigger, bigger, bigger
Just a little bigger
POP!

Art

Painting with Balloons






Saturday, November 2, 2024

I'm Not Scared!

Preschool Storytime Books

Bear Feels Scared
by Karma Wilson; illustrated by Jane Chapman

Aaaarrgghh! Spider!
by Lydia Monks

Snip, Snap! What's That?
by Mara Bergman; illustrated by Nick Maland

Family Storytime Books

Let's Play Monsters
by Lucy Cousins

Aaaarrgghh! Spider!

Songs and Movement

The Monster Boogie
Laurie Berkner

There's a Spider on the Floor

I'm a Little Kitty Cat (Family)

Itsy Bitsy Spider--5 Ways (Family)

Flannel Board

Five Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree

Art

Create your own monster
(paper and paper scraps, scissors, glue, googly eyes, crayons, dot stickers)


Additional/Optional Books


The Mouse Who Wasn't Scared
by Petr Horacek

This was supposed to be my 3rd book in Family Storytime, but we ran out of time.

Sunday, October 27, 2024

November Passive Craft

I cut a bunch of pattern block shapes in a variety of colors so kids can make their own turkeys!  (I'm so glad we have the pattern block die cuts!)

I hope the kids have fun with it and create some amazing turkeys!

Saturday, October 26, 2024

STEAM Themed Thursday

We started a new weekly afterschool program.  The three youth librarians take turns planning and running the program each week.  Because of special programs and schedules I finally got to do my first event on Oct 17.

Ramps and Rollercoasters




We had a nice turn out and the kids (an any adults with them) had a great time!

Spooktacular Storytime

We hosted a Halloween Storytime for kids PreK-3rd grade.  I did one on a Saturday afternoon (Oct 18) and another one (at a different library) on Tuesday afternoon (Oct 29).

Books
The Little Ghost that Lost Her Boo!
by Elaine Bickell; illustrated by Raymond McGrath

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
by Linda Williams; illustrated by Megan Lloyd

At the Old Haunted House
by Helen Ketteman; illustrated by Nate Wragg


Flannel Board

Fall Riddles

Five Little Pumpkins

Songs and Movement

Monster Boogie
Laurie Berkner

Activities 
(I was not on the planning committee for this one) 

Emoji Jack O' Lanterns

Water Color black cat
(blow the water color with a straw to make a hissing cat)

Hanging, Whirling Ghost 

Spider Web
(walk the masking tape web and pick up spiders)

Wednesday, October 16, 2024

Baby Storytime--Fall

Books

The Busy Little Squirrel
by Nancy Tafuri

The Very Busy Spider
by Eric Carle

Baby Loves Fall
Karen Katz

Song/Rhymes/Bounces

You Ought to See My Baby

Good Morning

Little Bear

I Have a Little Cow

My Body
On my face I have a nose,
And way down here I have ten toes
I have to eyes that I can blink
I have a head to help me think.
I have a chin, and very near,
I have two ears to help me hear
I have a mouth with which I speak
And when I run I use my feet.
Here are my elbows and my knees
Here are the cheeks my mom loves to squeeze.

My Pony Macaroni

Jack and Jill

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Toast

One Bright Scarf

Flannel Board
A small pumpkin,
A large pumpkin,
The biggest pumpkin I see
Now help me count them
1, 2, 3!

A brown leaf
An orange leaf
A yellow leaf I see
Now help me count them
1, 2, 3!