W is for Wash--dirty to clean!

Wash...clothes, dishes, the house, pigs, us!  It's fun to wash--though probably more fun to get dirty!

Books

Five Little Monkeys with Nothing to Do  by: Eileen Christelow

Ten Dirty Pigs/Ten Clean Pigs: An upside-down, turn-around bathtime counting book  by: Carol Roth; illustrated by Pamela Paparone

Songs/Rhymes/Fingerplays/Flannel Board

Five Little Piggies

Five little piggies rolled in the mud.

Oh, my goodness! They need a scrub!

The farmer took one piggy out

"Oink, oink, oink!" the pig did shout!

Continue down to zero

No little piggies rolled in the mud
They look so nice after their scrub
The farmer turned his back...and then
Those piggies rolled in the mud again!

Wiggle Your Toes

(sung to: Row, row, row your boat)

Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle your toes

Wiggle them up and down

Wiggle them every which way

As you turn around.

Additional verses:

Wave your arms

Stomp your feet

Clap your hands

Rub-a-dub-dub

Rub-a-dub-dub

Three men in a tub

And who do you think they be?

The butcher, the baker, the candlestick maker

And all of them going to sea!

Enrichment Activities

Wash the dishes

Hang the clothes on the line with clothespins

Memory Game

Card Games

Bubble "worksheet" (free from TeachersPayTeachers)

V is for Vegetables...and other garden things!

I can't wait for spring!!  What better way to prepare than a storytime about gardens and the vegetables we can grow there (and eat!)

Books

Rainbow Stew  by Cathryn Falwell

Muncha! Muncha! Muncha!  by Candace Fleming; illustrated by G. Brian Karas

Songs/Rhymes/Fingerplays

My Garden
(sung to: Skip to my Lou)

Sun in the sky, shine, shine, shine
Sun in the sky, shine, shine, shine,
Sun in the sky, shine, shine, shine
Help me with my garden!

Rain from the clouds, drip, drip, drip
Rain from the clouds, drip, drip, drip
Rain from the clouds, drip, drip, drip
Help me with my garden!

Seeds in the dirt, grow, grow, grow
Seeds in the dirt, grow, grow, grow
Seeds in the dirt, grow, grow, grow
Help me with my garden!

The Soup is Boiling Up!
(sung to: The Farmer in the Dell)

The soup is boiling up,
The soup is boiling up,
Stir slow around we go
The soup is boiling up.

First we'll add the... (whatever vegetable you'd like!)

Next we'll add the...

Last we'll add the...

I have both plastic and paper vegetables for the children to add to the big, black cauldron to make our vegetable soup.  Both days I had to use the paper veggie cut-outs because we had so many children!  But they enjoyed "making" vegetable soup with the plastic veggies at the end of storytime!

Little Jack Horner

Little Jack Horner
Sat in a corner
Eating his Christmas pie
He put in his thumb
And pulled out a plum
And said, "What a good boy am I!"

What other food did Jack pull out of his pie?  Answers included: pancake, tomato, banana, blueberry!

Enrichment Activities

• Making vegetable stew

• Coloring a "Eat a Rainbow" booklet from Scholastics

• Hopscotch

• Sewing Cards
• White boards and dry erase markers

U is for Upside Down...and other silliness!

 What's more fun than being upside down and silly?!

Books

Batty by Susan Dyer

This is a cute story and it is a lot of fun with some of the pictures and words upside down...but sometimes I think the wrong pictures are upside down.  So when I read it aloud to the children I showed those pictures both directions.

Silly Sally by Audrey Wood

Songs/Rhymes/Fingerplays

Bats Are Sleeping

(Tune: Are You Sleeping)

Bats are sleeping, bats are sleeping

Upside down, upside down

Waiting for the night to come

Waiting for the night to come

Then they fly, all around!

Parachute Fun
This was not really a song, more of an activity.  We put a teddy bear in the center of the parachute and tired to flip him high into the air so he could turn upside down.  The kids had a lot of fun with this activity!

Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue come blow your horn
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn
Where is the boy who looks after the sheep?
He's under a haystack, fast asleep.

What other animal was in the corn?  Answers included: horse, alligator, dog, giraffe

Enrichment Activities

Playdough

Rice Discovery Bottles

Magnetic Letters

Big Legos

S is for Seuss

Two outreach storytimes in early March...celebrating Dr. Seuss!

Books

At the 4 year old class I also read:

"King Looie Katz" found in I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today!

Songs

Dr. Seuss is on the Loose
(sung to: BINGO)
I used a magnet board and Dr. Seuss pictures of the objects.  

Dr. Seuss is on the loose
And this is how we know
Cats, hats, eggs, and ham
Cats, hats, eggs, and ham
Cats, hats, eggs, and ham
We love Dr. Seuss!

Dr. Seuss is on the loose
And this is how we know
Cats, hats, eggs, and (clap)
Cats, hats, eggs, and (clap)
Cats, hats, eggs, and (clap)
We love Dr. Seuss!

Continue to take away one picture from the back each verse until you just have clapping.

Have You Ever Seen a Cat in a Hat?
(sung to: If you're happy and you know it)

Have you ever seen a cat in a hat? (clap, clap)
Have you ever seen a cat in a hat? (clap, clap)
No I never, no I never, no I never, no I never
No I never seen a cat in a hat!

Other animals and rhyming words we used:
fox wearing socks
bear sit in a chair
lamb eating jam
dog chop a log
fish wash a dish
shark push a cart

Seuss-athon 2014!

Monday, March 3rd we celebrated our 11th Annual Seuss-athon with a record-breaking 321 people attending!!

Little ones enjoying a comfy chair from Ace Rent-To-Own!

Listening to a Dr. Seuss book

Prizes!

More prizes!

Buzz enjoying a little Dr. Seuss too!

Cat in the Hat and Buzz
(Two of our awesome Jr. Friends!)

This daycare came all decked out in top hats!

Kick your feet up for "The Foot Book"

Enjoying some treats in "The Cat Cafe"!

Listening to a Dr. Seuss book being read aloud

 German language students from Bellevue West came dressed up to help us celebrate Seuss...from Seuss's German family history to several Dr. Seuss stories read in German!

We could not host Seuss-athon without our wonderful and generous donors!!  Thank you!!

Ace Rent-To-Own
Baker's
Village Inn
ShopKo
Drizzles Bakery
No Frills Supermarket
Runz
Pizza Hut
Domino's Pizza