Turtle Storytime

We celebrated World Turtle Day on May 23!  And continued to celebrate on three other days as I took this storytime to two Outreach Storytimes, and an All Ages Storytime!

Books

Take Your Time: A Tale of Harriet, the Galapagos Tortoise

by Eva Furrow and Donna Jo Napoli; illustrated by Laurel Molk

*only for Preschool Storytime

Hare and Tortoise

by Alison Murray

The Birthday Pet

by Ellen Javernick; illustrated by Kevin O'Malley

 *For outreach and all ages storytimes

Songs/Rhymes/Magnet Board

ABC Welcome Song

T-U-R-T-L-E

(tune: “Camptown Races”)

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

(tune: Grand Old Duke of York)

I had a little turtle

His name was Tiny Tim

I put him in the bathtub

To see if he could swim

He drank up all the water

He gobbled up the soap

And when he tried to talk

He had a bubble in his throat.

Chorus:

Oh, bubble, bubble, bubble

Bubble, bubble, POP! (clap)

Bubble, bubble, bubble

Bubble, bubble, Pop! (clap)

Repeat chorus several times each time increasing the speed!

Play and Learn

Children glued a variety of green/brown paper onto the turtle to make the shell.