Concepts: Feelings Preschool Story Time, 5/10/13

Concepts: Feelings Preschool Story Time, 5/10/13

 
Book: My Cold Plum Lemon Pie Bluesy Mood by Tameka Fryer Brown
This book is very poetic and the colors are not easily identifiable for four year olds.The kids unanimously thought gray was black and orange was yellow. They seemed to like the book, but it felt awkward trying to read it aloud.

Song: If You're Happy and You Know It
I usually just sing a bunch of different versions for happy, but because these were preschoolers, we also threw in mad and sad, and they got a kick out of crying boo hoo.

Book: Harriet You'll Drive Me Wild  by Mem Fox, illustrated by Marla Frazee
I asked the kids if they had ever done something to upset their parents, and all said they had. They seemed to like Harriet, and the fact that her mom didn't stay mad for too long. 

Book: Silly Billy by Anthony Browne
There was no real hit of this session, but this book was probably the favorite.

Song: Shake My Sillies Out 

Book: Laugh Out Loud Baby by Tony Johnston 

Well, I like this book because of the phrase "whoopee-doodles!" but I have to admit it's no The Relatives Came. 

Craft: Feelings and Faces Mini-Book

*Also show in the photo above is a set of feelings faces I printed from kizclub.com. I planned to tell a story I made up based on I Look Like This by Nick Sharratt, but decided  this group would probably not be receptive and saved it for another time. 

I use the same hello and goodbye songs at almost every session. Click here for the tunes and words. For descriptions of each of my story times, click here.

Baby/Toddler Story Time, 6/12/12

This week's Tuesday crowd was  a bit more boisterous than expected. Between sessions, someone stole one of my books and my chair, which completely upset the rhythm of the second story time. Since the two sessions differed so greatly from one another, I'll post both below, with comments.

Session 1

Opening Song: Hello, how are you? 
 
Song with Puppet: You Are My Sunshine 

Book: How Do You Feel? by Anthony Browne (2012)
I love all of Anthony Browne's books, but this one is a little less complicated than some of his others, and therefore more appropriate for toddlers. The kids seemed to react well to it, for the most part.

Song: If You're Happy and You Know It

Song: Shake My Sillies Out 

Book: I Look Like This by Nick Sharratt (1992)
My library's copy of this book is starting to fall apart. I am dismayed

Song: H-A-P-P-Y
I'll be posting about this song on Friday when I will participate in Flannel Friday for the first time in weeks!

Song: Head and Shoulders 

Song: I'm a Little Teapot

Book: My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss (1996)
I wished that I had led with this book. It's longer and more poetic than the others and I had a hard time keeping the group's attention through it.

Rhyme: Blue is the Lake

Song: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Song: Moon Moon Moon

Song: ABC Song

Song: Chickadee

Goodbye Song: We Wave Goodbye Like This 

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Session 2 

Opening Song: Hello, how are you? 

Song with Puppet: You Are My Sunshine 

Book: When You're Happy by Eileen Spinelli (2006)
This is a terrible story time book. I would never have read it to any group except that someone took My Many Colored Days without telling me, and I discovered it at one minute before 11. I grabbed this because I saw it and it fit the theme, but then I only read a few pages, because it just wasn't a good read-aloud at all. 

Song: If You're Happy and You Know It

Song: I'm a Little Teapot

Book: How Do You Feel? by Anthony Browne (2012)

Song: Shake My Sillies Out 

Book: I Look Like This by Nick Sharratt (1992)

Song: H-A-P-P-Y

Song: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

Song: Moon Moon Moon

Rhyme: This is Big, Big, Big

Song: The Wheels on the Bus

Song: Chickadee

Goodbye Song: We Wave Goodbye Like This