Opening Song: Hello, how are you?
Song: If You'd Like to Read a Book
I love this one. The language is simple enough for preschoolers, and the pop-up images of the dinosaurs are eye-catching and exciting - especially the T-Rex!
Flannel Board Rhyme: Five Enormous Dinosaurs
Song: Hands Are For Clapping
A man's house is too noisy. A wise man makes it even noisier. Why? To teach the man a lesson! Amazingly, people managed to talk through an entire story about making too much noise. They also didn't laugh once, even though I really hammed it up. Maybe I'll try this one with my class visit on Thursday, though...
Song: Shake My Sillies Out
Song: Head and Shoulders
Complete and utter disaster. Never again. The book is awesome, but people actually stopped participating halfway through and started having conversations. Awful. This group just won't do anything interactive.
Song: The Wheels on the Bus
A pathetic attempt to salvage the story time. It didn't really work.
Goodbye Song: We Wave Goodbye Like This
Katie - I have the same issues with people having conversations in my storytimes. I just finished up a baby storytime today and had a couple of moms that quietly talked throughout the entire thing. I still haven't figured out a good way to address this. I don't really want to stop a storytime I've already started and point fingers, and if I were to say anything before I started storytime, it wouldn't really register with them. So frustrating. I think they just see it as social time for themselves and I'm almost like a TV set to plop the kids in front of. But the kids aren't getting as much out of it if their parents aren't helping them stay engaged.
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