Baby/Toddler Lap Time, 4/27/12 (Arbor Day)

I am writing this post days after the fact, so this is probably not the exact story time I presented on Friday. But it's still pretty close. The theme was trees, because it was Arbor Day.


Opening Song: Hello, how are you?

Rhyme: Blue is the Lake

Book: Fall is Not Easy by Marty Kelley (1998)
I read this in the Fall and got no real response to it. This time, the kids liked looking at the various patterns for the leaves and the adults got the punchline much more quickly than in October. 

 Song: One Seed by the Laurie Berkner Band

Song: Head and Shoulders

Book: We Planted a Tree by Diane Muldrow, illustrated by Bob Staake (2010)
This book is kind of sappy, but the illustrations are big and bold. Most of the kids seemed interested.

Rhyme: Chickadee Tree 
This was a new rhyme. The ending got no response, which I sort of expected. I might leave the ending off next time, and just do the three motions for the first three birds.


Song: I'm a Little Teapot 

Book: Hello, Goodbye by David Lloyd, illustrated by Louise Voce (1998)
Flannel Board Song: Here Stands a Robin
I did this with three birds rather than five - and got a much better response.

Song: Chickadee

Song: Mr. Sun

Goodbye Song: We Wave Goodbye Like This

Book Spine Poetry: Poem #3

On this last day of National Poetry Month, I present my third and final book spine poem. I think it's the strangest of the three, but oddly enough it's my favorite. Click here for Poem #1 and here for Poem #2.

(Titles are transcribed below.)

On My Honor

Tadpole's Promise

Nothing But the Truth

When You Reach Me 

Tadpole Rex

You Will Be My Friend!

Books Used in this Poem

On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer

Tadpole's Promise by Jeanne Willis

Nothing But the Truth by Avi

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead

Tadpole Rex by Kurt Cyrus

You Will Be My Friend! by Peter Brown