Imagination (Fantasy) Drop-In Story Time, 7/26/13
My manager addressed the group at the start of story time asking them to please be quiet during my presentation. They managed to keep themselves under control for both books, but once I brought out the ukulele, they pretty much lost focus.
Book: King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood and Don Wood
This is probably the book I read aloud the best in my entire repertoire. The kids like the repetition and the illustrations. I love imagining the king's silly, jovial voice.
Flannel Board: Royal Crowns
We sang the usual "The king wore his orange crown all day long" then repeated the song with a slightly different twist as the figures left the board:
The king took off his orange crown, orange crown, orange crown
The king took off his orange crown and went to sleep.
I asked the kids to help me name the colors and to help name the people (king, queen, princess, and prince) as we removed them.
Rhyme: Fierce is the Dragon
Book: The Foggy Foggy Forest by Nick Sharratt
We had a good number of preschoolers at this story time, and they were eager to guess what each shadow represented. One little girl guessed the witch correctly. The ogre doing yoga usually gets a bigger reaction, but this is a tough crowd.
Rhyme: One is a Giant
Songs with Ukulele:
- Fairy Dance
This was the best of the songs we did today. I probably could have played all six verses I came up with several more times, except that I got sick of it after a while. - Do You Know the Muffin Man?
For future reference, this group does not know the muffin man. - Itsy Bitsy Spider
- You Are My Sunshine
- ABCs / Twinkle Twinkle Little Star / Baa Baa Black Sheep
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.
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