Colors: Green Baby Lap Time, 5/30/13

 Colors: Green Baby Lap Time, 5/30/13

Book: Little Garden by Lucy Richards
This sweet little book tells us who makes the various sounds we hear in the garden. The babies were into it. Their adults were not. 

Flannel Board Song: Oh Yellow Flower
Bless those parents who picked up the tune and sang right out! They were a good example for some of our moms who just didn't feel like paying attention today.

Rhyme: Tony Chestnut

Rhyme: One Two

Song: All the Little Babies

Book: In the Tall Tall Grass by Denise Fleming
This book is a bit long for babies, believe it or not. They would have done better had it been half the length.

Song: I’m a Little Green Frog

Song: Bumpin’ Up and Down in My Little Red Wagon 

 Song: Go In and Out the Window 

Song: ABCs

Song: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star 

Rhyme with Cow Puppet: Hey Diddle Diddle

Song: Row Your Boat

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 Lap Time (Green Theme), 8/3/12

We're trying to really get our library patrons back on board with our guidelines and rules of behavior. Therefore, on Friday morning, every adult coming in to story time got a list of the rules on a colorful handout, as well as a kind, but firm spiel from me. Within 10 minutes of the start of my story time, though, they were right back to breaking all the rules. I don't know what else to do!

In any case, though the adults made it difficult for the kids to enjoy the books, here is my green-themed story time.

Opening Song: Hello, how are you?

Rhyme: Blue is the Lake 

Book: Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger (2012)
This was a better story time than I imagined. I just wish the adults could try to focus, even if the book isn't their favorite, because the kids enjoyed it.

Song: One Seed by the Laurie Berkner Band

Book: Stanley Mows the Lawn by Craig Frazier (2005)
I like the snake in this book. Again, the kids were interested,  but not the adults.

Flannel Board: The King of Green

Song: Here We Go Up, Up, Up

Song: One Little Monster 

Book: Go Away, Big Green Monster by Ed Emberley  (1993)

Song: Head and Shoulders, Baby

Book: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle  (1969)
I had two more songs planned, but I just couldn't take the rudeness anymore, so we ended after this book.

Goodbye Song: We Wave Goodbye Like This