Baby/Toddler Story Time, 11/29

Opening Song: Hello, how are you? 

Book: Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh (1991)
I had never read this at story time before, but I wanted something new for today, so I gave it a shot. It's on the long side, and the counting is broken up by text which threw off the nannies who like to shout the numbers from 1 to 10 on cue, but it was still probably the best of the Mouse books, in terms of this age group.

Rhyme: This is Big, Big, Big  

Rhyme: Blue is the Lake

Book: One Naked Baby by Maggie Smith (2007)
I didn't realize how Spring-themed this book really is until about the second reading. I want to remember it for  my Spring baby lap time, though, because the moms with babies all thought it was funny, even when no one else really seemed to like it much.

Song: I'm a Little Teapot

Song: Head and Shoulders

Song: Hands Are For Clapping 

Flannel Board Song: Who is  Knocking at My Door?

Rhyme: Little Mousie Brown (Session 1 only)
Well... this needs work. I need to practice it more.

Song: Rum Sum Sum (Sessions 1 and 2 only)
I'm trying to reintroduce some of the songs and rhymes I want to use this Winter, and I was amazed at how many remembered this one from the summer! 

Song:  Monkeys on the Bed (Session 2 only, by request)
One of my regulars specifically asked for this song, so I said I would do it. Unfortunately, if you allow one request, you open the floodgates for more, which is how session 3 ended up with The Wheels on the Bus.

Song: Wheels on the Bus (Session 3 only, by request)

Song: One Little Finger (Sessions 1 and 2 only)

Goodbye Song: We Wave Goodbye Like This                   

Preschool Story Time, 11/28 (Family Theme)

It's hard to believe but I only have two more preschool story times left in 2011! I will almost miss it. Today's theme was families, and here is what we did:

Opening Song: Hello, how are you?

Book: My Dog Is As Smelly As Dirty Socks by Hanoch Piven (2007)

Flannel Board Song: Who is  Knocking at My Door?
This was a really good flannel board, so I'm going to save the details to share in a Flannel Friday post after all my holiday posts are done. 

Action Rhyme: Here Are Grandma's Glasses

Book: The Grandma Book by Todd Parr (2006)
I don't "get" Todd Parr, but so many other librarians in my system seem to love him, so I've tried to incorporate his books now and then. This seemed like it didn't really resonate with the kids, though.

Flannel Board Song: Family Scarves
I involved the whole family, giving Grandpa a blue scarf, Grandma a red one, Daddy a green one, and a little girl (named Mary, to suit the song) a rainbow one. 

Book: Big Sister, Little Sister by LeUyen Pham (2005)
I just love Pham's illustrations. And this is a funny take on the relationship between big and little sisters.

Song: Where is Thumbkin? (Family version)

Book: My Beastly Brother by Laura Leuck (2003)
Not my favorite, but the rhyming text is funny, and suits the sense of humor of four and five year old boys who think burping and spitting spiders are hilarious.

Song: One Little Monster
Off the theme? Yes. But I love it, and it goes so nicely with a monster book!

Goodbye Song: We Wave Goodbye Like This

Flannel Friday Round-Up, 11/25/11

Here is this week's Flannel Friday Round-Up! I'm impressed by how many of us were able to post even with the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. I hope those of you who celebrated yesterday had a wonderful holiday and managed to survive any Black Friday shopping excursions you might have gone on today!

On to the links...

Angela (@annavalley) from valleystorytime has adapted Rebecca and Ed Emberley’s version of The Red Hen for the flannel board. 

Anne (@sotomorrow) is already thinking about Winter holidays, as she posts about Gregory Groundhog.

Cate (@storytimingcate) from Storytiming posts a rhyme about five wild coyotes.

Library Quine (@Library_Quine) from Loons & Quines gets in one last Fall flannel board with her version of  Five Little Leaves, as well a Little Mouse guessing game.   

Linda (@LMeuse) from Notes from the Story Room introduces to "Pebble Patterns" - a Native American game similar to Memory.  

Liz (@readmrsd) from Putting Smiles on Faces shares Tom Turkey's Colorful Tail/Tale, a flannel story whose pieces can be made entirely from paper. (Apologies to Liz - your link is working now!)

Melissa (@MelissaZD) from Mel's Desk gives us a wonderful way to create felt people that makes it easier to adapt folktales and picture books for the flannel board. 

Moxie (@moxie_mibrarian) from Storytimes with Moxie shares a Thanksgiving themed post featuring Five Little Turkeys and Turkey in the Straw. 

Sarah (@sarah_e_hay) from Read It Again presents  Five Hungry Ants, a great food-related rhyme.

And finally, I'm Katie (@sharingsoda) from Story Time Secrets, and I'm sharing my flannel board ideas for my upcoming hibernation story time.

As always, the list of past round-ups and future hosts is kept by Anne at So Tomorrow. Don't miss next week's Flannel Friday Holiday Extravaganza, which will be hosted by Library Quine at Loons and Quines. Also visit Flannel Friday on Facebook and Pinterest.

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Flannel Friday: Hibernation

I am taking just a brief break from holiday themes this week to share two flannel boards I'll be doing at a preschool story time about hibernation. Depending on how well they go over at my public story times, I might also use them for preschool and Pre-K school visits. 

This first rhyme sounds somewhat suggestive, so I gave it a title that states from the get-go what we're talking about. The rhyme sounded familiar to me as though I'd read it somewhere before, but my source for  this post was educationworld.com.

Who Hibernates?

Brown bears do it.

Ladybugs too.

Bats

and snakes,

And a frog or two.

Groundhogs 

and chipmunks

in a sleepy state.

What do they do?

They hibernate!

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This song is sung to the tune of Frere Jacques, which makes it ideal for my group since we sing that as part of Laurie Berkner's ABCD Medley almost every week. My idea is to put one animal on the board at the time, then put up the place where it hibernates as we approach that point in the verse.

 

Time for Hibernation

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping,
Big brown bear, big brown bear?
Time for hibernation.
What is your location?
In a log, in a lair.

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping,
Hanging bat, hanging bat?
Time for hibernation.
What is your location?
In a cave is where I'm at.

 

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping,
Garter snake, garter snake?
Time for hibernation.
What is your location?
In the mud, in a lake.

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping,
Little green frog, little green frog?
Time for hibernation.
What is your location?
In a pond, near a log.

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping,
Meadow mouse, meadow mouse?
Time for hibernation.
What is your location?
in a field, near a house.

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping,
Turtle friend, turtle friend?
Time for hibernation.
What is your location?
In the stream, till winter's end!

 
All clipart in this post came from Clker.com.

This week, the Flannel Friday round-up will be posted right here at Story Time Secrets! I'll be checking Twitter throughout the day, but also feel free to comment here with your links. The round-up will be up this afternoon!