Trees Storytime 10/7/14 and 10/8/14

Book read: Tap the Magic Tree by Christie Matheson

Other book suggestions: 
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin
A Tree for Me by Nancy VanLaan
Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall

A Tree is a Home (from Holiday Zone)
A tree may be a home for a bird (flap arms like a bird)
A tree may be a home for a bee (buzz hand like a bee)
A tree may be a home for a snake (slither like a snake)
A tree may be a home for a monkey (swing arms)
I would if a tree would make a good home for me? (point to self)

The Trees are Growing High (To the tune of 'The Farmer in the Dell", from Storytime Secrets )
The trees are growing high, (raise arms overhead)
The trees are growing high.
With soil and rain and sunny days,
The trees are growing high.
(Other verses: The threes are growing roots, The trees are growing leaves)

Leaves (from Step by Step Childcare)
Little leaves fall gently down,
Red and yellow, orange and brown (flutter hands down)
Whirling, whirling around and around (turn around)
Quietly without a sound (finger to lips)
Falling softly to the ground (begin to fall slowly)
Down and down and down and down. (lie on floor)

If You're a Tree and You Know It
If you're a tree and you know it grow up high. (reach high)
If you're a tree and you know it grow up high.
If you're a tree and you know it and you really want to show it,
If you're a tree and you know it grow up high. 

Other verses included: Touch your roots (touch toes), and Wave Your Leaves (wave arms)

Here We Go Round the Apple Tree (done with parachute, adapted from King County Library)
Here we go round the apple tree, apple tree. apple tree
Here we go round the apple tree so early in the morning.

This is the way we shake off the apples, shake off the apples, shake off the apples
This is the way we shake off the apples so early in the morning.

This is the way the leaves fall down, leaves fall down, leaves fall down,
This is the way the leaves fall down, so early in the morning.

Five Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree

Literacy tip of the week: Interactive stories (like "Tap the Magic Tree") are a great way to encourage your child's participation and engagement with books!