Halloween Storytime 10/31/19

Book read:
Mouse's First Halloween by Lauren Thompson

Other book suggestions:
Just say Boo! by Susan Hood
Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson
If You're a Monster and You Know It by Rebecca Emberley

If you're a ghost and you know it
If you're a ghost and you know it, just say "Boo"! (shout BOO!)
If you're a ghost and you know it, just say "Boo"!
If you're a ghost and you know and you really want to show it,
If you're a ghost and you know it, just say "Boo"!

If you're a bat and you know it, flap your wings! (flap your arms like wings)
If you're a bat and you know it, flap your wings!
If you're a bat and you know it and you really want to show it,
If you're a bat and you know it, flap your wings!

If you're a werewolf and you know it, give a howl! (howl)
If you're a werewolf and you know it, give a howl!
If you're a werewolf and you know it and you really want to show it,
If you're a werewolf and you know it give a howl!

Monster Boogie by Laurie Berkner

Itsy Bitsy Spider (with parachute)

Bouncing tissue paper "ghosts" on the parachute

Craft: We decorated a "mummy" with tissue paper.

Literacy tip of the week: Holidays are a great time to introduce new vocabulary. For instance, "skeleton" and "spooky" are words we use most around Halloween.

Baby Storytime 10/17/19

Book read: 
Tickle Monster by Edouard Manceau

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Hands are Clapping (from Reading with Red)
Hands are clapping,
Clap, clap, clap,
Hands are clapping,
Clap, clap, clap,
Hands are clapping,
Clap, clap, clap,
Clap your hands my darling!
Repeat with other actions

Where oh where are baby's fingers? (from Jbrary)
Where oh where are baby's fingers?
Where oh where are baby's toes?
Where oh where is baby's bellybutton?
Round and round it goes!

Wheels on the Bus

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Floating Bubble Song

Hickory Dickory Dock (with parachute)

Literacy tip of the week: Diaper changing time is a great opportunity to fit in a song together.

 

Monsters Storytime 10/15/19

Book read:
My monster mama loves me so by Laura Leuck

Other book suggestions: 
Go away Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley
Bedtime for monsters by Ed Vere
Tickle Monster by Edouard Manceau 

Monsters Galore (modified from Storytime Katie)
Monsters galore, can you roar? (roar)
Monsters galore, can you soar? (fly)
Monsters galore, can you snore? (pretend to sleep)
Monsters galore, fall on the floor! (fall down)

Monster, Monster (to the tune of "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, Turn Around")
Monster, monster, turn around, (turn in a circle)
Monster, monster touch the ground, (touch ground)
Monster, monster, show your shoe, (lift up foot)
Monster, monster, how old are you? (have child give their age)
Monster, monster, reach up high, (reach hands above head)
Monster, monster, blink your eyes, (blink eyes)
Monster, monster slap your knees (slap knees)
Monster, monster, sit down please! (sit down) 

Five Little Monsters Jumping on the Bed (with cut out monsters)

Craft: We colored a printout of monsters.

Literacy tip of the week: Playing pretend is important for kids to develop their storytelling skills. 

Baby Storytime 10/10/19

Book read:
Faster, faster by Leslie Patricelli (board book set)

Giddyup, Giddyup (from King County Library System)
Giddyup, giddyup ride to town, (bounce baby on your lap)
Giddyup, giddyup, up and down.
Giddyup fast, (bounce quickly)
Giddyup slow, (bounce slowly)
Giddyup, giddyup, WHOA! (dip baby backwards)

These little hands of mine (to the tune of "This Little Light of Mine", from 2019 CSLP manual)
These little hands of mine,
I'm going to make them clap!
These little hands of mine,
I'm going to make them clap!
Make them clap, make them clap, make them clap!
Other verses: feet stomping, body bouncing

Wheels on the bus

I'm a little cuckoo clock (from KCLS)
Tick tock, tick tock, (rock back and forth)
I'm a little cuckoo clock!
Tick tock, tick tock,
It's one o'clock!
CUCKOO! (jump once)

Tick tock, tick tock,
I'm a little cuckoo clock!
Tick tock, tick tock,
It's two o'clock!
CUCKOO! CUCKOO! (jump twice)

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Floating Bubble Song

Pop goes the weasel (with parachute)

Motorboat, motorboat (with parachute)

The Elevator Song (with parachute, from Jbrary)
Oh the city is great and the city is grand.
There's a whole lot of people on a little piece of land.
And we live way up on the 57th floor.
This is what we do when we go out the door:
We take the elevator up and the elevator down.
We take the elevator up and the elevator down.
And we turn around. 

Literacy tip of the week: Babies tend to love reading books with pictures of other babies.

Orange Storytime 10/8/19 and 10/9/19

Book read: 
It's a Tiger! by David Larochelle

Other book suggestions: 
Autumn Orange by Christianne Jones
Pumpkin Heads by Wendell Minor

The great big lion (to the tune of Shortnin' Bread, modified from Verona Storytime)
The great big lion loves jumping, jumping,
The great big lion loves jumping high.
Other actions include: spinning round, running fast, roaring loud, etc

If I were a leaf
If I were a leaf,
I'd jump down from my tree, (jump)
I'd dance in the wind, (dance)
I'd fly in the breeze, (pretend to fly)
Falling softly to the ground I'd spin in the air (spin around)
Then I'd land on the ground. (fall down) 
I just don't know where. (shrug shoulders)

Ring around the pumpkin (from The Lion is a Bookworm)
Ring around the pumpkin,
Orange and round,
Pumpkin seeds, pumpkin seeds,
We all fall down!

Literacy tip of the week: Play is an important part of literacy development. It builds a child's storytelling skills and imagination!

Baby Storytime 10/3/19

Book read:
I love all of me! by Lorie Ann Grover

Wake up Feet (modified from Jbrary)
Wake up feet and wiggle, wiggle, wiggle!
Wake up feet and wiggle, wiggle, wiggle!
Wake up and wiggle in the morning!
(for additional verses use different body parts)

Come along and march with me (from Storytime Underground)
Come and march along with me,
Along with me.
Come and march along with me,
So early in the morning.
(Other actions can include spinning, hopping, bouncing, flying, etc)

Here we go up, up, up (from Reading With Red)
Here we go up, up, up! (reach up)
Here we go down, down, down! (touch floor)
Here we go back and forth! (sway side to side)
And here we go round and round! (turn around) 

Let's Go Riding in an Elevator (from Jbrary)
Let's go riding in an elevator (hold baby in front of you)
An elevator, elevator. (rock back and forth)
Let's go riding in an elevator!
First floor (lift baby, raise up on each floor)
Second floor,
Third floor,
Fourth floor,
Down, down, down! (bring baby down to ground) 

Wheels on the bus

I'm a little cuckoo clock (from KCLS)
Tick tock, tick tock, (rock back and forth)
I'm a little cuckoo clock!
Tick tock, tick tock,
It's one o'clock!
CUCKOO! (jump once)

Tick tock, tick tock,
I'm a little cuckoo clock!
Tick tock, tick tock,
It's two o'clock!
CUCKOO! CUCKOO! (jump twice)

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse Floating Bubble Song

Literacy tip of the week: Repeating songs and rhymes will help you baby remember them.

Letter O Storytime

Book read:
Night Owl by Toni Yuly

Other book suggestions:
One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish by Dr. Seuss
I'm not cute by Jonathan Allen
I'm the biggest thing in the ocean by Kevin Sherry

The Owl Pokey (from Pasadena Library)
You put your right wing in,
You put your right wing out,
You put your right wing in and you shake it all about!
You do the owl pokey and you fly yourself around,
That's what it's all about!
(other verses: tail feathers, claws, etc)

Open them shut them (from Sunflower Storytime)
Open shut them, open shut them (open and shut both hands)
Give a little clap, clap, clap (clap hands three times)
Open shut them, open shut them (open and shut both hands)
Put them in your lap (lay hands flat on your legs)
Creep them, creep them (creep them up legs, body, all the way up to chin)
Creep them, creep them
Right up to your chin
Open up your little mouth (open mouth and hold fingers outside of mouth)
But do not let them in! (shake finger ‘no’)

I'm a Little Pumpkin (to the tune of "I'm a Little Teapot")
I'm a little pumpkin, orange and ground (hold arms in a circle)
Here is my stem, (place fist on your head)
There is the ground. (touch the ground)
When I get all cut up, don't you shout!
Just open me up and scoop me out! (pretend to scoop the pumpkin out) 

Open up the barn door (with puppets, modified from SLC Book Boy)
Open up the barn door to bring in some hay,
There's a horse inside saying "Neigh, Neigh, Neigh!"
Open up the barn door singing "Tra-la-la!"
There's a sheep inside saying "Baa, baa, baa!"
Open up the barn door saying "How do you do?"
There's a cow inside saying "Moo, moo, moo!"

Craft: We made owl puppets with paper bags and an owl template.

Literacy tip of the week: The more you read and talk to your child the more new vocabulary words they will hear.