Flannel Friday 6/12/2015

Five Little Hotdogs - from make learning fun


5 little hotdogs frying in the pan
The pan got hot and one went BAM!
4 little hotdogs frying in the pan
The pan got hot and one went BAM!
3 little hotdogs frying in the pan
The pan got hot and one went BAM!
2 little hotdogs frying in the pan
The pan got hot and one went BAM!
One little hotdogs frying in the panThe pan got hot and it went BAM!
No little hotdogs frying in the pan
The pan got hot and the pan went BAM!

(I used clipart and laminated them.)














CUA94

Baby storytime #14 - Sunny Day at the beach!

Today I had to do my baby storytime in the children's area rather than in the meeting room due to a conflict. It was pretty good. Since the area was smaller it had a better community feel. Because it was "on the floor" I didn't use flannel board, choral reading books, or the balls and stuffed animals. I did more finger plays and bounces but it was still pretty short. My theme was Summer.

Bounce: Roll Roll Sugar Babies
Bounce: Bouncing up and down in my little red row boat
Finger play - 5 little seashells
Book - What the Sun Sees by Tafuri
Finger Play - Itsy bitsy spider
Action Song - Mr Sun
Good bye Song - May there always be sunshine
Shakers - Shaky Shaky by the Wiggles
Bubbles - Bathtime by Raffi

Baby Storytime #13 - Bugs!

I repeated my 2nd baby storytime (http://storytimewhoopdeedo.blogspot.com/2015/03/baby-storytime-bugs-bugs-bugs.html).
I added a couple of flannel stories like this one:

(to Mary had a little lamb)
Ladybug has one spot
one spot, one spot, one spot
Ladybug has one spot
Pretty Ladybug!
2,3,4,5

It was a pretty good one. I was a bit tired due to lack of sleep (thunderstorms) but it was okay.

Baby Storytime #12 - Cats!

This week my theme was Cats!

Here is what I did:
Opening song: the more we get together
Bounce: Roll Roll Sugar Babies
Nursery Rhyme: Pussycat Pussycat...(should have said it rather than sung it)
Action song: I'm a little kitty (to I'm a little tea pot)
I'm a little kitty cat
Nice and sweet
Here are my whiskers and
Here are my feet
When I go out hunting, mice beware
Or you might just have a scare!

Flannel Story - 3 little kittens

Poem- the Great Big Cat and the teeny little mouse (I used hand motions)

There was a Great Big Cat
and a Teeny little mouse
Who ran around and around
In a tall, tall house!
Until that teeny tiny mouse got caught at last
Because that Great Big Cat ran around so fast!

Book - Mother has three kittens by Fleming (clipped pages to shorten)

Shaker song: I know a Chicken by Berkner

Song: Soft Kitty (uke)

Action Song: Alabama, Mississippi

Book: How to be a Cat by McClure - this is a black and white book. I showed the parents how books with one word per page can get babies interested in books.

Closing song: May there alway be sunshine (uke)

Bubbles: Cat's in the Cradle (Chapin)

The kids were not very attentive today. The parents too. I just plowed on and got through it but it wasn't much fun. I have had worse!

5 more to go!

I have 5 more baby storytimes before I return to toddler time (18 months - 3 years old).
I have had a bit of a learning curve with the babies and I think I have hit my stride. I am looking forward to returning to TT in 6 weeks.


Things I will miss about babies:
No craft
Lots of music
Engaged adults
Small crowds
Bounces
Fun!


Things I will gladly leave behind:
Starting at 9:30 am
Large crowds
bubbles


Things I will be doing in TT but didn't before:
So many shaker songs!
New flannels

Preschool Storytime - Monkeys!

I filled in for a co-worker today and did preschool storytime.
I did one of my favorite themes...Monkeys!

Here is what I did:
Irrational Anthem - Jim Gill
Open Shut them
Book #1 - Caps for Sale by Slobodkina
Fingerplay - 5 little monkeys
Settle down song; Shake your Sillies out
Book #2 - Two Little Monkeys by Fox
The Animals in the Jungle (to wheels on the bus)
Bean Bag Rock
Book #3 - Sock Monkeys do the Monkey Monkey by Winburn

Craft: http://www.busybeekidscrafts.com/Bendable-Monkey.html

How it went: Not great! The parents and kids were quite loud in the beginning and I had to shout to be heard. During one of the books, I forget which one, 4 kids started running around in circles. They liked the Bean Bag song and Hokey pokey book. The craft was too complicated since there were no tables to use. I am exhausted!

Baby Storytime #11 - Ocean

A very small crowd today made for a wonderful Baby Storytime.

I redid my ocean theme. Here is the order I did:

Hello song – the more we get together (on my uke)

Bounce - Roll roll sugar babies

Book - Hooray for Fish by Cousins

     This book is very good for the vocabulary literacy tip.

Song: Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Row Row Row your boat

Gently down the stream.

Merrily Merrily merrily

Life is but a dream.
Twish, Bounce, Sway, Wiggle, Tickle

Song: SONG WITH PUPPETS: Did You Ever See a Fishy?
Sing to “Did You Ever See a Lassie?”

Did you ever see a fishy, a fishy, a fishy
Did you ever see a fishy swim this way and that?
Swim this way, swim that way, Swim this way, swim that way,
Did you ever see a fishy swim this way and that?
Crab crawl
Seal Clap
Sea Horse whinny

Flannel Story - three little jelly fish

Choral Reading - In my Ocean

Action song: Waves at the Beach ( Sung To: " Wheels on the bus")

The waves at the beach go up and down.

Crabs… crawl back and forth,
Lobsters… go snap, clams… open and shut, jelly fish… wibble wibble wibble

Shakers song: Under the Sea

Closing song: May there always be sunshine (on my uke)

Bubbles - Octopus's Garden

I had 5 babies and most were lap babies so I added a couple of bounces at the last minute.