Surprise Preschool storytime

Today I found out when I got here that I would be doing Preschool Storytime for my colleague who is sick. I quickly pulled out my Dance books and music. The plan for today was Dinosaurs but I haven't done that one for a while so I wasn't comfortable doing it. So I used her craft and did Dance ending with Brontorina so it tied in a bit. It was a little short but it went okay.

Opening song:Open Shut them
Book #1 - Hilda must be dancing
Song - List of Dances
Book #2 with movement - How Can you Dance?
Song - If you're happy and you know it - ending with "if you want to hear a story sit on down"
Book #3 - Brontoria
Bean Bag song - Bean Bag Boogie
Closing Song - What a Miracle

Transportation - toddler storytime

This is one I have done with preschoolers and with babies but never with toddlers.

It went well even though I am a bit under the weather.

Opening song: Open shut them

Book #1 - Go Go Gorillas by Durango
    This one is a bit long so I wasn't sure if I could do the whole thing but it kept their interest pretty well.

Song - Drive my Car - Laurie Berkner
    Definitely a winner.

Book #2 - Freight Train (Big Book) by Crews
   This one is great!

Song - Wheels on the Bus
   A classic.
     
Nursery Rhyme - To Market To Market

Book #3 - A Bus for Us by Bloom
    They really got into this one...perfect for the under 2's.

Song - Zoom, Zoom, Zoom by Jbrary
   I messed up a bit but they liked it.

Shaker song - I know a chicken by Berkner

Closing song - What a Miracle

All in all a great theme.

Outreach to Headstart

I had an outreach today to Head start and Early head start. I like going but I am so tired afterwards.

I did a bit of fall and a bit of Halloween. I just used my uke and it worked great for HS but by the time I got to EHS my voice was starting to go. I did my Fall is not Easy flannel for both.

The HS teacher said "You're getting better at storytime". Which annoyed me no end but it is because they tell us what to do when we are there. (no sitting for more than 15 minutes etc) so I have learned what they like. Also, just having my uke was better since they didn't have to wait for me to put in the music or find it on my ipad.

Flannel Friday - Fall is not Easy by Kelley

I finally got around to making my own flannel for Fall is not Easy ! My library doesn't own the book so I was borrowing it every year so I could use it in my fall storytimes. Now I have my own. I saw "Storytiming" and "narrating tales of preschool stortime" had done this book as a flannel so I knew it would be great!

Here is my take on the book:

Toddlers - Fall!

I had my uke so I did my babies songs for opening and closing:

The more we get together
 Book – Mouse’s first fall by Thompson
 - perfect for this age (18 months to 3 years old)
Autumn Leaves(Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb)
  Autumn leaves are falling down
  Falling down, falling down.
  Autumn leaves are falling down,
  Falling on the ground.
  Autumn leaves are whirling round,
  Autumn leaves are whirling round,
  All around the town.
they like this one so much we did it again!

 Flannel – 5 little pumpkins sitting on a fence
- not great, just ok

 Book - Who Loves the Fall?by Raczka
- a good one since I talked about vocabulary and how to learn more words

Song - Shake your Sillies out &
 If you're happy and you know it ending with If you want to hear a story.(on uke)
 Book- Old Bearby Henkes
 - maybe a bit long for the last one.

 Song – California Dreamin’ (with scarves)
 - pretty good, the grandma and grandpa were not pleased but everyone else seemed to like it.

 Closing - May there always be sunshine and Oh What a miracle.

 With new songs I do them fine with no one is there but always mess up when there are folks in the room. Ugh!

Kid names: Jessee, Katie, Ellie, Carter, Addie, Hazel, Taxi Driver (what was his name?), Cassidy

Library visit by First Graders

I had two classes of first graders today. They walk to the library and have a tour, story, craft, and check out books. It went pretty well. I only had time for one book so I read No Pirates Allowed! said Library Lou by Greene. Then we did Jim Gill's List of Dances. They are so different from the toddlers, it is fun to do a long story.

Toddler storytime - Cats!

I was a bit tired today so this wasn't my best but it was far from my worst either. It was okay.

Plan:
Open shut them
Castle Full of Cats by Sanderson
   This is a brand new book that I picked up off of our new book shelf and just had to use it today. It might have been a little bit too old for this group but the parents enjoyed it.

Flannel - Three Little Kittens

Shake your sillies out - Raffi

Flannel/Book - Pete the cat and his 4 Groovy Buttons
   I did this with a flannel Pete and read the book. It kept the kids interested and singing their song!

Book - Feathers for Lunch - by Ehlart
   Mostly lost them at this point.

Shakers to The Cat Came Back by Laurie Berkner
   They liked this one

I misplaced my cd for my usual closing song (it fell behind something) so I did this for my closing:

I"m a little kitty cat
Soft and small
I like to climb or chase my ball.

If you pick me up and rub my fur
You can hear me purr purr purr!

It was a bit short but they were having much trouble with paying attention today.