Pigs for Toddlers

Today I did pigs for my theme.

Songs:
The Piggy Pokey
Laurie has a Pig on Her Head (with puppets) by Laurie Berkner
If you're happy and you know it
Open Shut them
What a Miracle

Books:
Pirate Pigglywiggly by Fox
Zzz-oink by Most

Flannels
Three Little Pigs
If a Pig wore Pants

Rhythmn instruments to Tempo Marches On by Jim Gill

Outreach galore

Preschool 1 - Library/Books
Preschool 2 - Bugs
Headstart - Bugs
Early Headstart - Bugs

I Love Bugs - Toddler storytime

Today I did an old favorite...Bugs! Here is the link for my last post about bugs.

Books:
Big Bug by Cole
Can you Make a Scary Face? by Thomas
Tiny Little Fly by Rosen

Fingerplay:
Beehive

Here is a beehive

Make a fist

Where are the bees?

Hidden away where nobody sees.

Watch as they come out of their hive—

One, two, three, four, five,

Extend fingers one at a time

They’re alive! Buzzzzzz!

Wiggle your fingers

Songs:
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Everyone wants to be a Butterfly by Litwin
Butterfly away by Harmonica Pocket
Open shut them
What a miracle
Shake your Sillies out
If you're Happy and You Know it

Flannel Boards -
5 colorful butterflies
5 little ladybugs


Activities:
Everyone Wants to be Butterfly and Butterfly Away with scarves

A very large and energetic crowd today. It was great fun!

Hats off for Toddlertime!

My storytime theme for today was hats.

Here is what I did...

Books - A Hat for Minerva Louise by Stoeke
              Silly Little Goose by Tafuri
              Where's Mary's Hat? by Barroux

Songs - Silly Hat Song
             Shake your Sillies Out by Raffie
             Cap, Mittens, Shoes, and Socks (to head shoulders knees and toes)
             H-A-T-S  (with flannels)
             Give me my Hat Back by Bill Harley with instruments
            What a Miracle by Palmer

I had a good group today. Even the wanderers sat more than usual. Very enjoyable.
           

           

Early Head Start and Head Start Outreach - Space

I did a repeat of my space program but for Head Start I added Mousetronaught by Kelly.

It went well.

Toddler Storytime - Dance

I did my dance theme but with a few new books.

The books I used were:

Wiggle by Cronin
Bear Can Dance by Bloom
Dancing Feet by Knopf

Here is my last Dance storytime: http://storytimewhoopdeedo.blogspot.com/2015/07/toddlertime-dance.html

I did the Chicken Dance which I find very fun but the kids were a bit clueless. The parents really loved it!

Here is a video of my doing the Hokey Pokey with my ukulele:

Space - toddler storytime

I did a new one today.

Everyone really liked it.

Books
Dinosaur Rocket by Dale
This is a new book that just struck me as a great storytime book. It is large and colorful and the story is short enough for my 1.5 year olds and interactive.

Higher Higher by Patricelli
This one has very few words so I had the kids "help" me. Went okay.

Flannels
If you're going to the moon Where your suit (http://melissa.depperfamily.net/blog/?p=1967)

A Circle in the Sky A colleague made this flannel from the book by Wilson.

 I tied it into my Early Literacy Tip of using shapes to learn letters. Then we did YMCA. It was fun!

Songs:
Open shut them
Rocketship Run by Berkner
With shakers
YMCA by the Village People
Shake your Sillies out by Raffi
If you're Happy and You know it
What a Miracle by Palmer

Finger Play
Zoom Zoom Zoom (Jbrary)

All in all a great storytime and I wasn't even feeling very well. I did more songs from CDs and had the kids say more words from the books. I might do it for my outreach next week.