Farm - Outreach

I had 2 outreach so I did my farm theme.

I got a book from Interlibrary Loan called Old MacDonald Had a Dragon. It is a little grafic with the animals getting eaten but then the dragon burps and everyone lives happily ever after. The liked it but i wouldn't do it for much younger than 4.

Preschool at rec center
Books:
Old MacDonald had a dragon
Farmyard Beat
Book Book Book - they didn't get the joke but that is not new

Songs:
Old MacDonald - on uke - forgot puppets
I know a chicken with egg shakers
Jumping and Counting
May there always be sunshine on uke
Books, Books by Emily Arrow

Early head start
Books:
Cowlick
Hurry Hurry
Cock-a Doodle Quack Quack

Songs:
I know a chicken with shakers
Old Macdonald with puppets
The Pig on the bus goes... with puppets
Jumping and counting
Alabama Mississippi

Bathtime with toddlers

Books:
Bears in the Bath by Parenteau
Get Out of My Tub! by Techentrup
The Pigeon Needs a Bath by Willems

Songs:
The more we get together with signs
Jumping and Counting by Gill
Bathtime by Raffi with bubbles
What a Miracle by Palmer

Flannel
5 elephants in the tub
Colorful bubbles - This one didn't work very well. Too young.

I did 3 books just because I wanted to. Not a good idea since only one kid was paying attention. I stood up to read the books today so all the kids stood up too. Next time I will sit or kneel.

I got a new bubble gun at Target and it worked great!

Hats for Toddlers

I had a new staff member watching me today and I think it made me nervous. Also, not having done story time for 4 weeks.

Books:
Under my hood I have a hat by Kuskin
A Hat for Minerva Louise by Stoeke
Hooray for Hat! by Won

Songs:
The More we get together with signs
If you're happy and you know it
Cap, Mittens, shoes and socks
Mexican Hat dance
Give me my hat back by Bill Harley with shakers

Flannel:
H-A-T-S that spells hat

How it went:
The kids listened for the first one. I didn't do Jumping and Counting like I usually do. I also didn't do our closing. What happened with that? Anyway. I read the first 2 books did the first 2 songs and realized that it had only been 15 minutes. Fill, Fill, fill. I don't usually do 3 books and they really didn't listen to the third one but I didn't want to cut it short today since I had an observer. It was really manic and crazy but it is what it is.

Birds - Toddlers

Whew! I had a large group (20 kids) but it went well. Helps to do it 3 times before today. (4 this week!)

Books:
Hooray for Birds by Cousins
Birds by Henke

Songs:
The more we get together
Shake your sillies out
Jumping and Counting
Do the Bird
Three little birds on uke - I put the words on the board so the adults could sing. They did!
Rockin' Robin with instruments
What a miracle

Puppets:
Flip Flap Fly by Root

This is all of birds for a while and I am off the next 3 weeks so see you in 2018!

Birds - Headstart and Early headstart

A little confusion today but all worked out. I went to headstart at 930 am like I was supposed to but they were in the middle of a snack so they asked me to come back later. So, I went to the store and the post office and wasted a good 15 minutes. Then I came back to see if I could do Early Headstart a little early. (They are in the same building) They were fine with that and I got started right away.

Early headstart is babies and toddlers so I did mostly a baby storytime with a couple of books.

Here's what I did:

Birds by Henkes
Hurray for Birds by Cousins

The More We get together with signs
Three Little Birds on uke
May there always be sunshine on uke
Rocking Robin with shakers
Bird hokey pokey
If you're happy and you know it
Head shoulder's knees and toes

Flip Flap Fly with puppets

So after that I went over to Headstart and they let me do my storytime.

The kids are 3-4 years old so I did the same as yesterday.

Birds - preschool outreach

I will be doing this theme 3 times this week.
This was my first. This group is a private preschool and the kids are very good and advanced. So I figured I would do some experimenting. I tried teaching them Three Little Birds. They learned it fine but I messed up a bunch. I am not sure if I can teach the toddlers so I might just play the song and do scarves.

I haven't done birds for a while so this was fun!

Books;
I'm Not Cute by Allen - they liked this one
Oliver's Wood by Hendra
Hello My Name is Ruby by Stead - not a favorite
Pigeon Found a Hotdog by Willems - ok

Songs:
The more we get together with signs
Three Little Birds with uke
May there always be sunshine with uke
Old MacDonald with uke (their request)
Do the Bird - dancing
Rockin Robin with shakers
Jumping and Counting

Went pretty well. One boy asked for puppets because I brought them last time, maybe next month.

Shoes and Socks - Toddlers

Something was off today but I'm not sure what. Went okay but just odd. I spoke a little more to the parents and they laughed at my jokes. This is highly unusual.

Books:
Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes by Litwin
Shoe Baby by Dunbar
Duck Sock Hop by Kohuth

Songs:
The more we get together
Jumping and Counting
Everybody knows I love my toes (from Jbrary)
B-O-O-T-S by Berkner with instruments
This What My feet can do
What a Miracle

Flannel
Busy Little Cobbler

Nursery Rhyme
1-2 Buckle my shoe

They were quiet after the instruments so I did a 3rd book. Had to cut it short but did a little bit (Shoe Baby).