Mommy & Me Storytime

October was another fun month for Mommy & Me storytime. Here’s a look at what we did and links to the library catalog for the books and CDs we used.

Our storytime on October 6 was all about sleeping. We started with a special lift-the-flap book by Fiona Conboy called “No, Monkey! No!” in which Monkey looks and looks for a place to sleep. We followed with a flannelboard of the nursery rhyme “Little Boy Blue” who was found “under the haystack fast asleep”. Our second book was Jane Yolen’s How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? Spoiler alert! In the end, it turns out a dinosaur gives a big hug and a kiss goodnight. We ended with a fun activity of playing our bells to the song “Frère Jacques” (Are You Sleeping?). Raffi has a version of the song on his “The Corner Grocery Store” CD. No one nodded off during storytime. We were having too much fun!

October 13 Mommy & Me was all about “things that go”. We started by singing “The Wheels on the Bus” and then read Red Light, Green Light by Anastasia Suen, a book with cars, trucks, busses and fire engines. We did the fingerplay “Red Says Stop” and sang “Twinkle Twinkle Traffic Light” while doing motions. Our second book was Fire Truck by Peter Sis. Matt, the little boy in the book, loves fire trucks so much he actually wakes up one morning to find he has become one! Next we chanted “Hurry, Hurry, Drive the Fire Truck” while we pretended to drive the fire truck, climb the ladder, and squirt the water from the hose. Lastly, we played with our scarves to Hap Palmer’s song “Slow and Fast” from his “Rhythms on Parade” CD.

We did our autumn storytime at Mommy & Me on October 20 and the day actually had a little feel of fall in the air. Our first book was Busy Little Squirrel about a little squirrel that’s getting ready for winter. We really enjoyed the delightful pictures in this one! We followed it up with a flannelboard about “Five Little Squirrels”, counting down five to one as the squirrels all ran away. We read a part of Apple Farmer Annie by Monica Wellington and then did a fingerplay pretending to pick our own apples. Our final book was Mouse’s First Fall by Lauren Thompson. In the book, Mouse and Minka had fun playing in the leaves so we followed the story by playing with our own leaves while singing “The Leaves on the Trees” to the tune of “The Wheels on the Bus”.

On October 27 Mommy & Me was all about pumpkins, scarecrows…Halloween! Our first book was Plumply, Dumply Pumpkin by Mary Serfozo. We read how Peter was looking for a “perfect” pumpkin and learned what he did with it when he found it. We followed the story with a flannelboard version of the “Five Little Pumpkins”. Our second book was a special lift-the-flap book by Marie Torres Cimarusti called Peek-a-Booo! It was fun playing peek-a-boo with the ghost, the skeleton, and the scarecrow! We finished up celebrating Halloween by playing our musical instruments to Halloween songs about pumpkins and trick-or-treating. Happy Halloween everyone!