Mommy & Me Storytime

December was a short month for Mommy & Me storytimes. We only had two dates early in the month. Here’s a little summary of what we did and the links to the catalog for our books and CDs.

December 1 we did a storytime all about bears. We started by doing the action rhyme “Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear” and then read the classic book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? We followed that with a flannelboard about teddy bear driving in his car. We guessed which color car he was in and finally found out it was the red one. Our second book was Bear at Home by Stella Blackstone. We got to see all the rooms in Bear’s house including his library with big cozy chairs! Next we did another flannelboard counting little bears from one to five. Our last book was “Quiet Bear, Noisy Bear”, a lift-the-flap book in which Bear illustrates several opposites like happy and sad, and full and empty. We ended by playing with our sponge teddy bears to Hap Palmer’s song “Teddy Bear Playtime” on his So Big CD.

December 8 was our holiday storytime. We began by reading We Love Christmas! by Marilyn Janovitz, a book about two kittens getting ready for Christmas. We followed with a flannelboard and fingerplay called “Chubby Little Snowman”. We laughed when the hungry bunny ate the snowman’s nose! Our second book was Peek-a-Boo Christmas! by Marie Torres Cimarusti. We especially liked the page where Santa peeked out and went “Ho, ho, ho!”. After the fingerplay “When Santa Comes to My House”, we did a flannelboard with five little bells. Storytime concluded with all the children playing bells to several songs including the classic “Jingle Bells” (find a version on “Raffi’s Christmas Album”).

The library will be closed on December 24 and 25, and January 1. Storytimes will resume on January 12, 2009. See you at storytime next year!