Mommy & Me Storytime
If you missed the fun at Mommy & Me storytimes this last session or were there and just want to remember some of the stories and music, here’s a little summary of what we did and links to the library catalog for the books and CDs we used.
We started on November 3 with a storytime all about a toddler’s day. We read Wake Up Me! by Marn
i McGee which followed a child waking up and getting ready for his day. Then we pretended to brush our teeth with Raffi’s song “Brush Your Teeth” from his “Singable Songs for the Very Young” CD. We dressed our flannelboard teddy to the tune “Mary Wore Her Red Dress” changing it to “teddy wore his red shirt” and so on as we added each new article of clothing. Our second book was Lulu’s Busy Day by Caroline Uff. Lulu’s day sure was busy but she ended it quietly with a nice bedtime story.
November 10 Mommy & Me storytime was all about colors. In our first book, Let’s Go Visiting by Sue Williams, we counted our colorful farm friends from one brown foal to six yellow puppies. We sang “If You’re Wearing Red Today” giving all the children a chance to stand and shout “hooray” when they heard a color they were wearing. We read Snappy Little Colors, a special pop-up book of various animals and their colors. We ended our storytime playing with our colorful scarves to Hap Palmer’s song “Slow and Fast” from his “Rhythms on Parade” CD.
Food and eating was the focus of our storytime November 17. Mouse Mess by Linnea Riley, a colorful book about a hungry mouse looking for food, was our first book. After a flannelboard about five cookies in the bakery shop, we read Crunch Munch about the different ways animals eat. Miss Mary followed that with a rhyme about making pancakes. She pretended to stir the mix in her bowl, poured it in her frying pan, and tried to flip the pancake but missed! It took her several tries before she caught it in her pan. Silly Mary! After playing “Pat-a-cake” (find a version on “Wee Sing Nursery Rhymes and Lullabies”) we read Charlie Chick, a lift-the-flap book about a big chick who eats a lot. We really loved the surprise ending!
Our Thanksgiving storytime was November 24. We read a poem from Round the Turkey: a grateful Thanksgiving about a family coming together to celebrate. After a turkey feathers
flannelboard, we read our second book, Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes. The wonderful illustrations make this my all-time favorite Thanksgiving book for toddlers. After doing a little song and pretending we were turkeys, we read a poem called Thanksgiving Parade from Thanksgiving Day at Our House. Then we had our own parade, playing our musical instruments and marching to the song Seventy-Six Trombones (find a version on the CD “Stars and Stripes”).
The end of November seems an appropriate time to say thanks to all the adults who took the time to bring their little ones to storytime, and to the little ones for sharing their laughter and smiles!
If you missed the fun at Mommy & Me storytimes this last session or were there and just want to remember some of the stories and music, here’s a little summary of what we did and links to the library catalog for the books and CDs we used.
We started on November 3 with a storytime all about a toddler’s day. We read Wake Up Me! by Marn
i McGee which followed a child waking up and getting ready for his day. Then we pretended to brush our teeth with Raffi’s song “Brush Your Teeth” from his “Singable Songs for the Very Young” CD. We dressed our flannelboard teddy to the tune “Mary Wore Her Red Dress” changing it to “teddy wore his red shirt” and so on as we added each new article of clothing. Our second book was Lulu’s Busy Day by Caroline Uff. Lulu’s day sure was busy but she ended it quietly with a nice bedtime story.November 10 Mommy & Me storytime was all about colors. In our first book, Let’s Go Visiting by Sue Williams, we counted our colorful farm friends from one brown foal to six yellow puppies. We sang “If You’re Wearing Red Today” giving all the children a chance to stand and shout “hooray” when they heard a color they were wearing. We read Snappy Little Colors, a special pop-up book of various animals and their colors. We ended our storytime playing with our colorful scarves to Hap Palmer’s song “Slow and Fast” from his “Rhythms on Parade” CD.
Food and eating was the focus of our storytime November 17. Mouse Mess by Linnea Riley, a colorful book about a hungry mouse looking for food, was our first book. After a flannelboard about five cookies in the bakery shop, we read Crunch Munch about the different ways animals eat. Miss Mary followed that with a rhyme about making pancakes. She pretended to stir the mix in her bowl, poured it in her frying pan, and tried to flip the pancake but missed! It took her several tries before she caught it in her pan. Silly Mary! After playing “Pat-a-cake” (find a version on “Wee Sing Nursery Rhymes and Lullabies”) we read Charlie Chick, a lift-the-flap book about a big chick who eats a lot. We really loved the surprise ending!Our Thanksgiving storytime was November 24. We read a poem from Round the Turkey: a grateful Thanksgiving about a family coming together to celebrate. After a turkey feathers
flannelboard, we read our second book, Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes. The wonderful illustrations make this my all-time favorite Thanksgiving book for toddlers. After doing a little song and pretending we were turkeys, we read a poem called Thanksgiving Parade from Thanksgiving Day at Our House. Then we had our own parade, playing our musical instruments and marching to the song Seventy-Six Trombones (find a version on the CD “Stars and Stripes”).The end of November seems an appropriate time to say thanks to all the adults who took the time to bring their little ones to storytime, and to the little ones for sharing their laughter and smiles!
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