Colors Storytime

Storytime for 1-1/2 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh (big book)
• Activity – Colorful World (action rhyme from Let's Read! Storytime Crafts by Kathryn Totten)
• Flannelboard – Five Little Crayons (The Mailbox Preschool, August/September 2003, page 6)
• Book #2 – Who Said Red? by Mary Serfozo, illustrated by Keido Narahashi
• Activity – Ladybug (fingerplay, I don't remember where I got this one)

Ladybug, ladybug fly out of the farm
And land right on my little arm.
Ladybug, ladybug fly out of the tree
And land right on my little knee.
Ladybug, ladybug fly out of the rose
And land right on my little nose.
Ladybug, ladybug fly out of the chair
And fly right on my own sweet hair.
Ladybug, ladybug fly all around
And quietly fly down to the ground.

• Closing - Eggshakers using "I Know A Chicken" from Whaddaya Think of That by Laurie Berkner
• Craft - Coloring sheet

Spring Storytime

Storytime for 1-1/2 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Rabbit's Good News by Ruth Lercher Bornstein
• Activity – If You're Happy and You Know It (action song from Songs for Wiggleworms)
• Flannelboard – Five Little Ducks
• Book #2 – In the Spring by Craig Brown
• Activity – 10 Spring Flowers (fingerplay adapted from a rhyme found at http://stepbystepcc.com/spring.html)

Flowers tall,
Flowers small,
Count the flowers as the sway in the springtime breeze.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

• Closing - Eggshakers using "I Know A Chicken" from Whaddaya Think of That by Laurie Berkner
• Craft - Toilet paper tube windsocks using crepe paper as streamers on the toilet paper tube

Spring Preschool Storytime

Storytime for 3-1/2 to 5 year olds:

• Opening - "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" from Songs for Wiggleworms, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Bear Wants More by Karma Wilson, illustrated by Jane Chapman
• Flannelboard – Five Little Ducks
• Activity - If You're Happy And You Know It (action song from Songs for Wiggleworms)
• Book #2 – It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw
• Book #3 - In the Spring by Craig Brown
• Activity – 10 Spring Flowers (fingerplay adapted from a rhyme found at http://stepbystepcc.com/spring.html)

Flowers tall,
Flowers small,
Count the flowers as the sway in the springtime breeze.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10!

• Closing - Round of Applause (action rhyme adapted from Rob Reid)

You're so great!
Now please stand
Give yourself a great big hand.
Clap the floor,
Clap your face,
And clap the air.
Clap your elbows,
Clap your feet,
Clap your pinkies,
And clap your seat.
Clap with flippers,
Clap with claws,
Now a bigRound of applause!

• Craft - Make a toilet paper tube windsock by glueing crepe paper streamers to a TP tube and decorating with stickers.

Owl Storytime

Storytime for 1-1/2 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Owl Babies by Martin Waddell, illustrated by Patrick Benson
• Activity – The Owl (I do not remember where I picked up this action rhyme)

There's a wide eyed owl
(thumbs and forefingers around eyes)With a pointed nose,
(forefinger make a v at end of nose)Two pointed ears,
(forefingers extended up from head for ears)And claws for toes.
(fingers and arms bent in front of chest as claws)
When he sits up in the tree,
(point up into a tree)And he looks at me,
(point at self)
He flaps his wings and he says, "Whoo! Whoo!"
(fold arms into arm pits and flap wings)

• Book #2 – Good-night Owl! by Pat Hutchins
• Activity – Two Little Blackbirds (fingerplay)
• Closing - Eggshakers using "I Know A Chicken" from Whaddaya Think of That by Laurie Berkner
• Craft - Glue feathers and buttons (for eyes) onto owl cutouts

Lapsit - Monkeys

Storytime for 0 to 24 months old:

• Opening: "Baby Hop" from Diaper Gym by Priscilla Hegner and Rose Grasselli
• Body rhyme: The Flea (from Pierce County Library System)
• Lap bounce: Did You Ever See A Baby?

(have your child sitting on your lap)
Did you ever see a baby, a baby, a baby,
Did you ever see a baby
Go this way and that?
(rock from side to side)
Go this way and that way,
And that way and this way,
Did you ever see a baby,
Go this way and that?

• Book: Hand, Hand, Fingers, Thumb by Al Perkins, illustrated by Eric Gurney (board book version)
• Theme rhyme: Monkey See, Monkey Do (I don't remember which book I got this rhyme from)
• Tickle: Round And Round the Garden

Round and round the garden
(with index finger, make a circle on baby's tummy)
Like a teddy bear
One step, two step
(walk fingers up chest)
Tickle under there!
(tickle under chin)
Round and round the garden
(with index finger, make a circle on baby's tummy)
Goes the little mouse
Up, up, up he creeps
(walk fingers up arm)
Up into his house
(tickle baby under arm)

• Clap rhyme: Miss, Miss

(clap)
Miss Miss, little Miss Miss,
When she misses,
She misses like this!
(hug baby)

• Lap bounce: Pop Goes the Weasel

All around the cobbler's bench,
The monkey chased the weasel,
The monkey thought t'was all in fun,
POP! Goes the weasel.
(raise baby into the air)
A penny for a spool of thread,
A penny for a needle,
That's the way the money goes,
POP! Goes the weasel.
(raise baby into the air)

• Doll song: When (animal) Gets Up In the Morning...

When cows get up in the morning, they always say "Good day."
When cows get up in the morning, they always say "Good day."
"Moo! Moo!" this is what they say.
"Moo! Moo! Moo! Moo!" this is what they say.
(substitute other animals and animal sounds)

• Book: Eight Silly Monkeys illustrated by Steve Haskamp
• Lap bounce: Tick Tock

(bounce baby from leg to leg)
Tick tock, tick tock,
I'm a little cuckoo clock.
Tick tock, tick tock,
Now it is one o'clock... Cuckoo!
(raise baby up for each cuckoo)

Now it is two o'clock... Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

Now it is three o'clock... Cuckoo! Cuckoo! Cuckoo!

• Body rhyme: Baby's Fingers

These are baby's fingers,
These are baby's toes,
This is baby's bellybutton,
Round and round it goes.
These are baby's ears,
This is baby's nose,
This is baby's bellybutton,
Round and round it goes.

• Closing: "If You're Happy And You Know It" from Songs for Wiggleworms

Extra book: Busy Monkeys by John Schindel and Luiz Claudio Marigo (board book)

Monkey Storytime

Storytime for 1-1/2 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Little Gorilla by Ruth Bornstein
• Activity – Can You Growl Like A Tiger? (action rhyme, unknown origin)

Can you growl like a tiger?
Can you hop like a frog?
Can you climb like a monkey?
Can you bark like a dog?
Can you slither like a snake?
Can you fly like a bat?
Can you howl like a wolf?
Can you stre-ttt-ccchh like a cat?
Can you sit like a kid at storytime?

• Flannelboard – One Banana written by Cheryl Hadley (from King County Library System's Books To Grow On)
• Book #2 – Eight Silly Monkeys illustrated by Steve Haskamp
• Activity – Monkey See, Monkey Do (action rhyme, I don't remember which book I got this rhyme from)
• Closing - Eggshakers using "I Know A Chicken" from Whaddaya Think of That by Laurie Berkner
• Craft - Curious George coloring sheet

Reader's Advisory - Mary Daheim

• Cozy mystery stories
• Character: Judith McMonigle Flynn
• Character: Emma Lord
• Culinary mystery stories
• Women editor-detectives
• Bed and breakfast
• Washington (state)

READALIKES:
Medusa by Kathleen Skye Moody
Red Sky In Mourning by Patricia H. Rushford
Tree People by Naomi Miller Stokes
Going Crazy In Public by Earl W. Emerson

Reader's Advisory - Sue Grafton

• Author of the alphabet mystery series (not official series name: A is for Alibi, etc.)
• Women detectives, California
• Octogenarians
• Insurance fraud investigation, California
• Landlord and tenant
• Character: Kinsey Millhone

READALIKES:
Cover Your Assets by Patricia Smiley
Hunter's Tale by Margaret Frazer
Looks to Die For by Janice Kaplan
Three Shirt Deal by Stephen J. Cannell

Weather Storytime

Storytime for 1-1/2 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – The Aunts Go Marching by Maurie J. Manning
• Activity – Wonderful Rain (action song from Mailbox Preschool magazine, April/May 2008, page 25)
• Flannelboard – Four Umbrellas (found at http://www.geocities/mystorytime/rain.htm)

Four umbrellas stood by the back door,
The RED one went outside, then there were three.
Three umbrellas pretty as can be,
The BLUE one went outside, then there were two.
Two umbrellas with nothing to do,
The GREEN one went outside, then there was one.
Just one umbrellas alone in the hall,
The PURPLE one went outside, and that was all!

• Book #2 – Kipper's Rainy Day inspired by the books by Mick Inkpen
• Activity – Itsy Bitsy Spider (fingerplay)
• Closing - Eggshakers using "I Know A Chicken" from Whaddaya Think of That by Laurie Berkner
• Craft - Glue cottonball clouds onto blue paper

Reader's Advisory - John Sandford

• author of the Prey titles
• Suspense stories, American
• Mystery stories, American
• Character: Lucas Davenport
• Police - Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Murder investigation

READALIKES:

Two Minute Rule by Robert Crais

Red Zone by Tim Green

Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell

Last Known Victim by Erica Spindler