Mothers Storytime

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

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino, illustrated by Steven Kellogg
• Activity – Do It For Your Mother (action rhyme to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat," I'm not sure where I picked this one up)

Roll, roll, roll your hands
As fast as fast can be.
Do it now, let me see,
Do it for your mother.
Clap, clap, clap your hands
As loud as loud can be.
Do it now, let me see,
Do it for your mother.
Stomp, stomp, stomp your feet
As hard as hard can be.
Do it now, let me see,
Do it for your mother.
Jump, jump, jump your feet
As high as high can be.
Do it now, let me see,
Do it for your mother.
Roll, roll, roll your hands
As fast as fast can be.
Do it now, let me see,
Do it for your mother.

• Flannelboard – Old Woman by Beatrix Potter
• Book #2 – My Mom Is Fantastic by Nick Butterworth
• Activity – Round of Applaluse (action rhyme adapted from one told by Rob Reid)
• Closing - Eggshakers using "I Know A Chicken" from Whaddaya Think of That by Laurie Berkner
• Craft – Glue together a paper daisy (yarn stem, yellow circle for center, short strips of white paper)

Lapsit - Water

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? (to the tune of "Did You Ever See a Lassie")

(have your child sitting on your lap)
Did you ever see a baby, a baby, a baby,
Did you ever see a babyGo 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 #1: Noisy Friends (Fisher Price board book)
• Theme rhyme: Buzzing Bumblebee! (from Mailbox Preschool June/July 2007, page 34)
• Tickle: Round And Round the Garden

Round and round the garden
(with index finger, make a circle on baby's tummy)
Like a teddy bearOne 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 #2: Maisy's Pool by Lucy Cousins
• 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: Owen & Mzee Best Friends by Isabella Hatkoff, Craig Hatkoff, and Dr. Paula Kahumbu, with photographs by Peter Greste

Cool Pool Storytime

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

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Down By the Cool of the Pool by Tony Mitton, pictures by Guy Parker-Rees
• Activity – Can You Growl Like a Tiger? (action rhyme, unkown 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 – Five Green and Speckled Frogs
• Book #2 – Maisy's Pool by Lucy Cousins
• Activity – Big Round Sun (action rhyme I found at http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com/funfingerplay.cfm)

The big round sun in the springtime sky
(form large circle with arms)Winked at a cloud that was passing by.
(wink eye)The little cloud laughed as it scattered rain,
(flutter fingers downward)Then out came the big round sun again.
(form large circle with arms)

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

Cool Pool Storytime - Preschool

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

• Opening – Row, Row, Row Your Boat from Songs for Wiggleworms, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Tikki Tikki Tembo retold by Arlene Mosel, illustrated by Blair Lent
• Activity – Grand Old Duke of York (action song)
• Book #2 – Jump Frog Jump by Robert Kalan, illustrated by Byron Barton
• Book #3 - Wide-mouthed Frog by Keith Faulkner, illustrated by Jonathan Lambert (pop-up)
• Activity – Jump, Jump Went the Little Green Frog (action rhyme)

Jump, jump went the little green frog.
Jump, jump went the little green frog.
Jump, jump went the little green frog...
And his eyes went blink, blink.

Blink, blink went the little green frog.
Blink, blink went the little green frog.
Blink, blink went the little green frog...
And his tongue went glup, glup.

Glup, glup went the little green frog.
Glup, glup went the little green frog.
Glup, glup went the little green frog...
And his legs went jump, jump.

• Closing – Round of Applause (action rhyme adapted from one told by Rob Reid)
• Craft - Painting

Rabbits Storytime

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

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Bunny and Me by Adele Aron Greenspun and Joanie Schwarz
• Activity – I Saw A Little Bunny (I am not sure where I picked up this action rhyme)

I saw a little rabbit go hop, hop, hop.
(hop three times)
I saw his ears go flop, flop, flop.
(put hands on head and flop "ears")
I saw his eyes go wink, wink, wink.
(wink eyes)
I saw his nose go twink, twink, twink.
(wiggle nose)
I said, "Little rabbit, won't you stay?"
(beckon with hand)
But he looked at me and hopped away.
(hop some more)

• Flannelboard – This Little Bunny (sorry, but my notes do not say which website I found this on)

This little bunny has two pink eyes.
This little bunny is very wise.
This little bunny is soft as silk.
This little bunny is white as milk.
This little buny nibbles away
At cabbages and carrots the livelong day!

• Book #2 – What Can Rabbit Hear? by Lucy Cousins (lift-flap)
• Activity – Here's a Bunny (here is another fingerplay that I have no idea where I got it from)

Here's a bunny with ears so funny.
(bend two fingers over thumb)
Here is his hole in the ground.
(make hole with other arm at waist)
When a noise he hears
(clap hands)
He pricks up his ears
(straighten fingers)
And jumps in his hole in the ground.
(ears first "into" the hole)

• Closing - Eggshakers using "I Know A Chicken" from Whaddaya Think of That by Laurie Berkner
• Craft – Color bunny ear hats

Anime Review - Xenosaga

I watched the first episode of this anime series several months ago while substituting in the Teen Anime Club. My first reaction was, "That was weird... I wonder what happens next." When I learned it was part of a Japanese console system role playing game chain, the weirdness then made sense. I finally got around to watching the whole series. The storyline is very typical of a Japanese role playing game story. Weird. Way out there. Does not make sense. Doesn't quite end. But I enjoyed watching it. It was a good futuristic, space adventure.

I'm not sure what is up with the box set cover art. It is very provocative in a way that has nothing to do what-so-ever with the story.

Reader's Advisory - Jane Porter

• Single mothers
• Happiness in women
• Divorced women
• Women -- Friendship
• Middle-aged women
• Women -- Aging
• Men/women relations
• Sexuality
• Motherhood
• Love stories

READALIKES:
Hot Flash Club Chills Out by Nancy Thayer
The Botox Diaries by Janice Kaplan & Lynn Schnurnberger
The Starter Wife by Gigi Levangie Grazer
Would I Lie to You? by Sheila Norton
Flying Changes by Sara Gruen

Reader's Advisory - Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

• Social control
• Aversion therapy
• Dystopias
• Crime
• Criminals, Men
• Futurism
• Science fiction, English

READALIKES:
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville
Children of Men by P.D. James
Against Gravity by Gary Gibson
Slaughtermatic by Steve Aylett
Neuromancer by William Gibson

Dinosaurs Storytime

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

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague
• Activity – We Are The Dinosaurs (action song from Whaddaya Think of That? by Laurie Berkner)
• Flannelboard – 10 Little Dinosaurs
• Book #2 – Dinosaur Stomp by Paul Stickland (pop-up)
• Activity – Dinosaur, Dinosaur (action rhyme that Dawn, a former co-worker, and I wrote for use at storytime)

Dinosaur, dinosaur turn around.
Dinosaur, dinosaur touch the ground.
Dinosaur, dinosaur dance on your toes.
Dinosaur, dinosaur touch your nose.
Dinosaur, dinosaur reach up high.
Dinosaur, dinosaur jump to the sky.
Dinosaur, dinosaur stomp your feet.
Dinosaur, dinosaur show your teeth.
Dinosaur, dinosaur give a roar.
Dinosaur, dinosaur find the floor.

• Closing - Eggshakers using "I Know A Chicken" from Whaddaya Think of That by Laurie Berkner
• Craft - Glue sewing trim and fabric scraps onto a dinosaur picture or shape