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