Birds Storytime

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

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Pie In the Sky by Lois Ehlert
• Activity – Little Bird (action rhyme I picked up in the book Toddle On Over by Robin Works Davis, but I have since seen in other sources)

I saw a little bird go hop, hop, hop.
(jump up and down)
I told the little bird to stop, stop, stop.
(hold up hand, palm out)
I went to the window to say "How do you do?"
(bow)
He wagged his little tail and away he flew.
(wiggle but, and then flap arms in flying motion)

• Flannelboard - Bluebird, Bluebird Through My Window (song)
• Book #2 – Birds by Kevin Henkes, illustrated by Laura Dronzek
• Activity – Two Little Blackbirds Sitting On a Fence
• Closing - Rhythm sticks using "Goin' On a Bear Hunt" from Kids In Action by Greg and Steve
• Craft – Triangle bird body with tissue paper wings through a slit in the body, with circle head, a little triangle beak, and color markers to decorate with.

Hats Storytime

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

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – The Magic Hat by Mem Fox, illustrated by Tricia Tusa
• Activity – Shake My Sillies Out (action song from More Singable Songs by Raffi)
• Math/Science Activity - Graph favorite color hat: Hand out different colored hat pictures. Then tape these pictures on the wall in the form of a simple pictorial bar graph.
• Book #2 – Hats, Hats, Hats by Ann Morris, photographs by Ken Heyman (big book)
• Activity – Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (action rhyme)
• Closing - Rhythm sticks using "Goin' On a Bear Hunt" from Kids In Action by Greg and Steve
• Craft – Glue buttons onto paper plate crown hats

Counting Storytime

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

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – The Ants Go Marching edited by Ann Owen, illustrated by Sandra D'Antonio
• Activity – Hickory Dickory Dock (fingerplay)

Hickory dickory dock,
The mouse ran up the clock.
(run fingers up arm to high overhead)
The clock struck one.
(clap once)
The mouse ran down.
(run fingers down arm and down body)
Hickory dickory dock.

Repeat with:
...the clock struck two, the mouse said boo!
...the clock struck three, the mouse said whee!
...the clock struck four, there is no more.

• Book #2 – Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang
• Activity – Two Little Hands (action rhyme)

Two little hands go clap, clap, clap.
Two little feet go tap, tap, tap.
Two little fists go thump, thump, thump.
Two little legs go jump, jump, jump.
One little body turns around.
And everyone sits quietly down.

• Closing - Rhythm sticks using "Goin' On a Bear Hunt" from Kids In Action by Greg and Steve
• Craft – Make a count to 5 book with stapled pieces of paper

Berry Storytime

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

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Jamberry by Bruce Degen (Big Book)
• Activity – Like An Animal (action rhyme I found somewhere)

Can you fly like an owl?
Can you jump like a frog?
Can you walk like a duck?
Can you strr-eetch like a cat?
Can you bark like a dog?
Can you sit like a kid at storytime?

• Flannelboard – Count the berry circles on top of a canoe (like the canoe in Jamberry)
• Book #2 – Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Don and Audrey Wood
• Activity – Ladybug (adaptation to a fingerplay I found in a book about baby lapsit storytimes, sorry I don't remember which book)

Ladybug, ladybug fly out of the farm
and land right on my little arm.
Ladybug, ladybug fly out fo 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 land right on my own sweet hair.
Ladybug, ladybug fly all around,
and quietly fly down to the ground.

• Closing - Rhythm sticks using "Goin' On a Bear Hunt" from Kids In Action by Greg and Steve
• Craft – Glue foam cirlce "berries" onto a canoe drawing

Chickens Storytime

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

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Big Fat Hen illustrated by Keith Baker
• Activity – Here's A Little Egg (action rhyme adapted from http://www.geocities.com/mystorytime/chickens.htm#Fingerplays)

Here's a little egg, so smooth and white
(sit criss-cross, head down, arms in lap)
Peck, peck,peck, there's something inside!
Peck, peck, peck here comes a little beak,
(move head up and make beak with fingers in front of mouth)
Peck, peck peck, here come two little feet.
(extend feet)
Peck, peck, peck here come the wings.
(shake wing arms)
Peck, peck, peck and a pick, pick, pick, and crack, crack, CRACK!
(move to a squatting position)
Out pops the baby chick!
(stand up, arms above head)

• Flannelboard – Hens Of A Different Color (I lost my notes as to which website I found this fun color flannelboard)
• Book #2 – Charlie Chick by Nick Denchfield and Ant Parker (pop-up)
• Activity – Two Little Chickens Sitting On A Fence (fingerplay adapted from the classic "Two Little Blackbirds")

Two little chickens sitting on a fence,
One named Jack, the other named Jill.
Fly away Jack.
Fly away Jill.
Come back Jack.
Come back Jill.
Two little chickens sitting on a fence.

• Closing - Rhythm sticks using "Goin' On a Bear Hunt" from Kids In Action by Greg and Steve
• Craft – Coloring sheet

Colors & Patterns Storytime

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

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Lots and Lots of Zebra Stripes: Patterns In Nature by Stephen R. Swinburne
• Activity – Colorful World (action rhyme adapted from Let's Read! Storytime Crafts by Kathryn Totten)

Blue sky up above
(arms up over head)
White snow on the ground
(touch the ground)
Yellow sun overhead
(arms circle over head)
Pink and brown and beige toes on our feet
(touch toes)
Green plants all around
(turn in a circle)
Many colored butterflies
(flap arms for butterfly wings)
All sit down
(flap arms as you slowly sit down on floor)

• Flannelboard/Activity – Place colored squares into a pattern on the magnetic side of the flannelboard, be sure to have the children help you make the pattern as it repeats
• Book #2 – Snappy Little Colors by Kate Lee, et al. (pop-up)
• Activity – Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum See My Fingers, See My Thumbs (fingerplay from Mother Goose Time by Jane Marino)
• Closing - Rhythm sticks using "Goin' On a Bear Hunt" from Kids In Action by Greg and Steve
• Craft –Glue color squares into a pattern line (the same squares and colors used in the flannelboard activity)

Reader's Advisory - Women's Western

• Women -- The West (United States)
• Western stories
• Men/women relations
• History -- Women's history
• Frontier and pioneer life -- The West (United States)

READALIKES:
Heart of the West: A Novel by Penelope Williamson
An Ordinary Woman: A Dramatized Biography of Nancy Kelsey by Cecelia Holland
The Jump-off Creek by Molly Gloss
The Living by Annie Dillard
When Hope Springs New by Janette Oke