tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46993088177527814232024-02-21T10:25:08.806-08:00Welcome to StorytimeKellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-20650262004506071242017-05-03T07:05:00.003-07:002017-05-03T07:05:48.642-07:00For my Kids First ColleaguesYesterday I had the privilege of presenting at our state youth services conference, Kids First, about post-storytime activities and process art for toddlers, and I wanted to follow up with a photo of the space we use for the activities I described.<br />
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Also, I realized afterwards that I never mentioned what is the biggest benefit of these activities--and that is the conversations they spark between toddlers and their grownups. When I shifted from a craft emphasis (you'll see a lot of old craft postings in my blog from before I made this switch) to an activity focus (and sometimes we don't do an art project--sometimes we <u>just</u> play with loose parts and the things on the cart I shared with you--the counting bears, shapes, beads, etc.), the entire nature of the conversations I heard changed. There were lots of questions from the adults to their toddlers: "What will you do with that? Which thing will you use next?" and so forth. Why is this conversation so different? Because when I offered crafts, the conversation was about the adult telling the child what step should be next--glue this here, color that, etc.--but with the loose parts, the decision-making entirely shifts to the child. Are we going to sort? Stack? Build? Count? Make a picture? Make a scene? Transfer things from the container to the tray and back again? The child takes control of the play. <br />
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So here's my storytime and craft space: (Please excuse the boxes stacked on the cabinet next to the storytime chair--they're for the toddler drive-in we're having later this month.)<br />
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The overstuffed chair on the left is where I begin storytime, with children sitting on the cushions that are in and stacked next to the chest on the left. The tiled area on the right is where we do art activities. Here's a closer look at just the tiled area:<br />
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So the sand table goes in the empty space on the left.<br />
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After storytime, if there is an art activity, that happens at the tables, and the cart of other activities is parked next to the chest of cushions. Children take what they want and play with them on the carpet. If we just do loose parts instead of a craft, those trays and containers are laid out on the tables, and the cart of other activities still goes next to the chest of cushions by the window.<br />
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I set out the caterpillar tube in the back area of the carpet that you see in the first photo, but it never stays there...it rolls a bit as kiddos play, so occasionally if it gets too close to other activities, a grownup or I will drag it a bit out of the way. <br />
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During the summer when we sometimes have really huge storytimes (100+), people will sit even on the edge of the tiled area. Behind the carpeted area in my first photo are the edge of the easy reader section of the collection and the play space, so sometimes people are right up against those sections, and we squish forward as much as we can to accommodate everyone.<br />
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If you find other great post-storytime activities for toddlers, please consider sharing them here or on Library Talk--I'm always combing through blogs, Pinterest, and professional books looking for more to add to our rotation.<br />
<br />Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-22194135112968331822016-07-12T14:49:00.002-07:002016-07-12T14:49:29.055-07:00Pokemon Go craftIn response to how many people are wandering around and near our library playing Pokemon Go, we've decided to replace our regularly scheduled summer library program craft next week with this cute paper bracelet, designed by my co-worker Lou. We're also having a scavenger hunt for littlies who don't have a phone to play with, and we're giving out Pokemon stickers as prizes. If we have time to decorate this week, I'll add a photo of the decor.<br />
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<br />Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-3110812500596511452014-12-19T12:27:00.001-08:002014-12-19T12:27:17.377-08:00Do you want to build a snowman?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of our reference librarians shared with me a picture of a snowman book stack she saw at http://iworkatapubliclibrary.com/image/105500093602, and it's so cute, I had to make one at our library.<br />
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Happy holidays, everyone!Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-15701284371212135692014-07-09T14:54:00.001-07:002014-07-10T13:16:55.921-07:00Storytime Activity Centers for 2-3 Year-Olds At my library, I have reluctantly provided crafts after storytimes for 2-3 year-olds. It is a practice that started long before I came to the library and one which parents expect, but finding a large enough variety of crafts that involve skills that are truly suited to 2 and 3 year-olds has been a challenge, and so today I rolled out a new storytime format. I had intended to introduce it the first week of June, but my prep time was much longer than I anticipated, and the items I purchased took longer than anticipated to arrive. I was hesitant to try this during the summer--our summer storytimes can top 90 in attendance at times and the thought of 50 or more 2 and 3 year-olds doing different activities at the same time was a little daunting to think about managing, but it was worth trying because it will be so much more beneficial for my little storytime friends.<br />
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So here's what I did and will continue doing. I used my usual format for the storytime itself--2 or 3 good books for this age (not tiny board books) with songs and/or activities between, and I always begin and end with the same hello and good-bye songs. But instead of doing a make-and-take craft afterwards, today I gave them a bagged craft to take home and do (so the grown-ups who are very attached to crafts can still take one home to do themselves), and I introduced some activity centers that are more suited to 2 and 3 year-olds--they stem from Iowa's Every Child Reads or ALA's Every Child Read to Read components. Families then stayed for 20-30 minutes to do a "center."<br />
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I took just about 2 minutes to tell the parents the purpose of each center, and then they chose one, took it to the floor or to a table, and parents and children did the activity together. <b><u>This was glorious.</u></b> In the past at the craft tables, most of what I heard consisted of parents directing their children in what to do in order to make the craft as they wanted it to turn out. Today, instead, I heard <b><u>conversations</u></b>. I heard laughing. I heard encouragement and praise. I heard stories. I heard learning happening, and it was exciting.<br />
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So after that last sentence, if you're still reading this, you're probably expecting some pretty spectacular, innovative center ideas to follow, but what follows are just simple, engaging activities--one of them homemade--that are appropriate for 2-3 year-olds and serve a purpose in the ECR and ECRR frameworks. My goal is to create/obtain enough of each (except the sand table, of course) so that I can offer just 3 choices each week, plus the sand table, and rotate the choices often. <br />
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Here are my initial centers. Please note that although many involve sorting and counting, their purpose may have more to do with the fine motor skills involved in manipulating the objects or with the conversations they generate. It's purposeful play.<br />
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1. <b>Sand table</b> with various plastic containers, pourers, sieves, and funnels (ours can comfortably accommodate 8 small children at once, elbow to elbow). I didn't take a picture of it, but they are sold through a variety of school and library supply companies. <br />
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2. <b>Counting/Sorting Bears</b><br />
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I had anticipated a huge bag of bears that I could divide into smaller kits, but there are only ten of each color, so I am ordering more of these, available <a href="http://www.amazon.com/50-Counting-Bears-5-Cups/dp/B0006PKZBI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1404935418&sr=8-1&keywords=counting+bears" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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3. <b> 3-D Shapes</b><br />
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These were used as blocks, for counting, and for color sorting by most. Learning the names of the 3-D shapes wasn't the main objective from my perspective. I plan to attach some conversation prompts to the containers for grown-ups who might not know what to ask or say while playing with a 2 or 3 year-old. Some of the adults who bring children to our storytimes are babysitters, some are fresh out of high school, and some just may not realize how beneficial purposeful conversation can be in the literacy development of a child. These I bought from <a href="http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/product/productDet.jsp?productItemID=1%2C689%2C949%2C371%2C893%2C563&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=1408474395181113&bmUID=1404935897400" target="_blank">Lakeshore Learning</a>.<br />
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4. <b> Counting Chips</b><br />
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I used empty Crystal Light-type containers, cut slits in the lids, and put about 25 colored plastic chips in each. Children empty the container and then drop the chips into the container one at a time while either counting or identifying colors. The chips would make a more satisfying thunk with a coffee can, but my storage space is limited, so I like this compact container. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GP53LE/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=B001GP53LE&linkCode=as2&tag=thireamam-20" target="_blank">These</a> are the chips I purchased. although others would work just as well. I checked my local dollar store for some less expensive poker chips, but they didn't have what I was looking for at the time.<br />
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5. <b> Lacing Beads</b><br />
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The container of beads came with just four laces, so I purchased extra laces that are thick and made specifically for this kind of activity. The beads are very large, too--good for little hands. I divided the huge container into six smaller ones. This develops the pincer grasp and eye-hand coordination. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Jumbo-Lacing-Beads-360-Pieces/dp/B00AIYCBSC/ref=sr_1_22?s=toys-and-games&ie=UTF8&qid=1401912446&sr=1-22&keywords=lacing+beads" target="_blank">These</a> are the beads I bought.<br />
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6. <b> Finger Puppets</b><br />
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I bought sets of people and animals. This is another center that I'll write prompts for eventually. Adults who may not feel comfortable making up dialogue on the spot might be willing to sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm or some other familiar song from their childhood instead.<br />
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7.<b> Flannel Boards</b><br />
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Again, eye-hand coordination and pincer grasp come into play as well as story-making. I purchased a 5-board set from <a href="http://www.lakeshorelearning.com/product/productDet.jsp?productItemID=1%2C689%2C949%2C371%2C904%2C223&ASSORTMENT%3C%3East_id=1408474395181113&bmUID=1401902817441" target="_blank">here</a>, put the flannel pieces for each into a labeled gallon-size Ziplock bag, and they were ready to go. The set I purchased came with scenes for the beach, a cafe, the zoo, a camp site, and a pet shop. I love creating flannels and will, over time, supplement these sets with some homemade ones.<br />
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8. <b> I Spy Bottles</b><br />
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These were the most time-consuming, because I made them. I ordered gumball charms from a seller on Etsy, died alphabet-shaped pasta in primary colors with a mixture of food coloring and rubbing alcohol, and mixed them into rice in Blue Diamond almond bottles. The lids are hot-glued shut to prevent spills. I made sure that each bottle got a complete alphabet so that children can try to find all of the letters of their names if they want to. I put a very short list of things to look for on the top of each lid for those who want a specific challenge. Examples of these are all over Pinterest. <br />
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In a gallon-sized Ziplock bag I put a plastic container of various-sized poms, a small paint tray (because I don't currently have a supply of egg cartons, which work just as well), some small containers, and a pair of children's plastic tongs. The idea is that children will use the tongs to transfer the poms from one container to another or from the floor to a container. This activity could involve sorting by color and counting as well. This idea came from <a href="http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com/tottrays.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Scroll down to Transferring.<br />
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The favorites of the day were the counting bears, the I Spy bottles, and the flannel boards. I'll be interested to see if the favorites change as the makeup of my storytime groups change. <br />
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Do I ever plan to do crafts after storytime again? Yes, but only ones that serve a purpose <b>for toddlers</b>. Painting activities (what kind of mark will this sponge, stamp, cotton swab, or wheel make when dipped in paint?), collage-making (rubbing a glue stick onto a piece of paper and sticking things to it will engage some of my toddlers for tens of minutes), and other similar activities will make occasional appearances after my storytimes, but I will no longer be a slave to the post-storytime craft. <br />
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I have a list of more post-storytime activity centers I'd like to create or obtain, including:<br />
--Making a "feelie box." Cut a hole into the side of a box for a child's hand to fit through. Put objects inside--spoon, comb, pencil, eraser, fork, cotton ball, clothespin, coin, etc. Put on the side of the box as a prompt: Can you name each object you touch? How does it feel (smooth, hard, soft, long, short, etc.)<br />
--Threading pieces of a plastic straw onto a lace<br />
--Rubber stamps, pads, and paper (I love watching toddlers experiment with the kinds of marks they can make with various marking tools. I can almost hear them thinking, "What will it look like if I smear it? If I press it? If I drop it onto the paper?")<br />
--No-mess finger paint (finger paint in duct-taped gallon Ziplock bags)<br />
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--Scoop and pour: I'll provide dry beans and peas, plastic containers, a spoon, a scoop, and let them experiment with ways to transfer the beans from one container to another.</div>
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--Clothespin transfer: I'll provide a clothespin, some objects, and some plastic containers to move the objects to.</div>
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--Song: Hello, Everybody, Yes Indeed from H.U.M. by Carole Peterson</div>
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--Book: Wiggle by Doreen Cronin (Of course, we made all of the various kinds of wiggles as we read.)</div>
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--Song: Teddy Bear Play Time from So Big by Hap Palmer (I purchased 4 dozen inexpensive <a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/plush-cuddly-bears-a2-6_1476.fltr?prodCatId=90000+1264" target="_blank">teddy bears</a> from Oriental Trading so that children have an actual teddy bear to use for the song. It's been the favorite this summer and we've done it every week.)</div>
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--Book: Dot and Dash Play Together by Emma Dodd (Today's group was particularly attentive; otherwise I would skip a third book.)</div>
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A little over a year later, we've just had three pieces installed in my library, and the kids love them!<br />
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Here's our tractor:</div>
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And wall piece for the playhouse:</div>
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If I had been the youth services librarian when the building was designed, I would have had Burgeon Group do the whole department. I'm thankful, though, that we got what we did. The funding for the installation was provided by our Friends of the Library and the Robert and Shirley Berg Endowment.<br />
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Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-48098560238029511912013-04-07T14:08:00.001-07:002013-04-07T14:15:53.997-07:00Lego Minifig Crayons and Legopalooza EventNext Friday our youth department will host our second Legopalooza event. We used to have Lego club once a month, but it was difficult to staff with such a small staff and still keep up with all of our storytimes and regular school groups (we have 13 that come once or twice a month), so we've gone to a quarterly model for our Lego events. Since we're doing fewer of them, we're making them a bigger deal, and so we like to send each child home with a little gift bag of Lego-themed items, and we've discovered that making minifig crayons is an inexpensive but adorable little gift. And it gives us the chance to recycle our old, broken crayons.<br />
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I purchased three minifig mold trays from Amazon, but I'm sure they're available elsewhere, too:<br />
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I didn't realize, though, that you can't put them into the oven... they're not made for high heat. So I purchased 4 Pyrex measuring cups from my local department store chain for less than $2 each. I put some crayons into each<br />
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It takes the whole 40 minutes that a batch of wax is in the oven for the crayons in the refrigerator to cool enough to pop them out. If you try to pop them out before they're completely cool, you'll likely break off a head or the feet. (I learned this the hard way!)<br />
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The trays do not need to be oiled--the crayons pop right out if you pull the sides and push each out from the bottom. <br />
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I love the marbled look, so I mix lighter and darker shades without stirring. This is 120 crayons, and I need at least twice as many (along with some left over from our last event) for each child to take home 3 crayons. We'll also give each child a sheet of Lego stickers (images available <a href="http://minifigures.lego.com/en-us/Downloads/cat212364.aspx#cat238653" target="_blank">here</a>) just printed on sticker paper, and each child will make a minifigure mask at the event (images available <a href="http://minifigures.lego.com/en-us/Downloads/cat212364.aspx" target="_blank">here</a> ). I'll add a photo of the masks after our event on Friday. <br />
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At our first Legopalooza event, each child took home a gift bag with three minifig crayons, a minifig (we purchased some and also used the couple of dozen we'd collected from Lego books our library purchased that come with a minifig), and a small bag of Blox candy that you can actually build with. For 75 children, we purchased 4 lbs. of the candy and just divided it as equally as we could among the 75 baggies. <br />
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Because word has spread about our events, we've increased our registration limit to 100 children for Legopalooza 2, and we're almost at our cap. <br />
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I have to thank the Lego company for the Duplo story kits and Duplos they sent us--we were in the top 200 libraries for their joint contest with ALSC, <b>Read, Build, Play</b>. We've already done our Lego storytime once and we plan to repeat it periodically. We have both a Lego table and a Duplo table in our youth department, so the Duplos we received are at our Duplo table for children to play with. On Legopalooza day, we'll take all of our Legos and Duplos to the meeting room for the event. Children will build while we play the Duplo Jams music available as a free download <a href="http://www.readbuildplay.com/" target="_blank">here</a>. We'll have a craft table set up for children to make their minifig mask, and then after 90 minutes of building, we'll send them home with their gift bags. Everyone seemed to have a good time at the first event, so we're hopeful that this one will be a success as well!<br />
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Before our next quarterly event, I intend to purchase some Lego block ice trays to make block-shaped crayons, too. <br />
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If anyone has any good ideas for other inexpensive Lego-themed parting gifts, please leave me a note in the comments. I'd love to hear what others are doing!<br />
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<br />Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-52657591977511519372012-11-01T18:34:00.000-07:002012-11-01T19:31:00.775-07:00Flannel Friday: Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her WashAfter taking a long break from FF during which I just copied flannels that I've admired by other Flannel Fridayers, my offering this week was made by my colleague Lou to tell the story<em> Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash</em> by Sarah Weeks with a clothesline. I love Lou's detailed pieces! Many of them are even double-sided to make them sturdier to last through multiple uses by children.<br />
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And here's what part of it looks like on the line:<br />
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Of course, we passed out the flannel pieces and asked children to come and hang their items on the line when they were mentioned in the story. It was a hit! We found a few pics of flannelized or photocopy-and-laminate clothesline versions of the book on various blogs, so we don't know who to credit with the original idea. And although we chose not to use them, there are some Mrs. McNosh activities and printables available <a href="http://makinglearningfun.com/themepages/MrsMcNoshPrintables.htm" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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When we someday do Mrs. McNosh again, we'll figure out a way to stabilize our line--we just tied it between two chairs, but as pieces were added, some twisted up and around so that they weren't all hanging straight down. There are so many pieces that it might work better with a few smaller lines rather than one long one. <br />
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Since Halloween is over now and there's no rush, next week I'll post the flannel song I used for the two weeks leading up to Halloween. <br />
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Check out all of this week's Flannel Friday posts <a href="http://www.toddlertalesfun.blogspot.com/2012/11/thanksgiving-flannel-friday-round-up.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Happy Friday!<br />
<br />Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-75399019854055017302012-10-31T10:18:00.000-07:002012-11-01T18:36:05.558-07:00Mrs. McNoshBecause two of our weekly storytimes this week are after Halloween, we decided to do our Halloween storytime last week, so this week we did Mrs. McNosh stories by Sarah Weeks. We read:<br />
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My colleague Lou created the most wonderful flannel set to use as a washline and clothespin story. You can see that <a href="http://cfkidslibrarian.blogspot.com/2012/11/flannel-friday-mrs-mcnosh-hangs-up-her.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Between stories we did an action rhyme called "Washing Clothes" by Susan Dailey that can be found <a href="http://www.susanmdailey.com/fingerplays.html" target="_blank">here</a> and "Early in the Morning" by Judy Nichols from v. 1, n. 6 of <em>Children's Programming Monthly, </em>the<em> My Clothes</em> issue.</div>
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<br />Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-12756618599960584532012-10-24T18:56:00.000-07:002012-10-24T18:56:14.900-07:00Halloween Window SilhouettesWe're into silhouettes in our windows at my library...and shadow puppet shows, too. I just had to share these spooky designs done by my artistically talented colleague Dan. It must be nice to be so talented!<br />
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Bigger Than Daddy by Harriet Ziefert</div>
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Up! Tall! and High! by Ethan Long</div>
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and Is It Larger? Is It Smaller? by Tana Hoban</div>
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I'm going to reuse the flannel story A House For Birdie based on the book by Stuart J. Murphy that I think was first posted on <a href="http://storytiming.com/2011/06/17/flannel-friday-a-house-for-birdie-by-stuart-j-murphy/" target="_blank">Storytiming</a>. It's absolutely perfect for discussing relative size. <br />
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We'll also watch an episode of Peg + Cat, a new PBS Kids show that will premiere sometime next fall. In this episode Peg matches pieces of cake to her picnic guests based on their size--the smallest piece goes to her smallest guest and the biggest piece to the biggest guest. There are also lots of chickens in the episode. :-)<br />
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Our craft will be a set of nesting dolls made from paper cups (small, larger, largest). I'll post a pic when the sample is ready.<br />
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Once again we'll have take-home activities from Virtual Pre-K for families to do for more comparing fun.</div>
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In Front of My House by Marianne Dubuc</div>
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Peepsqueak by Leslie Ann Clark (I'll do some questioning such as, "Who is <u>behind</u> the sheep?")<br />
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After the first book, we'll jam to the song "Up and Down" by The Pop-Ups with scarves. This is one of my favorite activity songs for storytimes! We'll follow the directions in the lyrics:<br />
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Pick it up, put it down (4 x)<br />
Turn yourself around (2 x)<br />
Stand up, sit down (4 x)<br />
Turn yourself around (2 x)<br />
Toss it up, it drops down (4 x)<br />
Turn yourself around (2 x)<br />
Up and down, up and down (2 x)<br />
Turn it up, turn it down (4 x)<br />
Turn yourself around (2 x)<br />
Sun goes up, sun goes down (4 x)<br />
Turn yourself around (2 x)<br />
Up and down, up and down (4 x)<br />
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The Tooty Ta song would work just as well, but I just love the Pop-Ups!<br />
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After the second book, we're going on a bear hunt! There are lots of versions on the web, but I'm planning to use the book version retold by Michael Rosen.<br />
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Our craft is a paper bag bear puppet similar to this one from enchantedlearning.com:<br />
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Parents will be given a take-home sheet of location word activities to continue the fun at home. <br />
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Other books that could be used for this storytime:<br />
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Over, Under, and Through/ Tana Hoban<br />
Over and Under/ Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter<br />
We're Going on a Lion Hunt/ David AxtellKellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-52784219796596109162012-09-18T07:53:00.001-07:002012-09-18T07:53:33.089-07:00Patterns and SortingThe books we'll read for our patterned storytime are:<br />
Bees, Snails, and Peacock Tails by Betsy Franco and Steve Jenkins<br />
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Harry the Dirty Dog by Gene Zion<br />
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and The Monkey with a Bright Blue Bottom by Steve Smallman<br />
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After our first book, we'll play a finish-the-pattern flannel game <span style="color: red;"><span style="color: black;">from <a href="http://meusenotes.blogspot.com/2012/07/inspiration-for-summer-storytimes.html" target="_blank">Notes from the Story Room</a>.</span> </span><br />
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After the second book, we'll sing "Clap Your Hands" from American Folk, Game & Activity Songs by Pete Seeger. We'll talk about how patterns can be in sounds as well as images.<br />
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Our craft today will be to make a patterned friendship bracelet with pony beads--the pattern is the child's choice.<br />
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Parents will be given a take-home sheet of activities from the Virtual Pre-K kit so parent and child can have more fun with patterns at home.<br />
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For toddler storytime, instead of the finish-the-pattern flannel game, we'll match patterned dinosaurs with solid colored ones, an idea from <a href="http://piperlovesthelibrary.blogspot.com/2012/07/we-are-dinosaurs.html" target="_blank">Piper Loves the Library</a>.<br />
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Other pattern and sorting books for storytime friends to check out:<br />
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Alike or Not Alike?: A Photo Sorting Game/ Kristen McCurry<br />
I Like Black and White/ Barbara Jean Hicks<br />
Beep Beep, Vroom Vroom/ Stuart J. Murphy<br />
Old Bear's Surprise Painting/ Jane Hissey<br />
A Pair of Socks/ Stuart J. Murphy<br />
Patterns Outside/ Daniel Nunn<br />
Sort It Out!/ Barbara Mariconda<br />
The Spider Weaver: A Legend of Kente Cloth/ Margaret Musgrove<br />
Spotty, Stripy, Swirly: What Are Patterns?/ Jane Brocket<br />
A Star in My Orange: Looking for Nature's Shapes/ Dana Meachen Rau<br />
Swirl by Swirl: Spirals in Nature/ Joyce Sidman<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Lots of Dots</em> by Craig Frazier</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In honor of shapes, after the first book we'll do a circle song, "Bluebird, Bluebird." If you've never done this one before, you can find some demos on YouTube. We'll do ours somewhat like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arwbBx1jmQY" target="_blank">this one</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">After the second book, we'll build a picture with flannel shapes, an idea from a Flannel Friday post from <a href="http://melissa.depperfamily.net/blog/?p=2857" target="_blank">Mel's Desk</a>. I'll give a couple of pieces to each child, we'll decide what to build, and each child will contribute her/his shapes to the picture where they make the most sense. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the third book, we'll play another circle song game I saw on </span><a href="http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/shapes/games.htm" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everything Preschool</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. The shapes are just cut out of construction paper and laminated. We'll sit in a circle with the shapes in the center, and the child who is "it" will walk around our circle as we sing, [to the tune of "Skip to My Lou"]</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lost my circle, what do I do?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lost my circle, what do I do?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Lost my circle, what do I do?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">What do I do, my darling?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Then the child will find the shape we've been singing about. We'll repeat, substituting the names of the other shapes until we've found all of them, and for each verse a different child will be "it."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There will be a take-home sheet for parents for more fun with shapes at home.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For the craft this week, we'll be making quilt squares with wallpaper samples. One of the youth staff made the quilt templates, and we'll provide children with the wallpaper shapes that they'll glue onto the templates to make a design. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">For toddler storytime, the books will be Shape by Shape by Suze MacDonald, Circus Shapes by Stuart Murphy, and One Sunny Day by Tammi Salzano. In place of the building blocks flannel activity, we'll do a flannel shape matching activity from <a href="http://piperlovesthelibrary.blogspot.com/2012/03/flannel-friday-circles.html" target="_blank">Piper Loves the Library</a>. I made triangles and squares in addition to circles, and I'll keep a set for myself, distribute one from the matching set to each child, and sing this song, to the tune of "Happy Birthday to You."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Which circles are the same? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Which circles are the same? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Can you tell me, can you tell me, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">Which circles are the same?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Children with the matching shapes will come to the flannel board during the song and put theirs together. Then we'll repeat the verse, substituting the other shapes when appropriate.</span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p>Other books considered that were displayed for check-out after storytime:</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p>Apes Find Shapes/ Jane Belk Moncure</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p>Circle/ Sophie Schrey</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p>Not a Box/ Antoinette Portis</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p>Perfect Square/ Michael Hall</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p>Pond Circle/ Betsy Franco</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p>Rectangle/ Bryony Jones</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p>Shape Capers/ Cathryn Falwell</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p>Shapes, Shapes, Shapes/ Tana Hoban</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p>So Many Circles, So Many Squares/ Tana Hoban</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p>Square/ Bryony Jones</o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p>Triangle/ Bryony Jones</o:p></span></div>
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Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-49851386776212088942012-07-31T15:02:00.000-07:002012-09-18T07:55:15.876-07:00CountingOur preschool and toddler storytimes for an upcoming week will have us counting up a storm. As children are arriving, I'll ask their grownups to write their children's names on a grid I made on a large sheet of bulletin board paper, one letter per space. It looks something like this:<br />
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">M<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">i<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 18.85pt;" valign="top" width="25"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">i<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">e<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">D<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">e<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 18.85pt;" valign="top" width="25"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">n<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">i<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">s<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: Arial;">e<o:p></o:p></span></div>
</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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</td>
</tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 18.85pt;" valign="top" width="25"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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</td>
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;">
<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black; border-style: none solid solid; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 18.85pt;" valign="top" width="25"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 19.5pt;" valign="top" width="26"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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<td style="background-color: transparent; border-color: rgb(0, 0, 0) black black rgb(0, 0, 0); border-style: none solid solid none; border-width: 0px 1pt 1pt 0px; mso-border-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-bottom-themecolor: text1; mso-border-left-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-left-themecolor: text1; mso-border-right-themecolor: text1; mso-border-themecolor: text1; mso-border-top-alt: solid black .5pt; mso-border-top-themecolor: text1; padding: 0in 5.4pt; width: 0.25in;" valign="top" width="24"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
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We always begin with the same hello song and end with the same goodbye song.<br />
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There are so many great counting books that choosing three was difficult, but I finally settled on<br />
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<em> Doggone Dogs!</em> by Karen Beaumont<br />
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<em>One Drowsy Dragon</em> by Ethan Long and</div>
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<em>One Duck Stuck</em> by Phyllis Root.</div>
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Although there are lots and lots of counting books, not all of them make good storytime reads, so I looked for books that tell a story, too.</div>
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After the first book, we'll sing "Over in the Meadow," The Wiggles' version. After the second book, we'll play a game called Count & Move (<em>Virtual Pre-K! Ready for Math </em>[kit], Chicago Public Schools and PBS Kids, 2011). For this game, I made two sets of cards. One set includes numbers and the other includes actions (jump, clap, twirl, etc.). I'll draw one card from each deck and we'll perform that move the number of times the card shows. </div>
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After the last book, we'll do a number of things with our name grid: count the number of letters in the first name, find other names that are the same length (easy to see on a grid), look at the second name and decide whether it has more or fewer letters than the first name, identify the longest and shortest names on the grid, and note who has the same number of letters in their names. </div>
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I'll give each parent a take-home sheet of counting activities, but so that they wouldn't feel as if it is homework, I'll say something like, "If you had fun counting today, here are some things you can do at home to practice counting." The take-home sheet comes directly from the Virtual Pre-K kit mentioned above.</div>
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Our craft this week is a circus train with animals to count:</div>
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For the toddler storytime counterpart, the activities are the same, but for books I'll use <em>One Pup's Up</em> by Marsha Wilson Chall, <em>Ducking for Apples</em> by Lynne Berry, and <em>Ten Little Caterpillars</em> by Bill Martin Jr. For our toddler storytimes, the hello and goodbye songs are slightly different, and we always play "Ring Around the Rosy," which was a part of the toddler storytime routine at this library long before I was hired. (During one of the first storytimes I did when I accidentally forgot to play "Ring Around the Rosy," one of my storytime friends reminded me that we couldn't leave storytime without doing that first!)</div>
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Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-15131378662382036592012-07-31T15:01:00.001-07:002012-07-31T15:01:22.953-07:00Ready to Learn: How I'm involvedEarly this spring, I was asked to participate in Iowa Public Television's Ready to Learn grant program at one of my libraries. In a nutshell, for this strand of Ready to Learn, PBS has created new programs and games for children ages 2-8 to boost their math skills. (Be sure to check out Peg + Cat on PBS when it premieres during the fall of 2013--it is absolutely adorable!) Many of the games are available for iPads and iPhones, and they are every bit as engaging as games that weren't designed to boost math skills. <br />
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As a public librarian, I was asked to think about how I could introduce children and their parents to these resources. After several planning sessions with the grant coordinator from IPTV and others in the community who were participating--our local school district, the YWCA, and some daycare providers--we decided that the major focus at the library would be two things: gaming sessions at the library for children and their parents to introduce them to the games, (IPTV provided coupons for the families for the apps. that are not free) and incorporating some of the Ready to Learn math concepts into our preschool and toddler storytimes. We were already incorporating these concepts into our storytimes, but not with any particular scheme in mind, so we decided to make these concepts the focus of a series of storytimes. We were provided with Virtual Pre-K kits, developed by the Chicago Public Schools and PBS Kids, which contain activities that parents can do with their children at home to teach math skills using ordinary household items. Each segment of the kit focuses on a specific set of math skills: counting, understanding the connection between a group of things and a number, identifying and naming shapes, etc. After each of the storytimes, parents will leave with a list of activities from the Virtual Pre-K kit that they can do at home to extend the concepts beyond storytime.<br />
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This was the jumping off point for our Ready to Learn-inspired storytimes. You can see my plans for these storytimes, including book lists and crafts, by clicking on the tag for Virtual Pre-K on the right side menu of this blog.<br />
<br />Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-65769503046346694252012-07-24T14:10:00.000-07:002012-07-24T14:10:15.661-07:00Learning from ResearchersIn July I was visited by a team of researchers investigating the Ready to Learn programs in which one of my libraries is participating. As a graduate student, I learned to do "big girl research," so their methods and questions did not come as any surprise to me. What was a surprise, though, was how much food for thought their questions left for me. <br />
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As we were talking about the <a href="http://pbskids.org/lab" target="_blank">PBS Kids Lab</a> games, I mentioned that based on my observations of children in my library, the Kids Lab games are every bit as engaging as games that aren't educational. Of course, they followed up with, "Can you give us an example of some games that aren't educational?" Now I'm not new to gaming. In fact, games based on books were a research interest of mine not too, too many years ago, so I've done a fair bit of reading, playing, and writing about games--video games, board games, card games...you name it. But asked that question, I was hard-pressed to think of games that aren't educational, except maybe shooting games, to which one of the researchers replied that maybe they teach hand-eye coordination, but that might be a stretch. <br />
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James Gee, noted scholar of video games, writes about video games as perfect literacy environments that require complex problem-solving (<em>What Video Games Have to Teach Us about Learning and Literacy</em>, 2nd ed., 2007), perhaps even the shooting games I had in mind. But what I was trying to express goes to the intent of a game--in my observation, games with an obvious educational purpose often feel more like lessons than play. And I'm not implying that lessons can't be fun--I'm just saying that most of the intentionally-educational games I've played and seen have a different sort of feel to them, and to some children, those overtly educational games are not appealing. There are some children I couldn't pay to play such games. So I have been pleased to see that there are children and families who visit our library on gaming days specifically for the Kids Lab. Above all, the Kids Lab games are fun...they just also happen to be designed with math objectives. And I'm not getting paid to say any of this, by the way.<br />
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So getting back to that food for thought...designing storytimes that have specific math objectives driving them have proven to be difficult for me to plan while preserving that spirit of play that we think our storytimes have, so although I have them drafted, I'm hoping for a burst of creative inspiration before September so that the number one thought in the minds of our storytime friends is, "That was fun!"Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-14613541004490866022012-06-28T17:53:00.000-07:002012-06-28T19:27:37.712-07:00Flannel Friday: Hide-and-Seek Mice: A Flannel RhymeFor an upcoming storytime with a "Let's Play" theme, I made my own original hide-and-seek flannel game rhyme. In the photo, the mice are visible, but for the game/rhyme, I'll hide them behind the chimney, the hole in the tree, the window, the door, the doghouse, some grass, and the flower. (I accidentally left the grass out of the photo.) The line for the window might be a bit too obscure for toddlers...I may revise it after I see how they respond.<br />
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Can you find me? Where, oh, where?</div>
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<strong><u>I Wish I Were </u>(sung to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It")</strong><br />
Oh, I wish I were a floating butterfly, (2 x)<br />
I’d go flutter, flutter, fly in the bright blue sunny sky,<br />
Oh, I wish I were a floating butterfly.<br />
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Oh, I wish I were a shiny little fish, (2 x)<br />
I’d go swimmy, swimmy, glide in the big blue ocean tide,<br />
Oh, I wish I were a shiny little fish.<br />
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Oh, I wish I were a silver airplane, (2 x)<br />
I’d go soar, soar, soar as my engines loudly roar,<br />
Oh, I wish I were a silver airplane.<br />
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Oh, I wish I were a tall, tall leafy tree, (2 x)<br />
I’d be a place to rest for the birdies in their nest,<br />
Oh, I wish I were a tall, tall leafy tree.<br />
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Oh, I wish I were a green and speckled frog, (2 x)<br />
I’d go croaky, croaky, croak as I jump into the brook,<br />
Oh, I wish I were a green and speckled frog.<br />
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Oh, I wish I were a bright and shining star, (2 x)<br />
I’d go twinkle, twinkle, spark in the nighty nighttime dark,<br />
Oh, I wish I were a bright and shining star.<br />
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This week's Flannel Friday roundup is being hosted by Sarah at <a href="http://misssarahsstorytime.blogspot.com/2012/06/flannel-round-up-for-61512.html" target="_blank">Read It Again!</a>Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-70771333915809080092012-06-07T06:24:00.000-07:002012-06-16T11:27:47.580-07:00Flannel Friday: Five Little Rockets<br />
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Space Adventures week of the summer library program. The rhyme comes from a link to teaching materials on NASA’s
web page at: <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/147266main_3.2.1.Liftoff_Activity11.pdf">http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/147266main_3.2.1.Liftoff_Activity11.pdf</a>. I’ve changed the last verse so it makes
sense for one rocket, and I’ve added a countdown to blast off. We can’t possibly have a rocket rhyme
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Five little rockets ready to zoom,</div>
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One little rocket ready to zoom,</div>
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Here is my nose cone.
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Here is my fin. [hold arms from sides pointing down like
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The Flannel Friday roundup this week is at <a href="http://thestorytimelady.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/flannel-friday-round-up-june-8th/" target="_blank">Recipe for Reading</a>!</div>
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One of my favorite storytime CDs is <i>H.U.M.: Highly Usable
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week’s flannel figures are visual cues to help us remember the critters in this
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I was lying in my sleeping bag—I couldn’t get to sleep</div>
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Owl. Hoo hoo.</div>
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coyote (aroooooo, aroooo)</div>
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cat (meow, meow)</div>
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Each time a new creature/sound is added, we will repeat the
previous ones, too. I can’t wait!
The chant has been stuck in my head all week! If I had smaller groups for storytime, I would pass out
drums and we would drum to the chant, but our toddler groups are already huge
and get even bigger during the summer, so we’ll just keep time by patting our
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The owl is a miniature version of <a href="http://sunflowerstorytime.com/2011/03/22/owls/" target="_blank">Sunflower Storytime's template</a>, and for the rest, I used clip art from a database to which my library subscribes. </div>
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At my other library, we're doing the chant as part of our shadow puppet show on June 13th, but we're still working on the puppets, so I'll post a pic when they're done. <br />
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This week the Flannel Friday roundup is being hosted by Lisa at <a href="http://lisaslibraryland.blogspot.com/2012/05/flannel-friday-round-up-for-june-2.html" target="_blank">Libraryland</a>.</div>
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<br /></div>Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-86395766102840692622012-05-24T09:15:00.003-07:002012-06-16T11:26:59.867-07:00Flannel Song: Little SandmanOur summer library program
starts in just over a week, and this week’s flannel song is for storytime that
week. We’re using the national
theme, Dream Big: Read, and our subthemes are Asleep and Dreaming, Night
Owls, Space Adventures, Night
Shivers, and Dreams and Wishes. My
flannel for week 1, Asleep and Dreaming, is “Little Sandman,” the Brahms
lullaby. I’ve seen at least two different versions of the lyrics, but I took my favorite bits from each and combined them into this version. During the last verse, I'll sprinkle a little clear glitter onto the flannel child's face.<br />
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Slumber, slumber</div>
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I’m going to be brave and try this a cappella…we’ll see how
it goes. This is the most subdued flannel song I’ve tried, so I hope my
storytime children will enjoy it. <br />
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Check out all of this week's Flannel Friday posts <a href="http://melissa.depperfamily.net/blog/?p=3543" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-16076069080708332222012-05-13T16:44:00.000-07:002012-06-16T11:22:04.841-07:00Boo Hoo Bird Flannel Story<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This week's creation is <i>Boo Hoo Bird</i> by Jeremy Tankard, for a bird-themed storytime in two weeks. I tried to make my felt figures look just like characters in the book. I can't wait to tell the story in storytime! I love Mr. Tankard's books!<br />
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This is my first contribution to Flannel Friday! You can check out all of this week's Flannel Friday creations <a href="http://meusenotes.blogspot.com/2012/05/flannel-friday-round-up-for-may-18.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
<br />Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-41635259452836899162012-05-05T23:15:00.003-07:002012-06-16T11:22:04.846-07:00Cows in the Kitchen flannel storyI love making flannel stories...it's relaxing, and I got to use for the first time the pretty scissors my mom gave me this week. Here are my flannel figures for <i>Cows in the Kitchen</i> by June Crebbin, to be used during storytime sometime in the near future.<br />
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<br />Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11117626352959172555noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4699308817752781423.post-20729451528516707262012-05-05T13:57:00.001-07:002012-06-16T11:20:44.771-07:00Cats!One of my colleagues brought to my attention the book <i>Cat Secrets</i> by Jef Czekaj just after we added it to our collection, and I'm finally getting around to building a cat-themed storytime for toddlers for next week. I love books like this that invite interaction with the audience, and this one goes way up on my list of favorites along with <i>Can You Make a Scary Face</i> and <i>Is Everyone Ready for Fun?</i> by Jan Thomas, and <i>Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus</i> by Mo Willems. The books I'm reading this week are:<br />
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<i>Cat Secrets</i> by Jef Czekaj<br />
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<i>Sleepy Kittens</i> by Jill and Martin Leman<br />
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and <i>Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat</i> illustrated by Annie Kubler for Child's Play.<br />
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Between stories, we'll do an action rhyme:<br />
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"Five Little Kittens" from <i>Storytimes for Two-Year-Olds</i> by Judy Nichols, p. 58.<br />
One, two, three, four, five, (count fingers on one hand)<br />
Five little kittens standing in a row. (stand up straight)<br />
They nod their heads to the children so. (nod head)<br />
The run to the left, they run to the right (run in place facing left, then turn and run in place facing right)<br />
They stand up and stretch in the bright sunlight. (stretch arms overhead)<br />
Along comes a dog, looking for some fun. (hunch shoulders)<br />
Meow, meow, (make scratching motions)<br />
See that doggie run! (clap hands quickly)<br />
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and a flannel rhyme:<br />
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"Rainbow Kittens" from <i>Early Literacy Storytimes @ Your Library</i> by Saroj Nadkarni Ghoting and Pamela Martin-Diaz, p. 111<br />
Six little kittens found a box of paint.<br />
They jumped right in...their mother will faint!<br />
The first little kitten came out all red.<br />
"I'll be orange," the second kitten said.<br />
The third little kitten turned bright yellow.<br />
"I'll be green," said the next little fellow.<br />
The fifth kitten said, "My favorite is blue."<br />
"Purple for me," said the sixth with a mew.<br />
Dancing home the kittens go<br />
To show their mother a KITTEN RAINBOW!<br />
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We'll also sing "There's a Dog in School" (there's a cat in the second verse) from H.U.M. by Carole Peterson, and we'll repeat that song over the next few weeks when storytimes focus on the other animals in the song--dog, rabbit, and we just had a duck storytime last month.<br />
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Our craft, a paper bag cat, comes from http://www.freepreschoolcrafts.com. We will use markers to add stripes or spots instead of painting the bags, though.<br />
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