Well, things
have been a little crazy for me - both at home and at work - so I'm
afraid I'm a wee bit behind on posting about this summer's story times.
And by a wee bit, I mean we're just wrapping up week three, and I have
yet to post about... anything. So here is a general overview of what
I've been up to!
I
missed my first story time due to some personal reasons, so I don't
have much of a roundup for that one. My coworker was kind enough to take
it on for me. Our theme for week 1 was "camping" - and I had a
surprisingly difficult time finding camping books I really liked. I did
have a flannel board halfway put together, so I'll put a separate post
up for that.
Our week 2 theme was bedtime, where I ran into the opposite problem of having too many books I wanted to read. After some wibbling and wobbling back and forth, I finally decided on the following three:
Interrupting Chicken
by David Ezra Stein is one of my favorites. I love the story, I love
the pictures, and I especially love the way the bedtime stories that
Papa tells Chicken are incorporated into the story. It's a great book,
but my 2s and 3s were a little bit too squirrelly and distracted to get
into it. Alas. I'll maybe pull it out again for a story time where I don't have 60+ people in the room. (With oh-so distracting latecomers to boot!)
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Fly Blanky Fly by
Anne Margaret Lewis was our second book. I borrowed my coworker's idea
to use scarves as our blankies while I read, and we swooshed, whirled,
and hopped our way to bed. Again, great idea in theory, but with the room as
crowded as it was, I had a tough time keeping everyone focused.
Aaaand
finally, we have one of those beloved Pigeon books by Mo Willems. The
kids were so completely done with story time at this point that I had to
start skipping pages, despite Mo Willems generally being a safe bet for story time. Attention spans were just not working in my favor this week.
The
flannel board was a hit, at least! I used a coworker's Pete the Cat and
His Four Groovy Buttons, which the kids thoroughly enjoyed. (You can
take a look at my other coworker's version here! Her version is super cool as it involves
buttons that actually popped off, but I was so overwhelmed with my
crowd that my head might have popped had I tried to do anything more
complicated than simply tossing the buttons over my shoulder. Maybe next
time!)
Again, I snagged a coworker's 5 Hoot Owls flannel board, which you can find here. (It is indeed a hardship, let me tell you, to have such super talented coworkers who are willing to let you borrow their creations.)
We also used Laurie Berkner's Wimoweh (The Lion Sleeps Tonight) with our shaker eggs, which was pretty delightful. During the verses, we pretended to be the sleepy lion, so we stretched, yawned, and laid our head on our hands for a nap. The song picks up during the chorus, so that's when we shook our eggs - high, low, slow, fast, while turning in a circle, etc. Lots of fun! We also did We are the Dinosaurs, because that's one of my favorites. (Haha, and I mean, you know, the kids like it, too.)
That pretty much sums up story time for the past few weeks! My coworker, Jan, and I have also been putting on a craft program for kids age 3-7, so I'll be putting up a post with all of the crafts we've been doing.
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