See what we did to celebrate Mother's Day in storytime last year.
Opening Hello Everybody, Yes Indeed by Carole Peterson from H.U.M. Hello to your toes yes indeed yes indeed yes indeed Hello to your toes yes indeed my darling Knees – shoulders - friends Books
Where's My Mommy by Carol Roth
A Present for Mom by Vivian French
Songs
Milkshake by Wiggleworms (with shakers)
I’ve Got Two Hands by Peter and Ellen Allard from Sing it Say
It Stamp It Sway it 3
Reach Up High by Exercise Party
Egg Shakers
Bread and Butter Storytime Chant from Jbrary's Just Add Rhythm Sticks I edited the lyrics slightly to work with my hand bells.
Bread and butter Marmalade and Jam Let's tap our sticks as quiet as we can
...loud as we can ...slow as we can ...fast as we can ...high as we can ...low as we can ...nice as we can
Opening We Are Here Together (Tune: “Skip to My Lou”)
Here, here, we’ll all here Here, here, we’ll all here Here, here, we’ll all here We’re all here in storytime Hello, children, how are you? Hello, grown-ups, how are you? Hello, friends, how are you? We’re so glad to see you!
Books Peep and Egg I’m Not Hatching by Laura Gehl Daisy and the Egg by Jane Simmons Odd Egg by Emily Gravett
Songs Flitter Flutter by Johnette Downing for The Second Line – Scarf Activity Songs (with scarves) I Know a Chicken by Laurie Berkner for The Best of the Laurie Berkner Band (with egg shakers) Jumping and Counting by Jim Gill from the Irrational Anthem and More Salutes to Nonsense
Felt
Three Little Birds I don't know the original inspiration for this story. The felt was made by a previous staff member so I just inherited it. Its a bit like Goldilocks and the three bears. Basically the three birds Pinkie, Blue Bird and Robin want to be neighbors so they can play together everyday. They go looking at houses but of course there is a perfect house for each bird. The kids enjoyed watching the bird test each house and then they told me why that house wasn't quite right. We switched the bird around until everyone was happy.
Opening Hello Everybody, Yes Indeed by Carole Peterson from H.U.M. Hello to your toes yes indeed yes indeed yes indeed Hello to your toes yes indeed my darling Knees – shoulders - friends Books
My Garden by Kevin Henkes
10 Hungry Rabbits by Anita Lobel
Garden of Opposites by Nancy Davis
Little seeds by Charles Ghigna
Music
Reach Up High from Exercise Party
Harry Caterpillar – Exercise Party
Shake Shake the Mango Tree We will sing it once with mangos and then I will ask the children to say the name of other fruits that grows on trees so we can sing the song with those foods. Shake, shake, the mango tree. Shake, shake, the mango tree. Shake, shake, the mango tree. Shake, shake, the mango tree. yellow, mango green. Mango yellow, mango green. Mango yellow, mango green. Mango yellow, mango green. One for you, and one for me. One for you and one for me. One for you, and one for me. One for you, and one for me. Shake, shake, the mango tree. Shake, shake, the mango tree. Shake, shake, the mango tree. Shake, shake, the mango tree.
Opening Hello Everybody, Yes Indeed by Carole Peterson from H.U.M. Hello to your toes yes indeed yes indeed yes indeed Hello to your toes yes indeed my darling Knees – shoulders - friends
Books Ten Wriggly Wiggly Caterpillars by Debbie Tarbett Butterfly Butterfly by Petr Horocek Very Greedy Bee by Steve Smallman Music Flitter Flutter by Johnette Downing for The Second Line – Scarf Activity Songs Spider on the Floor by Raffi for Singable Songs for the Very Young
Walter the Waltzing Worm by Hap Palmer - I start this song by handing each child a piece of string to use at their worm. They move the worm around on their body as the song suggests and at the end they can keep their new friend. Scarves Borrowed from Scarf Songs and Rhymes for Storytime on Jbrary. One Bright scarf (adapted from 10 Little Fingers at Storytime Rocks)
One bright scarf waiting for the wind to blow (hold in hand) Wiggle it high (wiggle scarf above head) Wiggle it low (wiggle scarf by knees) Shake it fast (wiggle scarf quickly) Shake it slow (wiggle scarf slowly) Put it behind your back (bring out empty hands) Where did it go?
Jack in the box, sits so still Will he come out, yes he will. Folder Story This is my library's version of the Ladybug, Ladybug folder story that teaches colors. I didn't make this for my library and I do not know who to credit for the original idea. Full text of the rhyme is available at Fun With Friends at Storytime - The Lovely Ladybug.
Closing We Clap Our Hands Like This - tune farmer in the dell. Borrowed from Opening/Closing Songs on Storytime Katie who borrowed it from Rhymes for Toddlers on Sunflower Storytime. We clap our hands like this We clap out hands like this We clap our hands with all of our friends We clap our hands like this. We blow a kiss like this We blow a kiss like this We blow a kiss with all of our friends We blow a kiss like this. We wave goodbye like this. We wave goodbye like this. We wave goodbye with all our friends. We wave goodbye like this. Craft Using two Ellison die cuts, I made large magnifying glasses and many small bugs. The children could glue their magnifying class on construction paper and then draw an outdoor scene with the paper bugs in full view.
Opening Hello Everybody, Yes Indeed by Carole Peterson from H.U.M. Hello to your toes yes indeed yes indeed yes indeed Hello to your toes yes indeed my darling Knees – shoulders - friends
Books Dinosaur vs Bedtime by Bob Shea Dinosaur Stomp by Paul Stickland Hello, Dinosaur by Dwell Studios
Music Shaky Shaky by the Wiggles from Yummy Yummy I Feel Crazy So I Jump in the Soup by Laurie Berkner from Victor Vito We Are the Dinosaurs by Laurie Berkner from The best of the Laurie Berkner Band One
Dinosaur - Sung to the tune of One Elephant. See KCLS video for the tune.
One
dinosaur went out to play
On a giant fern one day She had such enormous fun That she called for another dinosaur to come. Oh
Diiiiiiiiiiiinosaur!. Two dinosaurs went out to play…. Three dinosaurs… Four dinosaurs…. Five dinosaurs went
out to play On a giant fern one day They had such enormous fun That they played until the day was done!
Felt This is one of my most favorite dinosaur stories. I used a very tiny voice for the Ammonite in the story.I used this all the time at outreach and it became a running joke at work. Excuse Me Please Story
Excuse Me Please
I have an exact scrip for the excuse me please story but I always change it a bit the day of storytime. Basically Pterodactyl likes to fly in the same place every day but one day he cannot because Apatosaurus is in the way. Pterodactyl gets angry but he doesn't know what to do so he asks Stegosaurus, Triceratops, T-Rex and the little Ammonite for help. Each suggests they do something mean like show Apatosaurus their spiked tail, their horns or their teeth but of course Pterodactyl can't do any of those things because he does have spikes or horns or big teeth. Finally the little Ammonite says to say "Excuse me Please." Pterodactyl tries this and it works great.
I heard a little jingle, (jingle bells softly)
Right inside my house.
It sounded like the jingle
Of a little jingle mouse.
He jingled to the ceiling, (jingle bells high over head)
he jingled to the floor, (jingle bells on the floor)
He jingled till he fell asleep, (hold jingle bells in arms like a baby)
And he began to snore...
(snooore, snooore, snooore) (jingle bells very gently with a tiny,
squeaky snore)
Right outside my door, I heard a great big jingle, (jingle bells loudly)
It sounded like the jingle
Of a jingle dinosaur.
He jingled to the ceiling, (jingle bells high over head)
He jingled to the floor, (jingle bells on floor)
He jingled till he fell asleep, (hold jingle bells in arms like a baby)
And he began to snore...
(snooore, snooore, snooore) (jingle bells with a very loud snore)
Closing We Clap Our Hands Like This - tune farmer in the dell. Borrowed from Opening/Closing Songs on Storytime Katie who borrowed it from Rhymes for Toddlers on Sunflower Storytime. We clap our hands like this We clap out hands like this We clap our hands with all of our friends We clap our hands like this.
We blow a kiss like this We blow a kiss like this We blow a kiss with all of our friends We blow a kiss like this.
We wave goodbye like this. We wave goodbye like this. We wave goodbye with all our friends. We wave goodbye like this.
Craft The kids made these little construction paper dinosaurs using a template I got online. I precut all the dinos and their little paper tube feet. And yes my dino has rosey cheeks.
