Wee Read - Shake Shake Shake

Early Literacy Tip: Be a good reading role model. Read in front of your kids. Explain how reading and writing help you get things done every day.

Books

Bouncing Babies by Mike Brownlow

Yawn by Sally Symes

What’s on My Head? by Margaret Miller (read together book)

Songs/Rhymes

Head and Shoulders

Head and shoulders, knees and toes,

Knees and toes

Head and shoulders, knees and toes,

Knees and toes

Eyes and ears and mouth and nose

Head and shoulders, knees and toes

Knees and toes!

-- Traditional

An Egg is On My Nose (with egg shakers)
Sung to: “The Farmer in the Dell”
An egg is on my nose,

an egg is on my nose,
Heigh-ho, the derry-o,

an egg is on my nose.
(Repeat using other body parts)

--Storytime Source Page

Shake Your Eggs (with egg shakers)

use shaker eggs
Shake your eggs and shake them high.
Shake your eggs and shake them low.
Shake your eggs and shake them high.
Shake your eggs around you go.

--Librarian Lisa’s Storytimes

Put Your Egg on Your Head (with egg shakers)

Sung to: “There’s a Spider on the Floor”
Put your egg on your head, on your head.
Put your egg on your head, on your head.
Put your egg on your head
Put your egg on your head.
Put your egg on your head, on your head.
continue with toes, tummy, etc.

--Librarian Lisa’s Storytimes

I Wiggle My Fingers

--from Lapsit Services for the Very Young II by Linda L. Ernst. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc, 2001.

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Row, row, row your boat,

Gently down the stream.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,

Life is but a dream!

--Traditional

Eyes and Nose

--Storytime Crafts: Crazy Days by Kathryn Totten. Ft. Atkinson, WI: Upstart Books, 2004.

Storytime - Breakfast

Toddler

Books: Max’s Breakfast by Rosemary Wells, Ellie’s Breakfast by Sarah Garland, and “The Pancake Man” on the felt board.

Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, “Head and Shoulders”, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: Pancakes. Materials: Die cut tan construction paper circles, paper plates, red stickers, brown yarn, crayons, glue, and tape. The toddlers glued their circles (pancakes) to the plates, placed the stickers (cherries) on top, and drizzled the yarn (syrup) on top. The idea came from Estherstorytimes.

Preschool

Books: Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss and “Flip Flap Jack” on the felt board.

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, “Open, Shut Them”, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: Pancakes. Materials: Die cut tan construction paper circles, paper plates, red, blue, and yellow stickers, brown yarn, crayons, glue, and tape. The preschoolers glued their circles (pancakes) to the plates, placed the stickers (cherries, blueberries, and bananas) on top, and drizzled the yarn (syrup) on top.

Flannel Friday - The Little Red Hen

Happy Friday everyone! Hopefully my American readers had a great (and filling!) Thanksgiving.

"The Little Red Hen" is one of my favorite stories to tell aloud. I recently decided to use it again in storytime, but thought the toddlers would like to see, too.

The templates came from The Flannel Board Storytelling Book: Second Edition by Judy Sierra.

Library Quine is hosting the Flannel Friday round up this week. For more information about FF, or to see past round ups, visit the Flannel Friday blog. We're also on Facebook and Pinterest, too!

Wee Read - Thanksgiving

Early Literacy Tip of the Week: Don't be afraid to improvise. The words don't need to be read as they appear in the book. You can just talk about the pictures.

Good Morning

Hello, How are You?

If You’re a Turkey and You Know It

If you’re a turkey and you know it,

Flap your wings.

If you’re a turkey and you know it,

Flap your wings.

If you’re a turkey and you know it,

And you really want to show it.

If you’re a turkey and you know it,

Flap your wings.

Continue with wibble, wobble; gobble gobble; do all three.

--Miss Mollie

Open Shut Them

Book One

This is Thanksgiving by Harriet Ziefert

Did You Ever See A Turkey?

Sung to: "Did you ever see a Lassie"
Did you ever see a turkey a turkey a turkey
Did you ever see a turkey go this way and that
Go this way and that way and this way and that way
Did you ever see a turkey go this way and that?

--PreschoolEducation.com

The Turkey

The turkey is a funny bird,

His head goes wobble, wobble, wobble.

All he says is just one word,

“Gobble, gobble, gobble.”

--HomeSchoolCreations.com

Turkey Feathers

Sung to: “Are You Sleeping?”

Turkey feathers, turkey feathers,

Red, orange, yellow,

Green and brown.

Which color is this?

Which color is this?

Do you know? Do you know?

--from Felt Board Fingerplays by Liz and Dick Wilmes. Elgin, IL: Building Blocks, 1997.

Book Two

My First Thanksgiving by Tomie dePaola

The Leaves are Falling Down

Sung to: "The Farmer in the Dell"
The leaves are falling down
The leaves are falling down
Red, yellow, green, and brown
The leaves are falling down.

--PreschoolEducation

Hello Mr. Turkey 

Sung to: "If You're Happy and You Know It"
Hello, Mr. Turkey how are you?
Hello, Mr. Turkey, how are you?
With a gobble, gobble, gobble,
And a wobble, wobble, wobble.
Hello, Mr. Turkey, how are you?

--PreschoolEducation.com

Read Together

Counting Kisses by Karen Katz

The More We Get Together

Storytime - Thanksgiving

Toddler

Books: My First Thanksgiving by Tomie dePaola and This is Thanksgiving by Deborah Zemke.

Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Did You Ever See a Turkey”, “Turkey Feathers” on the felt board, and “The More We Get Together”.

Turkey Feathers

Sung to: “Are You Sleeping?”

--from Felt Board Fingerplays by Liz and Dick Wilmes. Elgin, IL: Building Blocks, 1997.

*I handed each toddler a turkey feather. We sang the song, and at the end of each verse, I said a color of feather. Those toddlers with that color in their hand brought it to the front and placed it on the felt board.

Did You Ever See A Turkey?

Sung to: “Did You Ever See a Lassie?"
Did you ever see a turkey, a turkey, a turkey?
Did you ever see a turkey go this way and that?
Go this way and that way, and this way and that way,
Did you ever see a turkey go this way and that?

--PreschoolEducation.com

Craft: Build Your Own Turkey. Materials: Die cut brown construction paper circles, die cut feathers, full sheet of green construction paper, yellow construction paper beaks, googly eyes, crayons, glue, and tape. The toddlers glued their turkey pieces to the green paper and colored them in.

Preschool

Books: The Thankful Book by Todd Parr and I Know an Old

Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson on the felt board (the felt board template came from Lil Country Kindergarten).

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Hi There, So Glad You Came”, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Did You Ever See a Turkey”, and “The More We Get Together”. 

Craft: Thankful Chains. Materials: Construction paper strips in five colors, crayons, glue, and tape. The preschoolers wrote one thing they were thankful for on each strip of paper. They used the strips to form a chain. When they were done, I went around the room and asked the children what they had written. One child wrote that she was thankful for the library!