North Bend Story Times - April 29th

I subbed at the North Bend Library as a Children's Librarian and did two story times: one for toddlers (2-3 yrs) and one for pre-schoolers (3-5 yrs).

The Children's Librarian at Bellevue helped me put together the toddler storytime:

Toddler Story Time

Opening: Nametags and story basket. The purpose of nametags is for your 2-yr old to be able to identify their first name. Hand out blank nametags and have parent write the child’s name. Then you ask the child to drop their name in the story basket. At the end of storytime the child comes to the basket to find their name and they take it home with them.

Opening Song and Sign Language: The More We Get Together
Interesting note: The mom's really got into the sign language aspect.

The more (sign for “more”)
We get together, together, together (sign for “together”)
The more (sign for “more”)
We get together(sign for “together”)
The happier we’ll be (sign for “happy”)

‘Cause my friends (sign for “my” and “friends”)
Are your Friends (sign for “your” and “friends”)
And your friends (sign for “your” and “friends”)
Are my friends (sign for “my” and “friends”)
(repeat first part)

First Story: “Cosmo Zooms” – Howard, Arthur

Activity: “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?” – Martin, Bill

I’m Brown Bear, and all the animals are taped around the room.

I say “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? I see a blue cat looking at me!” And then go to the cat taped on the wall and stick it on one of the children. And then “Blue cat, Blue cat, What do you see?” etc. Until you get to “Mother, Mother what do you see? I see a room full of beautiful children looking at me!” Children, children, what do you see? A brown bear, blue cat… and a mother looking at us. That’s what we see!

Second Story: “I Like Me” – Carlson, Nancy

Activity: Bean Bag song/game game “Easy Does It” - Palmer, Hap

Hand out a bean bag to all the kids AND parents. Play the Bean Bag song on CD.

Third Story: “Hi Pizza Man” – Walter, Virginia

Closing: If You're Happy and You Know It

Dump the story basket on the floor and ask the children to retrieve their names.

Preschool Story Time:

Children's Librarian Pam Dodson from Bellevue helped me put together the preschool story time. She gave me the two action rhymes and a vegetable coloring sheet that the kids loved.

Music CD: Rhythm of the Rocks with Nancy Stewart

Welcome Song: Hi, Hello, and How Are You (to London Bridges

Song and Sign Language: The More We Get Together

First Story: I will Never Not Ever Eat A Tomato – Child, Lauren

Action Rhyme:

Vegetable Song (Tune “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”)

Vegetables are good for me, EE-I-EE-I-O
And so I eat them happily, EE-I-EE-I-O
With a carrot here, and a carrot there, here a carrot
there a carrot, everywhere a carrot, carrot.
Vegetables are good for me, EE-I-EE-I-O

(green peas, potato, tomato, etc.)

Second Story: The Wolf’s Chicken Stew – Kasza, Keiko

Action Ryhme:

We Are Vegetables (tune: Mary had a little lamb)

We are pumpkins big and round, big and round, big and round.
We are pumpkins big and round, We like Halloween.

We are broccoli short and stout, short and stout, short and stout.
We are broccoli short and stout, Growing in the ground.

We are corn tall with ears, tall with ears, tall with ears.
We are corn tall with ears, See our yellow glow.

Third Story: The Turnip - Morgan, Pierr

Fourth Story: Jamberry – Degen, Bruce

Closing: If You're Happy and You Know It