Did my first partnered storytime this week with the lovely Natalie, who has just joined our Library team. It was loads of fun, and our big crowd had a great time. =]
Opening: Shake My Sillies Out – Raffi
Book: Scary Mary – Paula Bowles
(Such personality in this book! I love the illustrations and layout.)
Activity: Little Miss Muffet – Traditional
Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet,
eating her curds and whey.
Along came a spider that sat down besider her,
and frightened Miss Muffet away!
(Used a girl and spider puppet, and after a few times through …the kids can’t get enough… Miss Muffet karate chops the spider and scares it away!)
Book: The Gruffalo – Julia Donaldson
(This worked fantastically as a partnered read. Natalie did all the mouse bits and I did the rest. )
Activity: The Troll – from the CD Animal Songs by Jim Gill
(After the mouse took a walk and met the scary Gruffalo, we pretended to go on a walk and met a scary Troll! Simple song to follow the actions of, the kids loved it!)
Book: Solomon Crocodile – Catherine Rayer
(I adore Rayner’s books, this one does not disappoint! Solomon loves to scare, but the Hippo isn’t having it …until Solomon finds a friend.)
Activity: Three Little Pigs – Traditional
(With the addition of a wolf puppet, these were the props. Worked great, and the kids love huffing and puffing with the wolf.)
Book: It’s a Tiger! – David LaRochelle
(Such a fun engaging book. Tankard always has such bright illustrations, and the repeated theme really sucked the kids in.)
Activity: Streamers
(In the jungle the boy walked passed monkeys hanging from vines, so the streamers were our vines! Not really, the kids just danced around with them, but I can pretend it fits the theme!) ~.o
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