Whew! It’s hot outside! Today we read stories about summertime, and some of our favorite things to do when it’s hot, especially here in Arizona! Books: Hot Hot Hot – Neal Layton Summer Stinks – Marty Kelley The Best Place to Read – Debbie Bertram Paddington at the Beach – Michael Bond Songs and Rhymes: [...]
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Summer Time! – Summer Storytime
Posted in Summer, tagged beach, hot, July on July 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Snack Time! – Summer Storytime
Posted in Summer, tagged food, July on July 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we shared stories about all of our favorite snacks! Delicious! If You Give a Moose a Muffin – Laura Joffe Numeroff Mouse Went Out to Get a Snack – Lyn Rossiter McFarland Little Pea – Amy Krouse Rosenthal Gladys Goes Out to Lunch – Derek Anderson The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and [...]
Bugs! – Summer Storytime
Posted in Summer, tagged June on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we read stories and sang songs about all of the creepy crawly bugs that live all around us! Books: The Very Clumsy Click Beetle – Eric Carle The Eensy-Weensy Spider – Mary Ann Hoberman I Love Bugs! – Philemon Sturges The Very Lonely Firefly – Eric Carle The Very Hungry Caterpillar – Eric Carle [...]
Rainforest! – Summer Storytime
Posted in Summer, tagged June, jungle, tropical on June 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we took a trip into the Amazon rainforest and read stories about all of the interesting animals there! Books: The Parrot Tico Tango – Anna Witte Way Up High in a Tall Green Tree – Jan Peck Jabuti the Tortoise: A Trickster Tale from the Amazon – Gerald McDermott Hilda Must Be Dancing! – [...]
Silly Animals! – Summer Storytime
Posted in Summer, tagged June, Summer on June 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today we shared stories about all kinds of silly animals like monkeys, seals, and aardvarks! Books: Duck! Rabbit! – Amy Rosenthal Old Mother Hubbard – Jane Cabrera The Seals on the Bus – Lenny Hort The Farmyard Jamboree – Margaret Read MacDonald Big, Bigger, BIGGEST! – Nancy Coffelt Songs and Rhymes: (Words in Songs and [...]
Blast Off! – Summer Storytime
Posted in Summer, tagged June, moon, Outer Space, Rocket on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We took a rocket to the moon today, and shared stories about blasting off into outer space! Books: Hare and Tortoise Race to the Moon – Oliver J. Corwin A Brave Spaceboy – Dana Kessimakis Smith Sheep Blast Off! – Nancy Shaw Astronaut Piggy Wiggy – Christyan and Diane Fox Songs and Rhymes: (Words in [...]
Tricky Tales – Summer Storytime
Posted in Summer, tagged May, Trickster, Tricky on June 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For our first summer storytime we shared stories about creatures that trick others, or get tricked themselves. Books: Pig-Boy: A Trickster Tale from Hawai’i – Gerald McDermott Zomo: A Trickster Tale from West Africa – Gerald McDermott Chicken Soup – Jean Van Leeuwen Can’t Catch Me – John Hassett & Ann Hassett Songs and Rhymes: [...]
