Bedtime Stories- Winter session week 1

This was our first night back to Bedtime Stories~ aka Pajama Time.  I love these little kids and their parents, who week after week bring them over in their PJ's to share stories, songs, and our little star machine.

Here is tonight's plan

New Year- New Storytimes

Happy New Year!!

This year I will try a different approach with the hopes to find a better balance between work and life in general.  I realize I tend to say yes to everything and want to help with all the projects, and do new programs all the time, and at the end I ended feeling stressed. This year I will make better use of my calendar, schedule storytime posts ahead of time, and learn to slow down. 

I am going to once again try to be more proactive with my book reviews.  I have been reading a lot....but never get around writing reviews.

This year I will finally put all my flannels together, including pictures and rhymes I use with them,  and create a page for them here. 



Lets hope 2016 is a great year.

Crunch by Leslie Connor

 
Crunch by Leslie Connor, HarperCollins Publishers, 2010.

I got this book for a possible book club choice and couldn't believe how fast I read it, Dewey Marriss and his siblings are taking care of their bike shop and farm while their parents are away celebrating their wedding anniversary.  Everything is going okay until there is a sever "crunch" for gas and their parents cannot make it back home.  The little Marriss bike shop takes off with everyone needing a new set of wheels or repairs in order to commute. Dewey has to figure how to manage the shop and help his younger siblings deal with their parents absence. In top of everything else small thefts are taking place and no one is more surprised that Dewey to find out who the culprit is.  Love this book.   

Crawlers & Totally Tots- Dinosaurs

This week we had dinosaurs roaring throughout storytime. Our Crawlers enjoyed reading



Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs by Byron Barton
Dino Bites! by Algy Hall
Stomp! Little Dinosaur by Jo Lodge


Our Toddlers enjoyed



Dini Dinosaur by Karen Beaumont
Dinosaurs, Dinosaurs by Byron Barton
Have You Seen My Dragon? by Steve Light
Dino Bites! by Algy Hall

We used our regular opening song, and Wiggles song.

No More Room

Five huge dinosaurs ( hold up 5 fingers)

Sleeping on the cave floor (pretend to sleep)

Woke up and started to roar ( stretch arms)

There’s no ore room, there’s no more room

There’s no more room on this floor! (stomp feet)

Well, they tossed and they turned

And they pushed galore (pretend to push)

Till one poor dinosaur was pushed out the door!

Repeat with 4,3,2…

One huge dinosaur (hold up 1 finger)

Sleeping on the cave floor (pretend to sleep)

Woke up and started to roar (stretch arms)

I’m lonely, come back, it was better before

It’s more fun, crowded together on the floor!

Credit: Perry Public Library Storytime

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs lived long ago

Some walked (stomp feet)

Some swam (pretend to swim)

Some flew, you know (flap arms)

Some were big (hold hand high)

Some were small (hold hand low)

Some were gigantic (stretch arms out wide)

And very tall! (stretch arms up high)

Credit: Perry Public Library Storytime

 
And ended with bubbles & our regular closing song