School Age Storytime: Elections and Voting

Amelia Bedelia’s First Vote – Amelia Bedelia makes her usual word misunderstandings as she learns about voting from a class referendum

Action Song: V.O.T.E. (used our bodies to shape the letters, tune R.E.A.D. by Linda Arnold)

“V.O.T.E. – using our vote is good for you and me
V.O.T.E. – we do it in our democracy!”

 

Today on Election Day by Catherine Stier (used the pictures to talk about voting next Tuesday, how we are a democracy which means we vote for our leaders, how women and people of color weren’t allowed to vote, how they can accompany their parents to vote next week.)

Duck for President by Doreen Cronin – a lighter moment

Singable Book: This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie (Looked at pictures together and shared US map as to what was where.)

 

Bedm 11/18

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2016 -- with an emphasis on the long haul to get voting rights for women

 

 

Elizabeth Started All the Trouble by Doreen Rappaport (1st –3rd Grade) Elizabeth Leads the Way: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote by Tanya Lee Stone (Kdg)

 

This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie J782.42 GUT (sang two verses between each book)

 Hillary Rodham Clinton: Dreams Taking Flight by Kathleen Krull

Duck for President – Doreen Cronin (Kdg) or President Squid by Aaron Reynolds (1st-3rd)

If I Ran for President by Catherine Stier – six kids describe the election process and imagine themselves as the candidate.

Bedm. 10/16

 

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More possibilities:

• So You Want to Be President by Judith St. George 973..099 STG (also DVD 352.2370973 SOYO) 
• Madam President by  Lane Smith
• Vote for Me! by Ben Clanton
• Amelia Bedelia’s First Vote by Herman Parish
• My Teacher for President by Kay Winters
• Grace for President by Kelly DiPucchio

Display/Booktalk books Women’s Suffrage:

• I Could Do That! Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote – JuvBiog Morris
• Why Couldn’t Susan B. Anthony Vote? And Other Questions About Women’s Suffrage by Mary Kay Carson
• Miss Paul and the President: the Creative Campaign for Women’s Right to Vote by Dean Robbins (JuvBiog Paul)
• Around America to Win the Vote: Two Suffragists, a Kitten and 10,000 Miles by Mara Rockliff
• The Ballot Box Battle by Emily Arnold McCully
• Mama Went to Jail for the Vote by Kathleen Karr
• Heart on Fire: Susan B. Anthony Votes for President by Ann Malaspina
• Ballots for Belva by Sudipta Bardan-Quallen
• A Woman for President: The Story of Victoria Woodhull by Kathleen Krull

Black Voting Rights:

• Granddaddy’s Gift by Margaree King Mitchell
• Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by Jonah Winter

Remembering the Ladies: From Patriots in Petticoats to Presidential Candidates by Carol Simon Levin (not a picture book, but fun factoids to share + coloring pages)

 

 

 

Maker Monday / STEAM Storytime Surprise: B.Y.O.M. (Build Your Own Monster!) (Ages 4-11)

 

 

Combine eeks and engineering and create your own moving monster! 

 

Display books on monsters as kids arrive.

 

Book: Where the Wild Things Are – Maurice Sendak 

 

Song/Flannel: “It’s Monster Day” (From Linda Arnold's album "Peppermint Wings")

 
Book: Leonardo the Terrible Monster – Mo Willems

 

Singable Book: If you are a Monster and You Know it – Rebecca & Ed Emberley

 

Make 3D Monsters -- 12x18 cardboards, pipe cleaners, scrap construction paper, googly eyes, pom poms, fancy scissors, gluesticks, tape, hole punches, paper fasteners. Older kids were given the challenge to make a monster that could stand up and be stable but also could move.

Halloween music playing throughout program.

 

Finished by having our monsters dance to “Dem Bones.”

 

 

10.2016 afterschool program

More “monster mania” at: http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/10/preschool-storytime-monsters.html

 

10/17 STEAM Storytime Surprise

School Age Storytime : Fall & Apples

 

A storytime for K-2nd grade celebrating the season
emphasizing empathy & compassion (with a nod to the idea of Rosh Hashonah – new year, new beginnings).

 

Kindergarten:

 

Book: Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert. Creativity & Imagination.

 

 

 

Book: One Red Apple – Harriet Ziefert (simple beautiful celebration of the cycles of an apple tree)

 

Flannel Song: A Wiggly Worm (Tune: Boom! Boom! Ain’t it Great to be Crazy!)

                Chorus: Yum! Yum! Don’t you know I love apples?

                                Yum! Yum! Don’t you know I love apples?

                                Red and Green and yellow, too…

                                Yum! Yum! Don’t you know I love apples?

 

                Way up high in an apple tree, I saw two eyes look at me.

                I reached for an apple, it started to squirm…oops! I found a wiggly worm!  Chorus

 

                That wiggly worm is a friend of mine.  We eat apples all the time.

                 I let him crawl back to that tree… hey!  That worm is looking at me! Chorus

 

Book: One Green Apple by Eve Bunting --This beautiful (and beautifully illustrated) story emphasizes understanding and compassion as Farah, a new student from an unnamed country, goes with her class on a field trip to an apple orchard (defined) and finds that though she is different and doesn’t know the language, she can be accepted and will find friends here.

 

Participatory Storytelling/Props:  The Little Red House with No Doors & No Windows, a Chimney On Top & a Star in the Middle (Tip: instantly turn flannel pieces into hanging signs for kids to wear using plastic paper protector sleeves with stiff paper inserts & yarn ribbon to hang around each child's neck, act out the wind blowing the trees and the “plop” of an apple falling in the farmer’s backyard. Prop: real apple & knife to slice horizontally.)

 

Action: Apple Pie chant (suit actions to words)

Chorus:  Apple, apple  (slap legs twice, then clap hands twice)  Apple Pie!

 

First you need apples

So you pick them, pick them  chorus

    Put them in the sink

    And you wash them, wash them chorus

Then you take the apples

And you cut them, cut them chorus

   Next you roll the crust

   & you roll it, you roll it chorus

Drape it in the pan

& you pinch it, you pinch it chorus

    Take some cinnamon sugar

    And sprinkle it, sprinkle it chorus

Put it in the oven

& you bake it, you bake it chorus

   Take it out of the oven

   & you smell it, you smell it chorus

Take out your knife

& you slice it, you slice it chorus

   Take some ice cream

   & you scoop it, you scoop it chorus

Then you take the pie

And eat it, eat it!! Chorus

 

 

Singable Book: Ten Red Apples – Pat Hutchins (numeracy: 1-10 numerals, one-to-one correspondence, subtraction, animal identification, animal sounds)

Read parts of The World’s Birthday by Barbara Goldin (Rosh Hashonah story) but a bit long for this group.

1st & 2nd Grade:

 

Book: One Green Apple by Eve Bunting (opened by asking who spoke another language at home, then speaking gibberish and having them imagine going to school and not understanding what their teacher & classmates were saying)

 

Asked: “What’s worse than finding a worm in your apple?” – finding half a worm!

Book: Seed by Seed : The Legend of Legacy of John “Appleseed” Chapman by Esme Raji Codell  (Seed by Seed, Deed by Deed – talked about how they – kids – can make the world a better place : being a more helpful member of the family, helping a fellow student who is being ignored or bullied, cleaning up litter, etc.)

 

Apple Pie Chant (above) 

 

Book: New Year at the Pier : A Rosh Hashonah Story by April Halprin Wayland (talked about different kinds of new years – the Jewish new year tradition of apples & honey and Tashlich tossing bits of bread into water and  saying sorry to start the New Year with a “clean heart.”)

Participatory Storytelling/Props:  The Little Red House with No Doors & No Windows, a Chimney On Top & a Star in the Middle – urged kids to practice this story with each other – then tell it to family members tonight. (wonderful practice for listening skills, sequencing, speaking skills)

Bedm. 10/16

PreSchool Storytime: Fall–Leaves & Apples

PreSchool Storytime Ages 2-6 with a focus on numeracy, the life cycle of an apple tree, also incorporates  animal names & animal noises, sign language, and oral storytelling.

Open with Sign Language Song: “Let’s Take a Little Walk” from “Pick Me Up: Fun Songs for Learning Signs” track 15

 

Book: Leaf Man – Lois Ehlert (suggested kids collect leaves on the way home and make their own leaf creatures…)

 

Cut and Tell Story: Autumn Leaf (instructions: http://meusenotes.blogspot.com/2014/09/autumn-leaf.html)

Autumn Leaf: Cut and Tell

(Two sheets of construction paper glued together 1 green: 1 red or yellow)

By Linda Meuse

Notes from the Story Room

I start out green,

Often fragile and small.

 

I grow through two seasons

On something tall.

 

But there are changes

When the nights turn cool,

 

That happen to me

When children return to school.

 

I am a ....... (leaf)

On a growing tree.

(Open to show a green leaf)

 

Watch me turn color

One, two, three!

(Turn it to the other side to show the autumn leaf)

 

Book/Song: The Leaves on the Trees by Thom Wiley

 

Action Song (with puppet): Grey Squirrel

Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel! (bounce up and down on the words)
Swish your bushy tail! (shake it)
Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel!
Swish your bushy tail!

Wrinkle up your little nose!(poke your nose)
Put an nut between your toes( touch your toes)

Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel!
Swish your bushy tail!

 

Storytelling:  Little Red House (oral storytelling – listening and repetition -- lots of versions, here’s one: http://www.missbsclassroom.com/thinking-story-the-little-red-house-with-no-doors-and-no-windows/  Flannel pieces optional, need real apple and knife for the “star” reveal)

 

Flannel Song: A Wiggly Worm (Tune: Boom! Boom! Ain’t it Great to be Crazy!)

                Chorus: Yum! Yum! Don’t you know I love apples?

                                Yum! Yum! Don’t you know I love apples?

                                Red and Green and yellow, too…

                                Yum! Yum! Don’t you know I love apples?

 

                Way up high in an apple tree, I saw two eyes look at me.

                I reached for an apple, it started to squirm…oops! I found a wiggly worm!  Chorus

 

                That wiggly worm is a friend of mine.  We eat apples all the time.

                 I let him crawl back to that tree… hey!  That worm is looking at me! Chorus

 

Book: One Red Apple – Harriet Ziefert (younger – actually though simple, works well for all ages – simple beautiful celebration of the cycles of an apple tree)

 

Action: Apple Pie chant (suit actions to words)

Chorus:  Apple, apple  (slap legs twice, then clap hands twice)  Apple Pie!

 

First you need apples

So you pick them, pick them  chorus

    Put them in the sink

    And you wash them, wash them chorus

Then you take the apples

And you cut them, cut them chorus

   Next you roll the crust

   & you roll it, you roll it chorus

Drape it in the pan

& you pinch it, you pinch it chorus

    Take some cinnamon sugar

    And sprinkle it, sprinkle it chorus

Put it in the oven

& you bake it, you bake it chorus

   Take it out of the oven

   & you smell it, you smell it chorus

Take out your knife

& you slice it, you slice it chorus

   Take some ice cream

   & you scoop it, you scoop it chorus

Then you take the pie

And eat it, eat it!! Chorus

 

Singable Book: Ten Red Apples – Pat Hutchins (numeracy: 1-10 numerals, one-to-one correspondence, subtraction, animal identification, animal sounds)

Book: Fall is Not Easy – Marty Kelley (a tree’s amusing variations on fall color changes)

 

Action song: This is the way we rake the leaves (Mulberry Bush)

 

DVD: Reading Rainbow: How to make an apple pie & see the world -- Marjorie Priceman

 

Optional before hand stamping: Song: Apples & Bananas – Raffi (phonemic awareness)

Additional book possibilities:  10 Apples Up on Top -- Dr. Seuss,   10 Red Apples – Virginia Barthalamew (younger).  A wonderful book for Kindergarten and up: One Green Apple - Eve Bunting (age 5& up,  Beautiful story about a young newly-arrived immigrant named Fatah who gains self-confidence when the green apple she picks on a school field trip perfectly complements the other students' red apples.) The Terrible Plop -- Ursula Dubosarsky

The Apple Pie Tree -- Zoe Hall (non-fiction elements, life cycle of an apple tree – very similar to her pumpkin book which I will use next week) or Fall Apples: Crisp & Juicy 634.11 Rustad

Additional songs:
Apple Song (Tune: Itsy Bitsy Spider, source unknown) 

                Once a little apple seed was planted in the ground.

                Down came the rain, falling all around.

                Out came the sun as bright as bright could be

                And the little seed grew up to be an apple tree.

 

Glove: Five Red Apples (younger, use numeral cards to reinforce number concepts)(source unknown)
                Five red apples hanging in a tree
                The juiciest apples you ever did see.
                The wind came by and gave an angry frown
                And one little apple came tumbling down…

 

Gloves: "1 little 2 little 3 little Apples" (from “Cindy” on Perpetual Preschool, to the tune: “1 little 2 little 3 little Indians”)  (older)

                1 little 2 little 3 little apples,

                4 little 5 little 6 little apples,

                7 little 8 little 9 little apples, 10 apples on my tree.

                                Munch little, munch little, munch little apples

                                Crunch little, crunch little, crunch little apples

                                Bunch of little, bunch of little, bunch of little apples,

                                Good for you and me!

 

Action: Apple Tree Apple Tree Turn Around (source unknown)

                Apple tree turn around; (turn)

                Apple tree touch the ground. (bend)

                See it swaying in the air; (stand swaying arms)

                Apples apples everywhere! (extend arms)

                Apple tree turn around

                Apple tree touch the ground.

Miss Tara's blog has some other great ideas! http://storytimewithmisstara.blogspot.com/2012/10/wiggle-worms-10-2-12.html

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