tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51764173041974139762024-02-28T20:03:34.366-05:00CarolSimonLevin -- Program PaloozaCarol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.comBlogger288125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-40897218797972866092024-02-28T20:02:00.006-05:002024-02-28T20:02:42.746-05:00Read Across America Day - Changemakers<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i> A storytime celebrating brave and determined people who have worked to change the status quo....</i></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7Y3pr5KyD0VtVWaNkkRVkDPHwQCGEUtGdFjLzkhfPhpAWZ2q9xydWZuDZKH1V1r8WjE4oTMZID1JH7TSYxN5pUt94fehY-2Yrwdmnn7lwzQZbZoJDsF9OHRoLP4Vb0Pw6xu6GQCGKYoP8wLmJYz8U9Asy_kRMviYynDljMdjELobK5Lv6WADQXGv32MNF" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><img alt="" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="256" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7Y3pr5KyD0VtVWaNkkRVkDPHwQCGEUtGdFjLzkhfPhpAWZ2q9xydWZuDZKH1V1r8WjE4oTMZID1JH7TSYxN5pUt94fehY-2Yrwdmnn7lwzQZbZoJDsF9OHRoLP4Vb0Pw6xu6GQCGKYoP8wLmJYz8U9Asy_kRMviYynDljMdjELobK5Lv6WADQXGv32MNF" width="300" /></i></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span><p></p><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Steadfast : Frances Perkins, champion of workers' rights</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> by Jennifer J. Merz.</span></span></li><li style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Frances Perkins witnessed NYC's Triangle Fire and made it her life's mission to aid workers -- she championed worker safety laws in NY then become FDR's secretary of labor - the 1st woman US Cabinet Member and the force behind the New Deal.</i></span></span></li></ul><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: arial;"><i>You don't need to be a grownup to make a difference:</i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #404040;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkIhKB3KUgamySLPgOia9N9GJdM6gay-5E05uSfBONjL50BcQwjGjtHwp8KG5Ub4uDkwxavfYtFP1zCMrJz02V8VRPH925S60GzTQfonSFEIHzozk6UH9xjdcgmRaeZAMa1MYyRR472L-QMdyLv5UI3ki44yBmGVXwqn1TBBpJY8F4iHjUmN7351YAG1F7" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="159" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjkIhKB3KUgamySLPgOia9N9GJdM6gay-5E05uSfBONjL50BcQwjGjtHwp8KG5Ub4uDkwxavfYtFP1zCMrJz02V8VRPH925S60GzTQfonSFEIHzozk6UH9xjdcgmRaeZAMa1MYyRR472L-QMdyLv5UI3ki44yBmGVXwqn1TBBpJY8F4iHjUmN7351YAG1F7" width="185" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>I am Ruby Bridges</b> by Ruby Bridges<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-style: italic;">When Ruby Bridges was aged just six, she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. Based on the pivotal events of 1960 and told from her own point of view for the first time, this is a poetic reflection on her experience that changed the face of history and the trajectory of the Civil Rights movement. Also showed pages from </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><b>The story of Ruby Bridges</b> by Robert Coles</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-style: italic;"><br /></span><span style="color: #404040; font-style: italic;">Received too late to share but a great teacher resource: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><b>Dear Ruby, hear our hearts : letters to civil rights activist Ruby Bridges</b> by Ruby Bridges</span><span style="color: #404040; font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgq-bC1jNJ9kRFmB15wLcQfGr98znc-Plc6n_lpc_j2kFIqTq_MQ2YkKEFO3rx9oBeGmT1EdCwnO2U63QCac8JEu2aeETAN5knfA-ojRk1trf0shnGN8JdhJY8dd_hjgc0rQ0FjQX9_ACglQ07C7-KhDqefjYL7FpaGlFnwzS-U9VCa-BMCMf-I9pjdj_ti" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="186" data-original-width="156" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgq-bC1jNJ9kRFmB15wLcQfGr98znc-Plc6n_lpc_j2kFIqTq_MQ2YkKEFO3rx9oBeGmT1EdCwnO2U63QCac8JEu2aeETAN5knfA-ojRk1trf0shnGN8JdhJY8dd_hjgc0rQ0FjQX9_ACglQ07C7-KhDqefjYL7FpaGlFnwzS-U9VCa-BMCMf-I9pjdj_ti" width="201" /></a></div><br />Booktalked: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><b>Sit-in : how four friends stood up by sitting down</b> by Andrea Davis Pinkney and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><b>Opening the road : Victor Hugo Green and his Green Book</b> by Keila V. Dawson</span><span style="color: #404040;"><br /><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #404040; font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2RIjSxlDcxkzaoRb3v-XQuzJ-Zq4YjdeNZaxs7m0YzDOZtFKemI2Uw4BXqDL44g3PiSd0_Rtc28XVidAj424es1RBLhVz9CawLbPCng3yUWO_ujbgg900gkXUu-pX5icINnMmG82rHV77dg8K-4IpQOHLH0WaTpP1QKDECr7jRvUmwocTvFUrix4FgrCr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="207" data-original-width="168" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2RIjSxlDcxkzaoRb3v-XQuzJ-Zq4YjdeNZaxs7m0YzDOZtFKemI2Uw4BXqDL44g3PiSd0_Rtc28XVidAj424es1RBLhVz9CawLbPCng3yUWO_ujbgg900gkXUu-pX5icINnMmG82rHV77dg8K-4IpQOHLH0WaTpP1QKDECr7jRvUmwocTvFUrix4FgrCr" width="195" /></a></div><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><b>Greta Thunberg</b> by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara ; illustrated by Anke Weckmann <br /><i>T</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-style: italic;">he inspiring true story of Greta Thunberg, the environmental activist. When young Greta learned of the climate crisis, she stopped talking. She couldn't understand why people in power were not doing anything to save our Earth. One day she started protesting outside the Swedish Parliament, creating the "School Strike for Climate." Soon, lots more young people joined her in a global movement that shook adults and politicians alike. She had found her voice and uses it to inspire humans to action with her powerful message: "No one is too small to make a difference."</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-style: italic;"> (Didn't discover until afterwards: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><b>Greta and the Giants : Inspired by Greta Thunberg's stand to save the world </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">by Zoë Tucker</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-style: italic;">- a fictionalized but tells true story at the end - would make a good readaloud) or consider </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><b>Our house is on fire : Greta Thunberg's call to save the planet</b> by Jeanette Winter</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Sang the inspiring words with the book: </i></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-style: italic;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbdQp7aOjQAzwthPxKtAp86ReAclCANDMlwcGkjAjGKtPqwd5fSxnDu-wel8Jkmx_RvFDm0mVAqKJR0nXkNTD_IBjv3EbrMDFcqEPNDjjY4G2CPHH4dQQhqKaBSsIrmcf-sL9bXmQCcWbEjOr61JEJItONWKaztPOlrEyaH9vVMiTEKTXZUaghqEV8mJlb" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="164" data-original-width="208" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbdQp7aOjQAzwthPxKtAp86ReAclCANDMlwcGkjAjGKtPqwd5fSxnDu-wel8Jkmx_RvFDm0mVAqKJR0nXkNTD_IBjv3EbrMDFcqEPNDjjY4G2CPHH4dQQhqKaBSsIrmcf-sL9bXmQCcWbEjOr61JEJItONWKaztPOlrEyaH9vVMiTEKTXZUaghqEV8mJlb" width="304" /></a></div><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><b>This little light of mine</b> illustrated by E.B. Lewis</span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Through the words of a well-known African-American spiritual dating back to the days of slavery, a little boy finds that through simple, kind acts he has the power to let his light shine and warm the world around him</i></span></span></div><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: arial;"><i>Finished with the wise advice from: </i></span></div><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: arial;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgav-kpfh4iIwpIUNshImXZnY9GzDox2FbDhNArkkhZxFy7w7IOMJ68knVnfFIaiAmDg5YGgLAcN5QlKGEBlSysmadBss9E-2I7iYCNhgs2jFMi4AN13Rak9qjlxA5oG_IovClyQmEGklfSUBNajFIEioWW0dXsOheMHb0zJ_a-zTNO4rFkv4d42qMNPb3_" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="207" data-original-width="168" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgav-kpfh4iIwpIUNshImXZnY9GzDox2FbDhNArkkhZxFy7w7IOMJ68knVnfFIaiAmDg5YGgLAcN5QlKGEBlSysmadBss9E-2I7iYCNhgs2jFMi4AN13Rak9qjlxA5oG_IovClyQmEGklfSUBNajFIEioWW0dXsOheMHb0zJ_a-zTNO4rFkv4d42qMNPb3_" width="195" /></a></div><b><br /></b></i></span><ul style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-position: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0.1em 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Be a king : Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream and you</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> by Carole Boston Weatherford ; illustrated by James Ransome <i> </i></span><i>"You can be a King. Stamp out hatred. Put your foot down and walk tall. You can be a King. Beat the drum for justice. March to your own conscience. Featuring a dual narrative of the key moments of Dr. King's life alongside a modern class as the students learn about him, Carole Weatherfor's poetic text encapsulates the moments that readers today can reenact in their own lives.</i></span></li></ul><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: arial;"><i>And asked the kids what they could do to make the world better...today & in the future</i></span></div></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Bedminster School 2nd Grade 2/28/24</i></span></p>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-402527630126093172024-02-28T17:05:00.002-05:002024-02-28T17:05:38.801-05:00Memory Cafe (YMCA) - Changemakers/Black History Month<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>I was invited as a storyteller for the <a href="https://www.gscymca.org/2023/09/memory-cafe/" target="_blank">Basking Ridge YMCA "Memory Cafe"</a> - a place of respite for adults with dementia & their caregivers. </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2XhNYuHb2vs/Vsj9CtoclzI/AAAAAAAAT_I/NdEBDJLwvsI/s1600-h/image%25255B11%25255D.png" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="244" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-1_wIwVpwSyk/Vsj9DBFD0XI/AAAAAAAAT_M/kCQvs-y5Ca4/image_thumb%25255B3%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="192" /></span></a></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Read <strong>Sit In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down</strong> by Andrea Davis Pinkney 323.1196 PIN – <em>Splendid writing</em> <em>filled with food metaphors telling the story of the 4 college students who inspired a movement with their patient wait at a Woolworth’s lunch counter for their order of “doughnuts & coffee & cream on the side.</em></span></div><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Followed with us all singing together this beautifully-illustrated and affirming book - a good song for young and old to have in our hearts and minds for tough days...</i> </span></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-nSzwLZTRyaQ/Vsj9G5IKI9I/AAAAAAAAT_o/dXehvWuEKpE/s1600-h/image%25255B8%25255D.png" style="color: #f48d1d;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="202" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-pAdLCmJTkew/Vsj9HfJtndI/AAAAAAAAT_s/FsteSY8nhwg/image_thumb%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="244" /></span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><em>Book/Song: </em><strong>This Little Light of Mine </strong>illustrated by E.B. Lewis</span></p><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><em><span style="font-family: arial;">Also talked about possible handprint art project - showed how they could trace a grandchild's hands on a piece of of plain paper and have them decorate it - possibly including a note of something/someone that they are thankful or grateful for in the center heart section - great for Valentine's Day or Thanksgiving or really, any time...</span></em></div><div align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbeluBU2rLN8eBlsogf1uvc-9qfaFjF_f_uTX8th5ipZ2ULw2PeAOkrB3bSyVTwB6JoaIqRVMso3yVOjArMBU50YQmZfx9ugWY9752udeT0SQN26GOUHCH07cYQr38VCbkcGQzfCIdCcsZ/s1600/hand+heart+prints2web.JPG" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" width="212" /></span></div>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-85067210295463904382024-01-24T20:12:00.002-05:002024-01-24T20:13:07.043-05:00Literacy Volunteers - Middle Earth "Snow" Storytime/Craft<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9Y4-oknLJaI3yP9Wt_IBxDLl_nLtX2XTAuFHWtfEMLxU-hFaFv0Figy8slfsaE5RJ2Jgevci9DGp4AVvDMbF9w7MT7HWN_9Id65_k1P5YOY1NcJ_a0Qwb5ScwKZl4a5475onXeXjcuxEu-0qbiv9NSWRTAELx161F_phqsDxRd6uIOuawA3WcmuPr8dxr" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="971" height="403" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg9Y4-oknLJaI3yP9Wt_IBxDLl_nLtX2XTAuFHWtfEMLxU-hFaFv0Figy8slfsaE5RJ2Jgevci9DGp4AVvDMbF9w7MT7HWN_9Id65_k1P5YOY1NcJ_a0Qwb5ScwKZl4a5475onXeXjcuxEu-0qbiv9NSWRTAELx161F_phqsDxRd6uIOuawA3WcmuPr8dxr=w541-h403" width="541" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIhCgeW6HAB46mc812FohxFR4ZszbwYU7P7j1dGicAyPriOvPuLRiFyaC5g9D8ivIuE8yhIyrdHJy-q8T8OVRH3OJ-o9gJFU1ATGlUGYHjnvc0RLKrt4WxBLqfNe62fFIE-No9oLQJfnL9uw-icQwtrHg5LCC4-Igm6uZsK61NmbzNj70QSH1kAvlWpefv" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="475" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhIhCgeW6HAB46mc812FohxFR4ZszbwYU7P7j1dGicAyPriOvPuLRiFyaC5g9D8ivIuE8yhIyrdHJy-q8T8OVRH3OJ-o9gJFU1ATGlUGYHjnvc0RLKrt4WxBLqfNe62fFIE-No9oLQJfnL9uw-icQwtrHg5LCC4-Igm6uZsK61NmbzNj70QSH1kAvlWpefv" width="265" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><strong style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Read: Snow</strong><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">by Uri Shulewitz</span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> </span><em style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(discussed Caldecott Medal – what it means)</em></div><p></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img height="199" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51iYZCZ7HHL._SY421_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" width="235" /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Acted Out: The Mitten</strong> by Jan Brett <em>(did with a large tablecloth mitten & sign/masks from janbrett.com details:</em> <a href="http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2014/12/winter-storytimetheatercraft-jan-bretts.html" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;" title="http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2014/12/winter-storytimetheatercraft-jan-bretts.html">http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2014/12/winter-storytimetheatercraft-jan-bretts.html</a>)</p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Talked about folktale (story retold over generations/centuries (define), then read Jan Brett’s book with kids holding tablecloth and masks from <a href="http://www.janbrett.com/" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">www.janbrett.com</a> at the “aachoo”, I grabbed the tablecloth and the kids scattered. Another possibility is to have two kids (or grown ups) hold hands and become each side of the mitten, then let the kids crowd in between. (from <a href="http://lalalalibrary.blogspot.com/2014/12/flannel-friday-mitten.html" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">http://lalalalibrary.blogspot.com/2014/12/flannel-friday-mitten.html</a>)</li></ul><p align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="Frosty the Snowman" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgiI4pPYF_-zMdrdPMuNbmp86-f4z7y099vj38fdBDrR8ge5M4jZkECCEHiPUM-G0X3josEqKUtHz6__5OooPWQHo0tFg2aezqtMAnYIblMaJPlQA3xhZopZ2L8OADPyHzQf5o2krXEY6nIieT8FbWTDJYW-3L1qWVumSzvgk2dccmZ51bpRcUoTpA8gA=s0-d" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" width="197" /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Singable Book:</strong> <strong>Frosty</strong><br />Booktalked: <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiaj_28lc7YAhXNS98KHf-XAYYQtwIILzAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DfkUeH7DUdM4&usg=AOvVaw08Uo70YtIYH_7b_fFR-gZU" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><strong>Raymond Brigg’s The Snowman</strong></a> <em>(wonderful video available on Youtube)</em> </p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img alt="Snowflake Bentley" height="261" src="https://prodimage.images-bn.com/pimages/9780547248295_p0_v4_s550x406.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" width="261" /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Snowflake Bentley</strong> by Jacqueline Briggs Martin, illustrated by Mary Azarian <em>(talked about Caldecott Gold woodcut illustrations, true book – would find in the Biography (bio=life, graphy =writing,stories section)</em><br /><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="background-color: transparent;">Singable/flannel:</strong> “<em style="background-color: transparent;">In the Freezer”</em> by Joe Scruggs – lyrics <a href="http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/01/singalong-winters-day.html" style="background-color: transparent; color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBEY4TPG4Zoawu_CxGui1_q8wVkTKICry0EB_RpTmcZXqCxROhlHpbP7GM8_Yyil_SVhciyjwVAAGwkd_Il5Oo6viL5WR_oCKvGiO9HTbC4jekuXcqJvUtmyi2vV7euVyL7gWkzGglVj2J1Fr5tKowgQHY4NFFZjnNEkBu6CbSy8H6pUVa7vClEHGDNDG3" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="366" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgBEY4TPG4Zoawu_CxGui1_q8wVkTKICry0EB_RpTmcZXqCxROhlHpbP7GM8_Yyil_SVhciyjwVAAGwkd_Il5Oo6viL5WR_oCKvGiO9HTbC4jekuXcqJvUtmyi2vV7euVyL7gWkzGglVj2J1Fr5tKowgQHY4NFFZjnNEkBu6CbSy8H6pUVa7vClEHGDNDG3" width="262" /></a></div><br /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Snowballs </strong><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">by Lois Ehlert </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(had kids look at the collage art –> art project</em><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">)</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></strong><strong style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Snow creatures</strong><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> (inspired by Ehlert’s book) – Materials: White & colored construction paper, markers, scissors, glue, pompoms, buttons, feathers, etc.</span><br /><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Finished with: Snowball fight</strong> using plastic bag snowballs, to the music “Sleigh Ride” by Leroy Anderson (on album <i><b>Season’s Greetings)</b></i><br />Making snowballs:<br />1) Gather a white plastic grocery bag into a long, skinny tube-like length with the handles on one end.<br />2) Fold the length in half, then in half again.<br />3) Wind a rubber band around the middle until it is tight.<br />4) Cut open both ends to remove any folded areas.<br />5) Then fluff out pieces<br />Idea courtesy of: Susan Dailey, librarian, speaker and author of "A Storytime Year"</p><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Optional Additional Craft : Cut out paper snowflakes</strong> <a href="http://thechocolatemuffintree.blogspot.com/2012/12/making-giant-snowflakes.html" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">http://thechocolatemuffintree.blogspot.com/2012/12/making-giant-snowflakes.html</a> (could use large tissue paper) (booktalked <strong>Snowflake Bentley</strong> – another Caldecott)<br /><a href="https://lh6.ggpht.com/-INwnoXs17fA/Ust8xDCK_cI/AAAAAAAALm0/zEZge1BdgDY/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="753" src="https://lh6.ggpht.com/-XqSn0HtLVqg/Ust8xwXfAhI/AAAAAAAALm8/DsczuDl3sLM/image_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="500" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1/24/24</p>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-79626936705255643042024-01-19T12:39:00.001-05:002024-01-19T12:39:06.515-05:002024 Mock Caldecott - Bedminster School K-2<p><span style="background-color: white;">2024</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> – I conducted 4 Mock Caldecott elections with a total of about 200 K-2nd* graders at Bedminster School. I used the books and ideas from this blogpost: </span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">https://mrschureads.blogspot.com/2023/11/2024-mock-caldecott.html and</span></span><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the basic procedure </span><a href="http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/01/mock-caldecott-committee-be-judge.html" style="background-color: white; color: #f48d1d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> (using <i>Kitten's First Full Moon </i>by Kevin Henkes</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Tuesday </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">by David Wiesner as samples of previous winners and mentioning how the Caldecott Committee is meeting in secret and no one knows which books they are considering – we are all guessing!). </span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">*Because of snow days, 3rd grade had to bow out. Here are the results:</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJiZy2ACXDYxqaKMTU0cLZFASTb9IxvAYM0UueQ3fHuEiDDoolo717LlN_1hNeqKmSj2Ikin8mtYFwedeL1GVrD84W9VoYdHvQk7p7SABGJZBtk_yFC_5d3_7Gw88yKD7FHjeEIIkP1lkcmtKviEKBEAR188-u4vrCxw1YShoFqk_P3Kl7ZP4lT7sRZ6E9/s4080/PXL_20240118_165259639.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJiZy2ACXDYxqaKMTU0cLZFASTb9IxvAYM0UueQ3fHuEiDDoolo717LlN_1hNeqKmSj2Ikin8mtYFwedeL1GVrD84W9VoYdHvQk7p7SABGJZBtk_yFC_5d3_7Gw88yKD7FHjeEIIkP1lkcmtKviEKBEAR188-u4vrCxw1YShoFqk_P3Kl7ZP4lT7sRZ6E9/w523-h394/PXL_20240118_165259639.jpg" width="523" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Kdg Winner: <b>Big</b> by Vashti Harrison</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Honors: <b>In the Night Garden</b> by Carin Berger</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>The Tree and the River </b>by Aaron Becker</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Once Upon a Book</b>, illustrations by Grace Lin</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also Read: <b>Remember</b> <span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Illustrations by Michaela Goade, Words by Joy Harjo</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>My Powerful Hair</b>, <span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Illustrations by Steph Littlebird</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVMi01CTCZZxJpI2ZrwvEkZlKTlkkP7fQGE84KtSmhUfI3dI-x97VNvOnlv9FIQKB_L7Mr0iKMepnhkrYJfZGwNWPs2JKcczkIR5l3xymVQ0OEVRPTgRVo6M_q9E6sjrnwz_bnk6C016WOlMDz-7xB5tmIHdkbYIu6kG5_B8J6P0MItNMC6XZPcoDu-fJq/s4080/PXL_20240118_165100174-EDIT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="793" data-original-width="4080" height="104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVMi01CTCZZxJpI2ZrwvEkZlKTlkkP7fQGE84KtSmhUfI3dI-x97VNvOnlv9FIQKB_L7Mr0iKMepnhkrYJfZGwNWPs2JKcczkIR5l3xymVQ0OEVRPTgRVo6M_q9E6sjrnwz_bnk6C016WOlMDz-7xB5tmIHdkbYIu6kG5_B8J6P0MItNMC6XZPcoDu-fJq/w537-h104/PXL_20240118_165100174-EDIT.jpg" width="537" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>1st Grade Winner: <b>If I Was a Horse</b> by Sophie Blackall</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Honors: <b>Big</b> by Vashti Harrison</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>The Skull</b> by Jon Klassen</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Once Upon a Book</b>, illustrations by Grace Lin</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Remember</b> <span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Illustrations by Michaela Goade, Words by Joy Harjo</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also Read: <b>In the Night Garden</b> by Carin Berger</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>This is a Story</b>, by John Schu, illustrations by Lauren Castillo<br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2FfuVrWR-dET470mzxFtxbQvPI4esl7AvLuNJEK3YpgOv6TwY3Oq3Zm3DeFV7slLsI3HeWB_zf5xQ_dDcypBjNiZIYpILHfNb1CZfqZbqOdowhnt98_ppp0GSYRocLmnGiBGN1Rtc2_d3OxsNg8TPU9aw1sGjdKwafpUl3nbwIvPC0xz3DhD4DrVKX4jA/s4080/PXL_20240118_164741595-EDIT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1002" data-original-width="4080" height="131" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2FfuVrWR-dET470mzxFtxbQvPI4esl7AvLuNJEK3YpgOv6TwY3Oq3Zm3DeFV7slLsI3HeWB_zf5xQ_dDcypBjNiZIYpILHfNb1CZfqZbqOdowhnt98_ppp0GSYRocLmnGiBGN1Rtc2_d3OxsNg8TPU9aw1sGjdKwafpUl3nbwIvPC0xz3DhD4DrVKX4jA/w532-h131/PXL_20240118_164741595-EDIT.jpg" width="532" /></a></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">2nd Grade Winner: <b>The Skull</b> by Jon Klassen</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Honors: <b>Evergreen</b> by Matthew Cordell</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>The Tree and the River</b> by Aaron Becker</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Jumper </b>by Jessica Lanan</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Nell Plants a Tree</b>, illustrations by Daniel Miyares</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Also Read: <b>In the Night Garden</b> by Carin Berger</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>If I Was a Horse</b> by Sophie Blackall</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b>Remember</b> <span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">Illustrations by Michaela Goade, Words by Joy Harjo</span></div><p><br /></p>All the books we considered are discussed here: https://mrschureads.blogspot.com/2023/11/2024-mock-caldecott.html<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ORLwqzizflfuIYdVrxygfU9ep9J8DRDSbqIsxxt0302eMpmQv8mf2gFhzq6zPDU_6DY-c5ALDMCzfpSVB65foGv9wmrCA9WCvzuZUN-CJ9zII-FVokPdlGOrFKHL_PrY-QmKjvg3g_iXLMC_6uRtic6qGQxPdYtq5eAa2UCwXESIuJUCudRwrfaN0dM0/s4080/PXL_20240118_165609562.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3072" data-original-width="4080" height="413" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8ORLwqzizflfuIYdVrxygfU9ep9J8DRDSbqIsxxt0302eMpmQv8mf2gFhzq6zPDU_6DY-c5ALDMCzfpSVB65foGv9wmrCA9WCvzuZUN-CJ9zII-FVokPdlGOrFKHL_PrY-QmKjvg3g_iXLMC_6uRtic6qGQxPdYtq5eAa2UCwXESIuJUCudRwrfaN0dM0/w548-h413/PXL_20240118_165609562.jpg" width="548" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span><p></p>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-83132127638830091392023-11-07T20:51:00.000-05:002023-11-07T20:51:19.527-05:00Literacy Volunteers Virtual Storytime - Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5mLsaUfWHLbXGN6eE7nUDCJD75WGZPtYwm3H6ta9kWucs0sr2LSajQLbZwOwF4mEAcwSQGveR4yTPa3dUoWHqRv8wmhLmF7B1gIKS_sQzHTtQa3SOtXDeIAYUXgcU4gUdGgzrkddH-VNsuBTS3SnCwiC6zonbv4aUJHZLuGacTuJkavkyJ0rvhsQQdfLg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="275" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi5mLsaUfWHLbXGN6eE7nUDCJD75WGZPtYwm3H6ta9kWucs0sr2LSajQLbZwOwF4mEAcwSQGveR4yTPa3dUoWHqRv8wmhLmF7B1gIKS_sQzHTtQa3SOtXDeIAYUXgcU4gUdGgzrkddH-VNsuBTS3SnCwiC6zonbv4aUJHZLuGacTuJkavkyJ0rvhsQQdfLg" width="275" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Read: <b>Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs</b> by Judi Barrett about a town which gets its food through precipitation, then followed with some Thanksgiving-themed food stories & songs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Towel Folding Story: The Case of the Missing Turkey</b> <span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">-- Rhonda Turley Piedmont, OK via PUBYAC. Video: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq4eojAsNlY" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq4eojAsNlY</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"> (or search youtube for towel and chicken).<br /></span>Other Thanksgiving ideas and songs can be found here: <a href="https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/11/thanksgiving-storytimes-preschool-and.html" style="color: #f48d1d; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Pre-School Storytime/Craft: Thanksgiving</span></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;">"Last year, I was in charge of cooking the family thanksgiving turkey.I set my alarm for early in the morning so I could pop it in the oven to cook for our family dinner.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">When the alarm went off, I got up, put on my fuzzy slippers and shuffled out to the kitchen to get the bird. I opened the fridge, and…IT WAS GONE!</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Where could it be!? (this is where the towel folding starts…lay the towel out flat)</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I looked everywhere!</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I rolled up the living room rug (roll one end of the towel to center)…it wasn’t under there.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I pulled down the covers on my bed (roll other end to the center)…it wasn’t there.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I turned over the couch cushion (Flip rolled towel over so rolled ends are underneath)…it wasn’t there.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I looked under the chair (fold towel in half end to end, and hold upright like a bouquet of flowers)…it wasn’t there.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I looked in the flower vase (peek in end of one tube and pull up the corner of the towel)</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I looked in the umbrella stand (peek in end of one tube and pull up the corner of the towel)…it wasn’t there.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I even looked in the trash can (peek in end of one tube and pull up the corner of the towel)...thankfully it wasn't there!</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Finally, I looked in the cookie jar (pull up last corner of the towel)</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">(here’s the finale…grasp two corners with one hand, the other two corners with the other hand, and pull them apart…resulting in what looks like a plucked bird.)</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">…And there it was!"</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2K_tIdRGcComo6WqfPjjneQQOUZYTGOoCb8Vih1KYmIhnrRP7YvzNXotoPAGtMQsxw9PtRJxQ64yAws-fF_dEIuI-Dk2t6nJopCy-HC4dtWsuekIYd2d-W4zay1yj2vGWy0gxDVwujl3zEQc9r2Wr9Nq3b36hG0dp9GzO12WBepo0b7dSanwmVPEDC7QU" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="540" data-original-width="475" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi2K_tIdRGcComo6WqfPjjneQQOUZYTGOoCb8Vih1KYmIhnrRP7YvzNXotoPAGtMQsxw9PtRJxQ64yAws-fF_dEIuI-Dk2t6nJopCy-HC4dtWsuekIYd2d-W4zay1yj2vGWy0gxDVwujl3zEQc9r2Wr9Nq3b36hG0dp9GzO12WBepo0b7dSanwmVPEDC7QU" width="211" /></a></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmqFVuPnz1fzq-OonSAue5HumhtOnS4Xdl73YlDnr8P3fJLKJ-vyEL1EzaG5WaWPITRk5MQj54HKtx6tLeefmEj4yPLE40H7cN8pnZZ41p_un6OTv0ByMDCII_yzis7r_E1iczvpgtwSBWBEPJ_B1qCdzc362nzikeAATxW2CCDIEd7HTiQK2epx0xpVwh" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="308" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjmqFVuPnz1fzq-OonSAue5HumhtOnS4Xdl73YlDnr8P3fJLKJ-vyEL1EzaG5WaWPITRk5MQj54HKtx6tLeefmEj4yPLE40H7cN8pnZZ41p_un6OTv0ByMDCII_yzis7r_E1iczvpgtwSBWBEPJ_B1qCdzc362nzikeAATxW2CCDIEd7HTiQK2epx0xpVwh" width="214" /></a></div><br />Prop/Song: I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie – based on the book by Alison Jackson <i>(great song for helping kids work on their memory skills – try to have them remember the different foods in the countdown; can also use rhyming reminders (phonemic awareness) as clues.) </i>(We use a cardboard old lady with a plastic see-through stomach panel and a cardboard box mounted behind for the food items.) Lyrics and more images: www.4gaslps.com/IKnewAnOldLadyWhoSwallowedAPie.doc<p></p><p></p><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhO-5qrt_1sXX1MD5rFNJwHRoieL1yb7rpdRmKWz3qTDv9kKX8-yPca5eOVqymQkuVPED07Yj2cd0Iti58qb35rAC3OiSqENBBlkIgkITWclIFVqmeGyi7PsFo5SSb085PStp-MnDLql7DvYDzjmGij2skcy2Rrw7rW17HvpJ32gybCRMoFUVTmPjBlQ8_V" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="397" data-original-width="462" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhO-5qrt_1sXX1MD5rFNJwHRoieL1yb7rpdRmKWz3qTDv9kKX8-yPca5eOVqymQkuVPED07Yj2cd0Iti58qb35rAC3OiSqENBBlkIgkITWclIFVqmeGyi7PsFo5SSb085PStp-MnDLql7DvYDzjmGij2skcy2Rrw7rW17HvpJ32gybCRMoFUVTmPjBlQ8_V" width="279" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Song: The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven</strong><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">(words: Jack Prelutsky, chorus: Cathy Darby)<br /></i><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Tune: “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean”</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;"> Check it out on </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQKRfVUbuxA" style="background-color: white; color: #f48d1d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start; text-decoration-line: none;">Youtube</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">, subtitled in Chinese! </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;"></i><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">The turkey shot out of the oven</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">And rocketed into the air,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">It knocked every plate off the table</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">And partly demolished a chair.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Oh my, oh me, why didn't I follow the recipe?<br /></i><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Oh my, oh me, why didn't I follow the recipe</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">It ricocheted into a corner,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">And burst with a deafening boom,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Then splattered all over the kitchen,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Completely obscuring the room. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Chorus</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;"></span><i><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /></i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">It stuck to the walls and the windows,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">It totally coated the floor,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">There was turkey attached to the ceiling</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Where there'd never been turkey before. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Chorus</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;"></span><i><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /></i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">It blanketed every appliance,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">It smeared every saucer and bowl,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">There wasn't a way I could stop it,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">That turkey was out of control. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">Chorus</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;"></span><i><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /></i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">I scraped and I scrubbed with displeasure,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">And thought with chagrin as I mopped,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">That I'd never again stuff a turkey</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: start;">With popcorn that hadn't been popped!</span></div><div><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1SRm0cMd9qh-oVNwIuQJ7vtHRqyEjLRhQlkwi2d63ZpQzBLSfWOuNwYhqSVQeBYaxKgFOHlQ_DXFQN9f9yvGpKUvc2P1HmAkYGKDqX3VikJTsyV3TV7CLtAlx6zHcWOgD3kSU0NaasM67Sn8H-p43OxdLAKZBBkO2una5Z4MbFqzuHuTc2f3vLyItbkqQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="579" data-original-width="680" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg1SRm0cMd9qh-oVNwIuQJ7vtHRqyEjLRhQlkwi2d63ZpQzBLSfWOuNwYhqSVQeBYaxKgFOHlQ_DXFQN9f9yvGpKUvc2P1HmAkYGKDqX3VikJTsyV3TV7CLtAlx6zHcWOgD3kSU0NaasM67Sn8H-p43OxdLAKZBBkO2una5Z4MbFqzuHuTc2f3vLyItbkqQ" width="282" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">While the kids worked on their drawings of what foods they'd like to have rain down, <br />we played this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFItrOSkryw&ab_channel=BuffaloBesties">video</a> of Bridgewater author David Wiesner's story of mysterious floating giant vegetables, <b>June 29, 1999</b></div><br /><div style="text-align: left;">11/7/2023</div></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><br /></span></p></div><p><br /></p>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-8937361736940704712023-04-21T08:17:00.003-04:002023-04-21T08:17:22.165-04:00School Age Storytime - Earth Day<p><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg98m8YSbLiSR5tWKDASVutexQadGx3VusVw2Q31M6T00fQFce2XlQYNpSGiNrcu6rLXg0Yv_RXBtqj0i4sCOGEsTJoJx0uL9IMuNEK0jGD8jOljvEIgeW5MrgviOLjZmo86UjLw7BHImo6uKWjIKL8VPUzcuxGXh2wSMhQkVb8iJIY2BogDyiWnaftgw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="683" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg98m8YSbLiSR5tWKDASVutexQadGx3VusVw2Q31M6T00fQFce2XlQYNpSGiNrcu6rLXg0Yv_RXBtqj0i4sCOGEsTJoJx0uL9IMuNEK0jGD8jOljvEIgeW5MrgviOLjZmo86UjLw7BHImo6uKWjIKL8VPUzcuxGXh2wSMhQkVb8iJIY2BogDyiWnaftgw" width="320" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">I Love Our Earth - Bill Martin Jr. - photographic celebration</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8QkdOq5EL5ngwu1fuDoJCYJL6SnoMFCmZPwUIPO0y7rVplSR4tahsFKbKvRbdueEn9RpWUh17qJmuwjCwvNaH2onG9Dw4uf_wAPqsF0cqcUovSilyvdAdJzCXO2fKm3MnorKIDHSyBQOzenVZffc9opc_JeecxKRBrppl_PGgeFp4tJJDCDhGhc64IA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="772" data-original-width="625" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8QkdOq5EL5ngwu1fuDoJCYJL6SnoMFCmZPwUIPO0y7rVplSR4tahsFKbKvRbdueEn9RpWUh17qJmuwjCwvNaH2onG9Dw4uf_wAPqsF0cqcUovSilyvdAdJzCXO2fKm3MnorKIDHSyBQOzenVZffc9opc_JeecxKRBrppl_PGgeFp4tJJDCDhGhc64IA" width="194" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Spring is Here - Taro Gomi <span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">"Spring is here. / The snow melts. / The earth is fresh. / The grass sprouts." Taro Gomi's clever picture book about the change of seasons couldn't be simpler. The first spread shows a white calf against a hot-pink background. "Spring is here," it says. In the next spread "the snow melts." And indeed, the once snow-white calf is now spotted black and white! </span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Song: This is the Way we Plant Our Seeds</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtAyEb5M3hzQrf987UowwbD0VQ0Xd7X85COV4d71ZJV4uDm-c3X5Lv-lEPKPFaGnQeWt9tJqncGHaqeWdq9nJMMeMCTgEwcwoPpTbvyLBzfiMrEMVFBNURUcmyryiQzvMwDtOlYdJ8kx2mQIqoLeoW-FrmSu6r99ZphPv8n4VtSOf2eGAakd0YAjeEQg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="262" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjtAyEb5M3hzQrf987UowwbD0VQ0Xd7X85COV4d71ZJV4uDm-c3X5Lv-lEPKPFaGnQeWt9tJqncGHaqeWdq9nJMMeMCTgEwcwoPpTbvyLBzfiMrEMVFBNURUcmyryiQzvMwDtOlYdJ8kx2mQIqoLeoW-FrmSu6r99ZphPv8n4VtSOf2eGAakd0YAjeEQg" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life - Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm <span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"> (572.46 BANG) -- this creative and memorable explanation of photosynthesis will stick with kids for a long time.</span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>And the Green Grass Grew all Around</b><b> </b><i>(flannel) – lyrics here: <a href="http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/04/sing-springhappy-earthday.html" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;" title="http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/04/sing-springhappy-earthday.html">http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/04/sing-springhappy-earthday.html</a> </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Booktalk: The Great Kapok Tree</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">booktalk: The Camping Trip the Changed America</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsNppUiXwQA4gxJQJZGN5dSNBZVgR_cp1OCxwf0i8vTEq1fnuF_uWjECUCKywmc8WhWE5m7UnFEL5zQDKeRlfHJun8Or2PJE7qP8UDf0qHeqShSbI8GQJv1mwhHsUed-bY2-iSCcN6DSstpHJiZgqJj6G3xPDrJdIhMbStKSfiHI3nvb01-X1wgL4Nww" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="195" data-original-width="200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsNppUiXwQA4gxJQJZGN5dSNBZVgR_cp1OCxwf0i8vTEq1fnuF_uWjECUCKywmc8WhWE5m7UnFEL5zQDKeRlfHJun8Or2PJE7qP8UDf0qHeqShSbI8GQJv1mwhHsUed-bY2-iSCcN6DSstpHJiZgqJj6G3xPDrJdIhMbStKSfiHI3nvb01-X1wgL4Nww" width="246" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />Dear Earth: From Your Friends in Room 5 - Erin Dealey <span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">When the kids in Room 5 write to Earth asking what they can do to help save our planet, they are delighted to get a letter back. This beautiful picture book is a celebration of every child's ability to connect with the environment and make a positive impact .</span></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSgEKyk03xJkrwCmC37-PqO8w8UX_Fyon1qWKh4YBYBUNO_KtUGKCl7Cyl3zdBV0X3VMh2pJAvAJwJNqBH6m8JVkZTErJ8dOqwz7cXd9EijHie9WiLIcErGbDLw3uY76uENyj_rz5TcfO-j-HLdVbYMnKs7vCJrhA6hzQnX7bH_MCqAcp0-AkjBDkuXA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="178" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgSgEKyk03xJkrwCmC37-PqO8w8UX_Fyon1qWKh4YBYBUNO_KtUGKCl7Cyl3zdBV0X3VMh2pJAvAJwJNqBH6m8JVkZTErJ8dOqwz7cXd9EijHie9WiLIcErGbDLw3uY76uENyj_rz5TcfO-j-HLdVbYMnKs7vCJrhA6hzQnX7bH_MCqAcp0-AkjBDkuXA" width="170" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Action Book: Earth Dance by Joanne Ryder</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVnHcyKcunbOdqvm342RKDw9Jlff0gmv8rmYAGT4STLenCBmgrxAQ0MSWQk8L6LCyRKamXtETRVAKtttDr13Kb57Yc28Xfkp10BoidQ2z02fKV0dciSDcaL3JyzKqT4zgj-tnSanwGlbeX4ogpvyqjOyvkVYQNF8rpW77bYTiWiThb56cMl1bQsU7krQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="171" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjVnHcyKcunbOdqvm342RKDw9Jlff0gmv8rmYAGT4STLenCBmgrxAQ0MSWQk8L6LCyRKamXtETRVAKtttDr13Kb57Yc28Xfkp10BoidQ2z02fKV0dciSDcaL3JyzKqT4zgj-tnSanwGlbeX4ogpvyqjOyvkVYQNF8rpW77bYTiWiThb56cMl1bQsU7krQ" width="200" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Singable book: What a Wonderful World - Ashley Bryan</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPgGucVg731bViO6ZwNhOFt_KfhJABN1uWuZvLEpBWiEgcZELtSxaVgGlvdtEDgvK54CWMeFrntantDN-hYrpbbuvi_jkrmPxUPKKBC9DxgaUmzJ4smptcG2ZPROYnUep-x9GKC39_1f_7uLeGPdH4-g2vwmgPoavKzflAlG1-BXwn-nwMIVg_pL6p9Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="279" data-original-width="228" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhPgGucVg731bViO6ZwNhOFt_KfhJABN1uWuZvLEpBWiEgcZELtSxaVgGlvdtEDgvK54CWMeFrntantDN-hYrpbbuvi_jkrmPxUPKKBC9DxgaUmzJ4smptcG2ZPROYnUep-x9GKC39_1f_7uLeGPdH4-g2vwmgPoavKzflAlG1-BXwn-nwMIVg_pL6p9Q" width="196" /></span></a></div><p></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Mother Earth - Nancy Luenn Gorgeous watercolors accompany this extended metaphorical exploration of our planet</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">SN only:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Our Tree Named Steve - Alan Zweibel</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">No time:<br />Does the Earth Feel? - Marc Majewki<br />The Water Hole - Graeme Base</span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;">Bedm/Paolino SN 4/19/23</span></p>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-397909793964537982023-03-17T12:12:00.002-04:002023-03-17T12:12:14.363-04:00School Age Storytime: St. Patrick's Day and Finding Treasure in Unexpected Ways<p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsMq7XOwXJNCKcsXkU_rztLQVBlbGhkGcrYtL5GbdL6VYfKhvGBND1NBv5E80X7SXmp5DOrxCOh_N9Z63K3v5T44bLw1yTR12LUmBwKjfwz01NEOS_uIj9Mx2H8mVMTgEMvfXTB0XcJCoJgkOp60F-moAMejk1Wn3adjKjCQNthXsxoS0Bd_5w37KYIw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="" data-original-height="797" data-original-width="670" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgsMq7XOwXJNCKcsXkU_rztLQVBlbGhkGcrYtL5GbdL6VYfKhvGBND1NBv5E80X7SXmp5DOrxCOh_N9Z63K3v5T44bLw1yTR12LUmBwKjfwz01NEOS_uIj9Mx2H8mVMTgEMvfXTB0XcJCoJgkOp60F-moAMejk1Wn3adjKjCQNthXsxoS0Bd_5w37KYIw" width="202" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Jamie O'Rourke and the Big Potato: An Irish Folktale</b> by Tomie De Paola. <i>(Discussed meaning of folktale, compared retelling to game of "telephone.") <span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">Ireland's laziest man happens upon a Leprechaun and is given a potato that grows to huge proportions and creates humorous problems. </span></i></span><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVgT7jsOODd20O4mGLu0suZnLkNYz7wBbgftyicUP5oZe886gV_Zxe-WqRisWQ33j9nTdCSyw25e59k0dOGyI31rLsFGUAT2gIEjnG1R-1FSAnnSrIsloRAuv9Ll-Qpq2RQ3CmQOjsVKul9EPsX7I_kNkqR3OKG34Z6Xwq3SFbD0oVaEVWvmZK8s-gJg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="161" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgVgT7jsOODd20O4mGLu0suZnLkNYz7wBbgftyicUP5oZe886gV_Zxe-WqRisWQ33j9nTdCSyw25e59k0dOGyI31rLsFGUAT2gIEjnG1R-1FSAnnSrIsloRAuv9Ll-Qpq2RQ3CmQOjsVKul9EPsX7I_kNkqR3OKG34Z6Xwq3SFbD0oVaEVWvmZK8s-gJg" width="188" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>That's What Leprechauns Do </b>by Eve Bunting <i>(<span style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Delightful illustrations from Caldecott medalist Emily Arnold McCully accompany a playful text written in a lilting Irish style about three leprechauns' mischief-making on their way to pl</span><span style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">ace the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.)</span></i></span></div><p></p><div id="fullDetails_marcData" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-alternates: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h4 style="border: 0px; font-feature-settings: inherit; font-kerning: inherit; font-optical-sizing: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-variation-settings: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><i><span style="font-family: times;">Speaking of looking for gold...</span></i></span></h4></div><p><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #404040; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiw2ytZCgeX2_N9xoV6nJxfEct9jyhCTl3fbvoztYDpk9Z6EGEQqscfDa3sy56CdmmB7VOP5HsnyHPj2Xi9a0SkWlCGeLjFiF0UPMCpMRAN-v2B-D8M9jxtxvavNsO7rsU-z9kInqCFthvN8G7pp6eXKXm6aWvpg3bbDR2mBX4tgIUU17fRtULdNigyHQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="165" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiw2ytZCgeX2_N9xoV6nJxfEct9jyhCTl3fbvoztYDpk9Z6EGEQqscfDa3sy56CdmmB7VOP5HsnyHPj2Xi9a0SkWlCGeLjFiF0UPMCpMRAN-v2B-D8M9jxtxvavNsO7rsU-z9kInqCFthvN8G7pp6eXKXm6aWvpg3bbDR2mBX4tgIUU17fRtULdNigyHQ" width="187" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b style="color: #404040;">The Book of Gold</b><span style="color: #404040;"> by Bob Staake <i>(Single name = author & illustrator. </i></span><i><span style="color: #404040; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Young Isaac Gutenberg isn't a curious boy . . . that is, until he meets an old shopkeeper who tells him about </span><span style="color: #404040; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">The Book of Gold. </span><span style="color: #404040; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">This special book, hidden somewhere in the world, holds all the answers to every question and turns to solid gold when opened. Isaac is determined to find the book and spends his whole life searching for it...discovering many other things along the way.</span></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #404040; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><br /></span><i style="color: #404040; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Another book celebrating the magic of discovery:</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #404040; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #404040; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; font-weight: inherit; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyGff-UnVi26zTfdAacEL4-_gAVlsdhDvO-5FhjyRYfYaynAVRRrzsc6IWaBaAoH2UCSQP2QhpXcP3CklDhlyolf713QOHSrOmPwGJPgeJ3WDFUd0Mq6zt_LLGdbDzQoSDRKi7Xfw1PDzKFgVpEGl6LFhnV4eRqDLzioS_ifuJnryPRkiYQ3MbsbEorw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="206" data-original-width="159" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiyGff-UnVi26zTfdAacEL4-_gAVlsdhDvO-5FhjyRYfYaynAVRRrzsc6IWaBaAoH2UCSQP2QhpXcP3CklDhlyolf713QOHSrOmPwGJPgeJ3WDFUd0Mq6zt_LLGdbDzQoSDRKi7Xfw1PDzKFgVpEGl6LFhnV4eRqDLzioS_ifuJnryPRkiYQ3MbsbEorw" width="185" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>The Pink Refrigerator</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> by Tim Egan <i>(</i></span><i>"Try to do as little as possible.” This was Dodsworth’s motto, until, one morning, on his daily trip to the junkyard, he discovers a pink refrigerator...)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Last, a book with no words...but a special kind of magic!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7X_9mnMgvSq9rCUE-sAyLYfC88kqvuvRJlwSSoMNK8EzL3SrCnRA9Zt5VV1qH_R5D-mRMttPVTseDdcRSp5LelH524Gb607RzPMKerdYqUPKsewlZkbYnO6ekTNxX4jy4OwvN5A8MAC83pgeWiclQ8Ou7kqK1c9ZW6rhByCjurYhjG6_edC3jTNky1w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="161" data-original-width="212" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7X_9mnMgvSq9rCUE-sAyLYfC88kqvuvRJlwSSoMNK8EzL3SrCnRA9Zt5VV1qH_R5D-mRMttPVTseDdcRSp5LelH524Gb607RzPMKerdYqUPKsewlZkbYnO6ekTNxX4jy4OwvN5A8MAC83pgeWiclQ8Ou7kqK1c9ZW6rhByCjurYhjG6_edC3jTNky1w" width="316" /></a></div><br /><b>Chalk </b>by Bill Thomson <i>(A rainy day. Three kids in a park. A dinosaur spring rider. A bag of chalk. The kids begin to draw...and then...magic! The children draw the sun, butterflies, and a dinosaur that amazingly come to life. Children will never feel the same about the playground after they experience this astounding wordless picture book and the power of the imagination.)</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">No time for:<br /></div></span></span></div><p></p><p align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZI2BUSEyeCCyz-6GE3e8VWFX3YuqRorfl-5ph47p_AAH017VjvGcbcqgWZYjrAtAV5SaIERUTAAQCm3LfnGb_ZPJ0NhwUnjjzbiThnqJwyZFlM7ILuDGIw7OzgDhAid-0H187sn-BNCsv7iFmR6r3FMnGF6NrS8eVIvL9cLY7jpDiTzDLf9DAOZ-LNw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="304" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZI2BUSEyeCCyz-6GE3e8VWFX3YuqRorfl-5ph47p_AAH017VjvGcbcqgWZYjrAtAV5SaIERUTAAQCm3LfnGb_ZPJ0NhwUnjjzbiThnqJwyZFlM7ILuDGIw7OzgDhAid-0H187sn-BNCsv7iFmR6r3FMnGF6NrS8eVIvL9cLY7jpDiTzDLf9DAOZ-LNw" width="242" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><strong style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">If… </strong><span style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">by Sarah Perry </span><em style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">(Imagine if cats could fly, leaves were fish, mice were hair, caterpillars were toothpaste, toes were teeth, or frogs ate rainbows…then imagine what else you can imagine!) </em></span><p></p><p align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><em style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiutmParlq7BxuN-WWymC2BsHU-2Qt76AsNFIxPtLccftqH2xJWIsoJcsVVP4WnNE-yhuwHuY0DuYR8mafK9dLgzh7KKpxMNDue7puF9guOTfv0FDjLrIyaB8W4cfEiTSaK8795B7ldE21eeVxukFCGEioejrFxBDh1zeZHpo_-DR6Cngy97rTXaElaYg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="239" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiutmParlq7BxuN-WWymC2BsHU-2Qt76AsNFIxPtLccftqH2xJWIsoJcsVVP4WnNE-yhuwHuY0DuYR8mafK9dLgzh7KKpxMNDue7puF9guOTfv0FDjLrIyaB8W4cfEiTSaK8795B7ldE21eeVxukFCGEioejrFxBDh1zeZHpo_-DR6Cngy97rTXaElaYg" width="239" /></a></span></em></div><em style="font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></em><b style="font-family: times;">Imagine a Day/Night/Place/World</b><span style="font-family: times;"> books by Sarah Thompson <i>(mind-bending images & poems)</i></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #404040;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: times; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Other books celebrating books, reading, and libraries: <br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: times;">http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Books%20%26%20Reading</span></div><p><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><br /></span><br /><p></p>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-61060383915896290422023-03-10T10:24:00.001-05:002023-03-10T10:24:05.040-05:00School Age Storytime: Black History Month <p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjI0mGt2vnAS0JdA_p5eL9BXqqIhpdq5_RaR3-qxIRvIfMdsyGgoKqOrZfJ46a_4deBYW71Jth9_LB8ZnaWjFPU-8BMrZM7F7eVbpjFCVBRkZ2NjydYXvjJzmhMq0ILnQyljuNq8kAYUkMrzd7n7ARPMilsinyX_lWsCyBVRLb4ZvfS4IObPdSNW4RDEA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="" data-original-height="207" data-original-width="160" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjI0mGt2vnAS0JdA_p5eL9BXqqIhpdq5_RaR3-qxIRvIfMdsyGgoKqOrZfJ46a_4deBYW71Jth9_LB8ZnaWjFPU-8BMrZM7F7eVbpjFCVBRkZ2NjydYXvjJzmhMq0ILnQyljuNq8kAYUkMrzd7n7ARPMilsinyX_lWsCyBVRLb4ZvfS4IObPdSNW4RDEA" width="186" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Opened by asking if the recognized the man on the cover of </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Martin's Big Words </b>by Doreen Rappaport<b> </b>and talked about the Caldecott Medal on the cover, then read the book.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Sang: <i>We Shall Overcome </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBKJWfXKzyd4-oMWUt3YQRj3LAkYCpxVIs0sjF0SM0u3c5dfO0Vp1rgiOnrePvkpCpmHK_5tuhuU5kqiQtYQrxiOAytxYnG-McDSlcKTTfxMrSX3taO0QEJl-DtpVsP6Qa4rbbjG3oFAnklV6rOV23fwmWpWkAR09zC1dixeO0gwHTSbjP5tnU5MCsHw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="" data-original-height="207" data-original-width="161" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiBKJWfXKzyd4-oMWUt3YQRj3LAkYCpxVIs0sjF0SM0u3c5dfO0Vp1rgiOnrePvkpCpmHK_5tuhuU5kqiQtYQrxiOAytxYnG-McDSlcKTTfxMrSX3taO0QEJl-DtpVsP6Qa4rbbjG3oFAnklV6rOV23fwmWpWkAR09zC1dixeO0gwHTSbjP5tnU5MCsHw" width="187" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;">Asked if they knew who Ruby Bridges was then read:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>I am Ruby Bridges</b> by Ruby Bridges -- a first person account of her first days in school.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Talked about how this wasn't so long ago (their grandparent's time and how some white children left the school rather than go to school with black kids) and the crazy idea that skin color or national origin made some people think other people shouldn't have the same rights...</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuwaSTmPZZYiumLJbFFcr_YsyILYnHDM72osh4F_ItPysBYf6DIW46h0-nnAjoBpURFAq0cXUcEMes8sc6CIg_lVryVLLMDuM04PMxi8310qSsrLpQAB3jC0CzcQg9zXVSNxwIdz-yaYa90jGPV4O1IF_UAQhYVm0ZRn6QpttjT38AGPcAS-_8KUpXNQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="" data-original-height="178" data-original-width="196" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiuwaSTmPZZYiumLJbFFcr_YsyILYnHDM72osh4F_ItPysBYf6DIW46h0-nnAjoBpURFAq0cXUcEMes8sc6CIg_lVryVLLMDuM04PMxi8310qSsrLpQAB3jC0CzcQg9zXVSNxwIdz-yaYa90jGPV4O1IF_UAQhYVm0ZRn6QpttjT38AGPcAS-_8KUpXNQ" width="264" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br />Read: <b>Freedom Summer </b>by Deborah Wiles <span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-size: 16px;">- Joe and John Henry do everything together, from shooting marbles to shelling butterbeans. But when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is passed and the town pool is opened to blacks and whites alike, the two boys discover that the workers have filled in the pool with tar. Based on the author's own childhood growing up in rural Alabama and Mississippi. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-size: 16px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg89gGiW-CCuwBejdmWN1kUkrejB-SR-vLQGHv1XT3nI9tEZR1vvR4LObNWMILWnJ0ZrP8aAf0Anh7i-dU_xHA-Oe42y5MaqvDAIeh68u8khhbIGblnqDVEYGjGudu6qrdpCLUcdWyLpaF3CEKgDDOfjWWf_NlpylVbuyJlTKSpyNg20Pyx5KoEIhrDvg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="203" data-original-width="162" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg89gGiW-CCuwBejdmWN1kUkrejB-SR-vLQGHv1XT3nI9tEZR1vvR4LObNWMILWnJ0ZrP8aAf0Anh7i-dU_xHA-Oe42y5MaqvDAIeh68u8khhbIGblnqDVEYGjGudu6qrdpCLUcdWyLpaF3CEKgDDOfjWWf_NlpylVbuyJlTKSpyNg20Pyx5KoEIhrDvg" width="192" /></a></div><br />Read: <b>Sit-In How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down</b> by Andrea Davis Pinkney </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit;">It was February 1, 1960.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">They didn't need menus. Their order was simple.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A doughnut and coffee, with cream on the side.<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-size: 16px;">This picture book celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, shows how four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement.<br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-size: 16px;">Andrea Davis Pinkney uses poetic, powerful prose to tell the story of these four young men, who followed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words of peaceful protest and dared to sit at the whites only Woolworth's lunch counter. </span></span><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: times;"><br /></span><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjg8GdHqpV1sAj098n9qezO8wV_aKbahsLpDi5ox0mMLWn6oSs_OlcOY6UDhGWn0m70-ZwmqzRvppkExjbNmtYN_9KnkQTC8NuRMqqifJdRA0y02ds-OGbjjGXU34KuzkIdqUIikynoX5RfiGTnNuHL-K9yxjqZ4-nuVqBFHLDlFJT3NtGuz3_t1v-zjQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="166" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjg8GdHqpV1sAj098n9qezO8wV_aKbahsLpDi5ox0mMLWn6oSs_OlcOY6UDhGWn0m70-ZwmqzRvppkExjbNmtYN_9KnkQTC8NuRMqqifJdRA0y02ds-OGbjjGXU34KuzkIdqUIikynoX5RfiGTnNuHL-K9yxjqZ4-nuVqBFHLDlFJT3NtGuz3_t1v-zjQ" width="189" /></a></div></span></div><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: times;">Read: <b>This is the Dream</b> by Diane Z. Shore & Jessica Alexander</span></div><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: times;">Inspiring text shows "before" and "after" the civil rights laws</span></div><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #404040;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe-uZXVkAmZOneW4aDsIFz14j9lo3lOIUcZFGdLbQDsewjoIyK_FbexXfCUgatWVYjBBdnL4PBXOqGXjZzMHBVr2QtooZ8fxU9EafM9revr4FWmznUYGxBnnPMe4DP1qjrxREo0wpKA1WYNmDDA6A_3x2GBXZenEOKKVMBViMhEmDL56X6bB0M0jVvPg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="204" data-original-width="161" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhe-uZXVkAmZOneW4aDsIFz14j9lo3lOIUcZFGdLbQDsewjoIyK_FbexXfCUgatWVYjBBdnL4PBXOqGXjZzMHBVr2QtooZ8fxU9EafM9revr4FWmznUYGxBnnPMe4DP1qjrxREo0wpKA1WYNmDDA6A_3x2GBXZenEOKKVMBViMhEmDL56X6bB0M0jVvPg" width="189" /></a></div><br /></span><span style="color: #404040;">Read: </span><b style="color: #404040;">Be A King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's Dream and You </b><span style="color: #404040;">by Carole Boston Weatherford. Words to live by...</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #404040;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhK3s9PA0OlKTR1NWDpuGl7lwqrtQCE3b5_avel2RpccPOnx5imB1RThVit91if-Nz2tXr2fpQVsvahBneGOYREXP8-qkoBbYTiu09LRoni6mHG9N54l0OMZykoMpYua8GAowxtubYyw9Npw9u6g9GbT_vvyYwHDO4qdjSAgdf8iIc8nWawS60zAJn8Rw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="216" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhK3s9PA0OlKTR1NWDpuGl7lwqrtQCE3b5_avel2RpccPOnx5imB1RThVit91if-Nz2tXr2fpQVsvahBneGOYREXP8-qkoBbYTiu09LRoni6mHG9N54l0OMZykoMpYua8GAowxtubYyw9Npw9u6g9GbT_vvyYwHDO4qdjSAgdf8iIc8nWawS60zAJn8Rw" width="307" /></a></div><br /></span><span style="color: #404040;">Closed with: </span><b style="color: #404040;">This Little Light of Mine</b><span style="color: #404040;"> illustrated by E.B. Lewis</span></span></div><div><span style="color: #404040;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #404040;">Lyrics & more ideas at: </span><span style="color: #404040;">http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Black%20History%20Month</span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">3/10/23 Nicole's class postponed from February</span></div><br /><p></p></div></div>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-6915608460493554252023-03-02T21:26:00.009-05:002023-03-03T19:42:51.520-05:00Read Across America - Celebrating Reading, Libraries, and Librarians - 2nd grade <p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYcZ2zyX2oAo0aXfwdpCszp6-GNfoCyzeqIVcvmUw3opR4c7TY6rmG4IvMQTa6CrByyUP_Xtnz5jBGBP1D5GF6eGa0OrkGGoKLR6tuwHO6ZHgWkgYaynezSGLVvLlUOlMRYPIkFJIIIRJOO0SEawk36zuFyi8Xzn4L_Va_0sGh12pKmipQKOTqVqQavQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="414" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjYcZ2zyX2oAo0aXfwdpCszp6-GNfoCyzeqIVcvmUw3opR4c7TY6rmG4IvMQTa6CrByyUP_Xtnz5jBGBP1D5GF6eGa0OrkGGoKLR6tuwHO6ZHgWkgYaynezSGLVvLlUOlMRYPIkFJIIIRJOO0SEawk36zuFyi8Xzn4L_Va_0sGh12pKmipQKOTqVqQavQ" width="196" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"></p><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: black; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Opened by asking fiction or non-fiction?</p>Library Lil </b>by Suzanne Williams<br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;">A formidable librarian makes readers not only out of the once resistant residents of her small town, but out of a tough-talking, television-watching motorcycle gang as well in this modern tall tale!</span> </span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Asked the same question again for:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjx1iOnx1Z3cFKRJjC9mYbOpsfQ-pBJ167YC3Almvz4_jiu2vKkuznBPt7FN4FqYgoYYCAUdzzAAZAE0vuc-C72yZYfwTE6kwPYromN-1mIE3pktTtOTHYZdBKkL4aiAkZC5Zj0QYH9zIT-YgPSq4kiMasYTQwGpgAG1WrjFku2Axn4mNonZe3XELnyNw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="812" data-original-width="684" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjx1iOnx1Z3cFKRJjC9mYbOpsfQ-pBJ167YC3Almvz4_jiu2vKkuznBPt7FN4FqYgoYYCAUdzzAAZAE0vuc-C72yZYfwTE6kwPYromN-1mIE3pktTtOTHYZdBKkL4aiAkZC5Zj0QYH9zIT-YgPSq4kiMasYTQwGpgAG1WrjFku2Axn4mNonZe3XELnyNw" width="202" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Librarian on the Roof!</b> by M.G. King</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When RoseAleta Laurell begins her new job at the Dr. Eugene Clark Library in Lockhart, Texas, she is surprised that the children of the town think the library is for adults. She vows to raise the money for a children's section and spends a week living and working on the library roof, even surviving a dangerous storm. With the help of the entire town, RoseAleta raises over $39,000 from within the community and across the country.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0f1111;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Followed with another book based on a true story:<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTxg4MJ-vDt1hJEB6_IAvPSfGtFqID8A1N7kaBkxyZ7L_4O0iZ0sibH84B-6_RqC2vofYflNGVgOjQ51DKJ5wMVHylfp427jbSj5UCxjfhjdo2wzmSin1Dat_PSZ4ZkGBJnRLreL5N8_zLKcwPKQxt6zXUnxQN_m7jJzZpf75t9FH_SsHx_kS1xRs-Kw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="399" data-original-width="319" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjTxg4MJ-vDt1hJEB6_IAvPSfGtFqID8A1N7kaBkxyZ7L_4O0iZ0sibH84B-6_RqC2vofYflNGVgOjQ51DKJ5wMVHylfp427jbSj5UCxjfhjdo2wzmSin1Dat_PSZ4ZkGBJnRLreL5N8_zLKcwPKQxt6zXUnxQN_m7jJzZpf75t9FH_SsHx_kS1xRs-Kw" width="192" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><b>Nour's Secret Library </b>by </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #282828;">Wafa' Tarnowska <br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">Forced to take shelter when their Syrian city is plagued with bombings, young Nour and her cousin begin to bravely build a secret underground library. Based on the author’s own life experience and inspired by a true story, <i>Nour’s Secret Library</i> is about the power of books to heal, transport and create safe spaces during difficult times. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">Finished with the imagination-starter:</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTRw7sBWBk27zzpR3vbji8WVsFECT4pPoHuH0Ev1l_rmLhqNXE7N0lKY2ZlM3o8SmYsGtP0cAf4rDxw76KShwvpi3RiF9hL6wN1pGsj1mSh79pwRn9EJ-wEMK4rjx7pus-aITVXAQopEr7h6WXrviagBh4eO5EpmsrU2cZWuN7NuRmsDBfq89fynZHAQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="324" data-original-width="268" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiTRw7sBWBk27zzpR3vbji8WVsFECT4pPoHuH0Ev1l_rmLhqNXE7N0lKY2ZlM3o8SmYsGtP0cAf4rDxw76KShwvpi3RiF9hL6wN1pGsj1mSh79pwRn9EJ-wEMK4rjx7pus-aITVXAQopEr7h6WXrviagBh4eO5EpmsrU2cZWuN7NuRmsDBfq89fynZHAQ" width="199" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>If</b> by Sarah Perry<br /></span></span><span class="a-text-bold" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px;">Take a fantastical journey through an inspiring world where anything can happen: leaves turn into fish, cats fly with wings, humans have tails, frogs eat rainbows, and dreams become visible. </span></span><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">First published in 1995, Sarah Perry’s delightful picture book of “surreal possibilities” was the Getty’s first children’s title. Twenty-five years later it remains a visual feast that children of all ages enjoy. </span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Booktalked:</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Sector 7</b> by David Wiesner (a cloud takes a boy on a magical journey to the cloud factory in this wordless book by this incredible author/illustrator)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzgtHAs4AD2RLv21jhFNdNemfP_m4NAEVBnj7QUBnt6HBIjzJKsET07A05Z_aOSIZ36A9sLNEOSTHObg2SQvjnn4sEwk_-iNIv1ajXUwJcQlCibvgVz5oRaBXoL_9cFvVL9V54G05PAbjYBtlC2Qyf7xPMU5bvBA9uF0bGrrvl5-5Tq5zVcL6otnCBQw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img alt="" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="225" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzgtHAs4AD2RLv21jhFNdNemfP_m4NAEVBnj7QUBnt6HBIjzJKsET07A05Z_aOSIZ36A9sLNEOSTHObg2SQvjnn4sEwk_-iNIv1ajXUwJcQlCibvgVz5oRaBXoL_9cFvVL9V54G05PAbjYBtlC2Qyf7xPMU5bvBA9uF0bGrrvl5-5Tq5zVcL6otnCBQw" width="241" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><b>Imagine a Day/Night/Place/World</b> books by Sarah Thompson (mind-bending images & poems)</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Chalk</b> by Bill Thomson (another magical wordless book)</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>More Than Anything Else</b> by Marie Bradby (A fictionalized story about the life of young Booker T. Washington. Living in a West Virginia settlement after emancipation, nine-year-old Booker travels by lantern light to the salt works, where he labors from dawn till dusk. Although his stomach rumbles, his real hunger is his intense desire to learn to read.... )</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Applemondo's Dreams </b>and <b>Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair by Patricia Polacco </b>(celebrations of imagination and the power of books & reading by this great author-illustrator) </span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr. Hogan's class Bedm 3/2/2023</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0f1111; font-family: "Amazon Ember", Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 14px; padding: 0px;"><br /></p></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span><br /><p></p>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-27520420758779667812023-02-17T08:16:00.001-05:002023-02-23T13:48:40.567-05:00Food Fun! Toddler Time<p style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lots of material here - pick & choose! Did this for a very young audience 1-3 year olds</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Sign Language Song: </b></span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"Brand New Day"</i></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - track #1 from <b>Pick Me Up: Fun Songs for Learning Signs</b></span></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>You’ll Sing A Song </b><i>by Ella Jenkins (lyrics below)</i></span></span></p><p style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ESfXX89vL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="281" data-original-width="260" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61ESfXX89vL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a><br /><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;"><b>Read: The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear </b>by Don & Audrey Wood</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sing: </b><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small;">“I Like to Eat Apples and Bananas” (Raffi) -- could also use "Alphabet Soup" - lyrics below </em></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGyEuYVBQkROZctuNEZAfFcBJL4rnjgQTFTEtDse4cBDUJvrooI0l0_j1w_A8Y8hS6hx78eQJdKFaRHMnCM_ZPVzzTCxZH16huQwf08YnRTPsyq9XCGS0Yn8brVXSTBa26NT8dpguXXMuupM4IKJuH2PqLWWDkUSAVAOQAO-pz1I3RUk-FYXayKjZu2Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="191" data-original-width="194" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGyEuYVBQkROZctuNEZAfFcBJL4rnjgQTFTEtDse4cBDUJvrooI0l0_j1w_A8Y8hS6hx78eQJdKFaRHMnCM_ZPVzzTCxZH16huQwf08YnRTPsyq9XCGS0Yn8brVXSTBa26NT8dpguXXMuupM4IKJuH2PqLWWDkUSAVAOQAO-pz1I3RUk-FYXayKjZu2Q" width="244" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><b>Read: Orange Pear Apple Bear</b> by Emily Gravett</span><br /><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sing:</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"If You're Happy & You Know It..." </i><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(sad, angry, excited)</span><p></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Sing with Flannel pieces/ Puppets:</strong> Raffi’s <em>“Cluck Cluck Red Hen” (lyrics below) - skipped, used last week</em></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em></em></span></p><strong style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Sing (action song):</strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><em style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small;">“Chocolate Shake”</em><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> – to get their wiggles out </span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /><br /></span><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><img alt="Hi, Pizza Man!" src="http://syndetics.com/index.php?isbn=0531068854/mc.gif&client=somep&type=snui" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><b><br /></b><b>Book: Hi, Pizza Man</b> – Virginia Walter <i>(Mother and young child bored with waiting for the Pizza Man play a fun game imagining which animals might deliver the pie.) or <strong>Pizza Pat</strong> – Pat Gelman <i>(cumulative tale of a pizza maker with a surprise ending)</i></i><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Flannel/Song: <i>P-I-Z-Z-A!</i> </b><i>(flannel pizza with 5 slices, P-I-Z-Z-A flannel letters --lyrics below)</i> <em>– I removed one slice and letter at a time and we clapped for the missing letter(s)--letter identification, subtraction/numeracy</em></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><img alt="Pete's a Pizza" src="http://syndetics.com/index.php?isbn=006205158X/mc.gif&client=somep&type=snui" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><br /></i><strong>Storyplay </strong><em>(interactive storytelling with kids acting out):</em> <strong>Pete’s A Pizza</strong> – William Steig</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Flannel/Song: <i>“I Am a Pizza”</i></strong> from Linda Arnold’s <i><b>Peppermint Wings </b>(also on <b>10 Carrot Diamond</b>.) (lyrics below)</i></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em></em></span></p><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><img alt="Noodles" src="http://syndetics.com/index.php?isbn=0694008427/mc.gif&client=somep&type=snui" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i></i></span></div><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><b>Book: Noodles</b><i> (Pop-Up) </i>– Sarah Weeks --<i> didn't hold their interest</i><br /><b>Song: </b><i>“Ravioli” (great action song -- lyrics below)</i><br /><b>Flannel/Song:</b><i> "On top of Spaghetti" (lyrics below)</i></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcEATSdR6n1984724oq6GIj2_0BTvwNHc2pbEOUCFUwnG7VycK3eDyCXQ80bhdiX_gGnGru-t8oBL0E6IbQeJ1SlLOfY4SXc9wKgjtFQpC7U-HQ0lDcYRtnyxcsLhA7j7FcTa1fL88pLeuGdaG0mPmFi78rdsxqpZAInXgLAJGNQZQB2ltQHiWyn6mOQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgcEATSdR6n1984724oq6GIj2_0BTvwNHc2pbEOUCFUwnG7VycK3eDyCXQ80bhdiX_gGnGru-t8oBL0E6IbQeJ1SlLOfY4SXc9wKgjtFQpC7U-HQ0lDcYRtnyxcsLhA7j7FcTa1fL88pLeuGdaG0mPmFi78rdsxqpZAInXgLAJGNQZQB2ltQHiWyn6mOQ" width="270" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><strong>Read:</strong> <strong>Fast Food</strong> by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elfers -- <em>veggies and fruit are literally “transported”! -- skipped, ran out of time. </em></span><p></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><em>Musical instruments with "Let's go riding on the train" track 19 from </em></span><b style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Pick Me Up: Fun Songs for Learning Signs</b></span></span></b></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Finish with parachute, balls, and "Popcorn" song by Linda Arnold</span></i></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;">& "Sing"</span></i><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> by Joe Raposo (lyrics below) - form a circle to sing together</span></span></i></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Lyrics: </span></b></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b style="font-family: arial;">You’ll Sing A Song </b><i style="font-family: arial;">by Ella Jenkins</i><i style="font-family: arial;">Song on: Raffi’s “The Corner Grocery Store”</i></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;">You’ll sing a song and I’ll sing a song</span><br style="font-family: arial;" /><span style="font-family: arial;">And we’ll sing a song together.</span><br style="font-family: arial;" /><span style="font-family: arial;">You’ll sing a song and I’ll sing a song</span><br style="font-family: arial;" /><span style="font-family: arial;">In warm or wintry weather.</span><br style="font-family: arial;" /><i style="font-family: arial;">Continue with:</i><span style="font-family: arial;"> clap your hands, stomp your feet, dance a jig, flap your arms, etc.</span><br style="font-family: arial;" /><b style="font-family: arial;"><i>To settle the crowd, close with:</i> sit right down</b></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><strong><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Apples and Bananas </span></strong></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><em>Song on Raffi’s “One Light One Sun” </em></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;"><em>Continue, changing the vowel sounds:</em></span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">I like to Ate, Ate, Ate Aypples and BANAYNAYS (2x)I like to Ete, Ete, Ete Eepples and BENEENEES (2x)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">I like to Ite, Ite, Ite Iiples and BININIS (2x)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">I like to ote, ote, ote opples and BINOENOES (2x)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">I like to ute, ute, ute uuples and BINUUNUUS (2x)</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">But I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">I like to eat, eat, eat apples and bananas!</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></span></span></span> </span></p><h1 style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt 0px; position: relative;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">Action/Book: Peanut Butter, Peanut Butter, Jelly, Jelly <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black;"><em><span style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">(Nadine Bernard Westcott’s book)</span></span></span></em></span></span></span></span></span></h1><h2 style="border-bottom: 1px none transparent; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0pt 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black;"><em><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small; font-weight: normal;">Clap hands-slap knees, clap hands-slap knees, clap, clap</span></span></span></em></span></span></h2><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Pea- nut - peanut butter, jelly, jelly</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">First you take the bread and you slice it, slice it</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Pea- nut - peanut butter, jelly, jelly</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Then you take the peanuts and crack them, crack them.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Pea- nut - peanut butter, jelly, jelly</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Put them on the floor and mash them, mash them.</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Pea- nut - peanut butter, jelly, jelly</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Then you take a knife and spread it, spread it</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Pea- nut - peanut butter, jelly, jelly</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Next you take some grapes and squash them, squash them</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Pea- nut - peanut butter, jelly, jelly</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Glop it on the bread and smear it, smear it</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Pea- nut - peanut butter, jelly, jelly</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Then you take the sandwich and eat it, eat it</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Pea- nut - peanut butter, jelly, jelly</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: x-small;">Pea- nut - peanut butter, jelly, jelly!</span></span></p><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>Cluck Cluck Red Hen </strong>(puppets)</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Lyrics by Raffi, Tune: "Baa Baa Black Sheep" </i><em>Song on Raffi's album "The Corner Grocery Store"</em></span></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Baa, Baa, Black <strong>Sheep</strong>, have you any wool?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">One for your sweater and one for your rug,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt -27pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">And one for your blanket to keep you warm and snug.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(repeat first two lines)</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cluck, Cluck, Red <strong>Hen</strong>, have you any eggs?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yes sir, yes sir, as many as your legs.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">One for your breakfast and one for your lunch,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Come back tomorrow, I'll have another bunch.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(repeat first two lines)</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Moo, Moo, Brown <strong>Cow</strong>, have you milk for me?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yes sir, yes sir, as tasty as can be. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Churn it into butter, make it into cheese,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Freeze it into ice-cream or drink it if you please.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(repeat first two lines)</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Buzz, Buzz, Busy <strong>Bee</strong>, is your honey sweet?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yes sir, yes sir, sweet enough to eat.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Honey on your muffin, honey on your cake,</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Honey by the spoonful, as much as I can make.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(repeat first two lines)</i> </span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><strong>P-I-Z-Z-A</strong> <em>(from the book "Second Helpings": tune: BINGO)</em> <i>(flannel board has a pizza divided into 5 pieces, I like to use numeral cards with this as well.)</i></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I had a pizza all my own<br />And all of it was mine-O.<br />P-I-Z-Z-A,<br />P-I-Z-Z-A,<br />P-I-Z-Z-A,<br />And all of it was mine-O!</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I had a pizza that I shared<br />One piece went to my brother.<br />P-I-Z-Z-(clap),<br />P-I-Z-Z-(clap),<br />P-I-Z-Z-(clap),<br />But all the rest was mine-O!<br />(continue with sister, mother, father...)<br /><br />I had a pizza that I shared<br />One piece is all I'm left-O.<br />(clap, clap, clap, clap, clap),<br />(clap, clap, clap, clap, clap),<br />(clap, clap, clap, clap, clap),<br />And now that piece is gone-O!</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b><b>"I Am A Pizza" </b>(tune on Linda Arnold's "Peppermint Wings" <i>(echo & response song -- you sing then audience repeats line) If you don't have the album, feel free to give me a call and I'll sing it for you.) </i></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">I am a pizza … <i>(audience echo)</i> I am a pizza <i>(place flannel “tomato/cheese pizza” on board)</i><br />With extra cheese… with extra cheese <br />From tomatoes… From tomatoes…<br />Sauce is squeezed… Sauce is squeezed…<br />Onions and Mushrooms… Onions and Mushrooms… <i>(add flannel onions/mushrooms)</i><br />Oregano…Oregano.<br />I am a pizza … I am a pizza<br />Ready to go!<br /><br />I am a pizza… I am a pizza…<br />Pepperoni… Pepperoni… <i>(add flannel “pepperoni”)</i><br />No Anchovies… No Anchovies…<br />Or phony balogna… Or phony balogna…<br />I am a pizza… I am a pizza…<br />Order by phone… Order by phone… <i>(flannel phone receiver or just use hand motion)</i><br />I am a pizza… I am a pizza…<br />Please take me home.<br /><br />I am a pizza… I am a pizza…<br />Peppers on the top… Peppers on the top… <i>(add flannel “peppers”)</i><br />Out of the oven… Out of the oven…<br />And into a box… And into a box… <i>(cover with square flannel “pizza box” )<br />Into the car… Into the car…</i><br />Upside down… Upside down…<i> (groan)</i><br />I am a pizza… I am a pizza…<br />Dropped on the ground. <br />I was a pizza… I was a pizza…<br />I was the BEST… I was the BEST…<br />I was a pizza… I was a pizza…<br />NOW I’M A MESS! <i>(flip over “pizza box” to reveal a flannel “scrambled up pizza”!)</i></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>"Ravioli" (tune: Alouette)-<i>-</i></b><i>great movement song</i></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ravioli, ravioli, ravioli--<br />Ravioli, that's the stuff for me.<br />Do you have it on your pants?<br />Yes I have it on my pants.<br />On your pants? On my pants. Oh, oh, oh, oh.<br />Ravioli, ravioli, ravioli--<br />Ravioli, that's the stuff for me.<br />Ravioli, ravioli, ravioli--<br />Ravioli, that's the stuff for me.<br />Do you have it on your sleeve?<br />Yes I have it on my sleeve.<br />On your sleeve? On my sleeve.<br />On your pants? On my pants. Oh, oh, oh, oh.<br />Ravioli, ravioli, ravioli--<br />Ravioli, that's the stuff for me.<br />Do you have it on your shoe?… (chin, hair, nose, ear, etc. -- continue on<br />a round the body tour...)<br /><br /><br /><b>"On Top Of Spaghetti" (Tune: "On Top of Old Smokey")</b><br />(Another great flannelboard)<br />On top of spaghetti, all covered with cheese,<br />I lost my poor meatball, when somebody sneezed.<br />It rolled off the table, and onto the floor,<br />and then my poor meatball rolled out the door.<br />It rolled in the garden, and under a bush,<br />and then my poor meatball, was nothing but mush.<br />The mush was as tasty, as tasty could be,<br />and early next summer, it grew into a tree.<br />The tree was all covered, with beautiful moss,<br />It grew lovely meatball, and tomato sauce.<br />So if you eat spaghetti, all covered with cheese,<br />hold on to your meatballs, and don't ever sneeze!</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Doing the Chocolate Shake</span></b></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">You squat right down <i>(squat)</i><br />Up you stand <i>(stand up)</i><br />Stomp your feet <i>(stomp)</i><br />Shake your hands <i>(shake hands)</i><br />Wiggle all over <i>(wiggle)</i><br />And mix real well <i>(roll hands over & over)</i><br />Doing the Chocolate Shake! <i>(clap hands)</i><br />Yum! <i>(reach high)</i><br /><i>(Repeat, faster each time.)</i></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>If You're Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands – Traditional </b> <i>(action, body parts, emotions)<br /><o:p></o:p></i> <br />If you're happy and you know it clap your hands (clap, clap)<br />If you're happy and you know your hands (clap, clap)<br />If you're happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it,<br />If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands (clap, clap)<br />2. Stomp your feet 3. Shout "Hurrah!" 4. Do all three.<br /><i>Variation:<br /></i>If you’re angry and you know it, stomp your feet (stomp, stomp)…<br />If you’re sad and you know it, shed a tear (sob, sob)…<br />If you’re loving and you know it, give a hug…etc.</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Popcorn</b><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"> </span><i style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">(action) Song on Linda Arnold’s album "Make Believe"</i></p><div style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></p><p style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><i>Children can jump up & down on the “pops”</i><br />Pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop!<br />First you take some oil, You put it in the pan,<br />Shake it up as fast as you can.<br />Put it on the fire, Wait for a while,<br />Pretty soon you've got popcorn!<br />Chorus: P-O-P-C-O-R-N!<br />Popcorn is a kid's best friend,<br />Munchee, crunchee, good for your lunchee,<br />Please pass the popcorn!<br />Pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop!<br />Pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop!<br />Add a little butter,<br />A little salt too,<br />Making popcorn is fun to do,<br />Fill your bowl to the very top,<br />But just make sure that you don't pop!<br />Repeat chorus, finish by repeating…<br />Pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop! (2x)</p></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Sing </b><em>(Everyone joins hands in a circle – on the La, La’s – join hands in a circle and bring everyone to the center and then out again. –then repeat the whole song…louder and stronger!)</em></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Song by Joe Raposo,-- on “Sesame Street Platinum”</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Start singing quietly:)</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sing, Sing a song --</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sing out loud --</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sing out strong --</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sing of good things, not bad --</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sing of happy, not sad --</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sing, Sing a song --</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Make it simple to last your whole life long --</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Don't worry that it’s not good enough --</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">For anyone else to hear --</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Just Sing, Sing a song!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">La, La, La, La, La</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">La, La, La, La, La</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La</span></span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Didn't use:<br style="font-size: medium;" /><strong>Eating the Alphabet</strong> by Lois Ehlert <br /><b>Lunch </b>by Denise Fleming<br /><strong>How are You Peeling? Foods with Moods</strong> by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elfers (too complicated for this group)<br /><b>Read/Action Rhyme: Peanut Putter & Jelly</b> by Nadine Bernard Westcott - skipped, used last week</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">CDPL 2/23/23</span></p></div>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-80974988496498991322023-02-13T22:43:00.003-05:002023-02-16T19:09:04.910-05:00Farm Frolics: Toddler Time<p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;">Lots of material here - may have to pick & choose! Did this for a very young audience 1-3 year olds</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-weight: 400; text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Sign Language Song: </b></span><span style="font-weight: 400; text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"Brand New Day"</i></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - track #1 from <b>Pick Me Up: Fun Songs for Learning Signs</b></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>You’ll Sing A Song </b><i>by Ella Jenkins</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span><i>Song on: Raffi’s “The Corner Grocery Store”</i><br />You’ll sing a song and I’ll sing a song<br />And we’ll sing a song together.<br />You’ll sing a song and I’ll sing a song<br />In warm or wintry weather.<br /><i>Continue with:</i> clap your hands, stomp your feet, dance a jig, flap your arms, etc.<br /></span><b><i>To settle the crowd, close with:</i> sit right down</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;">OR</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;">Welcome Song </b><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;">(tune: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Welcome, welcome everyone<br />Now you’re here we’ll have some fun.<br />First we’ll clap our hands just so<br />Then we’ll bend and touch our toes<br />Welcome, welcome everyone<br />Now you’re here we’ll have some fun.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal;"><i style="text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Crowded farmhouse:</span></i></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i></i></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGqPA8-uWmZGeGnMSS2VFVZq3iFEajb9Mn12tm5EjIeLsLWURWsEn-voKe5NIMZgoRpNo8z1I-etEuhsnYKQKe3hk71VuTBRmxVP4AiaHOzalZ6n8WAH4GGOQPmoUVUZir5M6-mvREds4q_DnIyapK4-XsFqsuCc0NotZyBmtmF3ZLJ8wrnZPLyjvo_g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhGqPA8-uWmZGeGnMSS2VFVZq3iFEajb9Mn12tm5EjIeLsLWURWsEn-voKe5NIMZgoRpNo8z1I-etEuhsnYKQKe3hk71VuTBRmxVP4AiaHOzalZ6n8WAH4GGOQPmoUVUZir5M6-mvREds4q_DnIyapK4-XsFqsuCc0NotZyBmtmF3ZLJ8wrnZPLyjvo_g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhN2VlUec3AeaFBQZZxRY9rvTnrvcCTRgjclxc3e4AQfiQCJI_Zvq1MGzcH2amUQiUyo8NZhGhLUcVn_nKdaiuxJlTyxisCqG9lCs5z5lwEsfWBsSIr-Ks-6q0-kNF1GgzrpCRBn0IbLUHfMkIR9aTo31FObSJg7rtd2xv_C_jsw_680hF7_4-njnPW4g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="380" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhN2VlUec3AeaFBQZZxRY9rvTnrvcCTRgjclxc3e4AQfiQCJI_Zvq1MGzcH2amUQiUyo8NZhGhLUcVn_nKdaiuxJlTyxisCqG9lCs5z5lwEsfWBsSIr-Ks-6q0-kNF1GgzrpCRBn0IbLUHfMkIR9aTo31FObSJg7rtd2xv_C_jsw_680hF7_4-njnPW4g" width="192" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; text-align: left;">Book </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; text-align: left;"><i>(optional props - mentioned this and other books are fun to act out with stuffed animals & a card table)</i></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; text-align: left;">: A Squash and a Squeeze </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; text-align: left;">by Julia Donaldson </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; text-align: left;">(variation of the old folktale, a woman complains that her house is too small until a wise old man suggests she bring in her chicken, goat, pig and cow! – great refrain to do with the kids, can also act this out with the kids holding puppets). I chant this with the kids but there is also a musical version available here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tI0bQ-A-H0" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tI0bQ-A-H0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tI0bQ-A-H0</a></i></div></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><h2 style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px none transparent; color: #4e2800; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><br /></h2></span></div><div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1dcxJbcN7R9eOHESzatEmQgbJI5XRNfjtmpvOwTVLdMIN0j2DMM5dtsUsVQNOCbBQtz2N8zczsNsf4b2X4Cks4WbrVkmh8-yNlLphHxoBCTX-OUZCn96gq_gPpL8HNkvnvdXSPle1CBqKNao6jSjTOc3C_HEjQ76aVOFXA2gkL_kaJ2rKQop-ASqDVQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="238" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh1dcxJbcN7R9eOHESzatEmQgbJI5XRNfjtmpvOwTVLdMIN0j2DMM5dtsUsVQNOCbBQtz2N8zczsNsf4b2X4Cks4WbrVkmh8-yNlLphHxoBCTX-OUZCn96gq_gPpL8HNkvnvdXSPle1CBqKNao6jSjTOc3C_HEjQ76aVOFXA2gkL_kaJ2rKQop-ASqDVQ" width="255" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="text-indent: 0px;">Singable Book:</b><span style="text-indent: 0px;"> </span><b style="text-indent: 0px;">Sitting on the Farm</b><span style="text-indent: 0px;"> by Bob King </span><i style="text-indent: 0px;">(Another fun book with great repeating lines, kids love finding the unusual locations for the telephones. Can also act it out with puppets.) A musical version is here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vJyfzWrsxo" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;" title="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vJyfzWrsxo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vJyfzWrsxo</a> (I use a slightly different tune.)</i></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;">Farm Sounds</span><i style="color: black;"> (puppets or use the animals in a book such as Down on the Farm by Merrily Kutner)</i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black;">Tune: “The Wheels on the Bus”</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black;">The cow in the barn goes “moo moo moo”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black;">“moo moo moo”, “moo moo moo”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black;">The cow in the barn goes “moo moo moo”</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black;"><span>All around the fair.</span><span> </span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black;"></span></span> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black;">… pigs in the pen go oink, oink, oink…</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black;">… hens in the coop go cluck, cluck, cluck…</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black;">… horses in the field go neigh, neigh, neigh…</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black;">… bees in the hive say buzz, buzz, buzz…</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black;">… lambs on the pen go baa, baa, baa…</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black;">… bunnies in the hutch go (silently wiggle nose</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black;"> with finger), etc.</span></span></p></span></div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i style="text-indent: 0px;"></i></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p></div><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjN2PTPLmHoqYjbHIrjkpE4sTBbByF5UqNWmpXfvGinD8AXkxTLggHcUpnEbk_FfOUbkIZ6t88bPxdazIpIzXfI7Dvia7e026vOErG7jhi7_euWGkN03V9I5p2gx4t_Q8vzlRgfxslcTU5ov42e3L1m1qwOjxQ02QLjjOUkJ7RurdkT1hD7LnpOOQPhxA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="180" data-original-width="163" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjN2PTPLmHoqYjbHIrjkpE4sTBbByF5UqNWmpXfvGinD8AXkxTLggHcUpnEbk_FfOUbkIZ6t88bPxdazIpIzXfI7Dvia7e026vOErG7jhi7_euWGkN03V9I5p2gx4t_Q8vzlRgfxslcTU5ov42e3L1m1qwOjxQ02QLjjOUkJ7RurdkT1hD7LnpOOQPhxA" width="217" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><b>Singable Book: Mary Had a Little Lamb </b><i>(Bruce McMillan's photo-illustrated version is my favorite - unavailable this year) </i></span></span></span></div><div><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><div style="text-indent: -24px;"><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #4e2800; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Song/Puppets:</b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; text-indent: -0.25in;"> “</span><b style="color: #4e2800; text-indent: -0.25in;"><i>Cluck Cluck Red Hen” </i></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; text-indent: -0.25in;">from Raffi’s </span><b style="color: #4e2800; text-indent: -0.25in;"><i>Singable Songs Collection</i></b><i style="color: #4e2800; text-indent: -0.25in;">.(mention concept of a piggyback song.) </i><i style="color: #4e2800; text-indent: -0.25in;">Lyrics here: <a href="http://lyrics.wikia.com/Raffi:Cluck,_Cluck,_Red_Hen" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">http://lyrics.wikia.com/Raffi:Cluck,_Cluck,_Red_Hen</a></i></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-indent: 0px;"><p align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><strong>Cluck Cluck Red Hen </strong>(puppets)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="color: black;">Lyrics by Raffi, Tune: "Baa Baa Black Sheep" </span></i><em style="color: black;">Song on Raffi's album "The Corner Grocery Store"</em></span></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Baa, Baa, Black <strong>Sheep</strong>, have you any wool?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Yes sir, yes sir, three bags full.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">One for your sweater and one for your rug,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -27pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">And one for your blanket to keep you warm and snug.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">(repeat first two lines)</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Cluck, Cluck, Red <strong>Hen</strong>, have you any eggs?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Yes sir, yes sir, as many as your legs.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">One for your breakfast and one for your lunch,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Come back tomorrow, I'll have another bunch.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">(repeat first two lines)</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Moo, Moo, Brown <strong>Cow</strong>, have you milk for me?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span>Yes sir, yes sir, as tasty as can be.</span><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Churn it into butter, make it into cheese,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Freeze it into ice-cream or drink it if you please.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">(repeat first two lines)</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Buzz, Buzz, Busy <strong>Bee</strong>, is your honey sweet?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Yes sir, yes sir, sweet enough to eat.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Honey on your muffin, honey on your cake,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Honey by the spoonful, as much as I can make.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><i><span>(repeat first two lines)</span></i><span> </span></span></p></div></div><p></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="text-indent: -0.25in; white-space: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Storytelling/Kids act out: The Three Little Pigs </b><i>- skipped but talked about doing this at home</i></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgD4Zm4tfi27BlB1Q2zj_QidAaUc1vtqkTfS_2u5QQcbdMaKuELg8qzBVpFt-IQx02PPYPpJYb9ZJM5RA6cBu6LE10Bo9XD5O_U8_tJBPObLXxUrCpH-JiVXeEc8ysMoLVjMqurhcJpmqT8pmG8UXuioHxJZ6Axmg=s0-d" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; color: #4e2800; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px; text-align: left;" width="157" /></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Singable Book: Barnyard Banter</b> by Denise Fleming <i>(I sing this to the tune “Skip to My Lou My Darling.”)</i></span></p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; position: relative;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">The Squishy-Squooshy <span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>(Action)</i></span></span></h3><h6 align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Tune: “The Hokey-Pokey”</span></span></i></h6><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Pretend that you are a pig and there is a big mud puddle in front of you. Oooo-ooo glorious mud!</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">You put your<u> </u>in.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">You take your<u> </u>out.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">You put your<u> </u>in and you moosh it all about.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">You do the squishy-squooshy and you turn your self around.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">That’s what it’s all about!</span></p><p class="MsoBodyText3" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;">1) left hoof 2) right hoof 3) pig foot 4) piggy snout 5) pig belly 6) curly tail </span><span style="color: black;">7) whole piggy self</span></span></p><p class="MsoBodyText3" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><strong>I’m Being Swallowed by a Boa Constrictor</strong> (puppet) – good stretch – use anytime</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">I’m being swallowed by a boa constrictor, a boa constrictor, a boa constrictor,<br />and I don’t like it very very much.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Oh no, he’s swallowed my toe!<br />Oh rankle, he’s swallowed my ankle!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Oh fee, he’s swallowed my knee!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Oh sigh, he’s swallowed my thigh!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Oh fiddle, he’s swallowed my middle!</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Oh heck, he’s up to my neck!</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Oh dread, he’s swallowed my (gulp!)</span></span></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-SZmqkgyK30w/VTHWkpGEtXI/AAAAAAAAQJU/cY-WvE6YJ90/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkB7srqO6twtp4-wFCbIBWsmnNgDhFwRNyDxCqWdGjQuGMrP6R7sUVQLPlo2yC81iGSdV0AmQB3g7EaDY80F1nj9qYWS4K75DnHzernUUOzzXnI3W2Cve24OlRfuiLsPiCsjEeUoGeFyMH/?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="119" /></span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i></i></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><b style="text-indent: -0.25in; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Prop/Song: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly</span></b></p><h3 style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; position: relative;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial; font-size: small;">I Know An Old Lady <span style="font-weight: normal;">(Do this with a volunteer, clear plastic bag, and puppets)</span></span></h3><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="height: 84px; margin-left: 275px; margin-top: 5px; position: absolute; width: 60px; z-index: 251656704;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-XU3wlYsvgOY/Vc5Ngf2xplI/AAAAAAAARbc/ETG5JmpVEa8/s1600-h/clip_image003%25255B3%25255D.gif" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="clip_image003" border="0" height="84" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-GA-HpUQrudo/Vc5Ng7K678I/AAAAAAAARbk/EMilRZl32H4/clip_image003_thumb.gif?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative;" title="clip_image003" width="60" /></span></a></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: black;"><span>Lyrics </span><span>by Rose Bonne, tune by Alan Mills</span><b><span></span></b></span><b></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Song on “Peter, Paul , and Mommy, Too”</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">I know an old lady who swallowed a <strong>fly</strong>,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">I don't know why she swallowed the fly,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Perhaps she'll die.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">I know an old lady who swallowed a <strong>spider</strong>,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">That wiggled and jiggled and tiggled inside her.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">I don't know why…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">…bird / How absurd to swallow a <strong>bird</strong>…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">…cat / Imagine that -- to swallow a <strong>cat</strong>!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">…dog / What a hog, to swallow a <strong>dog</strong>!…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -0.5in 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">…goat / She opened her throat and in walked that <strong>goa</strong>t…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -0.5in 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">…cow / I don't know how she swallowed a <strong>cow</strong>…</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">I know an old lady who swallowed a <strong>horse</strong>--<i><u>(</u>pause)</i> <i>(spoken) </i>She's dead, of course!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">I<b>tsy Bitsy Spider</b> <i>(puppet)</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Booktalked - craft possibility: <br /></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgUku7yKqZVFB9IRhkYKMRfm-kSSvo1EuwZk8s-ocdqLCNLPVzWj-wxyal3F4Xqs-sMI9G6BRfRIQwPtZePzfbY1jIQxD5iwCGfVasu4EZWiRAe-AtU0omngjD9unEOEISAQcyUrDdy-oUD-HE4VyPFUlz6zpCCxv6D8B5o9qZ2XNdL=s0-d" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px; text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal;" width="176" /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal;">Guessing Game Book: Color Farm</b><span style="text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal;"> by Lois Ehlert (</span><i style="text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal;">colorful die-cut book which introduces kids to some of the more unusual shape names e.g. hexagon & oval) </i><b style="text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal;">Spots, Feathers & Curly Tales</b><span style="text-indent: 0px; white-space: normal;"> by Nancy Tafuri good for younger groups.</span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><b><span>Sing </span></b><span><em>(Everyone joins hands in a circle – o<span style="color: black;"><span>n the La, La’s – join hands in a circle and bring everyone to the center and then out again. </span><span> –then repeat the whole song…louder and stronger!)</span></span></em></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Song by Joe Raposo,-- on “Sesame Street Platinum”</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">(Start singing quietly:)</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Sing, Sing a song --</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Sing out loud --</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Sing out strong --</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Sing of good things, not bad --</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Sing of happy, not sad --</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Sing, Sing a song --</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Make it simple to last your whole life long --</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Don't worry that it’s not good enough --</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">For anyone else to hear --</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Just Sing, Sing a song!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">La, La, La, La, La</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">La, La, La, La, La</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La</span></p><div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span><b>Popcorn Parachute </b><i>(with balls on top)</i></span></p><p style="background: white; color: #4e2800;"><span><b>Popcorn</b> <i>(action) Song on Linda Arnold’s album "Make Believe"</i></span></p><p class="MsoListParagraph" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; margin-left: 0.25in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></span></p><p style="background: white; color: #4e2800;"><span><span style="color: black;"><i>Children can jump up & down on the “pops”</i><br />Pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop!<br />First you take some oil, You put it in the pan,<br />Shake it up as fast as you can.<br />Put it on the fire, Wait for a while,<br />Pretty soon you've got popcorn!<br />Chorus: P-O-P-C-O-R-N!<br />Popcorn is a kid's best friend,<br />Munchee, crunchee, good for your lunchee,<br />Please pass the popcorn!<br />Pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop!<br />Pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop!<br />Add a little butter,<br />A little salt too,<br />Making popcorn is fun to do,<br />Fill your bowl to the very top,<br />But just make sure that you don't pop!<br />Repeat chorus, finish by repeating…<br />Pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop! (2x)</span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div><span><span style="color: black;"><br /></span></span></div></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Other material - skipped today: </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b style="color: black;"><span>Going to the Farm </span></b><span style="color: black;">(adapted from: “<em>Going to the Zoo”) </em></span><span style="color: black;"><em>Song by Tom Paxton on his album “Goin’ to the Zoo and Raffi’s “Singable Songs for the Very Young.”</em></span><span style="color: black;"> (puppets)</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Mommy's taking us to the farm tomorrow,</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Fair tomorrow, farm tomorrow,</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Mommy's taking us to the farm tomorrow,</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">We can stay all day.</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span>Chorus: </span><span> </span></span></i></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We're going to the farm, farm, farm</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">We’ll see a cow in the barn, barn, barn</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A sheep's wool keeps it warm, warm, warm</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span>We're going to the farm, farm, farm.</span><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">2. Look at all the <strong>chickens </strong>cluck, cluck, clucking</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>Pecking at their food as they’re cluck, cluck, clucking</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -0.75in 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>Lots of pretty colors and they’re cluck, cluck, clucking</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>We can stay all day. (</span><i><span>chorus)</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">3. Look at all the <strong>cows</strong> moo, moo, mooing</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>Chewing their cuds and they’re moo, moo, mooing</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>Giving lots of milk moo, moo, mooing</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span> We can stay all day! (</span><i><span>chorus)</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">4. Look at all the <strong>horses</strong> prance prance prancing,</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>All around the rink, they’re prance prance prancing,,</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -0.75in 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>Ridden by their riders and they’re prance prance prancing,,</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>We can stay all day. (</span><i><span>chorus)</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">5. Look at all the <strong>dogs </strong>bark, bark, barking,</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>Lots of different kinds and they’re bark, bark, barking,</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>Can I pet one that’s bark, bark, barking?</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>We can stay all day. (</span><i><span>chorus)</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">6. <strong>Goats</strong> in the pen all bleat, bleat, bleating,</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>Brushed and clean and bleat, bleat, bleating,</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>Trying to eat my shirt and bleat, bleat, bleating,</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>We can stay all day. (</span><i><span>chorus)</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">7. Look at all the <strong>snakes</strong> all twisting and curling</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>Big and small all twisting and curling</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>Can I touch one all twisting and curling?</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>We can stay all day. (</span><i><span>chorus)</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in -45pt 0pt 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">8. <i>(slower) </i>We stayed all day and I'm gettin' kind of sleepy</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>Sittin' in the car gettin' sleep sleep sleepy</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>Home already and I'm sleep sleep sleepy</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span> </span><span>We have stayed all day.</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">Final Chorus:</span></i></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;">We've been to the farm, farm, farm</span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">We saw a cow in the barn, barn, barn</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A sheep's wool kept it warm, warm, warm</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"><span>We've bee to the farm, farm, farm.</span><span> </span></span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;">BUT! Daddy’s taking us to the farm tomorrow <i>(<u>shout</u>) </i>WE CAN STAY ALL DAY!</span></p><p class="MsoPlainText" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: arial;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Flannel (or book): Very Busy Spider</b> -- Eric Carle <i>(one by one, the animals ask spider to join them but she is too busy…until she finally catches that fly.) </i><i>“Spider catches the fly in her web, but I know someone else who catches a fly a different way (opening my mouth very wide as a clue) – anyone know who that is?”</i></span></p><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Sign Language Song: </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"Hear the Little Doggie"</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - track #8 from <b>Pick Me Up</b></span></span></div><div><b style="color: #4e2800; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b style="color: #4e2800; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></b></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><br /></p></div>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-59234313199021591152023-02-09T18:41:00.002-05:002023-02-09T20:29:48.559-05:00All About Me -- Toddler Time with Sign Language Songs<p> </p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgp_fkrw1yb3q8IoisSzxecCVPgkZ3dYtUUfRJSEt93tGhHiua3ex03rbToCOiagYi4dJ8nQrevVK0YdFCdTUZBhb6kZqsmw1HEQnSz_zhkaU223UvySKgeS7qbclVtbMaOH7IHIQbe3obBn_-bSpulBLpoud-Iiyz3ziMMuJ5PJwsqejjoGuUqfy7dqQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="236" data-original-width="273" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgp_fkrw1yb3q8IoisSzxecCVPgkZ3dYtUUfRJSEt93tGhHiua3ex03rbToCOiagYi4dJ8nQrevVK0YdFCdTUZBhb6kZqsmw1HEQnSz_zhkaU223UvySKgeS7qbclVtbMaOH7IHIQbe3obBn_-bSpulBLpoud-Iiyz3ziMMuJ5PJwsqejjoGuUqfy7dqQ" width="278" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A toddler-friendly story time full of songs that teach common signs</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Welcome Song </b><i>(tune: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)</i><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Welcome, welcome everyone<br />
Now you’re here we’ll have some fun.<br />
First we’ll clap our hands just so<br />
Then we’ll bend and touch our toes<br />
Welcome, welcome everyone<br />
Now you’re here we’ll have some fun.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="margin-left: 0.25in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level2 lfo1; text-indent: -0.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Sign Language Song: </b></span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"Brand New Day"</i></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - track #1 from <b>Pick Me Up: Fun Songs for Learning Signs</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Pat a Cake </b><i>(traditional clapping rhyme -- mentioned the importance of sharing traditional nursery rhymes and stories...people assume everyone knows them but many kids don't)</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Peas Porridge Hot</b> <i>(clap hands on stressed words)<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEju2xVxoo5xDbGKFNuDSlpd4qwQolLlXTUGo5z7zXerhxxoOEZ10-pxXg-KFe4qdPtqOfoOfzK2KPOBJCX9OfQ9vppxfIcCg6I-FjheoWNBJsnCZp9fj0Og1n5TEh4Tg141PljbkRMZ08yPNJnEFadgXjE8MTthkFKOoCHoH4TL4vhl8JGolBikmB4Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="257" data-original-width="278" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgEju2xVxoo5xDbGKFNuDSlpd4qwQolLlXTUGo5z7zXerhxxoOEZ10-pxXg-KFe4qdPtqOfoOfzK2KPOBJCX9OfQ9vppxfIcCg6I-FjheoWNBJsnCZp9fj0Og1n5TEh4Tg141PljbkRMZ08yPNJnEFadgXjE8MTthkFKOoCHoH4TL4vhl8JGolBikmB4Q" width="260" /></span></a></i></div><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></i><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Book: Clap Your Hands </b>by Lorinda Bryan Cauley<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Sign Language Song: </b></span><span style="text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"Get Up and Shake"</i></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - track #6 from <b>Pick Me Up</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;">and/or <span style="background-color: white;"><b>Action Song:</b> </span><b>Shake Your Sillies Out</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Action Song:</b> </span><b><span style="line-height: 107%;">Doing the Chocolate Shake</span></b><span style="line-height: 107%;"> <br />
You squat right down <i>(squat)</i><br />
Up you stand <i>(stand up)</i><br />
Stomp your feet <i>(stomp)</i><br />
Shake your hands <i>(shake hands)</i><br />
Wiggle all over <i>(wiggle)</i><br />
And mix real well <i>(roll hands over & over)</i><br />
Doing the Chocolate Shake! <i>(clap hands)</i><br />
Yum! <i>(reach high)</i><br />
<i>(Repeat, faster each time.)</i></span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Action Song: </b></span><b>Head Shoulders Knees & Toes<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Sign Language Song: </b></span><span style="text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"Where is Baby's Tummy"</i></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - track #7 from <b>Pick Me Up</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3LyFpZ305jzL7r5EwJn0kWdAtIhRa1EvMq6tEd8ETEBgHkEdmOd0sPEpqMJj7bWkRwha4zRSNHYQ99p7HiteD9fYwok-1xjyM6Z11GpPOPfFUeCeKoILt6X9Tgbom6sYgAzbZvFheWdCA9jGQ-84-z2x5HcGFMRHB8rigIayDZO_kFDyMHaGCUUcr6w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="231" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg3LyFpZ305jzL7r5EwJn0kWdAtIhRa1EvMq6tEd8ETEBgHkEdmOd0sPEpqMJj7bWkRwha4zRSNHYQ99p7HiteD9fYwok-1xjyM6Z11GpPOPfFUeCeKoILt6X9Tgbom6sYgAzbZvFheWdCA9jGQ-84-z2x5HcGFMRHB8rigIayDZO_kFDyMHaGCUUcr6w" width="250" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br /><br /></b></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Book: We’ve All Got Bellybuttons! </b>by David Martin<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Hand Rhyme: Where is Thumbkin?<br />
</b>pointer, tall man, ring finger, pinky<b>…<br />
<br /></b><b>Hand Rhyme: </b><b>Open Shut Them </b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Action Song:</b> </span><b>Round & Round the Garden<br />
</b>Round & Round the Garden <i>(circle child’s tummy)</i><br />
Goes the teddy bear<br />
One step, two step… <i>(walk fingers up to child’s chest)</i><br />
Tickle them under there! <i>(tickle child’s chin)</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Action Rhyme: Criss Cross Applesauce<br /></b>Criss Cross Applesauce <i>(make an "x" on child's back)<br /></i>Spider Crawling Up Your Back <i>(walk fingers up back)<br /></i>Cool Breeze <i>(blow on child's neck)<br /></i>Tight Squeeze <i>(give a squeeze)<br /></i>And now you’ve got the shivers! <i>(tickle!)</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Action Song: </b><b>Oliver Twist </b><i>(Suit actions to words)</i><br />
Oliver Twist, twist, twist<br />
Can do this, this, this,<br />
Touch his knees, knees, knees,<br />
Touch his nose, nose, nose,<br />
Touch his hair, hair, hair<br />
Touch his toes, toes, toes<br />
<br />
Oliver Twist, twist, twist<br />
Can do this, this, this,<br />
Touch his ears, ears, ears, <br />
Touch his waist, waist, waist<br />
Touch his eyes, eyes, eyes,<br />
Touch his face, face, face<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Sign Language Song: </b></span><span style="text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"When It's Cold Outside"</i></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - track #11 from <b>Pick Me Up</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background: white; color: black; line-height: 107%;"><b>Action
Song: </b></span><b style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">We Dress Like That</b><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"> </span><i style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">(mention concept of "piggy-back songs")<br />Source
Unknown, Tune: “Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes”—repeated several times</i><span style="line-height: 107%;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Boots, jacket, scarf and hat, scarf and hat.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Boots, jacket, scarf and hat, scarf and hat.</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">In wintertime we dress like that,</span></span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;" />
<span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">Boots, jacket, scarf and hat, scarf and hat.</span></span></span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Sign Language Song: </b></span><span style="text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"Let's Take a Little Walk Outside"</i></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - track #15 from <b>Pick Me Up</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Action Song: </b><b>This is the way… </b><i>(put child on your knees and ride them up & down)<br /></i>This is the way the ladies ride, ladies ride, ladies ride…bouncy,
bouncy, bouncy<br />gentlemen ride …gallopy...<br />farmer rides…trotty…<br />And this is the way the astronauts ride…whooshy <i>(lift child up into the air!)</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Action Song: </b><b>Jack & Jill </b><i>(sit on floor with legs straight
and child on your knees facing you. Knees go up on UP & bring legs back
down on DOWN. Touch child’s head on crown & tickle child on last line)<br /></i>Jack & Jill went UP the hill<br />To fetch a pail of water<br />Jack fell DOWN & broke his crown<br />& Jill came tumbling after</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Sign Language Song: </b></span><span style="text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"Jumping Up and Down"</i></span><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-indent: -24px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - track #17 from <b>Pick Me Up</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Action Song: </b><b>If You’re Happy & You Know It...sad, angry, excited...</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: arial;">Popcorn Parachute</span></b></p>
<p style="background: white;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Popcorn</b> <i>(action)
Song on Linda Arnold’s album "Make Believe"</i></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>
Children can jump up & down on the “pops”</i><br />
Pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop!<br />
First you take some oil, You put it in the pan,<br />
Shake it up as fast as you can.<br />
Put it on the fire, Wait for a while,<br />
Pretty soon you've got popcorn!<br />
Chorus: P-O-P-C-O-R-N!<br />
Popcorn is a kid's best friend,<br />
Munchee, crunchee, good for your lunchee,<br />
Please pass the popcorn!<br />
Pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop!<br />
Pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop!<br />
Add a little butter,<br />
A little salt too,<br />
Making popcorn is fun to do,<br />
Fill your bowl to the very top,<br />
But just make sure that you don't pop!<br />
Repeat chorus, finish by repeating…<br />
Pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop-pop-pop-pop, pop! (2x)</span></span><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background: white; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: arial;">******</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Book: Chicka Chicka Boom Boon – Bill Martin Jr. </b><i>(omitted - no time)</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Humpty Dumpty <o:p></o:p></b><i>(omitted - no time)</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Hickory Dickory Dock <o:p></o:p></b><i>(omitted - no time)</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Three Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed <o:p></o:p></b><i>(omitted - no time)</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>I’m a Little Teapot </b><i>(omitted - no time)</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-89729332642364823972023-02-01T11:05:00.007-05:002023-02-02T17:49:09.034-05:00Storytime: “Groundhog Day–Shadowplay!” - Bedminster Library/Nicole's Special Ed Class/Bedminster School<p><br /></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8555456421722770703" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><div align="center"><img alt="Image result for i have a friend keiko" src="http://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1190384743i/1923341._UY200_.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px; text-align: left;" /></div><p>For school-aged groups, opened with <b>Groundhog Stays Up Late</b> by Marjory Cuyler<br />For CDPL live storytime, set up projector with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QggJzZdIYPI">Youtube pure white screen</a> & <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yh6acX_OkA">Reading Rainbow "My Shadow" </a>tabs<br /><br /><strong><em>Read:</em></strong> <strong>I have a Friend</strong> by Keiko Narahashi (great figurative language) <br />(Science snippet: talk about when shadows are short and long -- midday & ends of day because of the position of the sun.)<br /></p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-SZNHjxgGsJg/UucqvH6F_jI/AAAAAAAALoQ/kZVsSchj6qU/s1600-h/clip_image004%25255B9%25255D.gif" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><em><img alt="clip_image004" border="0" height="85" hspace="12" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-7Dr9mc4QoNc/UucqvvCrkqI/AAAAAAAALoU/BTrhygSBwwc/clip_image004_thumb%25255B2%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative;" title="clip_image004" width="99" /></em></a><br /><strong><em>Action Song:</em></strong> <b>Shadow Song</b> by Carol Simon Levin (<i>Tune: " Mary Had a Little Lamb”</i> suit actions to words)<br /><i></i><br />It was a very sunny day, sunny day, sunny day.<br />It was a very sunny day, when my shadow came to play.<br />And everywhere that I did go, I did go, I did go,<br />Everywhere that I did go, my shadow followed too.<br />It followed me when I ran fast, I ran fast.<br />It followed me when I ran fast, for that's what shadows do.<br /> It followed me when I climbed high…<br /> It followed me when I dug in the sand…<br /> It followed me when I skipped rope…<br />It started out pretty short, pretty short, pretty short.<br />It started out pretty short, in the early afternoon.<br />Later it grew very long, very long, very long,<br />Later it grew very long, at the end of day.<br />When nighttime came, my shadow was gone, <em>(sharply clap hands together)</em>shadow was gone, shadow was gone.<br />When nighttime came, my shadow was gone -- it had gone away.<br /><br /><img alt="Product Details" height="250" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QM00kyoTL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_SP160,160,0,T_.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" width="250" /><br /><strong><em><br /></em></strong><strong><em>Read:</em> Moonbear’s Shadow</strong> by Frank Asch (also published as <b>Bear's Shadow</b>)</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8555456421722770703" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8555456421722770703" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><br /><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-w_LU2vKvqzo/Uucqv35Yu5I/AAAAAAAALog/TVVF3DNnOMY/s1600-h/clip_image002%25255B4%25255D%25255B4%25255D.gif" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="clip_image002[4]" border="0" height="124" hspace="12" src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-VEuhp3gUI-0/UucqwP44tmI/AAAAAAAALoo/NCywylaDekE/clip_image002%25255B4%25255D_thumb%25255B1%25255D.gif?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative;" title="clip_image002[4]" width="125" /></a><strong><em>Action Song: </em></strong><strong>I Am Your Shadow </strong>by Carol Simon Levin (<i>Tune: “I'm A Little Teapot”)</i><br /><i></i><br />I am your shadow, short and fat,<br />Lift up your hand, I can do that,<br />Lift up your foot, I'll do that too,<br />I do anything that you do.<br />I am your shadow, long and thin,<br />Put your finger to your chin,<br />Then watch me, I do that too,<br />I do anything that you do!<br /><br /><div align="left"><img src="http://syndetics.com/index.php?isbn=9781429639200/lc.jpg&client=somep" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" /><br /><strong><em>Read:</em> </strong>selections from <strong>What’s That Shadow</strong> – 535.4HAR (interactive – can read some of the rhymes aloud w/o showing pix to emphasize listening skills) skipped for CDPL <br />(Could follow with <i>"Look There Daddy"</i> flannel)</div><div align="left"><b>Guess Whose Shadow</b> by Stephen Swinburne, better for younger, didn't arrive in time.</div><div align="left"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzWR0Flj6u1DhDPY5fejKQ03AurPARdLDMmwWKttE-wqxIkRkrr9Oex_VCLCqf1xngWD9QMLQt5uhRj2HCMVIhw471H38_-1jRKUmorT0BB43mekgnoIsfjcdqujOadrZjDuAtSRgHhrynVzteWmtuXyxwioTE8DIcCrDjWujRUwJM0bKFIE3WpfAhww" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="175" data-original-width="214" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzWR0Flj6u1DhDPY5fejKQ03AurPARdLDMmwWKttE-wqxIkRkrr9Oex_VCLCqf1xngWD9QMLQt5uhRj2HCMVIhw471H38_-1jRKUmorT0BB43mekgnoIsfjcdqujOadrZjDuAtSRgHhrynVzteWmtuXyxwioTE8DIcCrDjWujRUwJM0bKFIE3WpfAhww" width="293" /></a></div><br /></div><div align="left"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRuRrWiL7kyLFql9PjiKcDGyhGwUm9O9wZwE_oZ9knBqsd1qI4KdRFSM6fhX1DxovmN9428eJQdoXKRs5yuN27sGOIwk9RkHDTjGTFQs6Eu_ydb1OaKrbOyTk4V8nT20Pm_JgqpVbgqlnINymP4Dwjy6cz7jUbDzRryod2ElExXAApkx9nrtRH5cfN_g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="415" data-original-width="501" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhRuRrWiL7kyLFql9PjiKcDGyhGwUm9O9wZwE_oZ9knBqsd1qI4KdRFSM6fhX1DxovmN9428eJQdoXKRs5yuN27sGOIwk9RkHDTjGTFQs6Eu_ydb1OaKrbOyTk4V8nT20Pm_JgqpVbgqlnINymP4Dwjy6cz7jUbDzRryod2ElExXAApkx9nrtRH5cfN_g" width="290" /></a></div><br /><em>Action book:</em> <strong>Shadows are About</strong> by Ann Whitford Paul (splendid action words =verbs)</div><p><span style="color: #f48d1d;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: transparent; border-image: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: transparent; border-image: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-s3H5aTIsoM0/Uucqwi1cnFI/AAAAAAAALow/wUFdlVZY_1E/s1600-h/clip_image002%25255B7%25255D%25255B2%25255D.gif" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="clip_image002[7]" border="0" height="86" hspace="12" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-0cCplIsZcmU/UucqxNol2YI/AAAAAAAALo4/Q485IVN4x7o/clip_image002%25255B7%25255D_thumb.gif?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative;" title="clip_image002[7]" width="86" /></a></span></span></span><strong><strong><em>Action Song: </em></strong>Did You Ever See A Shadow?</strong><span> by Carol Simon Levin (</span><i>Tune: "Did You Ever See A Lassie", suit actions to words)</i></p><p><i></i>Did you ever see a shadow, a shadow, a shadow?<br />Did you ever see a shadow, swing this way and that?<br />Swing this way and that way and this way and that way.<br />Did you ever see a shadow, swing this way and that?<br /><em>Continue with other actions e.g. Jump… Dance…Clap …</em></p><p><em></em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhboCl-3Y321Bwv65p_VP7r_Oue3GOIIMChV2gzfjURvBQdk15ga6-H-2gqsPUOYSJ22R_616h6qqFx8j6FljiP2blSVJy2vGe7I_wNFJLQfjI0RK5we0Q0QaLLLZFyCZPxtBm59D3LflWEvnk63JGdxZlAb3AJEt5FEZJ0ikXZG00hdzCBRnqT4AoyuQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="293" data-original-width="225" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhboCl-3Y321Bwv65p_VP7r_Oue3GOIIMChV2gzfjURvBQdk15ga6-H-2gqsPUOYSJ22R_616h6qqFx8j6FljiP2blSVJy2vGe7I_wNFJLQfjI0RK5we0Q0QaLLLZFyCZPxtBm59D3LflWEvnk63JGdxZlAb3AJEt5FEZJ0ikXZG00hdzCBRnqT4AoyuQ" width="184" /></a></em></div><em><br /></em><i>Read: </i><b>My Shadow </b>by Robert Louis Stevenson (clever classic poem) - showed this from video below at CDPL storytime<p></p><p><strong><em>Action Song:</em> Be My Shadow</strong> by Carol Simon Levin (<i>Tune: "Be My Echo" from Sesame Street --</i><i>action song, words in italics are echoed by children)</i></p><p>Be my shadow, sing after me<br />Do what I do, care-ful-ly<br />Reach high, high, high <i>(high, high, high)</i><br />Bend low, low, low <i>(low, low,low)</i><br />Run fast, fast, fast <i>(fast, fast, fast)</i><br />Walk slow, slow, slow <i>(slow, slow, slow)</i><br />Walk along a tight rope <i>(walk along a tight rope</i><i>)</i><br />Skipping to and fro <i>(skipping to and fro)</i><br /><i><br /></i>Be my shadow <i>(be my shadow)</i><br />Do what I do <i>(do what I do)</i><br />Follow the leader and sing after me <i>(sing </i><i>after me)</i><br /><i><br /></i>Climb up stairs <i>(climb up stairs)</i><br />Turn around <i>(turn around)</i><br />Reach arms to the sky <i>(arms to the sky)</i><br />Now touch the ground <i>(touch the ground)</i><br />Walk on your tippy toes <i>(walk on your </i><i>tippy toes)</i><br />Then upon your knees <i>(then upon your</i><i> knees)</i><br /><i><br /></i>You've been my shadow <i>(been my </i><i>shadow)</i><br />You did what I did <i>(did what I did)</i><br />You followed the leader and sang after <i>(sang after)</i> me!<br /></p><p><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-R5BD6Zfsc9o/UucqxVJwAGI/AAAAAAAALpA/bMZcC5HzS94/s1600-h/image%25255B7%25255D.png" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="705" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-nAyGYHOabUk/UucqxxZo2LI/AAAAAAAALpI/DRj03xBj0cM/image_thumb%25255B3%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="544" /></a><br />Handout available <a href="http://tinyurl.com/csl-singalong-shadowplay" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/csl-singalong-shadowplay" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">http://tinyurl.com/csl-singalong-shadowplay</a></p><p><strong><em>Action Song:</em> </strong><i>Dancing with my Shadow</i> on <strong>Musical Games</strong> by Don Cooper</p><p>Flannel (1st grade only, no time in Kindergarten): The Shadows Run Free</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiIqSrEVpZHRsooBlG0LbCxk-bCjS8EN2CHUL6shCWfN7N5mkBpnP2Ksc2hPlpa1tqyEAxkXmMFOaI8HPClVBpnFu3hjodUj_I6jew4V2wNVVLjuK_Nyggd2CFTAWzGjXC4YzCxLfkWHy6MMrGOafl-eQeNPPgIzGr__81wgX9FsLdI0b-3jP-N3OjjQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="670" data-original-width="1187" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgiIqSrEVpZHRsooBlG0LbCxk-bCjS8EN2CHUL6shCWfN7N5mkBpnP2Ksc2hPlpa1tqyEAxkXmMFOaI8HPClVBpnFu3hjodUj_I6jew4V2wNVVLjuK_Nyggd2CFTAWzGjXC4YzCxLfkWHy6MMrGOafl-eQeNPPgIzGr__81wgX9FsLdI0b-3jP-N3OjjQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><strong>DVD Reading Rainbow</strong><b>: My Shadow </b>finger shadow demo. segment (through curtain fall) left projector on so kids could try themselves (repeatedly ran this segment with no audio the rest of the program - kids could make hand shadows and watch their puppets dance on the lighted screen as well.) <b>also available on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yh6acX_OkA" target="_blank">YouTube</a> (</b>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yh6acX_OkA) -- first five minutes is the science behind light & shadows, at 7:00 there is an incredible shadow puppet show with hand shadow master puppeteer Sonny Fontana. <p></p><p><b>Other possibilities: </b></p><p><strong>Shadowville</strong> by Michael Bartolos <br /><b>Nighttime Ninja </b>by Barbara DaCosta </p><p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You are My Shadow </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">by Anne Harris, Wichita Public Library <i>(tune: “You are my Sunshine”)</i></span></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">You are my shadow, my only shadow.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Whenever I <i>jump</i>, then you <i>jump</i> too.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Whenever there’s sun, you are right by me.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Oh, clouds (or night) don’t take my shadow away.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Continue with other actions e.g. run, dance, wiggle</span></i></div><p><b>Additional possibilities for Groundhog Day:</b></p><p>Talk about Groundhog Day, showing pix of groundhog in <strong>Groundhog Day</strong> by Lynn Peppas (394.261 Peppas) or from other sources.<br /><strong><em>Read:</em></strong> <strong>Go to Sleep Groundhog</strong> by Judy Cox (can create a season/holiday “clock” to accompany story) or <strong>Grumpy Groundhog </strong>by Maureen Wright</p><p><strong><em>Flannel: </em>Ground Hog Day – Gregory Groundhog Looks for His Shadow </strong>based on the book <strong>Gregory’s Shadow</strong> by Don Freeman</p><p><strong><em>Songs:</em></strong> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">1. <strong>Groundhog Day</strong></span> <span style="font-size: small;"> (to the tune of "Where is Thumbkin? / Frere Jacques", source unknown)</span></p><p>Where is groundhog? Where is groundhog? (Thumb behind back)<br />Here I am! Here I am! (Bring thumb forward)<br />Shadows on this sunny day, (wiggle thumb)<br />Frighten groundhogs all away. (Thumb behind back)<br />Winter will stay! Winter will stay!</p><p>Where is groundhog? Where is groundhog? (Thumb behind back)<br />Here I am! Here I am! (Bring thumb forward)<br />My, oh my, a cloudy day. (Wiggle thumb)<br />I will stay outside to play. (Move thumb around)<br />Spring is near! Spring is near!<br /></p><h5></h5><p><strong>2. Shadow Time</strong> (to the tune of "The Itsy-bitsy Spider", source unknown)<br />The furry little groundhog<br />Goes in his hole to sleep,<br />Through the cold winter's<br />Snow and ice so deep,<br />In February<br />He stretches to and fro,<br />Will the furry little groundhog<br />Get scared by his shadow?<br /><br /><b>3. I'm a Little Groundhog </b>(to the tune of "I'm a Little Teapot", source unknown)<br />I'm a little groundhog, it's my day.<br />Wake and stretch, go out and play.<br />Down in my burrow, down so deep,<br />Time to wake, from my long winter's sleep. I'm a little groundhog short and stout,<br />February second I will come out.<br />If I see my shadow they will shout,<br />"Six weeks more winter without doubt!"<br /><strong><br /></strong><strong>4. Little Groundhog</strong> --Jean Warren (Tune: "Kookaburra" from<br />www.preschoolexpress.com/pattern_station03/groundhog_activities_feb03.shtml)<br />Little Groundhog sits in his home all day.<br />Wishing that winter would go away.<br />Go - ice and snow. Go - winds that blow<br />Let Little Groundhog play.<br />Little Groundhog sits in the sun all day.<br />Wishing his shadow would go away.<br />Go - ice and snow Go - shadows that show<br />Let Little Groundhog stay.</p><p>DVD <strong>Go to Sleep Groundhog</strong>.<br /><br /><br /><br />Crafts:<br /></p><ul style="line-height: 1.4; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0.5em 0px; padding: 0px 2.5em;"><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Shadow Puppets – (materials: cardstock, scissors, hole punches, paper fasteners, pipe cleaners, scotch tape, chopsticks or popsicle sticks) resource book: <strong>Making Shadow Puppets</strong> 791.53 BRYANT (2017)</li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Silhouette heads (materials: overhead projector, 11x17 black paper, 11x17 construction paper for backing, pencil, scissors, glue sticks, chair to sit in, tape to hold black paper on wall)</li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Making silhouettes pictures – cut their own action shadows (materials: scissors, black paper, construction paper, gluesticks, pencils) -- related book: <strong>Nighttime Ninja</strong> by Barbara Dacosta</li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-wXKYYJTb5FltcsSXUHtlLfRd1hTEFwZjc_u3DIpuM8mJeJmxht2NOUz2cCVNSujjNn6x4QRQKm0Oh7DWum8ZcfXuLHyq3pL4C-LuvmkkAVXNw8Csjeqj6DZ-2BTTaFFDA6SCViaVoOUr32COZofCxvY9db7C98U-kDrhGZZwqP3OMWw6SKZHjRYbIQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="654" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-wXKYYJTb5FltcsSXUHtlLfRd1hTEFwZjc_u3DIpuM8mJeJmxht2NOUz2cCVNSujjNn6x4QRQKm0Oh7DWum8ZcfXuLHyq3pL4C-LuvmkkAVXNw8Csjeqj6DZ-2BTTaFFDA6SCViaVoOUr32COZofCxvY9db7C98U-kDrhGZZwqP3OMWw6SKZHjRYbIQ" width="224" /></a></div>Hand Shadows handout (use projector left up after DVD) <a href="http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/4753864/how+to+hand+shadow+like+a+boss/" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;" title="http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/4753864/how+to+hand+shadow+like+a+boss/">http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/4753864/how+to+hand+shadow+like+a+boss/</a> or https://www.gutenberg.org/files/12962/12962-h/12962-h.htm (LOTS!)</li><li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px;">Groundhog visor (printouts from <a href="http://www.daniellesplace.com/imagesApat/groundhog-hat-pat2.gif" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;" title="http://www.daniellesplace.com/imagesApat/groundhog-hat-pat2.gif">http://www.daniellesplace.com/imagesApat/groundhog-hat-pat2.gif</a>, scissors, markers, tape)</li></ul><div><br /></div></div>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-38103415239943847842023-01-26T13:40:00.000-05:002023-01-26T13:40:05.598-05:00Storytime: All About Me<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2441804746962148099" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51HeQnaG5ZL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="color: #f48d1d; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="241" data-original-width="260" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51HeQnaG5ZL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><b>All About Me<br />Stories & Songs</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;">Entrance Music: “<i>Belly Button”</i> by Joe Scruggs on his album: </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;">Late Last Night</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Action Song: "</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Open Shut Them"</i></span> </div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJWgPgI9H9LN_xQS6XDJlNwcsp1VQe2GCVOUGn9kagRvNXMgNAmWfjA5Xc9dhdmguqoVUKieLuh39eQ1n5wDoXF5Eflrt1J7gpfI4eiDoMTbI_Rb4GbZlNjc31iXxQ_Z5pbWcK9a5GVmfHmId_uk-s-PA44l95PMdYCBAhXxvBiFlcyyIu0WdMfwfz2g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="659" data-original-width="485" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgJWgPgI9H9LN_xQS6XDJlNwcsp1VQe2GCVOUGn9kagRvNXMgNAmWfjA5Xc9dhdmguqoVUKieLuh39eQ1n5wDoXF5Eflrt1J7gpfI4eiDoMTbI_Rb4GbZlNjc31iXxQ_Z5pbWcK9a5GVmfHmId_uk-s-PA44l95PMdYCBAhXxvBiFlcyyIu0WdMfwfz2g" width="177" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Book:</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> <b>From Head to Toe</b> by Eric Carle </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Action Song: "</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Put Your Finger in the Air" (lyrics for this and all other songs at </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/01/singalong-all-about-me-includes-sensory.html</i></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHdg981gGuCtfgvKemPx3VynncP5ST-6p1koLQdOm1seQzBBXS3TAeMfrG3kl3Znf3UWdKfUYHykK6OPtTyyp5HdFOLVBxIQPA8Mq_ODPYue6k64rZ82dMPxXdxvD4N0puJlC5x8A0iYdqdk9KyUAlTo04E4G8ldoOkGYvWxMEePztSWit2NIDu3dP8A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="687" data-original-width="672" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiHdg981gGuCtfgvKemPx3VynncP5ST-6p1koLQdOm1seQzBBXS3TAeMfrG3kl3Znf3UWdKfUYHykK6OPtTyyp5HdFOLVBxIQPA8Mq_ODPYue6k64rZ82dMPxXdxvD4N0puJlC5x8A0iYdqdk9KyUAlTo04E4G8ldoOkGYvWxMEePztSWit2NIDu3dP8A" width="235" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Book/Song: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Sophie Fatus (mentioned to caregivers great book for close perusal -- kids from across the world doing everyday actions, also CD included by Fred Penner)</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Action Song:</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> "</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>If You’re Happy and You Know It" </i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">(sad, angry, loving...)</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjh3E-YRpvkiu0SLjehdL9XqNKKm3-ZBKrTrW8JMrYLNELwp-qpQJBoyUwpzpjBP3P8hCv9NR1APchtaLMdT83N5L5zoslILzFW2EizBmRCx1iF5ulIi8hBIZ6ni21zT2sTluG3f-Koe_cqYEgKcD837_EGUbQJZJDQTm2ttgIPK_MJRvBsQEenxQpVOg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="253" data-original-width="253" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjh3E-YRpvkiu0SLjehdL9XqNKKm3-ZBKrTrW8JMrYLNELwp-qpQJBoyUwpzpjBP3P8hCv9NR1APchtaLMdT83N5L5zoslILzFW2EizBmRCx1iF5ulIi8hBIZ6ni21zT2sTluG3f-Koe_cqYEgKcD837_EGUbQJZJDQTm2ttgIPK_MJRvBsQEenxQpVOg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><b style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Book: It's Okay to Be Different </b><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">by Todd Parr</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Action Song: "</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Head Shoulders Knees & Toes"</i></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzHLVxFpL6hqIftfNYZ8Nt6lLrhWXacJ8IBm6PJcJOyBL_4GlfItSe2oufqRs_jTOTgL_pTxlWI1uBdAg2AMoNYU4Xnhqq48aEZ5Vy8UuQVjBpnuED2mhG39Av4Bg7YbrJBOtVUbGsv95Zv3f168nfp-klTs2jbbgEyNKsjLvSBON8ZxkhJd2enuWSBA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="241" data-original-width="260" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgzHLVxFpL6hqIftfNYZ8Nt6lLrhWXacJ8IBm6PJcJOyBL_4GlfItSe2oufqRs_jTOTgL_pTxlWI1uBdAg2AMoNYU4Xnhqq48aEZ5Vy8UuQVjBpnuED2mhG39Av4Bg7YbrJBOtVUbGsv95Zv3f168nfp-klTs2jbbgEyNKsjLvSBON8ZxkhJd2enuWSBA" width="259" /></a></div><br /><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Interactive Book: Clap Your Hands</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by Lorinda Bryan Cauley</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Action Song: "</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><i>Hokey Pokey"</i></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Shaky Eggs: </span> </b>“<i>Belly Button”</i> by Joe Scruggs on his album: <b>Late Last Night</b></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Action Song (with eggs): <i>"</i></b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>Shake Your Sillies Out" </i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> clap-crazies, jump-jiggles, yawn-sleepies</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Closed with parachute, balls, and popcorn chant instead of bubbles...</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">Many more ideas: https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Me</div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Skipped: </b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>(bubbles not cooperating)</b></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;">Bubbles</i><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;"> – sing </span><strong style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;">Twinkle Twinkle Little Star </strong><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;">or </span><strong style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;">Bubble Song:</strong><br style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;" /><a href="http://storytimeunderground.org/2014/08/12/ask-a-storytime-ninja-adapt-for-special-needs/" style="color: #f48d1d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;">http://storytimeunderground.org/2014/08/12/ask-a-storytime-ninja-adapt-for-special-needs/</a><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;"> </span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;">Bubbles floating all around</i><br style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;" /><i style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;">Bubbles fat and bubbles round,</i><br style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;" /><i style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;">Bubbles on your nose and toes,</i><br style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;" /><i style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;">Blow a bubble, up it goes.</i><br style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;" /><i style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;">Bubbles floating all around,</i><br style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;" /><i style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;">Bubbles floating to the ground</i></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; white-space: normal;"><br /></i></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Interactive Book: Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow?</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> by Susan S. Shea (just did some of the pages -- animate/inanimate objects)
</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>We’ve All Got Bellybuttons</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> by David Martin</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Unavailable: Sign Language Song: </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i>"Brand New Day"</i></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - track#1 from Pick Me Up: Fun Songs for Learning Signs</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; 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font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div></div>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-31449967026719013982023-01-19T17:07:00.000-05:002023-01-19T17:07:08.880-05:00Storytime: What’s In the Oven?<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1824104201966752408" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: transparent; border-image: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; font-size: 13px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img height="291" src="http://syndetics.com/index.php?isbn=0060216751/lc.jpg&client=somep" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" width="274" /></span></span><br /><div align="center" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Includes the retelling of two traditional folktales and a variant,<br />the ECRR concepts of narrative skill/retelling and singing,<br />non-fiction elements of farming and bread-baking,<br />plus a dash of mathematics and multiculturalism!</strong></div><div align="center" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><em>(Pick and choose depending on ages in group.)</em></div><div align="center" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><em><br /></em></div><strong style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Book </strong><em style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(folktale): </em><strong style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Little Red Hen</strong><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"> </span></span><em style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">--</em><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"> Byron Barton </span></span><em style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(Alt. version: Paul Galdone)</em><br /><em style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></em><strong style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Song:</strong><em style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> “Mulberry Bush” variant </em><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">: </span></span><strong style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This is the way we plant the seeds...</strong><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"> Cut the stalks… Thresh the wheat.. Grind the wheat… Mix the batter…Knead the bread… Bake the bread… Eat our toast </span></span><em style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(Every Child Ready to Read skill (ECRR1)- narrative -- remembering sequence in book, vocabulary “thresh” “knead”; ECRR2 “singing”)</em><br /><em style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJRVfv8a-iNMJ5mlf2Ba2Td1PxLITAERkDQvMyD1FY4PY0tQ2OFT1f1-FvxYe6dUt-FH_hfBbUCe_TI16mFGrgcFG2bBlP6_Jy6ZbEvs9GoH1iS9gNX8OeDw0OUT9vns7BS0ggXUmTmSgBR4TUmYfEpqM0t-4c-SxQX8MxG4QtEiH9BYNoFJEWtibCBg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="262" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjJRVfv8a-iNMJ5mlf2Ba2Td1PxLITAERkDQvMyD1FY4PY0tQ2OFT1f1-FvxYe6dUt-FH_hfBbUCe_TI16mFGrgcFG2bBlP6_Jy6ZbEvs9GoH1iS9gNX8OeDw0OUT9vns7BS0ggXUmTmSgBR4TUmYfEpqM0t-4c-SxQX8MxG4QtEiH9BYNoFJEWtibCBg" width="298" /></a></div><br /></em><b style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Book: Bread, Bread, Bread</b><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"> – Ann Morris </span></span><em style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(a multicultural look at breads around the world)</em><br /><em style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwoloHm22uv64KEkfVJKW7YHcfJCssxMByqqgmJN6GkbY1GMxyg86pVqc4ECYVRkk32q6ZZAigiTP6eqhNLZFovcQQvSg0bsCgO8RQEYmHf5ixLfVO0993xXPhILcBnHQYndzyY8n_XlsSwyQu8BlcERidpKTaGqWS4f2RXMGXobikoc7LJj0yjCLW_g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="232" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiwoloHm22uv64KEkfVJKW7YHcfJCssxMByqqgmJN6GkbY1GMxyg86pVqc4ECYVRkk32q6ZZAigiTP6eqhNLZFovcQQvSg0bsCgO8RQEYmHf5ixLfVO0993xXPhILcBnHQYndzyY8n_XlsSwyQu8BlcERidpKTaGqWS4f2RXMGXobikoc7LJj0yjCLW_g" width="247" /></a></div><br /></em><strong style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Book/Action Chant: Peanut Butter and Jelly</strong><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"> – Nadine Bernard Westcott </span></span><em style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Silly action song depicting the sequence of sandwich making (with elephants!)</em></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1824104201966752408" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1824104201966752408" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7DLkzRI30sVyWC4YqAsLPZWfEpc_yeq9CabVhPJ3v-nshTjxQwgdQo85dnvApKkj6DNPgAPxWqnZFchwemprE7Mpva-5AJj23F-fzNf-cxutLcEPy1drzOI7GyZpkKiwaSkKXrcbtFAhB3DlvE5T644gTqMRzh158Z1WbA9DtO3S0QQ2HIm8f38Wcgg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="221" data-original-width="222" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi7DLkzRI30sVyWC4YqAsLPZWfEpc_yeq9CabVhPJ3v-nshTjxQwgdQo85dnvApKkj6DNPgAPxWqnZFchwemprE7Mpva-5AJj23F-fzNf-cxutLcEPy1drzOI7GyZpkKiwaSkKXrcbtFAhB3DlvE5T644gTqMRzh158Z1WbA9DtO3S0QQ2HIm8f38Wcgg" width="241" /></a></div><br /></i></span></span><strong style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Storytelling with Flannelboard/Masks/Puppets</strong><b style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </b><em style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(depending on size of group)</em><strong style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><em>:</em> The Gingerbread Man – </strong><em style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Karen Chace has quite a few suggestions on her blog, including a link to Jan Brett’s beautiful printable masks:<a href="http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-gingerbread-man-stories-songs-and.html" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">http://karenchace.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-gingerbread-man-stories-songs-and.html</a> Gingerbread script: </em><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><i>http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/pre-school-storytime-whats-in-oven.html</i></span></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1824104201966752408" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><i><br /></i></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1824104201966752408" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><strong>Mother Goose Action Rhyme: Pat-a-cake, Pat-a-cake Baker’s Man</strong><br />Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake Baker’s Man<br />Bake me a cake As fast as you can.<br />Roll it and pat it <em>(Roll and clap hands)</em><br />And mark it with a B <em>(Trace B on palm)</em><br />And put it in the oven <em>(extend both hands)</em><br />For baby and me <em>(point to Baby and Self)</em><br /><em><br /></em>or <strong>Action: Make a Cake</strong> <em>(source unknown)</em><br />Mix the batter, stir the batter<em> (make a stirring motion with one arm/hand)</em><br />Shake some flour in<em> (make a shaking motion with one arm/hand)</em><br />Mix the batter, stir the batter <em>(make a stirring motion with one arm/hand)</em><br />Place it in a tin<em> (pretend to pour)</em><br />Sprinkle in some raisins <em>(pretend to sprinkle)</em><br />Pop it in to bake <em>(open both hands, palms up, and slide them forward)</em><br />Open wide the oven door <em>(pretend to open door)</em><br />And out comes the cake! <em>(open both hands, palms up, and slide them forward)</em></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1824104201966752408" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><i><br /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgC9InnB8zZAZqpZhxg7GlboP39ClbwVpLFyAQSjuKRdbdPZbjFCxmVvYQT40Oh2HBN8jBnLz9iQMIw4nEMXDjXg4DpnvIlKnIST-w-hPm38b_ubxgUr5OXqzHrPQto4QL1kel6CSysIzHXl4OEvuxiL63xT_P_j1za5aV_rmWvZSB0_XV0VPUa_EFTDg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="266" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgC9InnB8zZAZqpZhxg7GlboP39ClbwVpLFyAQSjuKRdbdPZbjFCxmVvYQT40Oh2HBN8jBnLz9iQMIw4nEMXDjXg4DpnvIlKnIST-w-hPm38b_ubxgUr5OXqzHrPQto4QL1kel6CSysIzHXl4OEvuxiL63xT_P_j1za5aV_rmWvZSB0_XV0VPUa_EFTDg" width="293" /></a></div><strong>Book & Flannel or Props: The Doorbell Rang</strong> – Pat Hutchins<em> Used12 flannel (or real) children and 12 flannel/prop cookies to demonstrate the cookie “division” as I read this story – great numeracy exercise but best for groups age 4 & up</em><br /><em><br /></em><b>Action Song: Great Big Cookie </b><i>(To the Tune of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0056D5ISK/ref=dm_mu_dp_trk3" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">Linda Arnold’s “I am a Pizza”—</a> these lyrics by Carol</i> <em>Simon Levin)</em><br />I am a cookie <em>(circle hands over head)</em><br />Chocolately and round <em>(extend hands out to sides)</em><br />Filled with lots of chocolate chips <em>(point to chips)</em><br />The best that can be found <em>(rub tummy)</em><br />I am a cookie<em> (circle hands over head)</em><br />Take a bite of me <em>(make chewing motions)</em><br />Tasty, sweet, delicious <em>(extend hands out to sides)</em><br />I’m oh-so-yummy! <em>(rub tummy)</em><br /><em>(gobble gobble gobble!)</em><br /><em>(sing slowly, sadly)</em><br />I WAS a great big cookie <em>(circle hands over head)</em><br />The very best around <em>(extend hands out to sides)</em><br />Now there’s nothing left of me <em>(shake head)</em><br />Just crumbs upon the ground<em>! (sit down)</em><br /><em><br />Shakey Eggs -- Chant: "Peanut Butter & Jelly", Lithgow's: You've Gotta Have Pep (any lively tune would do)</em></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1824104201966752408" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><em><br /></em></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1824104201966752408" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><em><b>Handed out take home bags of bread dough (flour, yeast, salt, water) and instructions for making "Teddy Bear Bread" (below)</b></em></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1824104201966752408" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><em><br /></em></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1824104201966752408" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">How to Make Teddy Bear Bread (can also use premade pizza
dough)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.6pt; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 6.0pt; margin-top: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #606060; font-family: Karla; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Author: Jean Van't
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Time: 3 hours Cook
Time: 20 minutes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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cups warm water (about 110–130 degrees Fahrenheit) </span><span style="font-family: Karla; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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active dry yeast</span><span style="font-family: Karla; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Karla; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1–3 tablespoons
honey (skip or use sugar for under 2 year olds)</span></p>
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teaspoon salt</span><span style="font-family: Karla; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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tablespoon vegetable oil</span><span style="font-family: Karla; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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glaze: 1 egg + 2 T water</span><span style="font-family: Karla; font-size: 10.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Karla; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1. Mix the warm water,
yeast, and honey in a large bowl. Let it sit for 5 minutes.</span><span style="font-family: Karla; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Karla; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2. Stir in half of the
flour to the yeast mixture, then let it rest for 30 minutes.</span><span style="font-family: Karla; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Karla; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">3. Mix in the salt,
oil, and rest of the flour. </span><span style="font-family: Karla; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Karla; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">4. Dump the dough out
onto a lightly floured counter and knead for five minutes. Add a little more
flour if the dough is too sticky. </span><span style="font-family: Karla; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Karla; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">5. Put the dough in a
greased bowl, cover with plastic wrap, and let the dough rise until doubled in
size (about 2 hours). </span><span style="font-family: Karla; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Karla; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-color-alt: windowtext; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">6. Punch the dough
down, then divide it into small balls and pieces to use it to make bread dough
creations & f</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Karla; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Form the bread dough into faces, animals, suns, snails, and other
fun shapes.</span><span style="font-family: Karla;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Karla; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">7. Place your
bread dough creations on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper (or greased)
and let them rise until doubled in size (30 minutes or so) while preheating the
oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. </span><span style="font-family: Karla;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Karla; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">8. Make an egg
wash by whisking together the egg and water. Brush the tops of the bread shapes
with the egg wash.<br />
<strong>Bake! </strong>Place your bread shapes
in the oven and bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown. Smaller shapes might
need less time and the larger ones might need more time. <br />
Let cool and enjoy!</span><span style="font-family: Karla; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-1824104201966752408" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><em><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /></em><em>Omitted:<br /></em><a href="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-_JV5oLhb9ZU/UrMoSZ5SnOI/AAAAAAAALk4/-zXaR3WqWJ4/s1600-h/image7.png" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="105" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/-4dA9blYnD_s/UrMoS9TC_uI/AAAAAAAALlA/pvocIaJWVtU/image_thumb3.png?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="544" /></a><br /><strong>Optional Book or Flannel</strong> (if time): <strong>The Cake that Mack Ate</strong> – from the book by Rose Robart <i>– the cumulative tale of what happened to the cake baked by the farmer’s wife – with a surprise ending, this silly folktale variation is a version of </i><b>The House that Jack Built.</b><i></i><br /><p>More ideas: http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Baking</p><p>CDPL 1/19/23<br /><em><br /></em><br /><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p></div>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-25791820760364980612023-01-12T18:42:00.012-05:002023-02-18T17:17:47.414-05:00Storytime: Button Up for Winter Weather!<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2653704858144610396" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrBwXBKlJ-U14yYIppKdPnj7hw-LLoSrFKtAKRy_0aNAQQalWShs-36ENZzvcw5zNhiBrfDKLfOSHjZvJy9L3Wk3ciED9XS-ecPvB-6LwvqCQsGSfvyJSz6DZ-LUMYYwMkWjwwc28W1lXo-8JM25jOXcZcD4HJ2b4f3-Vuw9xAD8f6mPFN0u8D0GOStA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="544" data-original-width="682" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrBwXBKlJ-U14yYIppKdPnj7hw-LLoSrFKtAKRy_0aNAQQalWShs-36ENZzvcw5zNhiBrfDKLfOSHjZvJy9L3Wk3ciED9XS-ecPvB-6LwvqCQsGSfvyJSz6DZ-LUMYYwMkWjwwc28W1lXo-8JM25jOXcZcD4HJ2b4f3-Vuw9xAD8f6mPFN0u8D0GOStA" width="301" /></a></div><i>greenshot test froggy</i><br /><br /><div align="center"> <span style="text-align: left;">Bundle up with this program for warming up on a cold winter’s day</span></div><div align="center"><i style="text-align: left;">Fun interactive program of stories and songs </i></div><div align="center"><i>incorporating early literacy and numeracy skills, sequencing, <br />vocabulary (unusual animals), </i><i style="text-align: left;">following directions, </i></div><div align="center"><i>plus an indoor snowball fight to use up some cooped-up energy!</i></div><div align="center"> <span style="text-align: left;">Entrance Music: “Belly Button” by Joe Scruggs on his album:</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><b style="text-align: left;">Late Last Night</b></div><p><b><br /></b>Book: <b>Froggy Gets Dressed</b> – Jonathon London <i>(kids act out motions and shout out “FROGGY...Have you forgotten something?”) (Alt. for young kids: </i>Bear Gets Dressed: A Guessing Game Story – Harriet Ziefert, Other great underwear-themed titles: <b>Bear in Long Underwear</b> -- Todd H. Doodler, <b>Naked </b>by Michael Ian Black (kids LOVE!)<br /><br /><i>Froggy clearly had trouble wearing clothes – so do these animals…</i>Flannel: <b>Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing</b> – Judi Barrett <i>(Cut out from a book whose spine had broken -- made it easy for us to as a Q&A: animal identification, reasoning—why wearing clothing would be a problem for the animal, vocabulary development – animal names, “suspenders”)</i></p><p><i></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbjGsBkiXPO_oe6VPseJfjpdq0pUo0ojx99d6S-WrmEZcaAdLvCXh06U6e71101zffWKqeh429lJgTPW2RBDnaZ3Zb7seZj4B0B9bFujie4TmNz2uXtPbVxuqI3nEjrzhBmJC4Ka3O1nVhZwXwf4BRYj4rGOg_w0gi3VrTjwnONV2_rbl6KhODzzW5NQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="224" data-original-width="229" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjbjGsBkiXPO_oe6VPseJfjpdq0pUo0ojx99d6S-WrmEZcaAdLvCXh06U6e71101zffWKqeh429lJgTPW2RBDnaZ3Zb7seZj4B0B9bFujie4TmNz2uXtPbVxuqI3nEjrzhBmJC4Ka3O1nVhZwXwf4BRYj4rGOg_w0gi3VrTjwnONV2_rbl6KhODzzW5NQ" width="245" /></a></i></div><i><br /></i>Action Song: <b>This is the Way…</b> <i>(sequencing: getting dressed)</i> <i>(Tune: “Mulberry Bush”)</i><p></p>This is the way we put on our coat,<br />Put on our coat, put on our coat,<br />This is the way we put on our coat,<br />To play outside in the snow.<br /><i>Continue with other articles of clothing…<br />(Could also use: </i>Action/Sign Language Song: <b>When It’s Cold Outside</b> from “Pick Me Up: Fun Songs for Learning Signs”) </div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2653704858144610396" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2653704858144610396" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><i style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Here’s another animal looking for something warm to wear…but she makes some mistakes...</i><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">Book: </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A Hat for Minerva Louse</b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;"> – Janet Morgan Stoeke </span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2653704858144610396" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEji6GTxt8KIHIaLVpVDs2x4p7qzOaVEC_-bhMMD8SkqUOrLhSL1147Tj5KTfYWtNlgC6GUMSuatpT7MYOLAYIjAaoX5uV5AggH1MocWoM3GYQupF9ceRoC9XOpVm0Sptbwvlg472jL4NMjK9MxfOyvOUOIRvYXDacuempmMm-b-Gfentv1w8nxBJFjNSw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="675" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEji6GTxt8KIHIaLVpVDs2x4p7qzOaVEC_-bhMMD8SkqUOrLhSL1147Tj5KTfYWtNlgC6GUMSuatpT7MYOLAYIjAaoX5uV5AggH1MocWoM3GYQupF9ceRoC9XOpVm0Sptbwvlg472jL4NMjK9MxfOyvOUOIRvYXDacuempmMm-b-Gfentv1w8nxBJFjNSw" width="289" /></a></div><br /><br /></span><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;"><i></i></span><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Action Song: <b>We Dress Like That</b> <i>(mention concept of "piggy-back songs" Source Unknown, Tune: “Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes”—repeated several times)</i><br />Boots, jacket, scarf and hat, scarf and hat.<br />Boots, jacket, scarf and hat, scarf and hat.<br />In wintertime we dress like that,<br />Boots, jacket, scarf and hat, scarf and hat.</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEjo-hp--8QyRepJxCCwQSLACO9LLxRzDs9VBBlu7FRhSLV8HxY7Gbcx-uxOPO2shceaTznTxyPym9kIZnhuRm9AIttH0xTeJn1EidlQY9kPK7Tcum0cVutc0wNuqpZHxRAKPM42V8PSS8NJYg_INpaa362F8H_X5SMOozLcTyEva2moWZZMOSoJXHug" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="328" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiEjo-hp--8QyRepJxCCwQSLACO9LLxRzDs9VBBlu7FRhSLV8HxY7Gbcx-uxOPO2shceaTznTxyPym9kIZnhuRm9AIttH0xTeJn1EidlQY9kPK7Tcum0cVutc0wNuqpZHxRAKPM42V8PSS8NJYg_INpaa362F8H_X5SMOozLcTyEva2moWZZMOSoJXHug" width="293" /></a></div><br />Participatory Storytelling: <b>The Mitten</b> by Jan Brett<p></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Act out story with puppets (old lady, boy) and masks from <a href="http://www.janbrett.com/" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">www.janbrett.com</a> – you can draw an enormous mitten on a white plastic tablecloth with thick black marker, place it on the floor and have adults hold down the corners while the Iibrarian narrates the story and the children (holding laminated <a href="http://www.janbrett.com/mitten_masks_main.htm" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">masks from the Jan Brett website</a>), step on and huddled together, at the “aachoo” we all jumped off and threw the tablecloth into the air! <br />Other versions here: http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2014/12/winter-storytimetheatercraft-jan-bretts.html</p><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><u style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Mitten Song</b></u><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f;" /><span style="color: #4f4f4f;">Thumbs in the thumb place</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f;" /><span style="color: #4f4f4f;">Fingers all together</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f;" /><span style="color: #4f4f4f;">This is the song we sing when it's mitten weather</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f;" /><span style="color: #4f4f4f;">It doesn't matter whether</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f;" /><span style="color: #4f4f4f;">They are made of wool or leather</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f;" /><span style="color: #4f4f4f;">Thumbs in the thumb place</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #4f4f4f;" /><span style="color: #4f4f4f;">Fingers all together</span></span><br /><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">Singable Book: </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Frosty the Snowman –</b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;"> Steve Nelson</span><br /><i style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Snowmen don’t need coats to go outside, but people do!</i></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Action Song: <b>I’m a Little Snowman </b><i>(Sung to: “I’m a Little Teapot”)</i><br />I’m a little snowman, short and fat<br />Here is my broomstick, here is my hat<br />When the sun comes out, I’ll melt away<br />Drip, drip, drip, I’m a puddle today!</p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Young group so skipped : Flannel/Song: <b>In the Freezer</b><i> (Song on Joe Scrugg’s “Traffic Jams”) lyrics to this and additional winter songs here: <a href="http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/01/singalong-winters-day.html" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;" title="http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/01/singalong-winters-day.html">http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/01/singalong-winters-day.html</a></i></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Close with Activity: <strong><em>indoor snowball fight using plastic bag snowballs</em></strong>, to the music “Sleigh Ride”, track #5 on album <b>20th Century Masters: Season's Greetings- The Millennium Collection</b><br />Making snowballs for the program:<br />1) Gather a white plastic grocery bag into a long, skinny tube-like length with the handles on one end.<br />2) Fold the length in half, then in half again.<br />3) Wind a rubber band around the middle until it is tight.<br />4) Trim both ends to remove any folded areas.<br />5) Make 2 or 3 vertical cuts in both ends.<br />6) Then fluff out pieces<br />Idea courtesy of: Susan Dailey, librarian, speaker and author of "A Storytime Year" </p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Other possibilities: <br /><br />Book: <b>Joseph Had a Little Overcoat</b> – Simms Tabeck <i>(folk tale with great cut-out reveals; briefly mention Caldecott Award) (Optional, show another version of same tale: </i><b>Something from Nothing</b> – Phoebe Gilman)<br /></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEieGJkdo3ypVz5Otu0_NAD1PO5wmaGZEYE6z2pA-GNr3NtaVCYMufxzW4wYvRA6QbanaXy9bLLgu6g_i15p7eaUCw1ILW2ii4aEueFmz-X7BdHW1zGRU_l9Tr3sllM85sXCroXnFLrBJBP_tGOnkg68IKtFljg6RcVuICcwKldzVfUcH0QU7KNnJIAvwg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="702" data-original-width="576" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEieGJkdo3ypVz5Otu0_NAD1PO5wmaGZEYE6z2pA-GNr3NtaVCYMufxzW4wYvRA6QbanaXy9bLLgu6g_i15p7eaUCw1ILW2ii4aEueFmz-X7BdHW1zGRU_l9Tr3sllM85sXCroXnFLrBJBP_tGOnkg68IKtFljg6RcVuICcwKldzVfUcH0QU7KNnJIAvwg" width="197" /></a></div><p></p><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i style="text-align: left;">Another Joe who has a problem with buttons...</i></div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">Action</span><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">: Hi, My Name is Joe & I work in a button Factory <i>(</i></b><i style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">traditional, left-right identification)</i><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">Hi my name is Joe & I work in a button factory.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">One day, my boss said “Joe, are you busy?”</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">“I said “no”” – so he said “Turn this button with your right hand” </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(do this)</i><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">Repeat: left hand, right foot, left foot, head…finally</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">I said YES!!!!!!”</span><br /><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">Or flannel/prop song (</span><i style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to tune: “Mary Had Little Lamb”) (memory-sequencing)</i><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">Joseph had an overcoat, overcoat, over coat…it got old and worn.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">So he made a little jacket etc. ..continue thru button…lost button…then he made this little song….</span><br /><i style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></i><i style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">1A few more buttons...</i><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">Book: </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Press Here</b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;"> – Herve Tullet </span><i style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(kids press the dots and are thrilled with the changes, cause & effect, numeracy, left-right identification, patterns)</i></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2653704858144610396" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-size: 13px;">Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons </b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-size: 13px;">– Eric Litwin </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7va0beuK58" style="color: #f48d1d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7va0beuK58</a></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2653704858144610396" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1fV3yK-0eXcJSHnxOtc4Zbz1f86mWfrB1pu5PUNyKGS4T6cweFThy4yMIyhCzLr35_B4r_7xC5NrmTFl7i1kZR9tRMqxfn3fSaFkqkW0K9KyygGINJB-ER9xysgPq3lbItP9sRXmJB82NCiB-Sw_Nr-5Ms1AEGr6DLgLB3nCQ6Zkg85vwTeGJK_1Jhw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="575" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1fV3yK-0eXcJSHnxOtc4Zbz1f86mWfrB1pu5PUNyKGS4T6cweFThy4yMIyhCzLr35_B4r_7xC5NrmTFl7i1kZR9tRMqxfn3fSaFkqkW0K9KyygGINJB-ER9xysgPq3lbItP9sRXmJB82NCiB-Sw_Nr-5Ms1AEGr6DLgLB3nCQ6Zkg85vwTeGJK_1Jhw" width="186" /></a></div><br /><div align="center" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></div><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hand Stamping Music: “Belly Button” by Joe Scruggs on his album: <strong>Late Last Night</strong></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br />Another great title (longer): The Trouble With Trolls - Eve Bunting<br /><br />CDPL 1/2/2023</p></div>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-54487590540136142372023-01-05T12:45:00.005-05:002023-01-13T10:14:55.030-05:00 Storytime: Soup's On - Bedminster Library/Nicole's Special Ed Class/Bedminster School<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3371321235500797459" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Featuring soup stories and songs,</span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">incorporating fiction and non-fiction, concepts of alphabet, <br />emotions, and months of the year<o:p></o:p></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">and participatory storytelling of a classic folk tale. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">Lyrics for the songs and other ideas at: <a href="https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Soup">https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Soup</a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Entrance Music - John Lithgow </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVtp_-sgfqmIalnNu-pi1E28imO-ru_UKwfO_Zy8tJLt-LvYSuV23coTr3gTf9ORsBeNNYm40S3sVrWw_W1QNTCr5tDirS4tilmkS9bzHapNj91zDwOD-Y0LuC6M0b4KTcjdOKkDU5V4AKf3rgjbGSOeAH92rkW37XC54OnESUtwSKGAzMA9VewDAkFw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="260" data-original-width="262" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhVtp_-sgfqmIalnNu-pi1E28imO-ru_UKwfO_Zy8tJLt-LvYSuV23coTr3gTf9ORsBeNNYm40S3sVrWw_W1QNTCr5tDirS4tilmkS9bzHapNj91zDwOD-Y0LuC6M0b4KTcjdOKkDU5V4AKf3rgjbGSOeAH92rkW37XC54OnESUtwSKGAzMA9VewDAkFw" width="242" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Book: </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Growing Vegetable Soup – Lois Ehlert <i>(vocabulary, non-fiction concepts of gardening & food prep)</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><em></em><o:p></o:p></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Piggy Back” Song/Action: </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">This is the Way we… make the Soup </span><i style="font-size: 16px;">(lyrics for this and all other songs below) </i><i style="font-size: 12pt;">(reinforces sequencing)</i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><em><span style="font-size: small;"></span></em> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjIRaSzb56QqxRODgGAXWbrwkUBdU6OUq7ToUyuliWTqCY4szcEFLCCe1v1G2udE3nBEtko0P9Cz3yAF-G5D7cugRCKKj8aHvisAeuQ1BYUy46Jp5och4eR0hagq_u_OxDpa2uxZQx7cTpLqYOYHcvqKNrifFhYcodL4GV2_NZ3NLzYitB3t6gBunmKA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="258" data-original-width="266" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjjIRaSzb56QqxRODgGAXWbrwkUBdU6OUq7ToUyuliWTqCY4szcEFLCCe1v1G2udE3nBEtko0P9Cz3yAF-G5D7cugRCKKj8aHvisAeuQ1BYUy46Jp5och4eR0hagq_u_OxDpa2uxZQx7cTpLqYOYHcvqKNrifFhYcodL4GV2_NZ3NLzYitB3t6gBunmKA" width="247" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Interactive story with props </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">(pot, puppets, & veggies): Stone Soup <i>(Participatory storytelling, mentioned old story many variants – I use the Ann McGovern version with old lady and young man - script below)</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Song/Action:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> “Doing the Chocolate Shake” (chocolate soup) – <i>used when needed to get out the wiggles</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Song/Flannel:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> "Alphabet Soup" by Tom Chapin <i>(reinforces alphabet) </i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigp3pWJf6rXtaOjbkMxllC4cLYVIFBslovg0BOEPr_nYBsfb4qr6rmdfpUYoBvOIYMGQproI_PioPR9jhn7g60Q0g7F_5bSnOdNub_Yp_PYr-Xy0oEJ5tsz4BpA8prmx_1XLMZ2K9ZlXRZbg2IlXAwb72Irpr_5Yye5s860DanlMSXvJ5OXutr8TJrAg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="223" data-original-width="198" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEigp3pWJf6rXtaOjbkMxllC4cLYVIFBslovg0BOEPr_nYBsfb4qr6rmdfpUYoBvOIYMGQproI_PioPR9jhn7g60Q0g7F_5bSnOdNub_Yp_PYr-Xy0oEJ5tsz4BpA8prmx_1XLMZ2K9ZlXRZbg2IlXAwb72Irpr_5Yye5s860DanlMSXvJ5OXutr8TJrAg" width="213" /></a></div></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Book: </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Mean Soup – Betsy Everitt <i>(how to handle a "bad day" - could also make "Mean Cheerios!")</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Song:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> "If you are happy and you know it…" .. sad, angry, loving<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxKnQVSYtfAxpkOqOnbav1gGTit8-EB_EkVb0qHHqAwrIPSJWzLBcGWkM6uYc-lz42GE-VZ6FocRXcR7I_3CderwXtfmaidCqLFlcELjfDTrLrW5O9IxqEfLFcKFc-_G_Ob9x-1P0ywqd4zbPQ-eR4-O9UaKHquwd83jQ2qOLmFVqyzsdAgUCmbDyN6Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="280" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxKnQVSYtfAxpkOqOnbav1gGTit8-EB_EkVb0qHHqAwrIPSJWzLBcGWkM6uYc-lz42GE-VZ6FocRXcR7I_3CderwXtfmaidCqLFlcELjfDTrLrW5O9IxqEfLFcKFc-_G_Ob9x-1P0ywqd4zbPQ-eR4-O9UaKHquwd83jQ2qOLmFVqyzsdAgUCmbDyN6Q" width="224" /></a></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></span><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Book</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">:<b> </b></span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Monkey Soup – Louis Sachar <i>(child makes her father a special kind of soup to help get him well – silly!) </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Q_KUuw8pCY8/W9nE4XBD45I/AAAAAAABNDU/YaJ0QJDdCoIqBoCb-49M_nwm12YMtpR7gCHMYCw/s1600-h/image%255B9%255D" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="244" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-HsNEOz1n56Y/W9nE5cZAyWI/AAAAAAABNDY/zGvn0a5TTE0O7mqWM38yxeonHSUzujdcwCHMYCw/image_thumb%255B3%255D?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="194" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Book/Cards/Song: </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Chicken Soup with Rice – Maurice Sendak, tune by Carole King from “Really Rosie” <i>(concept: the names of the months)</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">(<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBdL80vdIrk" target="_blank">video version</a>) (the rest of Really Rosie is available online <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBdL80vdIrk">here</a>)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Shaky eggs & animal puppels to song: </span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“Animal Crackers in my Soup” – from John Lithgow’s <i>Farkle & Friends</i> J730 LITH or Joanie Bartels version <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLaeaz3_mIE" target="_blank">online</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"> </div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;">Other books to consider: <b>Soup Day</b> by Melissa Iwai, Dumpling Soup by Jama Kin Rattigan, <strong>Last Stop on Market Street</strong> – Matt de la Pena -- grandmother & child travel on a bus to serve at a soup kitchen</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlPyWkzMf1GsNB3XgixgiOmt2lgjODUfow3OS8pcvnD2YeyWVTeNeaJPb86ay1C9Zzvm61JT7irvT-POGRf2z8GzCG_eQ2zOcGIQkEl8c-2MoRdypXkKuJMDaJJPgqZMiWr9P60eYdSZ5D/s1600-h/image%255B3%255D" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="338" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-o8hhtw0Z-1A/W9nE3TqhV8I/AAAAAAABNDQ/0YzBv03N4GgU-_FbrPLOZex3j8ViaHztgCHMYCw/image_thumb%255B1%255D?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding: 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="245" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><b>Virtual for Nicole's Class:</b><br />Book: Growing Vegetable Soup<br />Book: Stone Soup (Ann McGovern version)<br />Song with felt board: Alphabet Soup<br />Book: Mean Soup</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;">Book: Monkey Soup (mentioned author Louis Sacher wrote the "Sideways Stories for Wayside School" series, including "Sideways Arithmetic..." & gave a shout out to Bedtime Math <a href="https://bedtimemath.org/category/daily-math/" target="_blank">daily online math problem </a> and <a href="https://bedtimemath.org/what-we-do/books/" target="_blank">books</a><br />Song with cards: Chicken Soup with Rice (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBdL80vdIrk" target="_blank">video version</a>) (the rest of Really Rosie is available online <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBdL80vdIrk">here</a>)</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;">CDPL 1/5/23, Nicole 1/13/23</div></div>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-91510702731238709842022-12-19T13:36:00.009-05:002023-01-10T11:14:39.676-05:00Storytime: Gifts & Giving - Bedminster School/Nicole's Special Ed Class/Bedminster Library<div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px; text-align: -webkit-center;">A storytime featuring tangible & intangible giving, with a nod to geography, interactive songs, and create your own verses. Great lead-in for holiday toy, coat & food drives.</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZPm327jRpkRWZ9tIjw5DYbYNO2hJM7pNZ50lRo8KOV1fGo01SD18ANt03mcsAtdVdB1LQG2SE3SYhoD2SeMvalyA-WpY09Ibt_uCz7p7hxFsrIEN4X996nKHgLGx2etGq98tzQN96N-apHXPx8gKT9r41FoAOMFDkHDqHJwnz6aPLsRkRLpyjMkJp3w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="232" data-original-width="234" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhZPm327jRpkRWZ9tIjw5DYbYNO2hJM7pNZ50lRo8KOV1fGo01SD18ANt03mcsAtdVdB1LQG2SE3SYhoD2SeMvalyA-WpY09Ibt_uCz7p7hxFsrIEN4X996nKHgLGx2etGq98tzQN96N-apHXPx8gKT9r41FoAOMFDkHDqHJwnz6aPLsRkRLpyjMkJp3w" width="242" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><strong style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Book:</strong><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Rabbit’s Gift</b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> – George Shannon </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(Chinese folktale in which each animal tries to share the turnip left at his doorstep.)</i></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjs2Lieo7uHKrYdPkhBDqkibrw1IzdOhhkP50ucZksCHycDtbI-U2qu746gZAPMPmSWFGxiyK_Nq9OGQuIiqJNCOWRVhTYfSdM0clUSfY9ERrgEkfqkS0Ocad0QvytFUyHwFTvTackKMsDGhur8cDIQ3U3c4xYnXzJeUqMMnnm3mVQ-O0MfznrpT_B0IQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="153" data-original-width="522" height="143" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjs2Lieo7uHKrYdPkhBDqkibrw1IzdOhhkP50ucZksCHycDtbI-U2qu746gZAPMPmSWFGxiyK_Nq9OGQuIiqJNCOWRVhTYfSdM0clUSfY9ERrgEkfqkS0Ocad0QvytFUyHwFTvTackKMsDGhur8cDIQ3U3c4xYnXzJeUqMMnnm3mVQ-O0MfznrpT_B0IQ=w487-h143" width="487" /></a></div><br /></i></span></span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Song/Flannel: Helping</strong><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> by Shel Silverstein from </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Free to Be, You and Me. </i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">Lyrics & tune: </span><a href="http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/helping-an-illustrated-song-by-shel-silverstein/" style="background-color: white; color: #f48d1d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/helping-an-illustrated-song-by-shel-silverstein/</a></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnHiSs558rfOlMPogHIzlu1-mHvqU0Z30B_Q2uZk8O0ntvS0gqz_iysk02rG4bZWs7GcDLrNnEo1WCLBDy-Sr-1PRWb99GvIRGcp_y5HrG81N_FHVi3F_oQNNOyGiH5S5xRuRA_fNKF9NEpUIYTVcEHIPmxUll-pfrOHJN9m-zyppDUUZp3hcvP1XM1w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="476" data-original-width="483" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhnHiSs558rfOlMPogHIzlu1-mHvqU0Z30B_Q2uZk8O0ntvS0gqz_iysk02rG4bZWs7GcDLrNnEo1WCLBDy-Sr-1PRWb99GvIRGcp_y5HrG81N_FHVi3F_oQNNOyGiH5S5xRuRA_fNKF9NEpUIYTVcEHIPmxUll-pfrOHJN9m-zyppDUUZp3hcvP1XM1w" width="244" /></a></div><br /></i></span></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Gift</b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> – Gabriela Keselman </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(Mickey's birthday is coming and his parents cannot figure out what to do when he tells them that he wants something big, strong, smooth, sweet, warm, funny, and long-lasting) Alternatives: </i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Gift of Nothing</b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> – Patrick McDonnell or </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Immi’s Gift</b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> – Karin Littlewood</span></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><i><br /></i></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgPYms5fCDl2OWfQ-dj6Ee7iiUjdr_sn2EclhHpeMcssKGxoMVq1NsSa6Pi0uOoGahdBbhncFs7fVRdGCVbdOZ92IiWsgEmQPGtYiyC288Qt-psg_ycDU2dqtq8LYzdFjpmqkXjAra1fDbePi51hEo13rHbipLg1jR_ho0Nx5T2DT0Id3jL9kxHulvxLA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="202" data-original-width="208" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgPYms5fCDl2OWfQ-dj6Ee7iiUjdr_sn2EclhHpeMcssKGxoMVq1NsSa6Pi0uOoGahdBbhncFs7fVRdGCVbdOZ92IiWsgEmQPGtYiyC288Qt-psg_ycDU2dqtq8LYzdFjpmqkXjAra1fDbePi51hEo13rHbipLg1jR_ho0Nx5T2DT0Id3jL9kxHulvxLA" width="247" /></a></div><br /><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The Marvelous Toy</b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> by Tom Paxton</span><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> (sung) </em><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(Several book versions available. Hand-me-down toy has special meaning; performed here: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCjslf_a11c" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=</a></em><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCjslf_a11c" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCjslf_a11c" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCjslf_a11c" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCjslf_a11c" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"></a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCjslf_a11c" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">BCjslf_a11c</a>)</em></div><div><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></em></div><div><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(Stopped here at Clarence Dillon Library, had an indoor snowball fight - see details below -- to finish)</em></div><div><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></em></div><div><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7kEdH1XHAba9cLShsaarfrjWhdcOFunCMLj2nU4Ks1pScKbiPTmefhhdH8cTWyDNcVmS9q8Xbl7-I61yTrE6_cnGR9LkmOBH7M0RCgeXhM2lHNNP9fjIoTKI8x8-E-xu8fdhutX-uc6GUJ9dCHfDPWG65JOzgHpnoxHKFV1hxnWukTPJSLwAlI45UNw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="198" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg7kEdH1XHAba9cLShsaarfrjWhdcOFunCMLj2nU4Ks1pScKbiPTmefhhdH8cTWyDNcVmS9q8Xbl7-I61yTrE6_cnGR9LkmOBH7M0RCgeXhM2lHNNP9fjIoTKI8x8-E-xu8fdhutX-uc6GUJ9dCHfDPWG65JOzgHpnoxHKFV1hxnWukTPJSLwAlI45UNw" width="192" /></a></div><br /></em><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"><i>A gift for the animals... </i></span></div><div><strong style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Book: Night Tree</strong><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> by Eve Bunting </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(Every year a family decorates a tree in the woods with edible ornaments for the animals) </i></div><div><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Who knows what a “family tree” is?</em><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></em><strong style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sign Language Song:</strong><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Family Tree</b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Song by Tom Chapin & John Forster, additional verses on their album “Family Tree”; video of their performance with signs: </em><a href="http://www.tomchapin.com/docs/lft.htmland" style="background-color: white; color: #f48d1d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.tomchapin.com/docs/lft.htmland</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">on their video “This Pretty Planet.” <br />Signs handout: <a href="http://www.tomchapin.com/docs/ftsigns.html" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.tomchapin.com/docs/ftsigns.html</a> </i><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></i><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Family Tree </b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">by John Forster & Tom Chapin © 1988 Limousine Music Co. & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">Before the days of Jello</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">Lived a prehistoric fellow,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">Who loved a maid and courted her</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">Beneath the banyan tree.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">And they had lots of children.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">And their children all had children.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">And they kept on having children</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">Until one of them had me!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We're a family and we're a tree.<br />Our roots go deep down in history<br />From my great-great-granddaddy reaching up to me,<br />We're a green and growing family tree.</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">My grandpa came from Russia;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">My grandma came from Prussia;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">They met in Nova Scotia,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">Had my dad in Tennessee.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">Then they moved to Yokohama</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">Where Daddy met my Mama.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">Her dad's from Alabama and her mom's part Cherokee.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We're a family and we're a tree.<br />Our roots go deep down in history<br />From my great-great-granddaddy reaching up to me,<br />We're a green and growing family tree.</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">Well one fine day I may go</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">To Tierra Del Fuego.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">Perhaps I'll meet my wife there</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">And we'll move to Timbuktu.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">And our kid will be bilingual,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">And though she may stay single,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">She could, of course, comingle with the</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">King of Kathmandu.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">'Cause we're a family and we're a tree.<br />Our roots go deep down in history<br />From my great-great-granddaddy reaching up to me,<br />We're a green and growing family tree.</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">The folks in Madagascar</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">Aren't the same as in Alaskar;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">They got different foods, different moods</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">And different colored skin.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">You may have a different name,</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">But underneath we're much the same;</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">You're probably my cousin and the whole world is our kin.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We're a family and we're a tree.<br />Our roots go deep down in history<br />From my great-great-grandmother reaching up to me, (sign for “grandmother is the same hand as grandfather, but thumb touching the chin and bouncing 2x)<br />We're a green and growing family tree.<br />We're a green and growing family.</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">This song appears on Tom Chapin's </span><a href="http://www.tomchapin.com/docs/tcft.html" style="background-color: white; color: #f48d1d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;">Family Tree</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> CD. More very special tree stories here: </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/school-age-storytime-very-special-trees.html</span></span></div><div><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilCv72_pskMzRg14U2FdZgz2rCqL-LIqzKJKesXGpc9bSzkjcEkpskBHEWj14L3WSvd0ovOkxLHw2z_m3PT_8-fqmF2rrP09hDiP9GGsSdbEZJcMZTYj_uUtcb31wxvbVIMGCFvxokIc1ir9pKD6J8bFtErHbHQtYchI3wRP8jDV_AOJ3XsAS0M_mDAA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="246" data-original-width="194" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEilCv72_pskMzRg14U2FdZgz2rCqL-LIqzKJKesXGpc9bSzkjcEkpskBHEWj14L3WSvd0ovOkxLHw2z_m3PT_8-fqmF2rrP09hDiP9GGsSdbEZJcMZTYj_uUtcb31wxvbVIMGCFvxokIc1ir9pKD6J8bFtErHbHQtYchI3wRP8jDV_AOJ3XsAS0M_mDAA" width="189" /></a></div></em><strong style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Book: Gifts </strong><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">by Jo Ellen Bogart </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(A grandmother travels the world bringing back gifts both real and fanciful in this lovely rhyming story illustrated with three dimensional pictures created from plasticine clay. The child grows to a young woman and the grandmother gets more frail until the last page shows the child grown up with a child of her own traveling the world and concludes "and everything she shared with me I'm going to share with you." Kids might identify geographic locations mentioned on maps on the endpapers.)</em><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /><br /></em></div><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxzhUN7FICTx2WGgATyNQLYM6Z-eOBLYtx_gNbOkRlXu2oKxpH8f5TbHWCHW8EIicZOb_h8hxQg6CnvSQmab93vN6rsY0_Hv6-aP126oF6BBQCBLfqkg961jBlajxXQRuKdmm3RwHeXjA4Zb-ceZSpR1DXOBrSMG4rTqM6GHTexdpxyYLo7E6UWS4xgw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="120" data-original-width="518" height="109" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjxzhUN7FICTx2WGgATyNQLYM6Z-eOBLYtx_gNbOkRlXu2oKxpH8f5TbHWCHW8EIicZOb_h8hxQg6CnvSQmab93vN6rsY0_Hv6-aP126oF6BBQCBLfqkg961jBlajxXQRuKdmm3RwHeXjA4Zb-ceZSpR1DXOBrSMG4rTqM6GHTexdpxyYLo7E6UWS4xgw=w472-h109" width="472" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i>Speaking of clay... </i><strong style="font-style: normal;">Song/Flannel: I Had a Little Dreidel</strong><span style="font-style: normal;"> </span><i style="font-style: italic;">(with myriad variations --source unknown -- students encouraged to make up new verses!</i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGMNGiu5g3HcJZj2QSWLo3ansr186Of6_u9IdZU3oZlXUq6ltBWcJu8uJkxsp2N_oYu_6ABkO9ahVl2Xrv_1of3jbRushREHFA-WXL4bWT3PNKVlCj5e_v6lor3cLdUlmCFvT5R7mQiGbI35bA3TiiWc-BMBq4nBsP-mRcStIPHzVowzkh2rO4vJbD0Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="212" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGMNGiu5g3HcJZj2QSWLo3ansr186Of6_u9IdZU3oZlXUq6ltBWcJu8uJkxsp2N_oYu_6ABkO9ahVl2Xrv_1of3jbRushREHFA-WXL4bWT3PNKVlCj5e_v6lor3cLdUlmCFvT5R7mQiGbI35bA3TiiWc-BMBq4nBsP-mRcStIPHzVowzkh2rO4vJbD0Q" width="205" /></a></div></span><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Song: We Wish You a Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Year…</b><b> </b>(lyrics to this and many other holiday songs here: <a href="http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/singalong-keep-spiritwinter-holiday.html" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/singalong-keep-spiritwinter-holiday.html</a>)<br /><br /><em>If time, could add some of the materials from the programs here: </em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><em><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800;">http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Gifts%20and%20Giving</span></em></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b style="text-align: left;">Looking for additional special holiday titles? Check out this bibliography: </b><a href="http://www.somerset.lib.nj.us/kids/PDFs/holidays2011.pdf" style="color: #f48d1d; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.somerset.lib.nj.us/kids/PDFs/holidays2011.pdf</a></p><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></em></div><div><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></em></div><div><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><p style="font-style: normal;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8xTF8lfYqIg/WG0OiNAlBhI/AAAAAAAAWw8/_d4k1l3LLEY/s1600-h/image%25255B3%25255D.png" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="377" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vGvGOCHDfvw/WG0Oinde3EI/AAAAAAAAWxA/mQjsbCb5Hks/image_thumb%25255B1%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px currentcolor; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="504" /></a></p><p style="font-style: normal;"><strong>Activity: Snowball fight</strong> using plastic bag snowballs, to the music “Sleigh Ride” by Leroy Anderson (on album <i><b>Season’s Greetings)</b></i><br />Making snowballs for the program:<br />1) Gather a white plastic grocery bag into a long, skinny tube-like length with the handles on one end.<br />2) Fold the length in half, then in half again.<br />3) Wind a rubber band around the middle until it is tight.<br />4) Cut open both ends to remove any folded areas.<br />5) Then fluff out pieces<br />Idea courtesy of: Susan Dailey, librarian, speaker and author of "A Storytime Year"</p></em></div><div><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Bedm., Dover Special Needs, CDPL 12/22</em></div><div><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></em></div>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-66347847808354949072022-11-21T11:02:00.004-05:002022-11-21T11:04:59.014-05:00Thanksgiving 2022 - Bedminster School/Literacy Vols/Nicole's special ed class <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A school-age storytime celebrating thankfulness, kindness, and inclusiveness for the Thanksgiving holiday </span></p><h5 style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNJBU0sK8UXFeBGyZ_wAk2Fxpv85SecCcrZ5PzCS8jfWXmMtPG0ZESuGSOXmreI3s4lj9DF81Rlz4vW_CdWtH1E0Mi5Z6L4gScYwbfaFBTUJc_jTYnCGFuuOXjd9sRJIp1THY5mJk3I2mSNfeSYKghe88LFcCynp7up1c8JtFeZCHizpqvrGXR59vLmA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><img alt="" data-original-height="212" data-original-width="166" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNJBU0sK8UXFeBGyZ_wAk2Fxpv85SecCcrZ5PzCS8jfWXmMtPG0ZESuGSOXmreI3s4lj9DF81Rlz4vW_CdWtH1E0Mi5Z6L4gScYwbfaFBTUJc_jTYnCGFuuOXjd9sRJIp1THY5mJk3I2mSNfeSYKghe88LFcCynp7up1c8JtFeZCHizpqvrGXR59vLmA" width="188" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Book: Thanksgiving at the Tappletons' </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-weight: normal;">by Eileen Spinelli. After calamity stalks every step of the preparations for the Tappletons' Thanksgiving dinner, they realize that there is more to Thanksgiving than turkey and trimmings.</span></span></h5><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b>Towel Folding Story: The Case of the Missing Turkey</b> <span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">-- Rhonda Turley Piedmont, OK via PUBYAC. Video: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq4eojAsNlY" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq4eojAsNlY</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"> (or search youtube for towel and chicken). <br />"Last year, I was in charge of cooking the family thanksgiving turkey.</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-family: arial;">I set my alarm for early in the morning so I could pop it in the oven to cook for our family dinner.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">When the alarm went off, I got up, put on my fuzzy slippers and shuffled out to the kitchen to get the bird. I opened the fridge, and…IT WAS GONE!</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Where could it be!? (this is where the towel folding starts…lay the towel out flat)</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I looked everywhere!</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I rolled up the living room rug (roll one end of the towel to center)…it wasn’t under there.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I pulled down the covers on my bed (roll other end to the center)…it wasn’t there.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I turned over the couch cushion (Flip rolled towel over so rolled ends are underneath)…it wasn’t there.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I looked under the chair (fold towel in half end to end, and hold upright like a bouquet of flowers)…it wasn’t there.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I looked in the flower vase (peek in end of one tube and pull up the corner of the towel)</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I looked in the umbrella stand (peek in end of one tube and pull up the corner of the towel)…it wasn’t there.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I even looked in the trash can (peek in end of one tube and pull up the corner of the towel)...thankfully it wasn't there!</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Finally, I looked in the cookie jar (pull up last corner of the towel)</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">(here’s the finale…grasp two corners with one hand, the other two corners with the other hand, and pull them apart…resulting in what looks like a plucked bird.)</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">…And there it was!"</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2bVOUGUcSYSbj2QcHTxZT9rUFreCEKyFbPiUsg3aqno76VE95S48UsoUdlbRpXIpkW6j8CWN34aWHLu1iS561nxAw17SIpeMm5mAkjTT4hb9N5MLyATVvzyOa4ER0t2xRStJ5Ll1sMOxaCow-6tp-8L5GSzjdojTaTNFjphej1Xz3QP-nTWoZKEKAAQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="479" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2bVOUGUcSYSbj2QcHTxZT9rUFreCEKyFbPiUsg3aqno76VE95S48UsoUdlbRpXIpkW6j8CWN34aWHLu1iS561nxAw17SIpeMm5mAkjTT4hb9N5MLyATVvzyOa4ER0t2xRStJ5Ll1sMOxaCow-6tp-8L5GSzjdojTaTNFjphej1Xz3QP-nTWoZKEKAAQ" width="211" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Image: </span><a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Towel-Chicken" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Towel-Chicken</a> (I use a brown towel.)</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiclR0V_oLtvOHPfkRje1TnLqZNBjdKN_hCiy3BIaxQZBe_vPtCL_K44nJZWAeoFiTKe9owax7X3zNf9f3zF1g7k0psLN_rs2NO42TLxN0yxzAtJWynT7gICC5SzyM6OaLP07ISNd-QSJ-tyAAmDjjl718jp0v7QCVRiBIVvnNhNm1yN44D7cIqSiR1UA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="169" data-original-width="138" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiclR0V_oLtvOHPfkRje1TnLqZNBjdKN_hCiy3BIaxQZBe_vPtCL_K44nJZWAeoFiTKe9owax7X3zNf9f3zF1g7k0psLN_rs2NO42TLxN0yxzAtJWynT7gICC5SzyM6OaLP07ISNd-QSJ-tyAAmDjjl718jp0v7QCVRiBIVvnNhNm1yN44D7cIqSiR1UA" width="196" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><b>Book: Duck for Turkey Day </b>by Jacqueline Jules. Tuyet is terribly worried because her Vietnamese family is cooking duck for Thanksgiving Day - isn't that against the rules?!</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixeupl20eFh5jo_wJFkeOe1MVbUN07orGvwWeTYKXKQdvonmxBlNN_J5xO7tRgX6YQKfwXI-P8wkxqcgUismzZo4F0rTZwUE9QMUsxqleQIBWUY5gELFHD1dU4r-euj1NmkfNTP0sF7MAngjIgPsjcNZwBlu77sG2zfV0H8d8tfCkes5299RjUXq8agQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="181" data-original-width="173" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixeupl20eFh5jo_wJFkeOe1MVbUN07orGvwWeTYKXKQdvonmxBlNN_J5xO7tRgX6YQKfwXI-P8wkxqcgUismzZo4F0rTZwUE9QMUsxqleQIBWUY5gELFHD1dU4r-euj1NmkfNTP0sF7MAngjIgPsjcNZwBlu77sG2zfV0H8d8tfCkes5299RjUXq8agQ" width="229" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioo8sdcb1cvm_5rIz3waNttbmANt9GxuhNqCwjmoN-xIOIYhX9BNAN1_uYxm9woZmozPArP3wtSS2Q00kEPz6q8asfXhSsm2x_lQXymTtNtuA5AHK5Rlq42B_cf1SGO0GCk1QGJXBsfJ99b_SygnCut8Tqh-ZVby6eKpnGTR_HD00F3wqUd2UY0WAxcw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="408" data-original-width="468" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEioo8sdcb1cvm_5rIz3waNttbmANt9GxuhNqCwjmoN-xIOIYhX9BNAN1_uYxm9woZmozPArP3wtSS2Q00kEPz6q8asfXhSsm2x_lQXymTtNtuA5AHK5Rlq42B_cf1SGO0GCk1QGJXBsfJ99b_SygnCut8Tqh-ZVby6eKpnGTR_HD00F3wqUd2UY0WAxcw" width="275" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><b>Song with props: I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie </b>– based on the book by Alison Jackson <i>(great song for helping kids work on their memory skills – try to have them remember the different foods in the countdown; can also use rhyming reminders (phonemic awareness) as clues.) </i>(We use a cardboard old lady with a plastic see-through stomach panel and a cardboard box mounted behind for the food items. This can be made as a craft) Lyrics and more images: www.4gaslps.com/IKnewAnOldLadyWhoSwallowedAPie.doc</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhMiQk6JNfU3jw8n4rlJpajEfL4F1paqGdqkKVqIkjaaPR6kRqEsUk98ZsbvU0xUDEkIqFgAQH6UA9Tnwo-RVaIlFYyeC4r3Il8VnhNiilihZjTQI52OyX-qvTGpT5MHQcwOR4qRB-QryiQZnz9P21IjP8tE6ti3OYY1miZ_rjMOEEgb-yABPVPPiVMg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="175" data-original-width="212" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjhMiQk6JNfU3jw8n4rlJpajEfL4F1paqGdqkKVqIkjaaPR6kRqEsUk98ZsbvU0xUDEkIqFgAQH6UA9Tnwo-RVaIlFYyeC4r3Il8VnhNiilihZjTQI52OyX-qvTGpT5MHQcwOR4qRB-QryiQZnz9P21IjP8tE6ti3OYY1miZ_rjMOEEgb-yABPVPPiVMg" width="291" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><br />Book: Balloons over Broadway</b> by Melissa Sweet. The story of the puppeteer who created the balloons for Macy's parade. You can <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMAiBFn12KM" target="_blank">see more about the balloons in this</a><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMAiBFn12KM" target="_blank"> segment from Reading Rainbow's episode "Brush</a>" </span>. Here is <span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: small;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H57gkILLlWo" target="_blank">another behind-the-scenes look at the parade preparation</a></span></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsvPeXm-2QZ4we6bF-YIiWAVT5afP7L_PLayRNJ5jje2jp59390WcUgcI7UAXRnKo5j4_FzR_W4KSFKLGU_Alpajq7XmmQt4bGdjuNzsNJPJqtxHojiXFEfQpJ41EK-zcaTIaOs9vJbZ1tWvlubbA3HQp0GEFSeb03K5uZOI3eR1iuUldasi523lJ-qw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="129" data-original-width="386" height="107" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsvPeXm-2QZ4we6bF-YIiWAVT5afP7L_PLayRNJ5jje2jp59390WcUgcI7UAXRnKo5j4_FzR_W4KSFKLGU_Alpajq7XmmQt4bGdjuNzsNJPJqtxHojiXFEfQpJ41EK-zcaTIaOs9vJbZ1tWvlubbA3HQp0GEFSeb03K5uZOI3eR1iuUldasi523lJ-qw" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcotkA9mnW3pMo0KJv0Hzv4WUF6GTzXel3GD-SXOpU5hUw5Jz8XFKgJwhelmzOMQulJ9Ow_tBvsQndeUGiUaTH1vn51dfQyGmDQQOG1DCJH9qBV1PA2cBFB51CKzKX9qUran7Zxdme7KqzPMXH8AUrBrB25jrLBwfGdFIdCC_w-mqPLKT7SIurQxLLzw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img alt="" data-original-height="413" data-original-width="278" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhcotkA9mnW3pMo0KJv0Hzv4WUF6GTzXel3GD-SXOpU5hUw5Jz8XFKgJwhelmzOMQulJ9Ow_tBvsQndeUGiUaTH1vn51dfQyGmDQQOG1DCJH9qBV1PA2cBFB51CKzKX9qUran7Zxdme7KqzPMXH8AUrBrB25jrLBwfGdFIdCC_w-mqPLKT7SIurQxLLzw" width="162" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><b>Book: </b><strong>Giving Thanks</strong>:<strong> A Native American Good Morning Message</strong> -- Jake Swamp 299.7 SWAMP (also available as Reading Rainbow episode with Public Performance Rights called "Stories for Thanksgiving")</span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Song: The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven</strong><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"> </span><i>(words: Jack Prelutsky, chorus: Cathy Darby)<br /></i><i>Tune: “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean”</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"> Check it out on </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQKRfVUbuxA" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">Youtube</a><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">, subtitled in Chinese! </span><br /><i></i><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">The turkey shot out of the oven</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">And rocketed into the air,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">It knocked every plate off the table</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">And partly demolished a chair.</span><br /><i>Oh my, oh me, why didn't I follow the recipe?</i><i>Oh my, oh me, why didn't I follow the recipe</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">?</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">It ricocheted into a corner,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">And burst with a deafening boom,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Then splattered all over the kitchen,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Completely obscuring the room. </span><i>Chorus</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"></span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">It stuck to the walls and the windows,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">It totally coated the floor,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">There was turkey attached to the ceiling</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Where there'd never been turkey before. </span><i>Chorus</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"></span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">It blanketed every appliance,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">It smeared every saucer and bowl,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">There wasn't a way I could stop it,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">That turkey was out of control. </span><i>Chorus</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"></span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">I scraped and I scrubbed with displeasure,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">And thought with chagrin as I mopped,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">That I'd never again stuff a turkey</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">With popcorn that hadn't been popped!</span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center;">(Literacy Vols program shorter consisted of: Balloons Over Broadway, videos, towel folding, old lady and a puppet craft)</span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif">Other Thanksgiving books, ideas and songs: </span> <a href="https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Thanksgiving" style="background-color: transparent; color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"> https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Thanksgiving</a><span style="text-align: center;"> </span></span></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;">Skipped/No time:</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: transparent; border-image: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; font-family: arial; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="clip_image004" src="http://lh6.ggpht.com/-NDMKlZQ125A/Uozy88fWcmI/AAAAAAAALRI/spV387hEomc/clip_image004_thumb%25255B1%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px;" /></span></div><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="font-family: arial;"><strong style="line-height: 18px;">Glove Puppets : Uno, Dos, Tres Amigos</strong><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18px;"> </span><i style="line-height: 18px;">(reinforces idea that we all have come from different places but celebrate together; enumeration practice, learn/reinforce Spanish language numbers)</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif"><span style="line-height: 18px;"></span></span><br /><b style="line-height: 18px;">Diez Amigos "10 Friends" </b><i style="line-height: 18px;">(glove puppets)</i><i style="line-height: 18px;">Tune: “10 Little Indians”</i><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18px;"> </span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18px;">Uno, dos, tres amigos,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18px;">Quatro, cinco, seis amigos,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18px;">Siete, Ocho, Nueve amigos,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18px;">Diez amigos son.</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18px;">One, two, three friends,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18px;">Four, five, six friends,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18px;">Seven, Eight, Nine friends,</span><br /><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="line-height: 18px;">Ten friends are we. </span><br /><br /><span>Turkey Trot (movement) if needed. </span></span></span></p>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-71955030128683430402022-10-25T11:43:00.008-04:002022-10-25T11:52:48.126-04:00Halloween 2022 -- Bedminster Library/Nicole Paolino's class <p><b>Song: I am the Great Pumpkin</b> (lyrics and many other ideas at: https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/halloween-hootenany-interactive-program.html)</p><p><img alt="image" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3iza3Kd70zuSRwHVhqk7AvEE17bSuGY26Mh3NRDs21AWrqCa4uQKVkHUgfwtDwBZQzRc2WCSLZnAnQ9yHLHXdTOcom2oWelmzWOXxa47ItgJFQTngLuxa47u9VuuDVjd8XekB_PoH4W4-/?imgmax=800" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; color: #4e2800; display: block; float: none; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" /><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></em><strong style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Participatory Storytelling/Props: Big Pumpkin</strong><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> – from the book by Erica Silverman -- </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In this variant on the folktale, “The Great Big Enormous Turnip,” the witch, ghost, skeleton, and vampire are unable to pull up the pumpkin until a tiny bat ignores their derisive laughter and suggests they all work together. I sing/chant this to a tune from an old Scholastic recording – feel free to contact me if you want to learn the tune.</em></p><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800; font-size: 13.0667px; font-weight: 700;">Finger Puppets: </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800; font-size: 13.0667px; font-weight: 700;">Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate</span></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgd4YhVXp9aAOX8nexiWcIU7hY0HN_TyQ37g9LiBKYPK9AvxvY__57vWIIRnmEq1i5H7eTo0p2bWJHLhkGZPRvWG9NKavDHe217oOR1McqHzVI8MSQ-rxN6ct2c-boB3AY7l3ki-g7mZ1JoyvjLhtoEzbBlwqwuKnEnRqh6TFrLL9_l=s0-d" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" width="185" /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Storytelling </b><i>(props for children to use - shoes, pants, shirt, hat, gloves, pumpkin head, scarecrow)</i><b>: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything </b>by Linda Williams</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Action Song; Scarecrow, Scarecrow Turn Around</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></p><p align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpoI-PKNs1Wj_b0l122J3SfvyuzIvMX2j-fkPqEIU-QRaYn6ZSeeHDJ1-cgSHUZFpzp88ldTOJGKdi2z02NZFRjEtQ6xx3Q5cX7rgiIcbNVrqg2Hdy1uervmK_NA5cScIPYYQsp6lIB7FN/s1600-h/image%255B10%255D" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="129" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh54tKvNQ37ooJ9gqlmRheMvJv92wehhc4suksUoltP8TkKo9E9CKkIet2TE4fTpCCOI6iNUhqIrT20rbrDODgwqqwEWy4zcgDm9luzpMKDmr71WZLB82P_ENqVcQRkPwZ-GEUk46XeHTa1/?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding: 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="154" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Storytelling </b><i>(puppets or hanging signs):</i> <b>One Dark Night</b> by Edna Mitchell Preston</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Action Song: Two Little Ghosts</b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjjO2Hv1kqguvpfUJQMwxoy0XKs1fdH1hl-cnfnK_A2_SMsjuOGtxaL-g-9BBTKl6SK-OahsY799XBEke5lhZuuEIv_s0svdpPZekNKGF30z-8cZrBMw75WVLTJKEJ4vxRFZ45npRWKDUw/s1600-h/image%255B19%255D" style="color: #f48d1d;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7c77NIid_EoTJXgmNT0Als8jKnt2k0E1zBVQHWbdQiMJha10nTdflwDUMgSfEwE8FFzWwJuBKhvouA_o9p5X6d97mj6q8k7ax6clF_d2TvqqNRNMCQ-Ub_-jQkm8TCHAXTzNKdtcohS-b/?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="244" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Participatory Pop-Up Book: In a Dark Dark Wood</b> by David A. Carter</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 9.8pt;"><strong>Song: How to Make a Ghost</strong></span><span style="font-size: 9.8pt;"> </span><em><span style="font-size: 9.8pt;">Tune: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”</span></em></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong style="background-color: transparent;">Song/Movement: Hookey Spooky</strong><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span><em style="background-color: transparent;">(Tune: Hokey Pokey”)</em></p><p><strong style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Song/Flannel: Old McDonald had a Haunted House</strong></p><p><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"></span><b>Action Song: The Witch on Halloween</b></p><p><b>Close with "Sing" </b></p><p><em><span style="font-size: 9.8pt;">skipped: </span></em></p><div><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800; font-size: small;">Shakey Eggs to “Dem Bones” (track #16 on Spooky Favorites) & Monster Mash (recording unavailable)</span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> *****</span></p><p><b>Nicole Paolino's class (Pumpkins/Halloween) (virtual special needs):</b></p><div><p align="center" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibacK7llvNRXRL3Z80d0gjK2cZMTlfxrp1-PbOo60DxU8us0WQw23F5YidMulDMiq35JnlgG764VVZJpgZi3DpTzLoymdEiNtMB24cuz8MlwPgLHTSFz1IJqhkSH29hwmZof2pdh_RiKtU/s1600-h/image%255B3%255D" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK1vxK12vbp4DTPilgxwZCgYzLsa37znipsmVHAMb7bXu3_87ebrxmF6LNOA4vEyHx-1lhMVbUT9TdJhYAvdjwscJpMADL2nu3cRQhUJN66ZKYsXWFdi7ysHmD_tFCSDevQxcAG4HeJGwS/?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: inline; padding: 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="180" /></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Book (K-2):</strong> <strong>Bear’s Bargain – Frank Asch</strong> (also published as <strong>Moonbear’s Bargain</strong>) <em>(“have you ever wished you were big, or could fly?”..we tried flying with bear in the book -- clever problem solving).</em></p></div><h3 align="left" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><b style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium;">Song: I am the Great Pumpkin</b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-weight: 400;"> (lyrics and many other ideas at: https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/halloween-hootenany-interactive-program.html)</span></h3><div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></span></span></div><h3 align="left" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">Participatory Storytelling <span style="font-weight: normal;">(Puppets/Props): </span>Big Pumpkin</span></h3><div><img alt="image" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3iza3Kd70zuSRwHVhqk7AvEE17bSuGY26Mh3NRDs21AWrqCa4uQKVkHUgfwtDwBZQzRc2WCSLZnAnQ9yHLHXdTOcom2oWelmzWOXxa47ItgJFQTngLuxa47u9VuuDVjd8XekB_PoH4W4-/?imgmax=800" style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; color: #4e2800; display: block; float: none; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" /><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></em></div><div><strong style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Participatory Storytelling/Props: Big Pumpkin</strong><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> – from the book by Erica Silverman -- </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">In this variant on the folktale, “The Great Big Enormous Turnip,” the witch, ghost, skeleton, and vampire are unable to pull up the pumpkin until a tiny bat ignores their derisive laughter and suggests they all work together. I sing/chant this to a tune from an old Scholastic recording – feel free to contact me if you want to learn the tune.</em></div><div><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /></em></div><h3 align="left" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9.8pt;"><span><span>Finger Puppets: </span>Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate</span></span></h3><div><span style="font-size: 9.8pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjyVk90a847doIa98d3Z_LKUSsDmOZxqxkw-wPcsykRVm3oc4wzg24NHBLtElP5MiFwBQQTrP0zCZaZOrlSuSfDzyvS33nXtFfd7U5wfmi710Z-5wbhcNwBHbgZQFkUbtXKzjfLb1vdns9aYjMAN41Tf40eDNyuCtCjNHYQuO79GOG2=s0-d" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" width="278" /><strong><br /></strong></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Book: Pumpkins: A Story for a Field</strong> by Mary Lyn Ray – <em>A splendid modern environmental myth in which a man, saddened by the thought that the field across from his house is about to be sold, sells everything he has, buys seeds, grows pumpkins, and then sends them all around the world (by planes, trucks, ships, and even flying carpets) to get enough money to buy the field and save it. (10.14 – omitted in kindergarten, did action song “Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate” instead.)</em></div></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><em><br /></em></div><div align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b>Participatory Pop-Up Book: In a Dark Dark Wood</b> by David A. Carter</div><p align="left" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjjO2Hv1kqguvpfUJQMwxoy0XKs1fdH1hl-cnfnK_A2_SMsjuOGtxaL-g-9BBTKl6SK-OahsY799XBEke5lhZuuEIv_s0svdpPZekNKGF30z-8cZrBMw75WVLTJKEJ4vxRFZ45npRWKDUw/s1600-h/image%255B19%255D" style="color: #f48d1d;"><span style="color: #f48d1d;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-color: transparent; border-image: initial; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7c77NIid_EoTJXgmNT0Als8jKnt2k0E1zBVQHWbdQiMJha10nTdflwDUMgSfEwE8FFzWwJuBKhvouA_o9p5X6d97mj6q8k7ax6clF_d2TvqqNRNMCQ-Ub_-jQkm8TCHAXTzNKdtcohS-b/?imgmax=800" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="244" /></span></span></a></p><p align="left" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b style="background-color: white;">Storytelling </b><i style="background-color: white;">(props for children to use - shoes, pants, shirt, hat, gloves, pumpkin head, scarecrow)</i><b style="background-color: white;">: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything </b><span style="background-color: white;">by Linda Williams</span></p><p align="left" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEgd4YhVXp9aAOX8nexiWcIU7hY0HN_TyQ37g9LiBKYPK9AvxvY__57vWIIRnmEq1i5H7eTo0p2bWJHLhkGZPRvWG9NKavDHe217oOR1McqHzVI8MSQ-rxN6ct2c-boB3AY7l3ki-g7mZ1JoyvjLhtoEzbBlwqwuKnEnRqh6TFrLL9_l=s0-d" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px; text-align: -webkit-center;" width="185" /></p><p align="left"></p><div style="text-align: -webkit-center;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-center;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span></div><strong style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Song/Movement: Scarecrow, scarecrow, turn around</strong><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"> (Scarecrow puppet)</span></span><p></p><h3 align="left" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9.8pt;"><span>Singable Book: There was an Old Monster <span style="font-weight: normal;">by Ed Emberley (prefer</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 9.8pt;"> If You Are a Monster and You Know It </span><span style="font-size: 9.8pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">by Rebecca & Ed Emberley) -- great art inspiration idea!</span></span></h3><div><span style="font-size: 9.8pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><img height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEiAifZzN2a20XXFwGm1GbUIrdeWDvUMxe9z28-bEx6YEHXUwu6-yxTZurVqyriWiK2hyphenhyphenXkfXjvw45m_P8tCZmh9yFtt9uQzykHuIsESJfToTQaluzgzSW1G6ZTILdm1FVowt3uXv6EIuftcCvPZd5s-EN5dKRc58JSLz08SzjUJVfCj4iXW=s0-d" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" width="213" /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span> </div></span></span></div><p><b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Action Song:</b><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"Horns, Fangs, Knees and Paws...Eyes and Ears and Tail and Claws" (Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes variation)</i></p><h3 align="left" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 9.8pt;">Fold Out Prop: 10 Trick or Treaters</span><span style="font-size: 9.8pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></span><em><span style="font-size: 9.8pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(tune: “10 Little Indians”)</span></span></em></h3><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifTMbkMBG1hkqEmRUNQrCugjBNMCaG9qVnUC0fRh-bT3clJYRuQdtn7pL9OGzDJBWExKLp80inL5mlIzEPPTJzLOCt_eyahvpBTVC6u84wdv11O_04Z1EV22eW7wwMZ0erQhZhDpkA1EPr/s1600-h/image%255B73%255D" style="background-color: white; color: #f48d1d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFbLJAYP7x9En-wUpT1MfO34ImSHqoTOWNGXfVQaVbqCWm0WSe1gg7SRu0B1A5ApNA8MeYDADnFOnHVUoe7tkOQINCZlg85xxtmyd0_5w3GZ2CCR8F0a_NZBRQDsqAXkGO_Q_yYVTtzr3q/?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="205" /></a><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Book: Pumpkin Heads</strong><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;"> – Wendell Minor – clever and unusual ways to carve a pumpkin</span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><p>More pumpkin ideas:https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Pumpkins<br />More monster ideas: https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Monsters</p><p><br /></p><h3 align="left" style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; margin: 0px;"><br /></h3></div>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-29270915860777250012022-06-14T15:21:00.002-04:002022-06-14T16:42:15.821-04:00Canine Companions Storytime - Special Needs - Virtual<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"> Stories that celebrate the bond between people and their dogs...</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjR_T81bC7gIxywqcxC4Cz56gUtipY_akoFdSu6twSE1OauvMHP7Xb3XOCZ2Y2yZJU7D_uvENvXcdlsy4Qbp7Z-09rqVM1QGZazdG3Jc4lqjDTClnnWZSc8ZQ6eHDEp1tLrAgxQg19kEL22tzQd9mbvrFIR6mCJpOuqhR4Rstd6exj8DaF80p99J90ghw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="407" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjR_T81bC7gIxywqcxC4Cz56gUtipY_akoFdSu6twSE1OauvMHP7Xb3XOCZ2Y2yZJU7D_uvENvXcdlsy4Qbp7Z-09rqVM1QGZazdG3Jc4lqjDTClnnWZSc8ZQ6eHDEp1tLrAgxQg19kEL22tzQd9mbvrFIR6mCJpOuqhR4Rstd6exj8DaF80p99J90ghw" width="245" /></span></a></div><p></p><h2 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #404040; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">A pup just for me / A boy just for me <span style="font-weight: normal;">by Dorothea Seeber & Ed Young ( rhyming story about a boy who is offered every kind of pet except the puppy he wants. When the book is turned over, the story is told from the dog's point of view.)</span></span></h2><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpOAOuV5OBqCLoYeaVpVjZMFsVGBp3fE2_8bF5exPjDVjcggrK7YAxNap_WibllxOZ278Ny8I7dXiuBFIpOnfn0ExSFn8SQUlN9sNpQ7MaOdCiqa6x_kOugcCGD5H146dOxCAhfT68OOdF32mScAEkIwNnUD7DASm3ev9PLxZwbDxmY6sWeuiRkPXT2A" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1018" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjpOAOuV5OBqCLoYeaVpVjZMFsVGBp3fE2_8bF5exPjDVjcggrK7YAxNap_WibllxOZ278Ny8I7dXiuBFIpOnfn0ExSFn8SQUlN9sNpQ7MaOdCiqa6x_kOugcCGD5H146dOxCAhfT68OOdF32mScAEkIwNnUD7DASm3ev9PLxZwbDxmY6sWeuiRkPXT2A" width="286" /></a></div><br /></span></span>Flannel board based on the book <b>Any Kind of Dog</b> by Lynn Reiser</span></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3d7s1wkIWBQUUcU83jrx5NgS3HDpcky-0FTyWfnoQ99c8aa-oCE8RqBpVFYkLe2K-RrPN7DElotoNtkgbVw5xmi-GAu4ze_6UiU0DS9RXcf_ZN2pth3V9yTp0YRC-Eine-qAVvAWGZ5ytrNVnovi537gyEh8NBAnNB6BHILkLhXdjHCAy5Fo0PE1fPg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="" data-original-height="412" data-original-width="288" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi3d7s1wkIWBQUUcU83jrx5NgS3HDpcky-0FTyWfnoQ99c8aa-oCE8RqBpVFYkLe2K-RrPN7DElotoNtkgbVw5xmi-GAu4ze_6UiU0DS9RXcf_ZN2pth3V9yTp0YRC-Eine-qAVvAWGZ5ytrNVnovi537gyEh8NBAnNB6BHILkLhXdjHCAy5Fo0PE1fPg" width="168" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><header style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(191, 191, 191); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: initial; border-left-style: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Rrralph</b><span style="font-weight: 400;"> by Lois Ehlert (</span><span style="color: #404040; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Would you believe that Ralph the dog can talk?</span><span style="color: #404040; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> </span><span style="border: 0px; color: #404040; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yip, yip, yip</span><span style="color: #404040; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">--it's true </span><span style="color: #404040; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;">With bestselling author Lois Ehlert's simple, funny, call-and-response text and bold, playful collage illustrations, this fresh, young book is sure to get little ones laughing (and talking to their dogs )</span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsLI-213cQAbTm6t3NysPgoHEgwyG9aqnMkscZL32ezmeE9ZBvNeI77G4z086Q_1CzbZ4ARYDtrQmkH3cuhqJfYmacFxnufQ_rKEhy8U0kB0Dkn7COzwedXABCSWevGTBDufAW6BFMIBFET94sQ2ScAfWaa3Qx-UcIVsRsq_FXbcsmLJvCexQKOxDFiA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="405" data-original-width="330" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjsLI-213cQAbTm6t3NysPgoHEgwyG9aqnMkscZL32ezmeE9ZBvNeI77G4z086Q_1CzbZ4ARYDtrQmkH3cuhqJfYmacFxnufQ_rKEhy8U0kB0Dkn7COzwedXABCSWevGTBDufAW6BFMIBFET94sQ2ScAfWaa3Qx-UcIVsRsq_FXbcsmLJvCexQKOxDFiA" width="196" /></a></div><br /></span></span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: times; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><b>A Place for Grace</b> by Jean Davies Okimoto (</span><span style="color: #404040; font-family: times; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">With the help of a hearing-impaired man, a little dog finally manages to graduate from a training school for hearing dogs.)</span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAXaq0eufSvmPN60x8rIDBE5J12SX-NXQ7xtAQdr0-YDEEZd7jjXOZeLaPCCXr-vmzmPlIbmjDRH0oNTHXXSbudTtLBC6OG4h50u1Qgahr0u2Auqq2etDuZIfXAqRWUV9J_D4kpwO-yFKVPPjNRducH87Oip-XrnQ60D2JJUa-WfcODYSp6HHeNRFaDw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="382" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhAXaq0eufSvmPN60x8rIDBE5J12SX-NXQ7xtAQdr0-YDEEZd7jjXOZeLaPCCXr-vmzmPlIbmjDRH0oNTHXXSbudTtLBC6OG4h50u1Qgahr0u2Auqq2etDuZIfXAqRWUV9J_D4kpwO-yFKVPPjNRducH87Oip-XrnQ60D2JJUa-WfcODYSp6HHeNRFaDw" width="228" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="font-weight: inherit;">Action Song: </span><b>Do Your Ears Hang Low?</b><span style="font-weight: inherit;"> illustrated by Jenny Cooper </span></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_OON_wVAizFGb9geM8EdzsfiE_JamKF7IvpLngrpuXPjECYN2-W8mq_9mQJvwEl0wKfqTH62PZ3Vtky_B5q18nob1NUna93abnC-TLC9bNT2smvu9YrBo_ALTqkFFIqaIcklxcBhtPd6V2i34rsbR6xFlPDQ8y8WmfUesL7LUtok5TBn9Xi3ZD9mJSw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="325" data-original-width="400" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_OON_wVAizFGb9geM8EdzsfiE_JamKF7IvpLngrpuXPjECYN2-W8mq_9mQJvwEl0wKfqTH62PZ3Vtky_B5q18nob1NUna93abnC-TLC9bNT2smvu9YrBo_ALTqkFFIqaIcklxcBhtPd6V2i34rsbR6xFlPDQ8y8WmfUesL7LUtok5TBn9Xi3ZD9mJSw" width="295" /></a></div><br /></span><span style="color: #404040; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><b>Bark George</b></span><span style="color: #404040; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> by Jules Feiffer (</span><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px;">When puppy George is asked to bark by his mother, he manages to produce a range of animal sounds including a "meow" & a "moo," but never an "arf." -- Asked at the end, "Who's inside George now?!")</span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px;">No time for:</span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8SPLPIqyTzvULRmyefJvOxxXTWTBQ_Ct0_jWwoXQMPse3BiWQ0426Fenvm7cpefs0geMBNrId-AWFt7G1KY8UI6hqqiuUnXQDAYFjc8ndqR14ze1N2RIvl26AZZ-BFmIm0rrpkkuI5NffgPoo3zJZS2rvUr1tMbQJ4wPefBZJRXbKxTAvIiYWjt6rrw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="337" data-original-width="273" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh8SPLPIqyTzvULRmyefJvOxxXTWTBQ_Ct0_jWwoXQMPse3BiWQ0426Fenvm7cpefs0geMBNrId-AWFt7G1KY8UI6hqqiuUnXQDAYFjc8ndqR14ze1N2RIvl26AZZ-BFmIm0rrpkkuI5NffgPoo3zJZS2rvUr1tMbQJ4wPefBZJRXbKxTAvIiYWjt6rrw" width="194" /></a></div><br /><br /><b>Martha Speaks</b> by Susan Meddaugh (alphabet soup gives Martha extraordinary communication abilities)</span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTCxuYMK9o43mZY8EN9RcoJoWColZFkporYTPw2tQGCibH6Ql1HVN8XPgfn0emjoCt-6kVhsuUoekGBz8WaFKdYrs_nEcwdBP1_uXv7SGqbBfzYqodwylITKyaT_iaRqqijDDwUYwAvnHyQjAXGgN6fmknqxlITtZV4m0oNCL6xsQVzf7NWBCNnXmDkw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="326" data-original-width="404" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhTCxuYMK9o43mZY8EN9RcoJoWColZFkporYTPw2tQGCibH6Ql1HVN8XPgfn0emjoCt-6kVhsuUoekGBz8WaFKdYrs_nEcwdBP1_uXv7SGqbBfzYqodwylITKyaT_iaRqqijDDwUYwAvnHyQjAXGgN6fmknqxlITtZV4m0oNCL6xsQVzf7NWBCNnXmDkw" width="297" /></a></div><br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: #404040; font-size: 16px;"><b>How Smudge Came</b> by Nan Gregory (Cindy, who lives in a group home, wants to keep the stray dog she finds on her way to work...)</span></span></div><div style="border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;"><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: small;">6/12/22 - Dover </span><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800; font-size: 13px;">Nicole's class (Special Needs)</span></div></header></div><p></p>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-36526565823316033362022-05-23T11:00:00.002-04:002022-05-23T11:02:00.800-04:00Butterflies Storytime - Special Needs - Virtual<p style="text-align: center;"> <strong style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A celebration of individual differences, life-cycle, nature and change. </strong><strong style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Combines fiction and non-fiction, a sensitive look at disability. More ideas at </strong><span style="font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><span face="Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif" style="color: #4e2800;"><b><a href="https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Caterpillars%20%26%20Butterflies">https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Caterpillars%20%26%20Butterflies</a></b></span></span></p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8260300233467874683" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><div align="center"><p align="center"><strong><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-q5lmX5lSRd4/WQzLBsZr1uI/AAAAAAAAY48/xG7NwB0QgfwWjiN99J4LbOAzW9VKON4KgCHM/s1600-h/image%255B3%255D" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="177" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-OZJ4AdJ3-XI/WQzLCG6hUTI/AAAAAAAAY5A/NgAnlOyR82or8fL5k-0SIf3EAqV6DRIIgCHM/image_thumb%255B1%255D?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="203" /></a><br /></strong><strong style="text-align: left;"><br />Bubba & Trixie – Lisa Campbell Ernst </strong><strong style="text-align: left;">Bubba & Trixie – Lisa Campbell Ernst</strong><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><span style="text-align: left;">–</span><span style="text-align: left;"> </span><em style="text-align: left;">(An adventuresome ladybug with a damaged wing who cannot fly befriends an apprehensive caterpillar and helps him learn to enjoy life and be happy with what he is and what he becomes.)</em></p><img height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEjyzyvRKnRe5jnva27YFgfwBwXs0K6Uepvh7-7vIE3TA3woFsn6yMG7sNk1_ffj5H55U1-Xmr9gw6ZR96SEjHndRoaxnu1kSCSx-lKU1ZM3UsDBs4GtPyc1_20cPc2FahDZWaMmJ5N_Od9aOpAFnpvzg-i9wcKQIgupcQyeTDk_si5yyHEz=s0-d" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" width="200" /></div>Alternatively can use this shorter book with a similar theme (checked out 2022) <strong>Bob and Otto – Nick Bruel</strong> (<em>Otto the worm is saddened when his friend Bob the caterpillar becomes a butterfly until Bob reassures him that his role in digging through the earth is critical in this story which</em> beautifully combines earth science and the power of friendship.)</div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8260300233467874683" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8260300233467874683" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgF_VjYiO7LADp2X0-zS6mC237idBjV_aIz4mTRjW-uU7D3ZEZQpDYuvruTybB01AKKbqEF5bXVdxZXPt1NAt92NpaETax-fR0vEbTNFHKhmp2pR8cPlOsgLRBDkyupi48ule-LTq6T75HkOBAzGHNhoWkssCqWdMALeYT4A8_WeFbFjBeet0YlH3IBKA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="444" data-original-width="481" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgF_VjYiO7LADp2X0-zS6mC237idBjV_aIz4mTRjW-uU7D3ZEZQpDYuvruTybB01AKKbqEF5bXVdxZXPt1NAt92NpaETax-fR0vEbTNFHKhmp2pR8cPlOsgLRBDkyupi48ule-LTq6T75HkOBAzGHNhoWkssCqWdMALeYT4A8_WeFbFjBeet0YlH3IBKA" width="260" /></a></div><br /><strong>Sign Language Song(s): </strong> <i><b>Let's Take a Little Walk </b>and/or<b> </b></i><strong style="background-color: transparent;"><i>Look up Look Down</i></strong> (alt: ) -from <strong>Pick Me Up: Fun Songs for Learning Signs (with CD)</strong> – Robert Berg, et. all </div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8260300233467874683" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><br /></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8260300233467874683" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggsmvrR_YYeQNtbbsysndNlO1sstnGdsKZyKC6G9b7o8as2VIIPsKU0D76T21djKn6knNw385-m3FzguH2YPx6ObiSH2j3qxxM3WU5w0nAuWDoh3iBn9jc6XhklNXucaim_yi979e6aGFgbMwVL6oMafngTzvOK0VETJuO7Btxu3wyN1F19oGkW9UFzw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="407" data-original-width="366" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEggsmvrR_YYeQNtbbsysndNlO1sstnGdsKZyKC6G9b7o8as2VIIPsKU0D76T21djKn6knNw385-m3FzguH2YPx6ObiSH2j3qxxM3WU5w0nAuWDoh3iBn9jc6XhklNXucaim_yi979e6aGFgbMwVL6oMafngTzvOK0VETJuO7Btxu3wyN1F19oGkW9UFzw" width="216" /></a></div><br /><b>Becoming Butterflies </b>by Ann Rockwell J595.789 ROC <i>(a schoolroom witnesses the metamorphosis of monarch butterflies in this clear concept book) and/or </i><b>Traveling Butterflies </b>by Susumu Shingu <i>(simple, beautifully-illustrated picture book of the monarch life-cycle)</i></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8260300233467874683" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><strong></strong><br /><p><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-IgTxQM9uaXU/WQzK_fUSCdI/AAAAAAAAY4s/ZVkcbeNmP2UkJKcooFKSE4qdtgl7JNaGQCHM/s1600-h/image%255B11%255D" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="253" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-lGPfdjINBUo/WQzK_wUqeOI/AAAAAAAAY4w/HI9IQ_0VJNY8E4XrY-9JhSSNtSNsfE4_wCHM/w183-h253/image_thumb%255B5%255D?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="183" /></a><strong><br /></strong><strong>If at First You Do Not See - Ruth Brown</strong> <em>(clever turn upside down book -- vegetation becomes faces...inspired by the works of the 16th c. Italian painter </em><em>Guiseppe Arcimboldo</em></p><p><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-kfKQWcd_Dso/WQzLAdzHq1I/AAAAAAAAY40/SeaWxwP5PJoYaGsMqmsj8vDL0MampD65wCHM/s1600-h/image%255B10%255D" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="219" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-3WlK5YwQDPo/WQzLBDXS7HI/AAAAAAAAY44/iov2aeGxQDcBEvHPCv-gIEjXHuwOHlMlACHM/image_thumb%255B4%255D?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="191" /></a><br /><em><em>Could share related: </em> <strong>Hello Fruit Face 759.5 STR</strong> -- kids will adore seeing his amazing paintings -- images online at: </em><a href="http://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><em>http://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org/</em></a> <em>or go to </em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><em>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Arcimboldo</em></a><em> for more links and info</em>.) more info on a related program:<a href="http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/art-science-flutterby-butterfly.html" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"> http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/art-science-flutterby-butterfly.html</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://images.betterworldbooks.com/156/Butterfly-Boy-9781563973710.jpg" style="color: #f48d1d; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/proxy/AVvXsEioGRYqMpNwjMPMkUaQUrlu8QRaGyTb6GjR-DtST9pJl5i9_YJTbwjXYbDVvgTnZSnv7TN8nR1-aNoDqWayj69v-uowQJwjLUfdg1WL4paIFbBH54A3rSyRGllB0cjz3B3B7RjEzAxbm65_lmCEjoz7i4FeZoR8EM7PAsT3lLT7I6j4xpiXTA=s0-d" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="159" /></a></div><br /><div><strong>Butterfly Boy – Steven Kroll</strong> <em>(A boy and his disabled grandfather eagerly await the return of the butterflies in this gorgeous & moving story from Mexico) </em></div><div><br /></div><div><strong>Other possibilities: (no time 2022)</strong></div><div><strong><br /></strong></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwmBjKXyBo8R9ykzptUfe79aHqdBC1SbvICG-83i8cddOMW7WN76l5PqjOk_gEXcuqKzZEVElm0o3hhvwsAE-shRmgX5nKrzwuCeI4OLi8fgK8vvTYz8LmTWKKzmWsGY0RbpFADFopukXgr0ddJnDbR_Vq8xD4sq--bDo-3NXDz64yhd2rzc0iaBdY9w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="279" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhwmBjKXyBo8R9ykzptUfe79aHqdBC1SbvICG-83i8cddOMW7WN76l5PqjOk_gEXcuqKzZEVElm0o3hhvwsAE-shRmgX5nKrzwuCeI4OLi8fgK8vvTYz8LmTWKKzmWsGY0RbpFADFopukXgr0ddJnDbR_Vq8xD4sq--bDo-3NXDz64yhd2rzc0iaBdY9w" width="209" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><strong>Waiting for Wings </strong> by Lois Ehlert <i>(short rhyming text, glowing illustrations and pages that literally expand as the caterpillar hatches into a butterfly ) <br /></i><strong>DVD: Waiting for Wings</strong> <em>(on Weston Woods PPR DVD <b>"Spring Science”</b> is a beautiful musical version of the story, great to act out with scarves</em></div><div><strong><br /></strong></div><div><strong><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKLQ8I7QmWl7-ezZjCFD5zaCiaexk0G3N__NSjlUdjAhuvy5Mwg0ZM8GLR9eKglBkINK6TLOkdX2mcxaoW_mLbUy4sN2hoY0Zuauvjja0pEae21ASmugAQo0Zj-oo-PAEGbQ-WAYGLsaILnGVoHqE3Ov3kA1mEKbP74-d26xoKVQExGezPmc55Tev8hA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="317" data-original-width="266" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiKLQ8I7QmWl7-ezZjCFD5zaCiaexk0G3N__NSjlUdjAhuvy5Mwg0ZM8GLR9eKglBkINK6TLOkdX2mcxaoW_mLbUy4sN2hoY0Zuauvjja0pEae21ASmugAQo0Zj-oo-PAEGbQ-WAYGLsaILnGVoHqE3Ov3kA1mEKbP74-d26xoKVQExGezPmc55Tev8hA" width="201" /></a></div><br /></strong></div><div><strong>A Butterfly is Patient 595.789 AST</strong> <em>(wonderful book in the</em> <strong>An Egg is Quiet</strong> <em>and</em> <strong>A Seed is Sleepy</strong> <em>series).great info. – this middle-aged librarian learned a lot (e.g. the difference between a chrysalis and a cocoon - the latter is spun of silk, the former is a kind of exoskeleton formed from the caterpillar's skin; also that butterflies can fly a mile in 3 minutes (faster than a human can run).some classes could research speed of animals and graph this.)</em> Related: Steve Jenkins' book <strong>Just a Second; A Different Way to Look at Time 529 JEN.</strong> </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/80/b7/a8/80b7a89dc88ba844a61fcfe5f1ad005b.jpg" style="color: #f48d1d; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="187" src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/80/b7/a8/80b7a89dc88ba844a61fcfe5f1ad005b.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" width="162" /></a></div><strong></strong><p>"Ultraviolet" (Butterfly Poem) from <strong>Butterfly Eyes & Other Secrets of the Meadow </strong>811.54 SID (<em>a "guess the answer" poem collection, also shared page on milkweed & butterflies - introduced vocabulary/science: toxin, predator, pollination, ultraviolet) omitted 2017, no time<br />Here's an article on why butterflies may have evolved UV vision: </em><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100216140301.htm" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100216140301.htm</a><br />and some UV pictures of flowers: <a href="https://natureodes.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/see-like-a-bee-ultraviolet-flower-photography-2/" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;" title="https://natureodes.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/see-like-a-bee-ultraviolet-flower-photography-2/">https://natureodes.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/see-like-a-bee-ultraviolet-flower-photography-2/</a></p></div><div><strong>Butterfly House</strong> – Eve Bunting <em>(A girl and her grandfather hatch butterflies, whose annual return continue to bring joy to her, even after her grandfather is gone.)</em> </div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8260300233467874683" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><p><strong>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</strong> – Eric Carle <em>(Pop Up with flannel chrysalis and puppet)</em></p><p><em><br /></em></p><p>We’re all <strong>Wonders – R.J. Palacio </strong>(a young spinoff on the amazing chapter book <strong>Wonder</strong>) expresses the hope that maybe "people can change the way they see"</p><p align="center"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-To70QLQHZTc/WQzGTsgqY_I/AAAAAAAAY4Y/B13_KRyUiWoR0M61bfKwQkERFZTVI40ugCHM/s1600-h/image%255B2%255D" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="206" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-trsGOtvZekM/WQzGUTQypsI/AAAAAAAAY4c/Q2Cnbg2pBBwfAtahItUw6mJMm9lQm6EuQCHM/image_thumb?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 0px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="160" /></a></p><p><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;">additional songs at</span><span style="text-align: -webkit-center;"> </span><a href="http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/preschool-storytime-flutterby-butterfly.html" style="color: #f48d1d; text-align: -webkit-center; text-decoration-line: none;">http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/preschool-storytime-flutterby-butterfly.html</a></p><div style="clear: both;"></div></div><div class="post-footer" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 1.5em 0px 0px;"><div class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><br /></div></div>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-52785870506930069052022-04-28T18:21:00.004-04:002022-04-28T18:21:54.042-04:00Earth Day Storytime - Special Needs - Virtual<p>Earth Day plans -- School Age Special Needs (virtual)</p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFzZ6BahLUXlq6B2xHLeX0HmNm6Z06G7dYEoWWT47ylT3UyVeEbCSrAc2qmrLoORHO9SlgLklXuHIy3ba0Y-D_YDS1n1fzggRNX23IanwEF6mvslbKKlrS3HKi1DF9sldLE01izjNy-qf0zreCQATy56QHXgb4NZSoXihxHy1k8Ah2F0HrsmBl_I0Oiw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="143" data-original-width="198" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhFzZ6BahLUXlq6B2xHLeX0HmNm6Z06G7dYEoWWT47ylT3UyVeEbCSrAc2qmrLoORHO9SlgLklXuHIy3ba0Y-D_YDS1n1fzggRNX23IanwEF6mvslbKKlrS3HKi1DF9sldLE01izjNy-qf0zreCQATy56QHXgb4NZSoXihxHy1k8Ah2F0HrsmBl_I0Oiw" width="320" /></a></div><br />Book: <b>I love our Earth</b> by Bill Martin Jr.</div><div>Song (puppets): <strong style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We’ve Got the Whole World in our Hands</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">– traditional</em></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We've got the whole world in our hands</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We've got the whole wide world in our hands</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We've got the whole world in our hands</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We've got the whole world in our hands</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We've got our mamas and our daddies…</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We've got our brothers and our sisters…</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We've got a little bitty baby…</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We've got the birds in the air…</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We've got whales in the sea…</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We’ve got you and we’ve got me…</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibA5924q5X9XvST6DnAsDvUGSGSzpy2Heb92Tia2tElROK4qK-03x3nu2m5pGmbMHWdjKri68N0C-Fr4MydmqknV8VQg5KCcBhFwxPNoO1V9pMuHjEbgDKxxQz_7tWdn6Oqy2qHsbCrPWbKhzRX496NYGCDm3iuK7aRA8_UqpqeSRj3ID66VCcRNM31g" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="177" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibA5924q5X9XvST6DnAsDvUGSGSzpy2Heb92Tia2tElROK4qK-03x3nu2m5pGmbMHWdjKri68N0C-Fr4MydmqknV8VQg5KCcBhFwxPNoO1V9pMuHjEbgDKxxQz_7tWdn6Oqy2qHsbCrPWbKhzRX496NYGCDm3iuK7aRA8_UqpqeSRj3ID66VCcRNM31g" width="201" /></a></div></div><div>Book: <b>Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life </b>by Molly Bang & Penny Chisholm</div><div><br /></div><div>Song (action) <b>This is the way...</b> tune "Mulberry Bush": This is the way we plant a seed, plant a seed, plant a seed. This is the way we plant a seed so early in the morning...This is the way the sun will shine... This is the way the rain will fall...This is the way the seed will grow... This is the way the flower will bloom...</div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhALbssYegfLku1qVj-R7KOGtEbjqYlQ0Ij_3I8vurkYXpTtou-lYRrQH0OoGKNzolMIsvpVXXUyfsD2hgxZSAZifVBjAsxWfebXcdOe1hJ3ij5C6BXjoCK97aXJzDjXGD1ZfPOMEVR3I833w1_M3mUF7eR9rbVed5s7ITzp4HD6Ha2sDi_vieRkBL91w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="243" data-original-width="224" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhALbssYegfLku1qVj-R7KOGtEbjqYlQ0Ij_3I8vurkYXpTtou-lYRrQH0OoGKNzolMIsvpVXXUyfsD2hgxZSAZifVBjAsxWfebXcdOe1hJ3ij5C6BXjoCK97aXJzDjXGD1ZfPOMEVR3I833w1_M3mUF7eR9rbVed5s7ITzp4HD6Ha2sDi_vieRkBL91w" width="221" /></a></div><br />Counting book: <b>Down in the Garden: Counting Book</b> by Anne Geddes </div><div><br /></div><div>Song (flannel): <b style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A Squirrel Lives in the Tree (Tune: Farmer in the Dell)</b></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A squirrel lives in a tree. A squirrel lives in a tree</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">He’s as cozy as he can be -- A squirrel lives in a tree.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Continue with:</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A snail lives in a shell…Oh, yes it suits him very well.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A bear lives in a cave…He comes out to give a wave.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A fish lives in the sea…We will all just let him be.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A bird lives in a nest…That’s where she goes to take a rest.</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNAy_Ly-lNzUlDTaC-kkj9_7vd8AKGYFNo3vE7P1kWEj70jTkji_cYqPH0-Z_i6VaOx5tos7WZKvkaFj9CJb5vPWN41SowoMGNNol0EEIBBWwV8o_hO5ncqmBBGgVSloWXfbghs7_1n0b4CSPr80nSHRT11rnvOWhIxiupedAwz6T8PPC1me_yNbqwPw" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="252" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhNAy_Ly-lNzUlDTaC-kkj9_7vd8AKGYFNo3vE7P1kWEj70jTkji_cYqPH0-Z_i6VaOx5tos7WZKvkaFj9CJb5vPWN41SowoMGNNol0EEIBBWwV8o_hO5ncqmBBGgVSloWXfbghs7_1n0b4CSPr80nSHRT11rnvOWhIxiupedAwz6T8PPC1me_yNbqwPw" width="177" /></a></div><br />Action book: <b>EarthDance </b>by Joanne Ryder</div><div><br /></div><div>Song (flannel): <b style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">And the Green Grass Grew all Around</span></b><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 10pt;"><b> </b></span><i style="background-color: white; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(flannel)</span></i></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Song on Rachel Buchman’s “Sing a Song of Seasons” (Children echo words in italics)</span></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In the woods, there was a hole<b><i> </i></b></span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(there was a hole)</span><b></b></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoFooter" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">The prettiest hole <i>(the prettiest hole)</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoFooter" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">That you ever did see <i>(that you ever did see)</i>,</span></span></p><p class="MsoFooter" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Oh a hole in the woods, a hole in the ground,</span></span></p><p class="MsoFooter" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">And the green grass grew all around, all around</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">And the green grass grew all around.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">And in that hole </span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(and in that hole)</span></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">There was a root </span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(there was a root)</span></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The prettiest root </span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(the prettiest root)</span></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">That you ever did see </span><i><span style="font-size: 10pt;">(that you ever did see)</span></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoFooter" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">Oh a root in hole and a hole in the ground</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">And the green grass grew all around, all around</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">And the green grass grew all around.</span></span></p><h4 style="background-color: white; color: #f48d1d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; position: relative;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"><em>Continue with:</em></span></span></h4><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">tree<b> </b>-- tree on a root, root in the hole, hole in the ground, and the green grass grew…</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">branch<b> </b>– branch on a tree, tree on a root,<br />root in the hole, hole in the ground…</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">nest<b> – </b>nest on a branch…</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">egg<b> – </b>egg on a nest…</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;">bird<b> – </b>bird in the egg…</span></span></p></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-qKPwpwMzXWQ6QrzUH4oJxacXdyQxO4Y1GkCVysAtKEV5TSMxe06J6vWkhblU6Td4B_MnIY5XPPJfFC9gEpWrAbESoe5DqZER0aOVX6NxdL6-I5nYlEG7s7ohyX4BC45sVAw679Z7SfamuXk5wyykCK_rYRJMZDWf2STYJgRguWsUJIIceb_ay-OjDA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="176" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh-qKPwpwMzXWQ6QrzUH4oJxacXdyQxO4Y1GkCVysAtKEV5TSMxe06J6vWkhblU6Td4B_MnIY5XPPJfFC9gEpWrAbESoe5DqZER0aOVX6NxdL6-I5nYlEG7s7ohyX4BC45sVAw679Z7SfamuXk5wyykCK_rYRJMZDWf2STYJgRguWsUJIIceb_ay-OjDA" width="194" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div>Guessing Game book: <b>It Looked Like Spilt Milk</b> by Charles G. Shaw</div><div>More ideas:</div><div>https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Earth%20Day%20%26%20Environment</div><div>More Songs: </div><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #f48d1d; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/04/sing-springhappy-earthday.html" style="color: #f48d1d; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;">Sing Spring–Happy Earthday!</a></h3><div><br /></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">No time for: <b>Tap the Magic Tree</b> by Christie Matheson (interactive), <b>We Planted a Tree</b> by Diane Muldrow, <b>Picture a Tree </b>by Barbara Reed, <b>Mother Earth</b> by Nancy Luenn</span><br style="background-color: white; 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color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">4/28/22 - Dover </span>Nicole's class (Special Needs)</div>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-77867502634693313362022-03-31T16:37:00.005-04:002022-03-31T17:47:23.606-04:00School Age Storytime: Women's History Month 2022 Hold Fast to Dreams!<p> </p><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3473116034736430424" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><p><img height="271" src="http://syndetics.com/index.php?isbn=0439078199/lc.jpg&client=somep" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" width="259" /></p><p align="center">(K-1st grade, virtual Bedminster School)<br />Women’s History Month, sharing real & fictional stories of girls who defied convention, worked hard and followed their dreams. <br /><br /></p><p><strong>Amazing Grace</strong> – Mary Hoffman <em>Grace loves acting out stories. Told by her classmates that she can’t play the part of Peter Pan because she’s a girl & black, she learns that she can do anything she puts her mind to.</em></p><p><img height="170" src="http://syndetics.com/index.php?isbn=0803710402/lc.jpg&client=somep" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" width="137" /></p><p><strong>Every-Day Dress Up</strong> – Selina Alko – <em>A girl ditches her princess duds in favor of daring dames – Amelia Earhart, Ella Fitzgerald, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Marie Carie & more. Briefly discussed each woman presented. (When I read this in person and get to Stanton, I mention women couldn’t even vote in the US until a little less than 100 years ago – had them figure out how old the US is (240 years) so for most of that time, women couldn’t vote. Long battle, Stanton and others spent their whole lives (70 years!) trying to get women’s voting rights.</em></p><p><img height="195" src="http://syndetics.com/index.php?isbn=9780375860928/lc.jpg&client=somep" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" width="160" /></p><p><em>“It is fun to dress up in princess skirts for dress up or a party, but how would they like to wear long heavy skirts (as heavy as a box of books!) everyday? They couldn’t bike, or climb a tree, or run and play…”</em></p><p><strong>You Forgot Your Skirt, Amelia Bloomer!</strong> --- Shana Corey – <em>Delightful biography of the suffragist & newspaper founder who founded a movement to get women out of long limiting skirts.</em></p><p><em></em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-3473116034736430424" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 556px;"><div style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: left;"><strong>Who Says Women Can’t Be Doctors: The Story of Elizabeth Blackwell</strong> by Tanya Lee Stone -- In the 1830s, Elizabeth Blackwell refused to accept the common belief that women weren't smart enough or were too weak to be doctors. She wouldn't take "no" for an answer, was finally accepted at medical school and went on to become America's first female physician...paving the way for women doctors today. </div><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></p><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><em></em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiniz_1mhbzIJDdeuMh7Sw2bOi8fBz94ixazwasX537l8yMjBXXQzxC6INl4qQaW7N6qmHdSX5PxamICgCvsB5yW6fZ3Vgy9A0HMhACZZeG0CXB9zsp8QN-1iDtUjPx9RH8xw4Yk_NefLv2A6eRIcmUbS-xczcUjcJHF4-VBv6b4weYiz4qH5up6sND3Q" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="319" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiniz_1mhbzIJDdeuMh7Sw2bOi8fBz94ixazwasX537l8yMjBXXQzxC6INl4qQaW7N6qmHdSX5PxamICgCvsB5yW6fZ3Vgy9A0HMhACZZeG0CXB9zsp8QN-1iDtUjPx9RH8xw4Yk_NefLv2A6eRIcmUbS-xczcUjcJHF4-VBv6b4weYiz4qH5up6sND3Q" width="191" /></a></em></div><em style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><br /><br /></em><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></p><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Nobody Owns the Sky: The Story of “Brave Bessie” Coleman</strong> – Reeve Lindbergh (youngest daughter of Charles) – <em>No American flying school would teach Bessie because she was black so she sailed to France for lessons then returned to the states with the dream of starting her own school for African American pilots.</em></p><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><img height="238" src="http://syndetics.com/index.php?isbn=1564025330/lc.jpg&client=somep" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" width="196" /></p><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><em>Movement – “Stretch High, Bend Low, Reach to the Sky, Then to Your Sides, Spread Your Wings, Turn around , then sit back down.”</em></p><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>Book: Rosie Revere, Engineer </strong>by Andrea Beaty<em> Rosie loves to invent until an uncle laughs at her cheddar cheese hat, but her Great-Aunt Rose (a tribute to the “Rosie the Riviters” of WW2) convinces her that inventions that fail are not failures….your brilliant first flop was a raging success…come on, let’s get busy and on to the next!…The only true failure can come if you quit.” </em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RKrFxT1UorQ/VTqC4ZsNpPI/AAAAAAAAQMw/vF4VxrPPFAE/s1600-h/image%25255B17%25255D.png" style="color: #f48d1d; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="244" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7nr0sr6B7Fs/VTqC48ZRJqI/AAAAAAAAQM4/fJW_eNwAkuY/image_thumb%25255B5%25255D.png?imgmax=800" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; padding: 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="202" /></a></div><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </p><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Fun related book: <strong>Iggy Peck, Architect</strong> by Andrea Beaty <em>(2nd grade boy saves the day when his class is stranded on an island and he builds a suspension bridge.)</em></p><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><i>Speaking of architects, true story of unconventional architect Zaha Hadid</i><br /><b>The World is Not a Rectangle</b> by Jeannette Winter</p><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><em></em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeJ8d4y9LVc6evzvkyVKDa7KxK0ApE84tmxNYwL_AE94pFqoNN8lnroDHAAqnQ6YrR09DkTdOYLV7WJdLgjKuAyi-LNJhQVoQE4R6jeDcG6GFX4JvMU5yuY4NSbRx9rk7b9jgMJzpRMmV5DVzVx1d-sWDsKt8lKB3FL2chIFT01BXSwsfg9OO-fu_O2w" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="208" data-original-width="204" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgeJ8d4y9LVc6evzvkyVKDa7KxK0ApE84tmxNYwL_AE94pFqoNN8lnroDHAAqnQ6YrR09DkTdOYLV7WJdLgjKuAyi-LNJhQVoQE4R6jeDcG6GFX4JvMU5yuY4NSbRx9rk7b9jgMJzpRMmV5DVzVx1d-sWDsKt8lKB3FL2chIFT01BXSwsfg9OO-fu_O2w" width="235" /></a></em></div><em><br />Finished with the new book from our national poet Laureate</em><p></p><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b style="font-size: 13px;">Change Sings</b><span style="font-size: 13px;"> by Amanda Gorman -- </span><span face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #404040;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>As a young girl leads a cast of characters on a musical journey, they learn that they have the power to make changes—big or small—in the world, in their communities, and in most importantly, in themselves.</i></span></span></p><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><em></em></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglnGPFf620TJpBT71fpdLMaqKEDyw0BVf63jR0c86eh5hW8mHdBPAfXJJHPNCxlajikJv_uOQWZWT7wNHPgHgAa0YCeA31TscpkJGd85tGSAVkFkTtvFia4WgQ5FgOY9pW7ps3tUIpBrs1-hR69VH8fzUeesOcNIURbTXHWRkk-qH8BLncmUqt_7oXQA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="205" data-original-width="191" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEglnGPFf620TJpBT71fpdLMaqKEDyw0BVf63jR0c86eh5hW8mHdBPAfXJJHPNCxlajikJv_uOQWZWT7wNHPgHgAa0YCeA31TscpkJGd85tGSAVkFkTtvFia4WgQ5FgOY9pW7ps3tUIpBrs1-hR69VH8fzUeesOcNIURbTXHWRkk-qH8BLncmUqt_7oXQA" width="224" /></a></em></div><em><br /><br /></em><p></p><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><em>(As needed, did a variety of stretches and chants encouraging the kids to dream high & work hard to achieve their dreams)</em></p><p style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><em style="color: #4e2800;">Previous years: <br /></em><i><span style="color: #4e2800;">https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Women%27s%20History%20Month <br /></span></i><em style="color: #4e2800;"><a href="http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2014/03/school-age-storytimes-womens-history.html" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;" title="http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2014/03/school-age-storytimes-womens-history.html">http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2014/03/school-age-storytimes-womens-history.html</a></em></p><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Some other great titles:</p><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><strong>An Equal Shot: How the Law Title IX Changed America </strong>by Helaine Becker<br /><strong>She Persited: 13 American Women Who Changed the World </strong>by Chelsea Clinton (and others in the series<br /><b>Sky High: The True Story of Maggie Gee</b> – Marissa Moss<br /><strong>My Name is Not Isabella: Just How Big Can a Little Girl Dream?</strong> – Jennifer Fosberry<br /><strong>To the Stars: The First American Woman to Walk in Space</strong> – Carmella Van Vleet<br /><strong>Wilma Unlimited</strong> – Kathleen Krull<br /><strong>Elizabeth Leads the Way:Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Right to Vote</strong> – Tanya Lee Stone<br /><strong>I Could Do That: Esther Morris Gets Women the Vote</strong> – Linda Arms White<br /><strong>Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor – </strong>Robert Burleigh</p><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Many more here:</p><h1 class="blog-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #573700; font-family: Raleway, "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=14647" target="_blank">Telling Her Story: Picture Books About 99 Real-Life Mighty Girls & Women</a></span></h1><div><h1 class="blog-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #573700; font-family: Raleway, "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=35633&ref=home-slider" target="_blank">New Mighty Girl Books for Women's History Month 2022</a></span></h1></div><div><h1 class="blog-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #573700; font-family: Raleway, "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=33102" target="_blank">50 Children's Books About Mighty Girls & Women Around The World</a></span></h1></div><h1 class="blog-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #573700; font-family: Raleway, "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=13914" target="_blank">Ignite Her Curiosity: 60 Children's Books to Inspire Science-Loving Mighty Girls</a></span></h1><div><h1 class="blog-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #573700; font-family: Raleway, "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=33102" target="_blank">Science Is For Girls: 30 New Children's Books About Girls and Women in Science</a></span></h1></div><div><h1 class="blog-title" style="box-sizing: inherit; color: #573700; font-family: Raleway, "Open Sans", Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 5px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=35594" target="_blank">Girls Make It Work: 30 Books About Mighty Girls and Women in Engineering</a></span></h1></div><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <a href="http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/03/celebrating-women-history-month.html" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;" title="http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/03/celebrating-women-history-month.html">http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/03/celebrating-women-history-month.html</a> <a href="http://www.whatdowedoallday.com/2013/03/women-in-history-best-books-for-kids.html" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;" title="http://www.whatdowedoallday.com/2013/03/women-in-history-best-books-for-kids.html">http://www.whatdowedoallday.com/2013/03/women-in-history-best-books-for-kids.html</a></p><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><em></em><em>More on early pilots: <a href="https://nobodyownsthesky.wordpress.com/" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;" title="https://nobodyownsthesky.wordpress.com/">https://nobodyownsthesky.wordpress.com/</a></em></p><p style="color: #4e2800; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><em>Bedm. 3/22.</em></p></div>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5176417304197413976.post-76714249181552422912022-03-04T04:21:00.000-05:002022-03-04T04:21:57.686-05:00Read Across America - 2022 - Books and Dreams - 4th grade <p><span style="font-family: times;"> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMsFv9rSzcgN0tCgmLOfsJw_26sziD6Tx1-wR72-2QW-RoKuN6ESJiOvOeAYKLn1YN0A98uRe9qkT4pSV3hmYtmr2pH-uSrur6GAsWwTXl2hQv20BgeihdQF5urb1R6aXgYrkHMxwvZkRQHWk4yg5UWkag5Yp2PLmPcr04rik9MRb3U-gZbNOwkG--5A=s500" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="414" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhMsFv9rSzcgN0tCgmLOfsJw_26sziD6Tx1-wR72-2QW-RoKuN6ESJiOvOeAYKLn1YN0A98uRe9qkT4pSV3hmYtmr2pH-uSrur6GAsWwTXl2hQv20BgeihdQF5urb1R6aXgYrkHMxwvZkRQHWk4yg5UWkag5Yp2PLmPcr04rik9MRb3U-gZbNOwkG--5A=s320" width="265" /></span></a></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times;">Read: <b>More Than Anything Else</b> by Marie Bradley <i>(<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;">A fictionalized story about the life of young Booker T. Washington. Living in a West Virginia settlement after emancipation, nine-year-old Booker travels by lantern light to the salt works, where he labors from dawn till dusk. Although his stomach rumbles, his real hunger is his intense desire to learn to read. - Booker (great name, kids noticed!) was born into slavery, freed at age 9 with the end of the Civil War, age 16 walked 500 miles (equivalent of distance from Bedminster to Washington DC & back!) to go to high school at Hampton Institute, later became a teacher and founder of the Tuskegee Normal School (a college for teachers) which later became Tuskegee University.)</span></i></span><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikOft5FCwhLxjytQGNekR78EbIrsRe57wUMX8dmknkaw6UDC_sJ7aBN3LdPRIaof9oMq_ZKQjyFVX1qc3rXxd7EcmmguqRnBQXlTSHwG_IZnw8f17A39cBfyvu6EUlSQusq-QRTpAy4vhGMQm597HaIsSUOHT4n25FEvXJGNvA1QLSqsCUYW03u0opiw=s200" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="153" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEikOft5FCwhLxjytQGNekR78EbIrsRe57wUMX8dmknkaw6UDC_sJ7aBN3LdPRIaof9oMq_ZKQjyFVX1qc3rXxd7EcmmguqRnBQXlTSHwG_IZnw8f17A39cBfyvu6EUlSQusq-QRTpAy4vhGMQm597HaIsSUOHT4n25FEvXJGNvA1QLSqsCUYW03u0opiw=w245-h320" width="245" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;">Read: <b>The Pink Refrigerator </b>by Tim Egan <i>(<span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Dodsworth does as little work as he can, collecting items from a junkyard and placing them in his thrift store for sale, until he happens upon a pink refrigerator that spurs him to do much more with his life.)</span></i></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfJSeuTA1aPJQ6R7e6VTN1eq0_o-5FMw7CkOLOX3CKClgVg8UE-TD0ynDtuPhXAP-JbO7VzvFikCQwNfc1ma4HfA_YMPkTB9Btn1V0mV5Z8oxoxUq-PGiXB7M0m-CwnXPCw9v16vWkZtOzBw1LSlhSRk2LRNynrhgc_Z7YyT41BFzsAzIjmu4uxIzqGQ=s400" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="301" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjfJSeuTA1aPJQ6R7e6VTN1eq0_o-5FMw7CkOLOX3CKClgVg8UE-TD0ynDtuPhXAP-JbO7VzvFikCQwNfc1ma4HfA_YMPkTB9Btn1V0mV5Z8oxoxUq-PGiXB7M0m-CwnXPCw9v16vWkZtOzBw1LSlhSRk2LRNynrhgc_Z7YyT41BFzsAzIjmu4uxIzqGQ=s320" width="241" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">Read: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><b>Appelemando's Dreams</b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"> by Patricia Polacco </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;">(with the war raging in Ukraine, I wanted to share this book on the power of dreams from the renowned Ukrainian/Russian author illustrator Patricia Polacco. Also discussed how this author/illustrator of over 50 books had dyslexia and felt "stupid" as a child because she couldn't read didn't learn to read herself until 5th grade when a teacher figured out how to help her, a story she tells in her book, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit;"><b>Thank You Mr. Falker. </b><i>Urged the 4th graders to look for Ms. Polacco's books at the library because, though they are in the E/Picture Book section, they have long texts and are geared much more toward older students like them.)</i></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; font-variant-ligatures: inherit; font-weight: inherit;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiS34yOqZiUCzdNb6hNn8OSurVPslF7ED3HYDTz9nW9N6-LtWHY4bWYmNndRE9eT76aLd2_j2Pc9IdnNVfXUKJXOqBmHsJ2bP3hAb0v6XQ1Aj3On7HFKQYaBS7pLK5M200iUtFwDE_J7m33NE05Lk61FVV6bZkLIFhpKwh0WiuuTZuyjyzr5oK66am8Uw=s200" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="198" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiS34yOqZiUCzdNb6hNn8OSurVPslF7ED3HYDTz9nW9N6-LtWHY4bWYmNndRE9eT76aLd2_j2Pc9IdnNVfXUKJXOqBmHsJ2bP3hAb0v6XQ1Aj3On7HFKQYaBS7pLK5M200iUtFwDE_J7m33NE05Lk61FVV6bZkLIFhpKwh0WiuuTZuyjyzr5oK66am8Uw" width="198" /></span></a></div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: times;">Read: <b>Imagine a Place</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040; font-family: times;">words by Sarah L. Thomson ; paintings by Rob Gonsalves <i>(Mind-blowing illustrations accompany poems that urge the reader to think beyond the ordinary - the same author/illustrator pair created </i><b>Imagine a Day</b><i> and </i><b>Imagine a Night</b><i>.)</i></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #404040;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlg1gMXLwfAOLBkSy4x6oVu_h6_-GyDraeQ_YBwzmVYc9pv5wWu72Y093PRjKbDhRJQY_u4QWDX8pCg8eKELQa4YsrKIGbqfNA9-ZJBx8CxkPBv-O-mNMtVDgqfwOGkW8P9Fh6uOFxnpPqAXSbMfFuwbMsCEng-cYUv2tvXDlaFR1bNo4_3pQ5hJB4vQ=s400" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="348" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjlg1gMXLwfAOLBkSy4x6oVu_h6_-GyDraeQ_YBwzmVYc9pv5wWu72Y093PRjKbDhRJQY_u4QWDX8pCg8eKELQa4YsrKIGbqfNA9-ZJBx8CxkPBv-O-mNMtVDgqfwOGkW8P9Fh6uOFxnpPqAXSbMfFuwbMsCEng-cYUv2tvXDlaFR1bNo4_3pQ5hJB4vQ=s320" width="278" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;">Read:</span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"> Sector 7</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"> – David Wiesner </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;">(visual storytelling -- telling a story without words. Wiesner is an author/illustrator local boy, grew up in Bridgewater NJ, Caldecott Medal winner, fun wordless fantasy of a boy who goes on an adventure with a cloud and makes quite a stir at the cloud factory. Did you know there really is a <a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/01/09/261070150/its-not-magic-on-the-mountain-its-a-rain-making-machine" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">cloud machine</a>? Here’s a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78TeimCKHSU" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;">video</a>.) – mentioned they can find this and other books by this talented illustrator in the Picture Book section. </em></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh23rpEmPA5tTyhqTmP73-rT2ON16od95vjEy7JK7dw-1GSlVRt74_MYTNUkQ0wb1tW0v_U5V4NmvS8D1A3b2dTFiN7m5H0vCdO-J13X8erQDPCZL5N-0-ppRp86EwD4aMFuXyOzxL4ZOdZxA1Xhu0c7dkGNF55yVFhOx77M8OBjVSjjFMgXySvBpTWdA=s200" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="143" data-original-width="200" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh23rpEmPA5tTyhqTmP73-rT2ON16od95vjEy7JK7dw-1GSlVRt74_MYTNUkQ0wb1tW0v_U5V4NmvS8D1A3b2dTFiN7m5H0vCdO-J13X8erQDPCZL5N-0-ppRp86EwD4aMFuXyOzxL4ZOdZxA1Xhu0c7dkGNF55yVFhOx77M8OBjVSjjFMgXySvBpTWdA=w320-h229" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="color: #222222; direction: ltr; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-top: 0pt; unicode-bidi: embed; word-break: normal;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="color: black;">Read: </span><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris </span><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Lessmore by William Joyce</span><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="color: black;"><i>(and a 2011 Short Film) -- view here: </i></span><span style="color: black;"><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3yrl25&source=gmail&ust=1551807763845000&usg=AFQjCNEZm9JOWBkCE1d2DayFylvlxqimDA" href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3yrl25" style="color: #1155cc; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.dailymotion.<wbr></wbr>com/video/x3yrl25 </a></span><i><span style="color: black;">This is the story of a man and a </span><span style="color: black;">magical library of flying books, and most of all, the power of stories in our lives. T</span><span style="color: black;">he film was awarded the Best Animated Short Film at the 84th Academy Awards. </span></i></span></div></div><div><p align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><img height="292" src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/31/2f/3a/312f3aed69710f4400fb7cecd48bae60.jpg" style="background: transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px;" width="292" /></p><p align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-family: times;">Read:<strong> If… </strong>by Sarah Perry <em>(Imagine if cats could fly, leaves were fish, mice were hair, caterpillars were toothpaste, toes were teeth, or frogs ate rainbows…then imagine what else you can imagine!) </em></span></p></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><b>No time for:</b></span></div><div><p align="left" style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiymXQvw5FYIoL6IPGV_l-osz8eYk_NeOKQyYQW6ogiK9kbawXxAbNjru1wcoqT_51Yyv2FKrK3IvrMKPCYyX_Sd1FaXEwpRYHbpeG1CRF8yZszYnGfjrvSgYjfRo9LiECw5znQnT3wjKuO/s1600-h/image%255B5%255D" style="color: #f48d1d; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5-yzVzsZcGeaXF93bv5T3JZaAvMEeoCDpr-MwcMOSrQm3yKpVbWKosaqfkEiAG48LyZb_lTYw_JLU5hTmUd2MvTFZcSeNua9UtBDcc8cKBEMgSRac3Hp5x5v3SE8LpnfafVevq7rUa3ui/?imgmax=800" style="background: none transparent; border-radius: 0px; border: 1px solid transparent; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding: 8px; position: relative;" title="image" width="199" /></span></a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"><span style="font-family: times;"><strong>The Book of Gold </strong>by Bob Staake (<em>Isaac Gutenberg isn't a curious boy . . . that is, until he meets an old shopkeeper who tells him about <strong>The Book</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Gold</strong>. This special book, hidden somewhere in the world, holds all the answers to every question and turns to solid <strong>gold</strong> when opened….)</em></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfaqLbDhjWRGwc8INr6rtyB3iMUL-VBcnmLUeDTkT2VpRZvoNzCy17NKM0J6GvS3KlzJwQU0KEmfQJevqhTH2GZXoU4xeGM5rH0NfHe1Eq0sWCPspkh485j0_OzBvSFTh_6FpdSFE4k0CjCFzT5P0P2B9VoukOWrXJ_IKI4Q81F4zUDiLukZ9k_QkW-Q=s400" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="309" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgfaqLbDhjWRGwc8INr6rtyB3iMUL-VBcnmLUeDTkT2VpRZvoNzCy17NKM0J6GvS3KlzJwQU0KEmfQJevqhTH2GZXoU4xeGM5rH0NfHe1Eq0sWCPspkh485j0_OzBvSFTh_6FpdSFE4k0CjCFzT5P0P2B9VoukOWrXJ_IKI4Q81F4zUDiLukZ9k_QkW-Q=s320" width="247" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><strong>Library Lil</strong> – Suzanne Williams <em>(a librarian with superhero strength revitalizes the towns library even convincing the head of the town’s motorcycle gang to become an avid reader)</em></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEia6B5aY5xXzt9F8Xy8LqaZehjqHOEEUQ6-oxi7mt4QJkjG79kr_oJ0Yq05tBSIq1J4Jh9UkfzWNh6u-wkYiSwwGIwGN6XHOrRMvcDuOGVx10dhkqYeCcM4aQFtSZmLwtLTJ1UjXXc8sE3tPo0tmbQi-oJhzhusMhZ3AfmeLo3yQRAXAcM9sdMSwE5XGQ=s200" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="152" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEia6B5aY5xXzt9F8Xy8LqaZehjqHOEEUQ6-oxi7mt4QJkjG79kr_oJ0Yq05tBSIq1J4Jh9UkfzWNh6u-wkYiSwwGIwGN6XHOrRMvcDuOGVx10dhkqYeCcM4aQFtSZmLwtLTJ1UjXXc8sE3tPo0tmbQi-oJhzhusMhZ3AfmeLo3yQRAXAcM9sdMSwE5XGQ=w243-h320" width="243" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Aunt Chip and the Great Triple Creek Dam Affair</b> by Patricia Polacco <i>(A town has forgotten to read since the invasion of television...)</i><br /><em><br /></em></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #4e2800;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQG-YReIx5H_yEsGBAtYGnrqoxn7Qcn-8WfQv294io8vk1H3IaCJC0md8LBaVz5-UzBoRGe2YzC8i2qY1vTLASoRPeVZbBAMUYCcxpk6SzC4g7Lcgyx8pF7yu0dmuR711K1Pd4CjhKkdMH8uTZtHeBPLGXKvs8ySP6yXdYVqUwVL0paVHUYHgcWgf90g=s200" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="152" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhQG-YReIx5H_yEsGBAtYGnrqoxn7Qcn-8WfQv294io8vk1H3IaCJC0md8LBaVz5-UzBoRGe2YzC8i2qY1vTLASoRPeVZbBAMUYCcxpk6SzC4g7Lcgyx8pF7yu0dmuR711K1Pd4CjhKkdMH8uTZtHeBPLGXKvs8ySP6yXdYVqUwVL0paVHUYHgcWgf90g=w243-h320" width="243" /></span></a></div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /><em><br /></em></span><p></p></div><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: times;">2022 Bedm, 4th grade Ms. Carlin's class</span></div><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: times;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: times;">More ideas:<a href="https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Books%20%26%20Reading" target="_blank"> https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Books%20%26%20Reading</a></span></div><div><span style="color: #404040; font-family: times;"><a href="https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Creativity">https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Creativity</a><br /></span><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="background-color: white; color: #f48d1d; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;"><a href="https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2016/05/school-age-storytimeimagine.html" style="color: #f48d1d; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">School Age Storytime–Imagine the Possibilities!</span></a></h3></div>Carol Simon Levinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06011967636995998634noreply@blogger.com0