A storytime for K-2 celebrating seasonal holidays. Featuring tangible & intangible giving, with a nod to geography and figurative writing. Great lead-in for holiday toy, coat & food drives.
Book: Rabbit’s Gift – George Shannon (Chinese folktale in which each animal tries to share the turnip left at his doorstep.)
Storytelling with props/flannel: The Great Big Enormous Turnip (heading to the country north of China with another tale of turnips & cooperation -- based on the Russian book by Alexsey Nikolayevich Tolstoy)
Silver Packages: An Appalachian Christmas Story by Cynthia Rylant (Loosely-based on a true story. A rich man rides a train through Appalachia every year at Christmas tossing gifts to the poor children who are waiting in order to repay a debt he owes the people who live there the young boy waiting for gifts each year who grows up and also gives back to the community.)
The Marvelous Toy by Tom Paxton (sung) (Several book versions available. Hand-me-down toy has special meaning; performed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCjslf_a11c)
Book: The Borrowed Hanukkah Latkes --Linda Glaser (When unexpected guests are due, a girl borrows more potatoes and eggs from Mrs. Greenberg, the lonely but stubborn older woman next door, and finally figures out a way to convince her to join in the celebration. This book has delicious examples of figurative language, e.g. "Mrs. Greenberg's house was always clean and tidy, like its face was just scrubbed and its blouse was tucked in, while Rachel's house always looked like it was still in its pajamas and needed to brush its hair yet.")
Song/Flannel: Helping by Shel Silverstein from Free to Be, You and Me. Lyrics & tune: http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/helping-an-illustrated-song-by-shel-silverstein/ (no time today but could also have sung Song/Flannel: I Had a Little Dreidel (with myriad variations --source unknown -- students encouraged to make up new verses!)
More song lyrics: carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/singalong-keep-spiritwinter-holiday.html
Book: Gifts by Jo Ellen Bogart (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." Had kids identify geographic locations mentioned on maps on the endpapers.)
The Extraordinary Gift – Florence Langlois (Imaginative fold out book which says that the best gift is a book!)
Song: We Wish You a Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Year… (lyrics to this and many other holiday songs here: http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/singalong-keep-spiritwinter-holiday.html)
If time, could add some of the materials from the programs below:
http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/school-age-storytime-gifts-and-giving.html
http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/pre-school-storytime-gifts-and-giving.html
http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/11/chanukah-divali-storiesschool-age.html
Looking for additional special holiday titles? Check out this bibliography: http://www.somerset.lib.nj.us/kids/PDFs/holidays2011.pdf
Bedm. 12/2017
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