Summer 2010 Storytimes

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Board Books:

Splash! by Sarah Garland (Frances Lincoln, 2006)

Itsy Bitsy Spider by Iza Trapani (Whispering Coyote Press, 1993)

Jamberry by Bruce Degen (HarperFestival, 1995)

Rhyme:

Splash! Fall the raindrops. (clap softly)

To the ground they go. (point to ground)

We need the raindrops (wiggle fingers from head to waist)

To help the flowers grow. (make a cup of hands)

Board Books:

Splash! by Sarah Garland (Frances Lincoln, 2006)

Tub Toys by Terry Shannon (Tricycle, 2002)

Rhymes:

Rub a Dub Dub

Rub a Dub Dub, three men in a tub.

And who do you think they be?

A butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker,

And they all went out to sea.

Doctor Foster

Dr. Foster went to Glo'ster

In a shower of rain.

He stepped in a puddle,

Right up to his middle,

And never went there again.

It's Raining

It's raining, it's pouring,

The old man is snoring.

He went to bed

And he bumped his head,

And he couldn't get up in the morning.

Songs:

"Bath Song" (sung to "The Mulberry Bush")

This is the way we wash our hands,

Wash our hands, wash our hands,

This is the way we wash our hands,

So early in the morning.

(repeat with ears, elbows, knees, etc)

The Sea

Board Books:

That's Not My Mermaid by Fiona Watt (Usborne, 2005)

Picture Books:

Octopus, Oyster, Hermit Crab, Snail by Sara Anderson (Handprint Books, 2005)

Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On by Lois Ehlert (Harcourt, 1990)

The Sea by Philip Plisson (Abrams, 2002)

The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson (Dial, 2004)

Nonfiction Books:

Manfish: A Story of Jacques Cousteau by Jennifer Berne (Chronicle, 2008)

Songs:

"My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean"

Stand up or sit down every time you hear the letter 'B'

My bonnie lies over the ocean,

My bonnie lies over the sea,

My bonnie lies over the ocean,

Please bring back my bonnie to me.

Bring back, bring back,

Oh bring back my bonnie to me, to me!

Bring back, bring back,

Oh bring back my bonnie to me!

Crafts:

Jellyfish Hat

Supplies:

2 or 3 inch strip of construction paper for headband

Contrasting colored sheets of tissue paper

Construction:

Form a headband with the construction paper to fit head size and staple.

Use a full sheet of tissue paper for the jelly fish body.

Staple the edge onto the headband making pleats as you go.

When finished, the tissue paper should be full and puffy.

Fold the headband to the inside of the puffy body of the jelly fish.

Fold a sheet of tissue paper in a contrasting color in half and staple to the inside of the headband.

Lay the tissue paper flat on a cutting surface and cut inward at about one inch intervals to create the tentacles.

Put on the hat and let the tentacles hang down.

Water

Board Books:

Itsy Bitsy Spider by Rosemary Wells (Scholastic, 1998)

What Makes a Rainbow? by Betty Ann Schwartz (Piggy Toes Press, 2000)

Picture Books:

The Patterson Puppies and the Rainy Day by Leslie Patricelli (Candlewick, 2009)

Building an Igloo by Ulli Steltzer (Holt, 1995)

It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw (HarperCollins, 1992)

The Big Storm : A Very Soggy Counting Book by Nancy Tafuri (Simon & Schuster, 2009)

A Cool Drink of Water by Barbara Kerley (National Geographic, 2002)

Babygarten I

Board Books:

Hooray for Fish by Lucy Cousins (Candlewick, 2005)

Row, Row, Row Your Boat by Annie Kubler (Child's Play, 2003)

Picture Books:

You and Me, Baby by Lynn Reiser (Knopf, 2006)

Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On by Lois Ehlert (Harcourt, 1990)

Rhymes:

Row, Row, Row

(parent and child sit facing each other and move arms as if rowing a boat)

Row, row, row your boat

In the ocean blue

If the fish are biting

You will catch one too!

Clap and Count

(clap baby's hands)

One fish, two fish

Three fish, four,

Five fish, six fish,

Seven fish, more!

Songs:

"Did You Ever See a Fishy?" (to the tune of "Did You Ever See a Lassie?")

(parent holds child and moves arms in swimming motion)

Did you ever see a fishy,

A fishy, a fishy,

Did you ever see a fishy

Swim this way and that?

Swim this way and that way

And that way and this way?

Did you ever see a fishy

Swim this way and that?

(repeat with splash, slide, other verbs)

Sharks

Board Books:

Sea Animals by Amy Erickson (Chronicle, 1995)

Picture Books:

Whaley Whale by Chris Raschka (Hyperion, 2000)

I'm the Biggest Thing in the Ocean by Kevin Sherry (Dial, 2007)

Movies:

"If You Can't Stand the Heat" from Shaun the Sheep: Sheep on the Loose (Aardman Animations/Lionsgate, 2009)

Rhymes:

A Sailor Went to Sea

(for every "sea" make waves with hands; for every "see" put hand up to forehead as if searching)

A sailor went to sea, sea, sea

To see what she could see, see, see,

But all that she could see, see, see,

Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea

Games:

Pin the Tail or Fin on the Shark
Play this game just like Pin the Tail on the Donkey
Use blue or gray poster board to make a shark without a tail or fin.Then use the same color poster board to cut a tail or fin for each player.
At party time add double stick tape on the tail/fin pieces to play the game.
Who ever is closest wins!

Shark Attack Game #1
With a permanent marker draw a basic shark face, with teeth on a white balloon. Players will stand in a circle. Play fun theme music while the children tap the shark balloon back and forth within the circle. The players will try to keep the balloon away from themselves.
After a bit of time, turn the music off. Whoever is touching the shark when the music stops is out. The last player is the winner.

Boats

Board Books:

Baby's Boat by Jeanne Titherington (Tupelo, 1998)

Boats by Byron Barton (HarperFestival, 1986)

Picture Books:

I Love Boats by Flora McDonnell (Candlewick, 1995)

Songs:

"Toy Boat" by Jim Gill from Jim Gill's Irrational Anthem and More Salutes to Nonsense

Rhymes:

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Row, row, row your boat,

Gently down the stream.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,

Life is but a dream.