9:30 am: I realize I have storytime today and did not prepare anything! I have 20 min max before needing to be on the desk. Away to the props room!
This is what I chose for today:
- Wheels on the bus (always)
- What Will Fat Cat Sit On? by Jan Thomas
- I am a pizza (ala Charlotte Diamond) with felt pieces
- Five Cheeky Monkeys with puppets
- Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett
- Shake your sillies out (Raffi)
- Bubblegum song
- Zoom, Zoom, Zoom
- Dear Zoo by Rod Campbell
- Little Mouse, Little Mouse
- Roly Poly
What a wonderful storytime! Yet more proof that you don’t really need a theme, you just need good materials, a range of songs to suit your audience, and enthusiasm. I couldn’t remember all the words in the right order to I am a pizza so I brought my cheat sheet with me, and fooled everybody. I also blanked when I started Five Cheeky Monkeys because I had pizza rolling around my head, the parents though that was hilarious.
I made a chant and guessing game out of Monkey and Me which worked perfectly. They were a busy bunch so we had much, much fun with our active songs. They were much more willing to shake some sillies than usual today, maybe due to an excess of silly.
Finally, I really stumped them on the first round of Little Mouse, we got down to the very last house! The next two were guessed on the first or second try.
Fun times!
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