Hello all. School is
back in session, Summer Reading is done, and storytime Session 5 has begun.
YAY!
This week's storytime
was about APPLES!
Here is the rundown:
For all of Session 5
I will be using the same opener:
Make one eye go wink, wink, wink,
Make two eyes go blink, blink, blink.
Make two fingers stand just so,
Then ten fingers all in a row!
Back and forth your head will rock
And your knees can knock, knock, knock.
Now stretch and make a yawn so wide,
and drop your hands down to your sides.
Close your eyes and help me say,
Our very quiet word today:
SHHHHHHHHHH!
Make two fingers stand just so,
Then ten fingers all in a row!
Back and forth your head will rock
And your knees can knock, knock, knock.
Now stretch and make a yawn so wide,
and drop your hands down to your sides.
Close your eyes and help me say,
Our very quiet word today:
SHHHHHHHHHH!
Source: The Big Book of Stories, songs and Sing-Alongs by Maddigan, Drennan and Thompson
Next
we sang Old Macdonald, doing 3 animals. I had 3 animals picked ahead of time in
my script, but a very enthusiastic singer filled in her own ideas and that was
great. I hope to do 3 different animals next week.
I
briefly showed the signs for "Apple" and "Red" and put a
felt apple up on the flannel board. I asked the kids what it was and to tell me
about apples. Are all apples red? No? What other colors can there be? What does
an apple look like inside.
After
this chat we read Ten Apples Up On Top by Dr. Seuss.
Next
we sang "Way up High in the Apple Tree"
Way up high in the apple tree
Two little apples smiled at me
I shook that tree as hard as I could
Down came the apples
Mmm mmm good!
From: Childhood
And then: The Wheels on the Bus
From: Childhood
Then we read The Apple Pie That Papa Baked by
Lauren Thompson
Next a flannel board:
5 red apples hanging in a tree,
The juiciest apples you ever did see,
The wind came by and gave an angry frown
And one little apple came tumbling down.
4 red apples hanging in a tree.... (repeat
until all apples are gone!)
Sorry, my pics are kinda blurry.
Since we had a nice small group today, I let
each child come up and take an apple down from the tree. I had to change the
start to 6 red apples. This was a big hit.
So we sang Hurry Hurry Drive the Firetruck
Hurry hurry! Drive the Firetruck!
Hurry hurry! Drive the firetruck!
Hurry hurry! Drive the Firetruck!
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
Hurry hurry! Climb the Ladder!
Hurry hurry! Climb the Ladder!
Hurry hurry! Climb the Ladder!
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
Hurry hurry! Spray the water!
Hurry hurry! Spray the water!
Hurry hurry! Spray the water!
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding!
Is the fire out?
Source: my childhood.
I always do the song like this: I start very
slowly, or as slow as I can tolerate and sing it without any urgency. When we
get to the question at the end, I respond as if the kids said "No!"
After doing this song together a couple of times, they will too. So we sing it
through a second time, a bit faster. At the end, I again ask if the fire is out
and respond to "No" OH NO!!! And we sing it the third
time at super silly speed, with exaggerated motions too. After we go as fast as
we can, usually the third time, I end it with "YAY! We DID it!"
instead of asking if the fire is out.
Then we did another flannel.
Five little apples hung in a tree
The farmer wasn’t looking.
So guess who came to eat?
A _______ ! Munch, munch, munch!
Now the tree is bare
There are no more apples there
But when next fall comes around
Guess who’ll be there!
The _________
The farmer wasn’t looking.
So guess who came to eat?
A _______ ! Munch, munch, munch!
Now the tree is bare
There are no more apples there
But when next fall comes around
Guess who’ll be there!
The _________
I had planned two
other songs, which both got skipped. My bunch was smaller but very antsy this
morning. Anyway, if they had been up for it I would have sung "Take Me Out
to the Ballgame" and "I'm a Little Apple Tree"
I'm a little apple
tree
All my apples grow on
me
I mustn't sneeze, I
mustn't cough,
or all my apples will
fall off!
Ah AH AHCHOOOOOO!
Get your apples!!!
From: Childhood
But we moved straight
into movement and craft.
We danced along to
Shake My Sillies Out by the Wiggles.
Then it was off to
the craft area. Today the kids colored apples with dabbers with the option of
also coloring an apple tree with crayons, dabbers or both. The kids REALLY
liked the dabbers. I mean a lot. Crayons were out of the questions for most. So
simple!
Then it was playtime!
My kids were really
antsy today, so a few things got skipped. Everyone really liked the theme and
they loved Ten Apples Up On Top.
So for this session, I'm going to keep a lot of the same songs each week, and change up the theme, the books we read, and the flannel stories.
