Storytime - Opposites!

Did you miss our storytime on Wednesday and Thursday?  Want to find out what we did?  Did you attend, but forgot a book or song and wanted to know more?  Just click the jump to see the outline for this week's storytime on Opposites!

STORYTIME: Opposites                                                   DATE: March 2-3, 2011
1. Intro: Good Morning Song
2. Rhyme:  Open Shut Them
3. Story: Dinosaur Roar!
4. Rhyme: Tall as a Tree
5. Story: Eric Carle’s Book of Opposites by Eric Carle
6. Rhyme: This is Big (good)
7. Story: We Are Opposites
7. Song: Hokey Pokey with Bells
6. Felt: Match felts to get treat
8. End: Goodbye Song
9. Craft:  Sweet corn

Good Morning Song
Good morning to you, good morning to you
We're all in our places, with bright shiny faces
And this is the way to start our new day!

Open and shut them, open and shut them, (Open and shut hands)
Make your hands go clap, clap, clap. (Clap hands)
Open and shut them, open and shut them, (Open and shut hands)
Put them in your lap, lap, lap. (Put hands in lap)

Tall as a tree, (Raise arms high)
Big as a house. (Arms out wide)
Thin as a pin, (Hold arms at sides)
Little as a mouse. (Make self small)

This is big, big, big. (Stretch hands far to side)
This is small, small, small. (Cup hands together over lap)
This is short, short, short. (Hold palms horizontally, close)
This is tall, tall, tall. (Hold palms horizontally, far apart)
This is fast, fast, fast. (roll hands quickly)
This is slow, slow, slow. (roll hands slowly)
This is yes, yes, yes. (nod)
This is no, no, no! (shake head)

Hokey Pokey with Bells
You shake your bells up,
You shake your bells down;
You shake your bells up,
Then you shake them all around.
You do the hokey pokey
And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about!

Books for baby and toddler storytime:
Opposites by Sandra Boynton (Board)
Duck and Goose: Opposites by Tad Hills (Board)
Spot Looks at Opposites by Eric Hill
Dinosaur Roar! by Paul Stickland
Quiet, Loud by Leslie Patricelli (Board)
Black? White! Day? Night! By Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Goodbye Song


Craft
Ingredients
Graham crackers
Frosting
Mini marshmallows. 
Yellow food coloring

Steps
Mix yellow food coloring with frosting.
Spread frosting on ¼ pice of graham cracker
Put mini marshmallows on the frosting to imitate the kernals an ear of corn
(optional: color the mini marshmallows yellow as well)