Toddler Storytime for Frogs! With Fingerplays, Books, and Songs

Hello!  This week's Storytime involved frogs!  There is still quite a bit of snow left in Maine, but soon it will be time for tadpoles. 

For Storytime, we listened to books by a few of my favorite authors, Karma Wilson and Ellen Stoll Walsh.  The frog songs were especially fun.  All week, I found myself humming "Five Green and Speckled Frogs."

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Storytime for Night with books, fingerplays, and rhymes

Hello again!  This week's theme was "night."  We sang some songs and read books about sleeping and saying good night.  We also listened to some famous books!  Goodnight Moon is a classic and The House in the Night won the Caldecott Medal in 2009. 

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If you like Mo Willems....

 

If you like Mo Willems' Pigeon stories, I would like to introduce you to two books with a similar sensibility that really tickled my funny bone!

The first is Can You Make a Scary Face? by Jan Thomas. The main character, a ladybug, asks us to do many things, some quite silly. Each command leads to another. When the story finally  becomes too much for her, she asks us to make a scary face to frighten away her creation. It is great fun to watch children make, what they think, are the scariest faces imaginable! Here is an author who writes with preschool story time in mind!

The second book is New Socks by Bob Shea. This little chick is hard to resist. He is soooo happy with his new socks, he can't wait to tell you about them. He gets quite carried away with excitement! I think many parents will recognize their own little ones in this chick's enthusiastic chatter.

Both Jan Thomas and Bob Shea create stories that are wonderful to read aloud to small children. Their characters often speak directly to the reader/listener and have enough humor to keep parents happily re-reading them! ENJOY!

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