Storytime Winter 08 - Jan. 22 - BIRTHDAYS

Books:
The Secret Birthday Message/ Carle, Eric
Happy Birthday, Jesse Bear!/ Carlstrom, Nancy
It's MY Birthday!/ Hutchins, Pat
Surprise Party/ Carter, David (pop-up)
Spot's Birthday Party/ Hill, Eric
Happy Birthday, Sam/ Hutchins, Pat
The Very Hungry Caterpillar/ Carle, Eric
Lola at the Library/ McQuinn, Anna

Fingerplays:
Five Birthday Candles
Balloon

Flannelboard Rhymes:
Five Little Cupcakes
Color Train

Action Song:
If You're Wearing Red Today

Craft:
birthday banner

Storytime @ the Shops at Rossmoor! - Dec. 19, 2007

Bundle up and join us this Wednesday afternoon at 4pm at the Shops at Rossmoor for a special "Winter Treats" storytime! We'll devour fun cookie books, cozy up with wintry tales, and even make a darling gingerbread man garland to take home. We'll be near the fountain in front of Peet's Coffee and Complexion Day Spa. If it rains, meet us at CPK!

Which Pooh character are you?

Apparently, I am.....


Take the 100 Acre Personality Quiz!
I happened upon this little quiz today and thought you might want to find out if you might be a Kanga or Piglet or another of the Hundred Acre family. Frankly, I've always thought of myself as more of an Eeyore.....

FALL 07 Storytime - Nov. 20 - THANKSGIVING

Books:
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie/ Jackson, Allison
The Firefighters' Thanksgiving/ Boelts, Maribeth
Thanksgiving Mice!/ Roberts, Bethany
Over the River: A Turkey's Tale/ Anderson, Derek
Turkey on the Loose!/ Wickstrom, Sylvie

Fingerplays:
Way Up High in the Apple Tree
Five Little Apples

Songs:
The Turkey Ran Away (tune: Farmer in the Dell)
Turkey! Turkey! (tune: Skip to My Lou)
I'm Thankful For (tune: The Bear Went Over the Mountain)

Flannelboard Story:
The Enormous Turnip

Craft:
paper plate fall wreath

FALL 07 Storytime - Nov. 13 - GOING PLACES

Books:

Clickety Clack/ Spence, Amy

Dinosailors/ Lund, Deb

Row, Row, Row Your Boat/ Oppenheim, Joanne

Mr. Gumpy's Outing/ Burningham, John

Wake Up Engines/ Mortensen, Denise

Silly Sally/ Wood, Audrey

Flannel Rhymes & Story:

Color Train

5 Little Boats

Three Billy Goats Gruff

Fingerplays:

Here Comes the Choo-Choo Train

My Bicycle (from I'm a Little Teapot by Jane Cobb)

Song:

Down By the Station

Craft:

car cut-out picture

FALL 07 Storytime - Oct. 30 - HALLOWEEN

Books:
Popcorn/ Asch, Frank
Mommy?/ Sendak, Maurice
Where the Wild Things Are/ Sendak, Maurice
This is the Pumpkin/ Levine, Abby
Farm-Fresh Cats/ Santoro, Scott
The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything/ Williams, Linda
Apples and Pumpkins/ Rockwell, Anne

Songs:
I'm a Little Pumpkin, Short and Stout
The Leaves on the Trees are Falling Down
The Great Big Spider

Flannel/Fingerplays:
Five Little Pumpkins
One Little, Two Little, Three Little Pumpkins

Activity:
Scarecrow, Scarecrow Turn Around

Puppet Story:
Go Away Big Green Monster (based on the book by Ed Emberley)

Craft:
spider web plates

FALL07 Storytime - Oct. 23 - PRINCES & PRINCESSES

Books:

The King's Tea/ Noble, Trinka

King Bidgood's in the Bathtub/ Wood, Audrey

The End/ LaRochelle, David

If I Were Queen of the World/ Hiatt, Fred

One Monday Morning/ Shulevitz, Uri

Princess Aasta/ Ordal, Stina

The Princess and the Pea/ Anderson, Hans Christian

Flannel Rhymes:
Two Little Bluebirds
Humpty Dumpty

Songs:
The Grand Old Duke of York
Sing a Song of Six Pence

Craft:
paper crowns