Mommy! Saturday Story Time
Saturday Storytime for May 11, 2012
attendance: 34
Miss Mouse was wearing a yellow dress with flowers.She was making cupcakes for Mother’s Day
Miss Mouse: was hiding behind – too much to do this week.
fingerplay: Clap Clap your Lap
Song 1: I’m a Little Tea Pot with 2 Little Blackbirds and since that wasn’t the song I wanted to start with I added Humpty Dumpty from the same CD
Book 1: Mommies say Shh by Patricia Polacco
Fingerplay: Roll Roll Sugar Babies
Book: Just Like Mommy by Harriet Ziefert. Nice and simple like most Ziefert books… it was the right book for this audience (on the younger side)
Song 3: Two For Tea by Jim Gill. I’d wanted to pair this with I’m a Little Teapot… oops. I heard his new CD for the first time yesterday and really wanted to try some songs today.
Flannelboard story: Monkey Face by Frank Asch
Song 4: Beethoven’s Five Finger Play – another new one. I love the beginning but it lasts a little long for me
Book: Stop Kissing Me by Ethan Long. There is a little button that simulates a kissing sound. It’s funny.
Song 5!!: M-O-M-M-Y. Kay from Storytime ABC’s included this on her Flannel Friday post yesterday. I loved it and came in early to make up cards for it. It was fun.
Song 6: It Takes Some Friends — another new Jim Gill song. It takes some clapping friends to make a clapping song… stomping friends, singing friends to make a happy song.
Book 7: If You’re Happy and You Know It by David Carter
Titles I didn’t use but intended to:
- Book: Clothesline by Alborough
- Book: Is Your Mama a Llama? by Kellogg
Flannel Friday Roundup for May 11, 2012
This is the first week for the new Flannel Friday procedures. If you haven’t heard yet, there is a brand new home for Flannel Friday. Round-ups will continue to travel from blog to blog for round-ups but now there is a dedicated space that is Flannel Friday. Make sense?
Andrea from Roving Fiddlehead Kidlit present Trains Flannelboard an Inspired by Flannel Friday offering.
Anne from SoTomorrow presented a Japanese poem about birds. Anne, I think coconut is a white fruit.
Cate from Storytiming presents All The Little Bunnies
Jane from Piper Loves the Library reports on the Flannel This Puppet That program she presented at the Connecticut Library Association. She has quite the collection, wait til you see it!
Katie from Storytime Katie shares Four Little Stars an Inspired By Flannel Friday offering.
Kay Leigh from Storytime ABC’s presents My Mommy is Special.
Linda from Notes from the Storytime Room shares a Draw and Tell: The Night Walk.
Lisa from Libraryland has a flannelized version of Sandra Boynton’s Are You a Cow? I didn’t know about this title…
Lucy Maud from In the Children’s Room is traveling in the Way Back Machine and present Alphabet Soup.
Mary from Miss Mary Liberry has Aiken Drum this week a sort of re-do of her Flip Flap Jack. And now I have Raffi in my head.
Monica from Ram Sam Storytime (I love that title) shares a pairing of I’m the Biggest Thing in the Ocean with a song called “Octopus (Slippery Fish)”
Nicole from Narrating Tales of Preschool Storytime invites to hunt down Farmer Brown Shears His Sheep. Naked sheep, people!
Seth from The Voices Inside My Head (another great title) has a self-described simple craft for the highly acclaimed I Want My Hat Back.
I’m Sharon and this is my blog and this is Monkey Face (perhaps my favorite flannel story ever)!
Thanks for visiting.
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Monkey Face by Frank Asch
This is perhaps my favorite flannel story. It makes me happy. I know Cate posted her version last year. I thought I’d finally post it today in honor of Mother’s Day. This flannel has been at our library longer than I have (1997). Monkey Face by Frank Asch is long out of print, but as timely as it was back then. I add some embellishments when I tell Monkey’s story. It’s Story Teller’s Privilege, don’t you think?
One day at school, Monkey drew a picture of his mom:
Hi Mom!
On his way home way home, he showed the picture to his friend Owl. Owl thought that the eyes needed to be larger, so Monkey took out his paint brush and …
"Much Better", replied Owl.
Monkey runs into Rabbit who thinks the ears are sort of tiny. Monkey gets out his paint brushes and …
"Big Improvement," said Rabbit.
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update: Go here to see the completed round-up.
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Thanks, Sharon
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Exciting News for Flannel Friday!
We're Going Legit!
Introducing the Flannel Friday website!
As you know, Anne at So Tomorrow has been an amazing manager and archiver of Flannel Friday information for the past year. Anne and her husband are expecting their first baby in June (congratulations Anne!) so we wanted to give her a break from Flannel Friday during her maternity leave. So this spring, Anne and Mel from Mel’s Desk and a small group of old and new Flannel Friday-ers worked to create a new web home for Flannel Friday.
Here’s the link! http://flannelfridaystorytime.blogspot.com
The new site will be the home of the Round Up Schedule, the archives, FAQs about Flannel Friday, information about how to get involved with Flannel Friday, and links to help new members get started with social networking and blogging. There will also be a link to the week’s Round Up, but the Round Up will continue to be hosted on individual blogs. We’ll just point to each Round Up from the site.
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The Singing Chick by Victoria Stenmark
I like this story. There’s a song in it (I make up a completely different tune in my head each time I tell the story). It’s fun to do with puppets as well.
As always I will sum up the story and not tell it completely, in respect to the author.
On a beautiful day, an egg lays on the ground. It hatches, surveys all there is to see then breaks out into song:
The sky is so blue / the sun is so yellow!
The trees are so green / and I’m a hap-py fellow!
Peep – Peep! Pirrippi! Peep-peep! Peep-peep!
a happy fellow....
So, the Happy Fellow goes on his way and meets a fox ….
... hello lunch!
The Fox eats the Chick who breaks out into song … by the time he gets to the “Happy fellow” part, he is terribly confused especially while he skips into the forest. In the forest he meets up with a…
He has a headache!
It’s nice and peaceful, until the wolf starts to break into song. And skipping!
Peep-peep! Peep-peep! Pirrippi
right into … a Bear!
He was eating raspberries, when all of a sudden...
Bear was eating raspberries and unhappy when wolf carelessly bumped into him. All Wolf can say is “Peep!” After much discussion, Bear eats Wolf and breaks into song!
The sky is so blue / the sun is so yellow!
The trees are so green / and I’m a hap-py fellow!
Peep – Peep! Pirrippi! Peep-peep! Peep-peep!
Thankfully, something happens and bear coughs up Wolf , Wolf coughs up Fox, and Fox coughs up Chick. And everyone stopped singing …well, most of them.
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Kay Leigh has the round-up this week.
To learn about Flannel Friday, go see Miss Anne. She’s got it all organized.
And, Melissa has a handy search tool to find all things story time.
Too Much Noise! Saturday Story Time
On Saturdays when there is no week day story time, we have to come up with our own. Sometimes that is good and sometimes not. I often need one thing to be inspired and then I can come up with a pretty good plan. This week, I didn’t know what to do.
I looked to the Wiggleworms Love You CD for inspiration. Pure Gold. I’ve been wanting to work in traditional songs into my story times for a while… songs we don’t sing anymore. Today was a good start.
Saturday Storytime
attendance: 64
Miss Mouse: wasn’t hiding behind anything this week. Too much to do!
Miss Mouse was wearing her black and red ruffle dress. She had her cow bell out and sang us a song… (not really, the bell just made lots of noise)
fingerplay: Clap, Clap Your Lap
WiggleWorm Song 1: I’m a Little Teapot with Two Little Blackbirds
Book 1: I Aint Gonna Paint No More by Karen Beaumont Such fun and great for singing along
WiggleWorm Song 2: Humpty Dumpty It’s fun to blblblblblblb fall off the wall. Then we sing it again…
fingerplay: Roll Roll Sugar Babies
WiggleWorm Prop Song: Cat Goes Fiddle I Fie. Used: cat, dog, snake, rooster (oops, should have been a chicken), and an elephant.
Book 2: Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin
Song 2: Drivin in My Car by Ralph Covert. Everyone loves this one… even the dads.
Prop Story with instruments and Puppets: Too Much Noise by Ann McGovern I pass out instruments: tambourines is the bed creaking, jingle bells play when the tea kettle whistles, and shaky eggs shake for the leaves falling on the roof. Really, it is a cacophony of noise and then I add the puppets. We moo and hee-haw and baa, but by the end of the story, the instruments do their job. One of my favorite.
Book 3: If You’re Happy and You Know it by David Carter
Titles I didn’t use but intended to:
- Flannel: Boom Boom Aint it Great To Be Crazy
- WiggleWorm Song 3: B-I-N-G-O. I had the poster cards up and ready and I just didn’t remember to do them!
Dream Big — Read! A Flannel Friday Extravaganza Roundup!
Welcome to the Summer Reading club Round-up. Some people this week presented stories for the CLSP theme, Dream Big — Read. Whether or not you are participating in this year’s theme, check these posts out. We have some very talented people participating in Flannel Friday!
Not everyone is doing the CLSP theme. Some libraries are doing themes on their own and some are doing the Illinois Library Association’s Theme: Reading is So Delicious. As a former IREAD chair, I’d like to take this time to tell you what a great program this is. I know next year’s theme, Have Book Will Travel, is being illustrated (in part) by Anna Dewdney
Okay, enough commercials. On to the Roundup…
Stories, Songs, and Flannels for the Dream Big — Read theme:
Shawn from Read Rhyme and Sing
Five different flannel stories in one post!
Linda from Notes from the Story Room
Andrea our Roving Fiddlehead Kid Lit
Lucy from In the Children’s Room
Angela at Valley Storytime
Katie at StorytimeSecrets
Several Thingsfor Dream Big Read
Sarah at Read it Again
Not Very Flannely idea for Dream Big — Read
Lisa from Libraryland
Katie from Recipe for Reading
has a whole list of Brainstorming for SRC — there’s lots of excellent ideas here!
Anne at So Tomorrow
Little Moon
Kay Leigh from Storytime ABC’s presents
a post filled with ideas
I’m Sharon and this is my blog. My contribution this week is an encore of a post from a few months ago.
How Many Feet in the Bed? by Diane Johnston Hamm
Other things presented this week:
Meghan from Busy Crafting Mom
Wind Rain and Clouds storytime
Courtney from Miss Courtney Meets Bobo
Maureen at StrongStart
Cate from Storytiming has two!
Feltboard App for Andriod!! and Popsicle by Jodi Koplin
The Library Lady From Story Time with the Library Lady presents
Two (2!) entries based on Raffi songs:
Fussy Hean from Fussy Hen at the Library
Pigs Wanna Fly
Kari Ann from My Storytime Life
Little White Duck
Since Kari Ann has her comments turned off this is my chance to tell Kari Ann that I like her blog and her contributions to Flannel Friday!!!
Flannel Friday details:
Erin from Falling Flannelboards has the round-up for April 6
Anne from So Tomorrow is the keeper of the details… She’s looking for people to host Flannel Friday Round-ups. Will it be you? You can find her contact info on the blog!
Melissa from Mel’s Desk originated Flannel Friday, has the Flannel Friday bling to grab, and has a custom Google search for all things story time!
Thanks for dropping by…
Happy Flanniversary, Happy Flanniversary. Happy Flanniversary. Happy Flanniversary!
It’s my Flannel Friday One Year Anniversary. Or it will be on April 1st. From April to June, I contributed a flannel story board every week. In June, I was feeling burn-out and decided to contribute a post twice a month.
I’ve done four round-ups up to this week… this week is my fifth.
The number of hits on my blog has jumped tenfold!! My busiest day was Monday, October 3rd… the Monday after the September 30, 2011 round-up. I had 639 hits. That round-up has had more than 1300 hits. I know some blogs get that in a day, but for this little blog, it’s a lot!
I’m stealing the following statistics from Anne’s Anniversary post:
Flannel Friday Stats and Superlatives
# of my Flannel Friday posts so far: 32
Most popular Flannel Friday post by # of hits: Make a Pig
Most pinned Flannel Friday post: My Red Umbrella with 21 pins (by my count)
My most used Flannel Fridays: Jim Gill’s List of Dances
My personal favorite: Make-a-Pig. It’s so much fun and so requires so much interaction with my audience. I’ve yet to share my favorite flannel story, although it’s been shared by another sometime this year….
My top ten blog posts (as of 3.21.12)
| Flannel Friday Roundup for 9.30.11 | 1,314 |
| Flannel Friday Roundup for 5.27 | 900 |
| Make a Pig Flannel | 508 |
| Introducing Miss Mouse | 488 |
| Lunch by Denise Fleming | 413 |
| Sam’s Sandwich | 400 |
| Jim Gill’s List of Dances | 395 |
| Boom Boom, Aint it Great to Be Crazy | 329 |
| Flip Flap Jack | 293 |
| An Elephant Never Forgets | 286 |
My coolest Flannel Friday moment: Having people visit my little itty bitty blog. Who’d a thought it? Really.
Also, honestly, when Katie mentioned Introducing … Miss Mouse on the ALSC blog post: Creating Traditions at Storytime. I was pretty surprised and pleased. She’s a special part of our library and it’s nice to know she’s inspired others!
This year has been filled with learning and networking and a I feel blessed to be part of such a talented little group. Together we are serving children with great literature.
Blog on…Sharon
10 Hungry Rabbits by Anita Lobel
While planning our Spring story time, I wanted something different. So, I invaded the to-be-cataloged books in Tech Services. I saw this book. Perfect. Have you seen it? It’s small. Certainly too small for story times. Perfect for one-on-one reading, but this has story time written all over it. It feels like the bare bones of a Stone Soup story; you’ll see.
Mama Rabbit has 10 hungry rabbits and the cupboard is bare...
You’ll notice the numbers on the rabbits are the same color as the vegetable that rabbit brings back… To start, I’m going to put the rabbits up and we’ll count to ten.
So she sends them out to find food:
One purple cabbage, 2 white onions, 3 yellow peppers...
I think I’ll point to Rabbit 1 and say, The purple rabbit brought one purple cabbage, etc.
I used a hemp rope for the onion...
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4 red tomatoes, five pink potatoes, six orange carrots
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Seven brown mushrooms, eight blueberries, nine green peas in a pod, and ten peppercorns
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And… when they all came home and gathered their food … an abundance of food:
An abundance of food!
To see what Mama Rabbit does with it, read the book.
Cate has the round-up this week.
To learn about Flannel Friday, go see Miss Anne. She’s got it all organized.
And, Melissa has a handy search tool to find all things story time.
