Storytime Programs - Summer 2016, Week Four

Welcome to the fourth week of of our summer storytimes.  In addition to our weekly storytimes, there are numerous special events happening so be sure to check our Events Calendar http://gailbweb.gailborden.info/evanced/lib/eventcalendar.asp, give us a call, or stop by the desk in the Early Learning Center if you would like more information.  We hope that you'll be joining us and continue to make a visit to the library part of  your summer routine.   Don't forget to pick up your summer reading log if you haven't done so already!  Below you will find some of the books, rhymes, and fingerplays we are presenting this week.

Tiny Tales  (For babies 0-23 months and an adult caregiver)

Books
I Love Planes by Sturges
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Hello Airplane! by Cotter
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Action Rhyme: I'm A Big Airplane

I’m a big airplane

Now watch me fly!

Here are my instruments

From down low to high (reach from down low to above heads)

First I get all revved up (make engine noises)

Then I can fly

Lift off the runaway 

Up into the sky!

This week we enjoyed parachute play in Tiny Tales.  We talked about the colors of the parachute, felt the wind as we waved it up and down, played peekaboo under it, and more!  Enjoy this activity at home using a tablecloth or other piece of light fabric.  Use words like "up" and "down", wave it "fast" and "slow".  Can you play peekaboo with it too?

Starry Time Stories (For children 2 years -Kindergarten with adult caregiver)

Books
Up, Down, and Around by Ayres 
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Puppet Story
Mr. Floop's Lunch (based on the book by Novak)

Movie
Picnic (based on the book by McCully)
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Have a picnic with your child!  It doesn't have to be outside.  What things will you need for your picnic?  Make a list.    

Ten Summer Activities You Can Do Together: Cars and Trucks and Planes and Trains OH MY!

 ZOOOOOOOOM and VROOOOOOM!  CHOO CHOO!  Select a book about cars, trucks or other moving objects such as an airplane or train from the library and read the story with your child.  Then, help reinforce the sounds, actions and names of the objects by trying one or all of these activities.  You can do these at the library, at home, at the park, at the pool, or wherever you find time together! 

1. Count all the blue (or red or green or brown, etc.) trucks you see
2. Sing Wheels On The Bus or Wheels on the Car
3. Draw a picture of the car you would like
4. Help Mom & Dad or Grandma & Grandpa wash the family car
5. Find a box and make a car
6. Use wheels and paint to make tracks on paper
7. Read a book about different types of trains
8. Use the lid of a pot as a steering wheel and pretend to drive a _(Choose car, truck, etc.)_ to the _(Choose a location such as the store)_
9. What words rhyme with car? What words rhyme with plane? What words rhyme with truck? What words rhyme with train?
10. Use small toy cars to form the 1st initial of your name

Terrific Twos: Buses go BEEP! BEEP!

It's Terrific Two Year Old time!  We are continuing with our animated theme of 'Things that GO!' and sharing rhymes and books about BUSES!  Our selection of rhymes, songs and stories encourages active play and thoughtful fun for kids who like motion and movement.  Children will use hands and feet throughout the rhymes to create activity, such as wheels going around in a circle, waving arms like airplane or walking back and forth.  Such simplicity engages children's imaginations.

If I Were a Bus or a Car Rhyme
If I were a bus or a car,
I would roll down the road.  (roll hands)
If I were a truck,
I’d dump my heavy load.  (let hands fall)
If I were an airplane,
I would fly up in the sky.  (spread arms like wings)
If I were a boat,
I’d make waves as I went by.  (make wave motions)
If I were a train,
I’d chug along the tracks.  (pump arms like train)
But since I’m a person,
I will walk there and back.  (walking motion)

The Wheels on the Bus (From our friends at the King County Library System)
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
Round and round, round and round,
The wheels on the bus go round and round,
All through the town.

The people on the bus go up and down,
Up and down, up and down,
The people on the bus go up and down,
All through the town.
The money on the bus goes clink, clink, clink,
Clink, clink, clink, clink, clink, clink,
The money on the bus goes clink, clink, clink,
All through the town.

Repeat the song using other elements of the bus such as the wipers or the horn:
The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish…
The horn on the bus goes beep, beep, beep…
The babies on the bus go wah, wah, wah…
The driver on the bus says move on back…
The doors on the bus go open and shut…
The grandmothers on the bus go knit, knit, knit…
The grandfathers on the bus go ZZZ, ZZZ, ZZZ…
The mothers on the bus say I Love You…
The fathers on the bus say I Love You Too…
All through the town.

We read these stories about buses at Terrific Twos: 

Maisy Drives the Bus by Lucy Cousins
Maisy the mouse picks up an assortment of passengers as she drives her bus. 
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Bus Stop by Janet Morgan Stoeke
Kindergartners gather for their exciting first ride on the school bus.
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Terrific Twos: Airplanes go SWOOOSH!

It's Terrific Two Year Old time!  We are continuing our theme of motion with rhymes and stories about 'Things That Go!'  Our selection of rhymes, songs and stories encourages active play and thoughtful fun for kids who like motion and movement.  In this week's rhymes and stories, children will also learn important concepts through repetition and singing.  Learning such words as 'zoom' or 'hungry' challenge children to learn new words.  Learning new words helps them put together ideas in order to make connections and understand words in print.

Zoom Goes the Airplane Rhyme
Zoom goes the airplane in the sky.
Flying above the clouds so high.
The plane goes up, the plane goes down,
The plane goes flies high all over our town.

Zoom goes the airplane in the sky.
Flying above the clouds so high.
The plane goes up, the plane goes down,
The plane goes flies high all over our town.

Are You Hungry Little Bird Rhyme
Are you hungry little bird?
Tell me please, give me the word.
Here’s some seed, it’s good I’m told.
It will keep you fed in this winter cold.

Are you hungry little bird?
Tell me please, give me the word.
Here’s some seed, it’s good I’m told.
It will keep you fed in this winter cold.


We read these books at Terrific Twos this week: 

Bird, Fly High by Petr Horacek
Bird goes out to find breakfast for her chicks. 
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I Love Planes! by Philemon Sturges
A child celebrates his love of planes by naming his favorite kinds and their notable characteristics. 
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