Today was a very fun storytime because it was all about elephants! Here is what the plan was:
1.) Hello Song with Lamb Chop
2.) Book One-What to Do if an Elephant Stands on Your Foot
3.) Book Two: My Elephant
4.) Song-Miss Mary Mack
5.) Book Three: I Will Take a Nap
6.) Flannel Board/Story: How the Elephant Got It’s Trunk
7.)Flannel Board/Song: 5 Elephants in the Bathtub
8.) Group Read: Follow the Trail: Wild Animals
9.) Puppet/Song: Elephant
10.)Book Four: Small Elephant’s Bathtime
11.) Flannel Board: Two Little Elephants
12.) Goodbye Song with Lamp Chop
1.)Hello Song with Lamb Chop
I sing the same hello/goodbye song at every storytime so that the kids are comfortable with it and can sing along with me every time.
We clap and sing hello
We clap and sing hello
With our friends at storytime,
we clap and sing hello.
2nd Verse: Stomp
3rd Verse: Wave
2.)Book One
3.)Book Two
4.)Song-Miss Mary Mack
Miss Mary Mack-Mack-Mack
All dressed in Black-Black-Black
With silver buttons-buttons-buttons
All down her back-back-back
She asked her mother-mother-mother
for fifty cents-cents-cents
to see the elephants-elephants-elephants
Jump over the fence-fence-fence
They jumped so high-high-high
That they didn’t come back-back-back
Till the fourth of July-ly-ly
I had the kids clap along with me to this song so that they would stay engaged. They really got hooked on this song. We sang it a few times.
5.)Book Three
I love Mo Williams and love this series of books but it was hard to do with my crowd today because it is a hard book to keep their attention grasped if they aren’t each holding the book. They perked up though when Piggy started to snore 🙂
6.)Flannel Board/Story: How the Elephant got it’s trunk
I found a version of this story that I printed off from online. I liked it a lot better than other versions I had seen. I had each child take an animal so that when the animal came up in the story they were able to come up and put the animals on the flannel board. I was able to make these animals right on my Cricut Cutting machine which ROCKS 🙂
7.)Flannel Board/Song: 5 Elephants in the Bathtub
I got this rhyme off of Jbrary and LOVE it! The kids loved it too so it was a win/win. I gave out the elephants to volunteers so that they could bring them up one at a time. Check out Jbrary’s video. They rock.
8.)Group Read
I tried something new this storytime and did a group read. We received some money to go in memory of a patron so we used it to buy some kits for storytime. We bought ten copies of Follow the Trail: Wild Animals. I love these Follow the Trail books because they are very engaging and the kids usually love them. So each parent/child received a book and we read through together.
9.)Puppet/Song
Next we sang a fun song with a very special friend, ELEPHANT 🙂
Elephant-To the tune of ‘Mulberry Bush’
Here is the elephant’s tail so thin, tail so thin, tail so thin.
Here is the elephant’s tail so thin. Swish Swish Swish
2nd Verse: Trunk so long-Swish
3rd Verse: Feet so Huge-Stomp
10.)Flannelboard
Two Little Elephants
Two little elephants standing in a row
Two little trunks waving hello.
‘Oh’ said one elephant, ‘It’s time to go’
One little elephant standing in a row.
One little trunk waving hello.
‘Hey’ said the elephant, ‘Where’d he go?’
11.)Goodbye Song with Lambchop
I do the same as the hello song just input goodbye instead of hello.
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