Terrific Twos Storytime: Valentine's Day

Clap Your Hands

(From the Old Town School of Folk Music CD “Songs for Wiggleworms”)

ABCs

Open/Shut Them

Open shut them, open shut them

Give a little clap clap clap clap

Open shut them, open shut them

Put them in your lap lap lap

Creep them crawl them, creep them crawl them

Right up to your chinny chin chin

Open wide your little mouth- but do not let them in!

Count to 10 and Back

Guess Who? by Lola Schaefer

One Little, Two Little

One little, two little, three little hearts

Four little, five little, six little hearts

Seven little, eight little, nine little hearts

Ten little hearts and a kiss!

Skidamarink

from the CD "Wiggleworms Love You"

A Kiss Like This by Mary Murphy

Got a Heart

*Everyone got a felt heart in a different color for this song. After the song we made a rainbow with all of our hearts.

Got a heart, got a heart, got a heart on my nose

First I lost it, then I found it

Got a heart on my nose 

[repeat with as many body parts as you would like]

Bumping Up and Down

Bumping up and down in my little red wagon

Bumping up and down in my little red wagon

Bumping up and down in my little red wagon

Won’t you be my darling?

One wheel’s off and the axel’s broken

One wheel’s off and the axel’s broken

One wheel’s off and the axel’s broken

Won’t you be my darling?

Bubbles in the Air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles in the air, there are bubbles in the air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way up high, way up high in the sky

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

There are bubbles way down low, and they tickle on your toes

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

Bubbles

Goodbye Song

(to the tune of She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain)

The goodbye train is leaving see you soon (toot toot)

The goodbye train is leaving see you soon (toot toot)

The goodbye train is leaving, the goodbye train is leaving

The goodbye train is leaving see you soon (toot toot)

Big Kids Storytime: Valentine's Day

Bread and Butter

Bread and butter, marmalade and jam

Let’s say hello as [loud, quiet, fast, slow, etc.] as we can- hello!

ABCs

Letter of the Week: E

words we thought of- elevator, elephant, earth, Eliana, Easter, egg

Count to 10 and Back

Groundhug Day by Anne Marie Pace

Got a Heart

*Everyone got a felt heart in a different color for this song. After the song we made a rainbow with all of our hearts.

Got a heart, got a heart, got a heart on my nose

First I lost it, then I found it

Got a heart on my nose 

[repeat with as many body parts as you would like]

When an Elephant Falls in Love by Davide Cali

Storytime Challenge

Today I wanted to practice having the kids speak to the group (to get them ready for next week's show and tell). So the activity itself was pretty simple- everybody took a card with pictures of candy hearts and counted how many were on there. Then, I pulled random names out of a hat and everybody took a turn sitting at the front of the room to announce their answers. It was very quick and simple but parents had fun clapping for everybody and I think it will help next week's show and tell go more smoothly.

Goodbye Song

(to the tune of “Wheels on the Bus”)

The library doors go open and shut, open and shut, open and shut

The library doors go open and shut at the library

We check our books in and out, in and out, in and out

We check our books in and out at the library

Our time is up but we’ll see you next week, see you next week, see you next week

Our time is up but we’ll see you next week at the library

Lap Sit Week of 2/12/2018

If You’re Ready for a Story

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story wave hello (hi everyone)

If you’re ready for a story wave hello (hi everyone)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story wave hello (hi everyone)

Big Big Big

This is big big big, this is small small small

This is short short short, this is tall tall tall

This is fast fast fast, this is slow slow slow

This is yes yes yes, this is no no no

ABCs

Open/Shut Them

Open shut them, open shut them

Give a little clap clap clap clap

Open shut them, open shut them

Put them in your lap lap lap

Creep them crawl them, creep them crawl them

Right up to your chinny chin chin

Open wide your little mouth- but do not let them in!

Group Reading- Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr.

Itsy Bitsy Spider

The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout

Down came the rain and washed the spider out

Out came the sun and dried up all the rain

And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again

One Little, Two Little

One little, two little, three little hearts

Four little, five little, six little hearts

seven little, eight little, nine little hearts

Ten little hearts and a kiss!

Lift One Foot

Lift one foot and then the other

Lift one foot and then the other

Lift one foot and then the other

Lift them both together

Lift one arm and then the other

Lift one arm and then the other

Lift one arm and then the other

Lift them both together

She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes (yee haw) She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes (yee haw) She'll be coming around the mountain She'll be coming around the mountain [She'll be riding six white horses, We'll all go out to meet her]

Book #2- Whose Nose? by Fiona Munroe

Acka Backa

Acka backa soda cracker, acka backa boo

Acka backa soda cracker- I love you!

Acka backa soda cracker, acka backa boo

Acka backa soda cracker- up goes you!

Roly Poly

Roly poly, roly poly

Out out out, out out out

Roly roly poly, roly roly poly

In in in, in in in

Roly poly, roly poly

Fast fast fast, fast fast fast

Roly roly poly, roly roly poly

Slow slow slow, slow slow slow

Hippopotamus on a City Bus

A hip, a hip, a hippopotamus

Got on, got on, got on a city bus

And all, and all, and all the people said

You’re squishing us!

A cow, a cow, a cow got on the bus

and all, and all, and all the people said

Mooove over!

A sheep, a sheep, a sheep got on the bus

And all, and all, and all the people said

Move baaaack!

from Jbrary

Bubbles in the Air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles in the air, there are bubbles in the air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way up high, way up high in the sky

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

There are bubbles way down low, and they tickle on your toes

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

from Jbrary

Bubbles

Goodbye Song

Storytime is over now, over now, over now

Storytime is over now- see you next time!

Lap Sit Week of 2/5/2018

If You’re Ready for a Story

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story wave hello (hi everyone)

If you’re ready for a story wave hello (hi everyone)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story wave hello (hi everyone)

Big Big Big

This is big big big, this is small small small

This is short short short, this is tall tall tall

This is fast fast fast, this is slow slow slow

This is yes yes yes, this is no no no

ABCs

Open/Shut Them

Open shut them, open shut them

Give a little clap clap clap clap

Open shut them, open shut them

Put them in your lap lap lap

Creep them crawl them, creep them crawl them

Right up to your chinny chin chin

Open wide your little mouth- but do not let them in!

Group Reading- Peek-a-Who? by Nina Laden

Wheels on the Bus

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

(Repeat with kids on the bus go up and down, grown-ups on the bus go shh shh shh, etc.)

Sign of the Week: eat, more

We Ask to Eat Like This

We ask to eat like this, we ask to eat like this

If we're hungry and want some food, we ask to eat like this

We ask for more like this, we ask for more like this

If we're still hungry and want some more, we ask for more like this

Adapted from Jbrary

She'll Be Coming Around the Mountain

She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes (yee haw)

She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes (yee haw)

She'll be coming around the mountain

She'll be coming around the mountain

[She'll be riding six white horses, We'll all go out to meet her]

She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes (yee haw)

from Jbrary

Book #2- I Like to Squeak! How Do You Speak?

Doggie’s Got a Flea

1, 2, 3 doggie’s got a flea

1, 2, 3 now it’s on me

It’s on my nose, it’s on my toes

It’s on my ear, it’s over here! (tickle)

from Jbrary

Bumping Up and Down

Bumping up and down in my little red wagon

Bumping up and down in my little red wagon

Bumping up and down in my little red wagon

Won’t you be my darling?

One wheel’s off and the axel’s broken

One wheel’s off and the axel’s broken

One wheel’s off and the axel’s broken

Won’t you be my darling?

I Know a Chicken + egg shakers

from Laurie Berkner's CD "Whaddya Think of That?"

Bubbles in the Air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles in the air, there are bubbles in the air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way up high, way up high in the sky

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

There are bubbles way down low, and they tickle on your toes

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

from Jbrary

Bubbles

Goodbye Song

Storytime is over now, over now, over now

Storytime is over now- see you next time!

Lap Sit Week of 1/29/2018

If You’re Ready for a Story

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story wave hello (hi everyone)

If you’re ready for a story wave hello (hi everyone)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story wave hello (hi everyone)

Big Big Big

This is big big big, this is small small small

This is short short short, this is tall tall tall

This is fast fast fast, this is slow slow slow

This is yes yes yes, this is no no no

ABCs

Open/Shut Them

Open shut them, open shut them

Give a little clap clap clap clap

Open shut them, open shut them

Put them in your lap lap lap

Creep them crawl them, creep them crawl them

Right up to your chinny chin chin

Open wide your little mouth- but do not let them in!

Group Reading- I Kissed the Baby by Mary Murphy

Itsy Bitsy Spider

The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout

Down came the rain and washed the spider out

Out came the sun and dried up all the rain

And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again

Sign of the Week: Stop

from Baby Sign Language

Bounce Our Babies

We bounce and bounce and bounce and stop

We bounce and bounce and bounce and stop

We bounce and bounce and bounce and stop

We bounce our babies to the top!

We rock and rock and rock and stop

We rock and rock and rock and stop

We rock and rock and rock and stop

We rock our babies to the top

We tickle and tickle and tickle and stop

We tickle and tickle and tickle and stop

We tickle and tickle and tickle and stop

We tickle our babies to the top

from Jbrary

Our Little Baby

Our little baby loves dancing, dancing

Our little baby loves turning round.

Our little baby loves to boogie on down.

Our little baby loves dancing, dancing

Lean to the left,

Lean to the right

Hug that baby nice and tight

from Jbrary

Book #2- In My Tree

Roly Poly

Roly poly, roly poly

Out out out, out out out

Roly roly poly, roly roly poly

In in in, in in in

Roly poly, roly poly

Fast fast fast, fast fast fast

Roly roly poly, roly roly poly

Slow slow slow, slow slow slow

What Shall We Do with Lazy Baby?

*feel free to substitute your own baby’s name

What shall we do with lazy baby

What shall we do with lazy baby

What shall we do with lazy baby

Early in the morning

Roll him/her on the bed and tickle all over

Roll him/her on the bed and tickle all over

Roll him/her on the bed and tickle all over

Early in the morning

Heave ho and up she/he rises

Heave ho and up she/he rises

Heave ho and up she/he rises

Early in the morning

from Jbrary

Slowly, Slowly

Slowly, slowly very slowly creeps the garden snail

Slowly, slowly very slowly up the garden rail

Quickly, quickly very quickly runs the little mouse

Quickly, quickly very quickly to his little house

Bubbles in the Air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles in the air, there are bubbles in the air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way up high, way up high in the sky

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

There are bubbles way down low, and they tickle on your toes

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

from Jbrary

Bubbles

Goodbye Song

Storytime is over now, over now, over now

Storytime is over now- see you next time!