tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5565614483847966482012-03-09T09:15:30.548-08:00Gulf Beaches Library Baby And Toddler PageTravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.comBlogger551100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-45717722289824889732012-03-05T08:24:00.000-08:002012-03-09T09:15:30.558-08:00Monkey Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xIMBwN7RL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA160_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xIMBwN7RL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA160_.jpg" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were MONKEYING around during monkey storytime today!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Puppet: </b> Monkey puppet with a pretty cute VL poem:</span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">There was a little monkey<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Who lived in a tree<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">He was pretty cute<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">He was as cute as can be!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;">He gobbled up bananas</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> He gobbled up bugs<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> But he was such a lovin’ monkey<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> He liked to give hugs!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">He hugged all the babies.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">He hugged all their (dads &) moms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Then he got shy and said “eee eee eee eee.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">And ran up the coconut palm!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">My monkey puppet went around the audience gobbling and hugging.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Big Book of 10 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed</i></b>, which I cut down to 5 little monkeys.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">The Itsy Bitsy Monkey climbed up the coconut tree.</span></span></div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;">Down came a </span><i style="color: #38761d; font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;">COCONUT </i><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;">andBOPPED her on the knee.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;">OUT came a <i>lion</i> shaking agreat big mane<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: #38761d;">And the Itsy Bitsy Monkey climbed up the tree again.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o249cHmnfbw"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">click to see youtube performance</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Jazzy in the Jungle</i></b> by Lucy Cousins. I skipped a teeny tiny bit, but this extra big, extra bright book, with its fun die-cut pages, was a major hit just as it was.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book:<i> From Head to Toe</i></b><i> </i>by Eric Carle. The great Eric Carle gave me and the babies a chance to pretend we were gorillas, snakes, and crocodiles, and let me tell you, I am a pretty terrifying gorilla.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Do Monkeys Tweet?</i></b> by Melanie Walsh. You wouldn't think that the babies would get Ms. Walsh's heavy sarcasm, but if I did enough double-takes, they spotted the silliness in this book of mixed up animal sounds.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Songs:</b> We sang lotsa favorites. I got rid of the easel, yay!!!! I'm hanging the songs from a clothesline waaaaaay above those eager little toddlers' heads.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OWi1KblL5yk/ToyNvEpA6BI/AAAAAAAAATI/PT8P6C-bzbM/s1600/do+monkey%2527s+tweet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OWi1KblL5yk/ToyNvEpA6BI/AAAAAAAAATI/PT8P6C-bzbM/s1600/do+monkey%2527s+tweet.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Oh, and thanks to the mom who gave me a great tip about playing a bell before Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. Nothing like watching ten babies stop what they're doing and all look up at you at the same time!</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-4571772228982488973?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-44004335155106171242012-02-23T12:29:00.002-08:002012-03-01T08:12:11.548-08:00Car Storyhour, Truck Storyhour, Transportation Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51u+Ns3Y8HL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51u+Ns3Y8HL.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whew! The babies were really swarming today! I'm going to fool them though -- No more easel! I'm moving the whole show up and over their heads! </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Silly Faces See Me...Go!</i></b><i> </i> This dopey board book has a big opening in the middle so that as I turn the pages (Flying on a plane is fun! I can fly high in the sky!) I can hold it up to toddler faces for a little audience participation. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song: </b><i>Wheels on the Bus</i>, of course!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book:</b> <b><i>Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!</i></b> by the great Mo Willems. This book worked really well. I was reading it in a deep voice for the driver and a squeakier nagging voice for the pigeon. I skipped a few pages, but all in all, a hit with a very wiggly crew.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song </b><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Start slow & pick up speed, while stomping feet and grabbing imaginary steering wheel)</span> </span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">Motor boat, motor boat,go so slow.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">Motor boat, motor boat,go so fast.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">Motor boat, motor boat,step on the gas!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"> Pick-up truck, pick-uptruck, go so slow.</span></div><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"> Pick-up truck, pick-uptruck, go so fast.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"> Pick-up truck, pick-uptruck, step on the gas!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">Rocketship, rocket ship, go so slow. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(stand up & move hands in air for take-off)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">Rocket ship, rocket ship,go so fast.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">Rocket ship, rocket ship,step on the gas!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"> Tankengine, tank engine, go so slow. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(move hands back & forth like locomotion)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"> Tank engine, tank engine,go so fast.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"><b> </b>Tank engine, tank engine,step on the gas!<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> <b><span style="color: green;">2 Little Boats</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">2 little boats are on the sea </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(hold baby on lap) </span><br /><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">All is calm as calm can be</span><br /><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">Gently the wind begins to blow</span><br /><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">2 little boats rock to and fro </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(rock gently)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">Loudly the wind begins to shout</span><br /><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">2 little boats are tossed about </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(bounce fast)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">Gone is the wind, the storm, the rain </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(stop rocking)</span><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"> </span><br /><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">2 little boats sail on again. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>The Wheels on the Truck</i></b> board book. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i> Sheep in a Jeep</i></b> by Nancy Shaw</span><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shaw's Sheep books are perfect for toddlers -- except towards the tail end of a really happening storytime. I think it was right around this time that <b><span style="color: red;">ALEXANDRIA TOOK HER FIRST 13 STEPS! (Yay, Alexandria!!!)</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Firefighters! Speeding! Spraying! Saving!</i></b> by Patricia Hubbell. Short & cute.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song & Play:</b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5 Big Trucks</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">5 big trucks go vroomvroom vroom <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">They hit the road goingzoom zoom zoom. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">The dispatcher calls out,“Come on back!”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">But only 4 big trucks areon the track.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"> The backhoe is at a construction site!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">4 big trucks go vroomvroom vroom <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">They hit the road goingzoom zoom zoom. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">The dispatcher calls out,“Come on back!”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">But only 3 big trucks areon the track.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"> The hook & ladder truck is at a fire!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">3 big trucks go vroomvroom vroom <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">They hit the road goingzoom zoom zoom. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">The dispatcher calls out,“Come on back!”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">But only 2 big trucks areon the track.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"> The dump truck drops off some dirt!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">5 big trucks go vroomvroom vroom <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">They hit the road goingzoom zoom zoom. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">The dispatcher calls out,“Come on back!”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">But only 1 big truck ison the track.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"> The garbage truck drops off a stinky load!<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">1 big trucks goes vroomvroom vroom <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">It hits the road goingzoom zoom zoom. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">The dispatcher calls out,“Come on back!”<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;">But no more big trucks comerolling back.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"> The tow truck is towing a car off the track!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"><span style="font-size: large;">Cute Babies!!!</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M8gHE2R909U/T05kpg_B-3I/AAAAAAAAAoY/dyYMphFrU1Y/s1600/IMG_0007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-M8gHE2R909U/T05kpg_B-3I/AAAAAAAAAoY/dyYMphFrU1Y/s320/IMG_0007.JPG" width="249" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-4400433515510617124?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-24391806662316671852012-02-21T09:24:00.003-08:002012-02-22T09:12:02.889-08:00ABC Storyhour - 123 Storyhour. Alphabet Storyhour - Number Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Jh1zC1yXhWo/T0UWJE6f58I/AAAAAAAAAnY/vQGMeXYoYzU/s1600/Very+hungry+spider.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Jh1zC1yXhWo/T0UWJE6f58I/AAAAAAAAAnY/vQGMeXYoYzU/s1600/Very+hungry+spider.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book & Play:<i> Tell Time with The Very Busy Spider</i></b> by Eric Carle. GREAT readaloud. Farm animal noises + telling time + a spider web tell and draw that even I can tell and draw. While the spider spun so busily in the story, I drew the web on my chalkboard using a piece of chalk concealed on the belly of my very large spider so it looked (I hope) as if the spider really was spinning a web. I even had a hapless fly fingerpuppet land in the middle of the web and be eaten.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Fingerplay: </b><span style="font-size: x-small;">WHICH I FORGOT TO DO.</span> <i>Eentsy Weentsy Spider.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Play: </b><i>Six Bears in the Bed</i><b> </b>and the little one said, Roll Over, Roll Over. As much fun as it was in <a href="http://gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-storyhour-bedtime.html">December</a>.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>ABC3D</i></b> pop-up by Marion Bataille. We sang the ABC song first and the blank look on these babies' faces -- Savannah looked wary -- should have tipped me off that toddler literacy is a little premature.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Fingerplay:</b> <i>Six Little Ducks That I Once Knew.</i> This was fun because I could get up and wander around the room wibbling and wobbling. I had five little fingerpuppet ducks on one hand and another with a very long yellow feather taped to its back on the other. I don't know why I find that yellow feather so comical.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Songs:</b> <i>Motor Boat, Wheels on the Bus, Mama's Little Bab</i>y, etc.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-2439180666231667185?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-48542727240826233432012-02-14T08:01:00.001-08:002012-02-16T07:02:34.898-08:00Color Storyhour, Red<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cDFoE8BJL._AA160_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cDFoE8BJL._AA160_.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Play: </b>I blew up a red balloon and released it -- always an attention getter. I painted red from a red paintpot onto a big white piece of paper. I put on my red clown nose and my red & white Cat in the Hat hat.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Little Monsters</i></b><i> </i>by Jan Pienkowski claimed the attention of a 20 babies at once! Yay, little monsters!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Play:</b> Clifford the Big Red Dog made his appearance. I wrote a BVL poem for him:</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There was a big red dog </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who couldn't fit in a house.</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He wouldn't hurt a fly. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He wouldn't hurt a mouse.</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He slurped at a mom. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He slurped at a baby.</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He slurped at a toddler. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He slurped at me!</span></i><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><br /><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He tickled a mom. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He tickled a baby.</span></i><br /><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He tickled a toddler. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And he tried to tickle me! </span></i><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Dinosaur vs. Bedtime</i></b> by Bob Shea. This big red dinosaur was jussssst </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">right for this group. He did a lot of roaring and the kids did a lot of listening. At the end, I read myself right down to the ground and stuck my thumb in my mouth and 'went to sleep.' Very fun.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Peek-a-Boo What?</i></b><i> </i> You'd think a board book labelled for smart babies from twelve to eighteen months would be just perfect for this crowd, but they were not into it. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Play:</b> 1-2-3-4-5-Once I caught a fish alive -- and I went over the colors again. The kids wanted those fish! </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xi0GHmMKG40/TzviBL2K3yI/AAAAAAAAAl8/pTQQkjoK1bM/s1600/IMG_0001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="352" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xi0GHmMKG40/TzviBL2K3yI/AAAAAAAAAl8/pTQQkjoK1bM/s640/IMG_0001.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">What a happy crowd we were at storyhour! </span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-obEILB3WNfs/Tzvj_Jue-yI/AAAAAAAAAmU/j0CZVTqSeyM/s1600/cameo1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="266" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-obEILB3WNfs/Tzvj_Jue-yI/AAAAAAAAAmU/j0CZVTqSeyM/s400/cameo1.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pretty in pink -- hey, it was RED day!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-POGxCCBpKns/TzvkLCE3dyI/AAAAAAAAAmc/aN9SPdQ11fs/s1600/IMG_0003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="480" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-POGxCCBpKns/TzvkLCE3dyI/AAAAAAAAAmc/aN9SPdQ11fs/s640/IMG_0003.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: small;">Too bad the moms swooped in when this party turned into a pom-pom tasting.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-4854272724082623343?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-37603020383455314632012-02-08T10:04:00.000-08:002012-02-11T06:15:23.365-08:00Ms. Travis Valentine's Day List<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y781PV6QL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y781PV6QL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In case all you wonderful mothers are wondering what to get Ms. Travis for Valentine's Day, I've got a little list:</i></span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif, arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 26px; line-height: 52px; text-align: justify;">❤</span> </span> to see you at storyhour!</span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I <span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif, arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 26px; line-height: 52px; text-align: justify;">❤</span> </span> to hear you join in at storyhour as I read! I <span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif, arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 26px; line-height: 52px; text-align: justify;">❤</span> </span> it when I read about dinosaurs and you say, "Oh, nice dinosaur!" That echoing is great for focusing your child's attention on the story, and reading should be interactional. <i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">(And please don't talk to your friends during storyhour -- there's plenty of time to chat afterwards.)</span></i></span></li></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would <span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif, arial, 'Arial Unicode MS', 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana; font-size: 26px; line-height: 52px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;">❤</span></span> it if you took off your toddler's shoes before play time. So would the other babies! </span></li></ul><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-3760302038345531463?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-48025139650948874882012-02-03T09:43:00.000-08:002012-02-08T09:42:42.413-08:00Feelings Storyhour, Wednesday, February 8<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DBhxylxZL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DBhxylxZL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And how kind all you mamas and daddies are for sharing your adorable babies with me every week. That roomful of cuteness is overpowering!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>How Kind!</i></b><i> </i>by Mary Murphy. I love this pay-it-forward in the barnyard telling. It's a real celebration of happiness and good nature -- and a great readaloud too, because you can do animal voices. I used props for all the actions. When you read "flower", it's nice to whip out a flower, esp. for a large audience.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Uh-oh! I'm Sorry</i></b> board book by Rescek. This board book has Baby to 2 stamped on it as clear as day, but as I read it, and as I watched the kids step on each other and bonk each other on the head during the play session, I realized that the concept is wasted on them. Baby to 2 is too young for sincere apologies. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>How Do Dinosaurs Say I Love</i></b> You by Jane Yolen. Even if I was reading this mostly to the moms, the babies seemed to enjoy the giant dinosaur puppet I had, and the rhyming text was charming. This is one of Yolen's better books in the dinosaur series.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> We did a new tickle song today:</span><br /><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: aliceblue; mso-line-height-alt: 14.65pt; text-align: center;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Jokerman; font-size: 18pt;">Pizza Pickle Pumpernickel</span></b><span style="font-family: Jokerman; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: aliceblue; mso-line-height-alt: 14.65pt;"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Jokerman; font-size: 18pt;"> </span></b><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Jokerman;">by © Dennis Lee from Jelly Belly</span></i><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: aliceblue; mso-line-height-alt: 14.65pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Jokerman; font-size: 18pt;">Pizza pickle pumpernickel</span><span style="font-family: Jokerman; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: aliceblue; mso-line-height-alt: 14.65pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Jokerman; font-size: 18pt;">Somebody here is going to have a tickle!</span><span style="font-family: Jokerman; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: aliceblue; mso-line-height-alt: 14.65pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Jokerman; font-size: 18pt;">One for the nose and</span><span style="font-family: Jokerman; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: aliceblue; mso-line-height-alt: 14.65pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Jokerman; font-size: 18pt;">One for the toes and</span><span style="font-family: Jokerman; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="background: aliceblue; mso-line-height-alt: 14.65pt;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Jokerman; font-size: 18pt;">One for the tummy where the mashed banana goes!</span><span style="font-family: Jokerman; font-size: 18pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="background: aliceblue; mso-line-height-alt: 14.65pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Jokerman;"><span style="font-size: 64px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-4802513965094887488?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-58466400257556569652012-01-27T12:08:00.000-08:002012-02-07T07:32:25.893-08:00Play Storyhour this Wednesday, February 1, and tell your friends!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41tEocgmgoL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41tEocgmgoL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All the babies liked the theme of storyhour so much this week, <b>Playing</b>, that they wanted to <i>PLAY WITH ALL MY TOYS!!!</i> Every time I turned around, another fat little groping hand was reaching for a shovel or a gold tiara or a red flower! These babies are way too curious!</span><br /><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Clap Your Hands</i></b><i> </i>by Lorinda Bryan Cauley was so great that I read it twice!!! I read about twelve pages and then another twelve, and that worked out great, because you know how long the attention span of a room of toddlers is. I had the PPLC Big Book, so evvveryone could see the pictures, and we clapped and jumped and wiggled.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Let's Play</i></b> by Leo Lionni. I love this adorable little board book. It's very interactive, but next time, I'll stow my props in one tall basket. Those babies really have no self discipline at all and the sight of their playtime balls peeking over the tops of the buckets was really too much for them.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: </b><i><b>Baby Danced the Polka </b>by Karen Beaumont.</i> This cute little book was kind of lost by the time we got to the end of things. <span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">Next Year: <b><i>But Not the Hippopotamus</i></b> w/PPLC puppet.</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Songs:</b> All our favorites plus <i>Zoom Zoom Zoom, We're Going to the Moon.</i></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BVYM9YoHYqs/TylxVreKHJI/AAAAAAAAAkU/pW5N_-IUbMI/s1600/IMG_0001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BVYM9YoHYqs/TylxVreKHJI/AAAAAAAAAkU/pW5N_-IUbMI/s320/IMG_0001.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wisdom is planning on applying for my job when he turns two in March.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZrTug5fGlBI/TylxXzminXI/AAAAAAAAAkc/Kfi75cEjrjc/s1600/IMG_0003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="234" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZrTug5fGlBI/TylxXzminXI/AAAAAAAAAkc/Kfi75cEjrjc/s320/IMG_0003.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yes. We did have fun.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h552h_HDH4s/TylxYGvY_4I/AAAAAAAAAkk/9yHF4YRhZFU/s1600/IMG_0008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h552h_HDH4s/TylxYGvY_4I/AAAAAAAAAkk/9yHF4YRhZFU/s320/IMG_0008.JPG" width="278" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kayla gets the day's Cuteness Award.</td></tr></tbody></table><div><br /></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm confused. Aren't you babies playing ALL the time?</span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oKu6cH5XGrg/TyMD77B23VI/AAAAAAAAAkI/86JpWF4RZbo/s1600/IMG_0005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="188" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oKu6cH5XGrg/TyMD77B23VI/AAAAAAAAAkI/86JpWF4RZbo/s200/IMG_0005.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">No! This is how we make a living!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Book: Ticklemonster and Me, easy Haynes.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Song I left on my desk -- maybe next year:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Pizza pickle pumpernickel/Somebody here is going to have a tickle!/One for the nose and one for the toes and one for the tummy where the mashed banana goes!</span></div><div><br /><br /></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-5846640025755656965?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-51739511236143080862012-01-20T10:47:00.000-08:002012-01-27T10:38:36.404-08:00Penguin Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CTYG75NXL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51CTYG75NXL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Poem Play: </b> I had a penguin puppet and did a Bad Vachel Lindsay penguin poem</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I know a little penguin </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who lived in the snow.</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He swam in the ocean. (puppet swims) </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He loved to GO GO GO! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(puppet swims at children)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He snapped at a fish. (puppet nibbles at children's faces)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He snapped at an eel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He snapped at some shrimp.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He snapped at me!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He caught that fish. (puppet nibbles at children's tums)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He caught that eel.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He caught that shrimp.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But he didn’t catch me! (I give puppet a dirty look and shake my finger at him.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>I Like It When...</i></b> by Mary Murphy. This book isn't really about penguins, it's about being two years old. Perfectimundo for baby storyhour. Simple line illustrations on brightly colored pages and text easy to act out. "I like it when you tickle me." "I like it when we play peekaboo."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book:<i> If You Were a Penguin</i></b> by Wendell and Florence Minor. This book is nice but I skip a few pages for this age group.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song: </b> (I use foam stickers with magnets attached.)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VU3YtYDfX88/TyA2a7M5LNI/AAAAAAAAAjI/SJXP0G8h7R0/s1600/IMG_0003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="186" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VU3YtYDfX88/TyA2a7M5LNI/AAAAAAAAAjI/SJXP0G8h7R0/s320/IMG_0003.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: xx-small;"> </span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">Set up: Have penguins ready in a 1-10 stack. Ask the kids to count with you while you put the penguins on the board in a line. Do first have of the poem, tilting penguins down as if diving. Do second half and straighten them out. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: </b><b style="font-style: italic;">Busy Penguins </b>by John Schindel, board book. I love this series. Great pictures, rhymes, and lots of actions. I thoroughly enjoyed performing all the penguin acts, like diving, swimming and singing...and then I got to the "Penguins pooping" page.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> We did a new song today. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Zoom Zoom Zoom. We're going to the moon.</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Zoom Zoom Zoom. We're going to the moon.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We'll climb aboard a rocket ship and go upon a little trip</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Zoom Zoom Zoom. We're going to the moon.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5...4...3...2...1... BLAST OFF. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guSNWsJWbYc&feature=related" target="_blank">words and motions</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And of course we sang all our favorite songs.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Dear Zoo</i> </b>by Rod Campbell. Of course I love this book and it's perfect for babies...which is why I have a feeling that every baby in the world has already heard it. But do babies mind hearing the same story more than once? They do not!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-5173951123614308086?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-266172606016161802012-01-17T13:53:00.000-08:002012-01-20T10:44:02.622-08:00Zoo Storyhour roars into Gulf Beaches!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CpeR+sFCL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41CpeR+sFCL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Avery had just been to the zoo THE DAY BEFORE, so this storyhour was an excellent review.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bWb_l1owHcg/Txb6SVcskXI/AAAAAAAAAio/bih7-dyDKKg/s1600/IMG_0003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="256" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bWb_l1owHcg/Txb6SVcskXI/AAAAAAAAAio/bih7-dyDKKg/s320/IMG_0003.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Play:</b> <i>Old MacDonald had a Zoo</i>. I sang the song, and had puppets for Old MacDonald's lion, monkey, snake and parrot. Great update for this old favorite.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Tiny Little Fly</i></b> with Michael Rosen, and I had a little fly fingerpuppet. Wisdom listened avidly, so this was a pretty good choice, even though there was a little baby background roaring.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> After<b> </b><i>Bouncing</i> our babies, we did NOT sing the Wheels on the Bus! Instead we read:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: </b><i><b>The Seals on the Bus </b></i>by Lenny Hort. I love this witty take-off. It still gives babies and moms a chance to make all those great animal sounds, but it's a bit of a relief.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> <i>Three Little Monkeys,</i> swinging in the trees, teasing Mr. Crocodile.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book:</b> <b><i>The Pop-Up Rumble in the Jungle</i></b> by Giles Andreae. This beautiful pop-up book doesn't quite grab the babies -- but then, by book 3, nothing's really grabbing the babies.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book:</b> <b><i>Hippos Go Berserk!</i></b> Note to self: make a flannel board of this. I think babies LIKE books in storyhour that their parents have read to them a million times, but a visual or a sound track is needed.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Where is My Friend?</i></b> by Simms Taback. This nice board book didn't really work for this group either. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Next year: Sing "I'm being swallowed by a boa constrictor," from <i>Peter, Paul & Mommy</i>.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-26617260601616180?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-44397542352254745792012-01-11T09:47:00.000-08:002012-01-11T09:47:28.943-08:00Opposites<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RFJP7NZSL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RFJP7NZSL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A very fun book. Note: Illustrator inspired by the marshmallows in his cupboard.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Note to self: Your short term memory is not your best friend. ALWAYS give yourself more than one layer of time to pull your props (and pack your bags, and doublecheck your spelling!) You forgot the big and little Scooby puppets!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Build It Up and Knock It Down</i></b> by Tom Hunter. Plenty of motions to act out in this book about opposites, like saying hello and saying goodbye, sitting and standing, etc., A great start and a real attention grabber.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Big Frog Can't Fit In</i></b>, a pop up book by Mo Willems. How great is that? Lift the flap isn't wildly exciting in storyhour, but a beautifully engineered pop up book like this works, and the story is about a REALLY big frog and his leetle tiny friends, so it worked out perfectly.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song: </b><i>Open, Shut Them</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Tyson the Terrible</i></b> by Diane and Christyan Fox was wasted on this age group! I hope they forget it completely because I love so much reading this book about little dinos afraid of the big bad T-Rex. It has a great surprise ending with a great surprise pop up.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> <i>Motor Boat</i>, of course. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Maisy Big, Maisy Small</i></b> by Lucy Cousins. I skipped about half these pages, like the ones about stripes and dots. I wasn't sure about using it. Since it's about opposites, I thought it might be repetition of <b><i>Build It Up</i></b> but I forgot that babies LOVE repetition. Plus I got to blow my loud horn in it when Maisy was noisy!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b><i> This is Little, This is Big</i>, and <i>Five Little Monkeys</i> just because. (Just because my two-year-old grandson was so cute singing it.) And it was a big hit with this bunch! Another one of those classics that is a great comment on life: Our life is a series of attempts at bed-jumping joy, necessary failures, and readjustments. And it rhymes.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Max's Ride</i></b> by Rosemary Wells was another very fun book for acting out opposites. With a sturdy little board book like this, I whooshed it around the room, making it go DOWN -- I dropped it on the floor and looked surprised -- and UP and BETWEEN, etc. No one understands the small child better than Rosemary Wells.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> <i>Clap Your Hands</i> and many other favorites.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DE_GbgwVZuA/Tw3K_qvULgI/AAAAAAAAAiI/tLVuvpqz5Jk/s1600/IMG_0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="224" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DE_GbgwVZuA/Tw3K_qvULgI/AAAAAAAAAiI/tLVuvpqz5Jk/s320/IMG_0002.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So many fun people come to story hour!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WhCJZ7VF3-A/Tw3K_z0zdwI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/kg8waSCF2B4/s1600/IMG_0005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WhCJZ7VF3-A/Tw3K_z0zdwI/AAAAAAAAAiQ/kg8waSCF2B4/s1600/IMG_0005.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at that cutie Savannah!</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-4439754235225474579?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-83444981831527750892012-01-04T07:13:00.000-08:002012-01-09T12:15:51.204-08:00Party Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ip8vod8-L._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ip8vod8-L._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA115_.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So nice to see Fisher and Sophia back again, safe and sound!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Props:</b> The largest, loudest, most purple party horn at the dollar store, plus some blow horns.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Don't You Dare, Dragon</i></b> by Annie Kubler. I think the babies are growing up -- they seemed deeply concerned for how this dragon kept getting himself in trouble, and I know that none of them have ever actually met a dragon.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Mouse Party</i></b> by Alan Durant. A good read, because of course, the mouse speaks in a tiny voice, and each animal he invites enters making it's own sounds -- whooing, and baaing, etc, and then the elephant speaks in his own deep loud voice. Then I grabbed, my blowhorn and blew it elephant style.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song: <i>Old Gray Cat</i></b>, but I'm not so crazy about this one for the babies.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Birthday Monsters</i></b><i> </i>by Sandra Boynton. Parents joined in singing on the sidelines while I <strike>danced</strike> read this out loud. Boynton's books are so bouncy -- and I had my monsters as props too.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Monster Math</i></b> by Anne Miranda. Just up till Number Ten.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.fatbraintoys.com/images/products/detail/MD670/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="254" src="http://www.fatbraintoys.com/images/products/detail/MD670/1.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I found these on <a href="http://www.fatbraintoys.com/" target="_blank">Fat Brain Toys</a>, a toy website which I love. You can do toy searches on it by age, gender and interest -- it's where I got the balls for storyhour. The stomping rockets for older kids are terrific.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ccwnxPs90uw/TwSMcLcx2TI/AAAAAAAAAhY/m3qRnoyQryo/s1600/cameo1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="226" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ccwnxPs90uw/TwSMcLcx2TI/AAAAAAAAAhY/m3qRnoyQryo/s320/cameo1.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-604yNi1D_js/TwSMcjn8cmI/AAAAAAAAAhg/o6F2bIHHH0o/s1600/cameo2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-604yNi1D_js/TwSMcjn8cmI/AAAAAAAAAhg/o6F2bIHHH0o/s320/cameo2.jpg" width="207" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So nice to see dads at storyhour.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BD4jz0N_YvQ/TwSMc8es_QI/AAAAAAAAAho/erHD8JTCORM/s1600/IMG_0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="281" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BD4jz0N_YvQ/TwSMc8es_QI/AAAAAAAAAho/erHD8JTCORM/s320/IMG_0002.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rEKgVa-8RhA/TwSMdbFKUEI/AAAAAAAAAhw/jD7k75rnKp8/s1600/IMG_0004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="289" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rEKgVa-8RhA/TwSMdbFKUEI/AAAAAAAAAhw/jD7k75rnKp8/s320/IMG_0004.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Beads always lend a girl a certain cachet.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: red;">Next year: Hello! Is This Grandma? by Ian Whybrow</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><span id="goog_1265271390"></span><span id="goog_1265271391"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-8344498183152775089?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-25162776168678465442011-12-28T09:24:00.000-08:002011-12-28T09:25:42.084-08:00Yellow Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-SwwBZvvL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA160_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-SwwBZvvL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA160_.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Play:</b> I had two bottles of paint, red and yellow. What color should I paint the sun? Of course there was a smart aleck in the audience -- she knows who she is -- who said, <i>"Is it sunset?"</i> and <i>"You can paint it any color!"</i> But I just wanted to perform my magic trick of painting a yellow sun on a big sheet of paper.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Prop:</b> "Should I put on my brown monkey hat? Or my yellow duck hat?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Books:<i> Beautiful Oops</i></b><i> </i>by Barney Saltzberg. There were a lot of oohs and ahhs as I read this wonderful, wonderful book. Its message, reminding us to enjoy and make the most of the lucky serendipity of the moment, is one that all us parents need to hear again and again.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Prop: </b> Which is yellow? Is this orange yellow? Is this lemon yellow?</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Hands are Not for Hitting</i></b><i> </i>by Martine Agassi. This yellow book is fun for storyhour. I read it: "Hands are not for hitting!" and then slapped myself lightly on the cheek with a shocked expression. Following along in the book, we waved and ate and drank and held hands in the parking lot. A very good book for babies and a good intro to sign language as well. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Prop:</b> Which beads should I put on? What do we think of this blue beads? No no no. How about this yellow beads? Yes yes yes.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>How Do Dinosaurs Learn Their Colors</i></b> board book by Jane Yolen. I don't think Maria or Lydia cared too much about how dinosaurs learn their colors.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Duckie's Rainbow</i></b><i> </i>by Frances Barry. A megahit with the moms and the babies. I didn't realize how much movement is in this book, waddling, hurrying, paddling, etc. In combination with the gorgeous colors, this is a baby storytime fave.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xoAelCqQBVs/TvtOyEQXF8I/AAAAAAAAAgY/syWJIEioR8c/s1600/IMG_0009.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="236" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xoAelCqQBVs/TvtOyEQXF8I/AAAAAAAAAgY/syWJIEioR8c/s320/IMG_0009.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Is that a purple bucket behind Savannah? No, it's yellow!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DokdDV_NajM/TvtO0zmCQ1I/AAAAAAAAAgg/NkBXKk_mRQ4/s1600/IMG_0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-DokdDV_NajM/TvtO0zmCQ1I/AAAAAAAAAgg/NkBXKk_mRQ4/s320/IMG_0002.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Ms. Travis loosed the beads at storyhour.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gl5BQug49tU/TvtO138W8LI/AAAAAAAAAgo/LNKo5LfrRq4/s1600/IMG_0003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="252" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gl5BQug49tU/TvtO138W8LI/AAAAAAAAAgo/LNKo5LfrRq4/s320/IMG_0003.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">They can't walk but they can accessorize.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zggiTBl9Lrw/TvtO4JE7_1I/AAAAAAAAAgw/9PJjbHOCodI/s1600/IMG_0004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zggiTBl9Lrw/TvtO4JE7_1I/AAAAAAAAAgw/9PJjbHOCodI/s320/IMG_0004.JPG" width="225" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Who's popping up out of the tunnel?</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C-1HP9qj4Bo/TvtO5q31ZuI/AAAAAAAAAg4/hPND2XQH45g/s1600/IMG_0007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-C-1HP9qj4Bo/TvtO5q31ZuI/AAAAAAAAAg4/hPND2XQH45g/s320/IMG_0007.JPG" width="225" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Lydia hasn't learned the rule yet: "Select your accessories and then subtract one thing."</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-2516277616867846544?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-38370618429415726142011-12-21T08:42:00.000-08:002012-02-22T09:03:35.181-08:00Christmas Storyhour - Bedtime Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61dGJQCEf9L._SL500_AA300_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61dGJQCEf9L._SL500_AA300_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book/Song: <i>Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed.</i></b> The babies were a tiny bit young for this, but when my two-year-old fell while jumping on HIS bed last Tuesday, I just had to sing a verse or so to calm him down. A cornerstone in any child's repertoire.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book:<i> Maisy's Bedtime</i></b> by Lucy Cousins. I've heard people complain that Maisy books are a bit dull, but I think she is very zen. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Good Night, Pillow Fight</i></b> by Sally Cook. I love this book -- there's a lot yelling involved, counting, and silliness in general, plus it's really really short which makes it perfect for babies. <span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">Next year, remember to bring a squishy little pillow.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Snuggle Up, Sleepy Ones</i></b> by Claire Freedman. Animals in the jungle (and savannah) go to sleep. Very sweet plus, of course, you can make the animal noises. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> <i>Five Bears in a Bed</i> -- we only did four. They like this even more than they did last month. This is a real keeper. I esp. love the addition of that "whoopsie!" as I push the bear off the cushion, over the edge of the table and on to the floor. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Songs:</b> All our favorites. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Bu26uNiV8Pw/TvILhKXZ86I/AAAAAAAAAf0/6wyuOtxYIis/s1600/IMG_0001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="317" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Bu26uNiV8Pw/TvILhKXZ86I/AAAAAAAAAf0/6wyuOtxYIis/s320/IMG_0001.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Alexandria looks so sincere sucking on that extremely large toy.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5wDD0LiSc7Q/TvILheoyTEI/AAAAAAAAAf8/ZgOTqQ2b1CE/s1600/IMG_0004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5wDD0LiSc7Q/TvILheoyTEI/AAAAAAAAAf8/ZgOTqQ2b1CE/s320/IMG_0004.JPG" width="272" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> "Why am I wearing a tutu? Am I signed up for ballet lessons? <i>En pointe</i> is going to give me difficulties. I just learned to crawl through the tunnel today."</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SKM_HWn1hbw/TvILh7AwmTI/AAAAAAAAAgE/xkF4GzMZISg/s1600/IMG_0005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-SKM_HWn1hbw/TvILh7AwmTI/AAAAAAAAAgE/xkF4GzMZISg/s320/IMG_0005.JPG" width="173" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Fisher and friend.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hovcFVAWu8Y/TvILiZsAdhI/AAAAAAAAAgM/uAgx0vebWOQ/s1600/IMG_0007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hovcFVAWu8Y/TvILiZsAdhI/AAAAAAAAAgM/uAgx0vebWOQ/s320/IMG_0007.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Welcome to Wisdom's world.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-3837061842941572614?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-49752583933417525722011-12-14T09:25:00.000-08:002011-12-14T09:28:40.851-08:00Fun time Storyhour<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-2gjq+8HL._AA115_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51-2gjq+8HL._AA115_.jpg" width="200" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Author recommendation: <b>Bob Shea</b>'s Dinosaur books. He's someone any young dinosaur can identify with!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Dinosaur vs. The Library</i></b> by Bob Shea. Next time, I'll do a better job of reading this fun book, so ideal for babies. Dinosaur corrupts an innocent cow, chick, turtle and owl into loud roaring instead of making their proper sounds -- until he comes up against storyhour. <span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">Next year, use puppets to get the concept across.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>My Crayons Talk</i></b> by Patricia Hubbard. I won't say that a universal shudder went through the audience of moms when I mentioned the word "crayons" in front of their babies, but a quick consensus -- "No, mine hasn't had crayons yet," went through the audience. The toddlers were fascinated though, as I drew colored shapes on a white paper. <span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">Next year, print out the text & stick it on your board instead of flipping back and forth to the book.</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book: <i>Where is Baby's Christmas Present</i></b> by Karen Katz -- maybe a good book to read to someone sitting in your lap, but not for storyhour! We had to sing <i>Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Itsy Bitsy Spide</i>r, AND the alphabet song to get back on track!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Songs: All our favorites plus <i>5 Little Gingie Men</i> lying on a tray/one jumped up and ran away/shouting catch me catch me, catch me if you can/you can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nn0XqtbRHCU/Tuja1SJADZI/AAAAAAAAAe8/LF85NoqcV6E/s1600/IMG_0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nn0XqtbRHCU/Tuja1SJADZI/AAAAAAAAAe8/LF85NoqcV6E/s400/IMG_0002.JPG" width="400" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Quite a cute collection of babies visited today!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nbYLyHbNotY/Tuja2Be5ZMI/AAAAAAAAAfE/NeZtXCuy3tc/s1600/IMG_0003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nbYLyHbNotY/Tuja2Be5ZMI/AAAAAAAAAfE/NeZtXCuy3tc/s400/IMG_0003.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-4975258393341752572?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-9721821065299934922011-12-07T11:57:00.000-08:002011-12-07T12:20:32.133-08:00Montessori at Gulf Beaches Public Library!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xaCxth6I07A/Tt_KSQOUfdI/AAAAAAAAAeU/G6vFR5B9GMg/s1600/Quin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xaCxth6I07A/Tt_KSQOUfdI/AAAAAAAAAeU/G6vFR5B9GMg/s1600/Quin.jpg" /></a></div><br /><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A couple months ago I was babysitting my 18 month old grandson Quinn for a few hours. (Don't let that big innocent stare fool you.) During that time, he must have fallen on his little diapered butt over a hundred times -- on purpose. He put a sofa cushion on the floor and then methodically practiced falling on top of it over and over and over, chuckling to himself each time. By the end of the evening, he had mastered falling down, a vital baby skill. According to Montessori, a child has a "limitless motivation to achieve competence over his or her environment" and Quinn had just demonstrated that motivation. </span><br /><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></i><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Today at storyhour<i> </i>(in the middle of riding the<i> Wheels on the Bus, Motor Boat, </i>and<i> Mama's Little Baby Loves Bouncing) </i>I talked about the Montessori method. Here are some of the very simple, practical exercises I demonstrated:</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hczdWFqFNuo/Tt--I88fD1I/AAAAAAAAAd8/WX01dzQZees/s1600/IMG_0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hczdWFqFNuo/Tt--I88fD1I/AAAAAAAAAd8/WX01dzQZees/s320/IMG_0002.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I was careful to show Kiley & Elsie how to pinch the end of the clothespin together to make it open.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-87jHPx9GQ9w/Tt--JFoqDYI/AAAAAAAAAeA/sMz77kH6LZ4/s1600/IMG_0004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-87jHPx9GQ9w/Tt--JFoqDYI/AAAAAAAAAeA/sMz77kH6LZ4/s320/IMG_0004.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Pouring. Equipment, two cups on a tray. Start with rice or beans, and then as the child's skill improves, use water and provide a small sponge and instruction for clean up. </span><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eKXhFRrMq0Q/Tt--J2154CI/AAAAAAAAAeI/79CvJI6FlbA/s1600/IMG_0005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eKXhFRrMq0Q/Tt--J2154CI/AAAAAAAAAeI/79CvJI6FlbA/s320/IMG_0005.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Sorting. Elsie and Kiley were fascinated with these brightly colored pom poms, and neither bright young thing tried to eat them. Pom poms are so sensorially fun that Elsie had to experiment with them. Could she hold them under her chin, under her neck? She could. Could she clench a large number of them into her hand at one time? She could? A little exploration is all well and good. Not a lot of sorting happened. At hers and Kiley's age, just taking the pom poms out of the basket and putting them in the cups was sorting. Later, more colors could be added, as well as varying shapes and sizes.</span><br /><br /><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.infomontessori.com/Pictures/cylinder_block_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://www.infomontessori.com/Pictures/cylinder_block_1.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wendy Savage from Montessori-By-The-Sea was kind enough to bring information about the school and these cylinder blocks. I was amazed at how hard Elsie and Kiley worked with these. I'm thinking of ordering some for the library now that my Melissa & Doug puzzles are wearing out.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some great Montessori websites:</span><br /><a href="http://www.infomontessori.com/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.infomontessori.com</span></a><br /><a href="http://montessorimom.com/" target="_blank">MontessoriMom</a><br /><a href="http://www.blog.montessoriforeveryone.com/great-ideas-for-toddler-activities.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://www.blog.montessoriforeveryone.com/great-ideas-for-toddler-activities.html</span></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-972182106529993492?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-59909648611324288802011-11-30T09:26:00.000-08:002011-11-30T09:26:55.845-08:00Bathtime Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61UIwbYXtWL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61UIwbYXtWL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song</b> & Turtle Puppet: "I Had a Little Turtle, his Name was Tiny Tim"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Story:</b> <b><i>Clifford's Bathtime</i></b> board book Bridwell. I put our giant Clifford the Big Red Dog center stage and could act out the book, scrubbing him, giving him his rubber duckie, toweling him off. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> <i>Large & Small</i> (I showed them the tiny dog so we could compare large and small) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Story: </b> <b><i>Tubby</i></b> board book Patricelli. A lot of washing and scrubbing toes and tums, which is always fun. So fond of Patricelli for this age group.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song</b>: <i>Motor Boat, Motor Boat.</i> I never need an excuse to do Motor Boat, but the baby does play Motor Boat in the tub.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Story:</b> <b><i>Bubble Bath Pirates!</i></b> by Jarrett Krosoczka. This book with its simple illustrations and its Mommy Pirate and two little pirates did a fairly good job of holding on to the babies' attention. Of course, I did have my pirate hat on and my pirate sword and my spyglass handy.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song: </b> <i>This Is the Way I Wash My Face </i>(hands, tum, toes) to the tune of Mulberry Bush.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Story: <i>Splish! Splash!</i></b> easy reader by Sarah Weeks. This worked in earlier years, but maybe because it was at the end of storyhour, the kids -- and the moms, more importantly -- just didn't listen.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> Those lucky attendees at this storyhour got to hear my debut performace of <i>Tubbie-O!</i> which I share now with the world:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To the tune of <i>Day! Day-O! (The Banana Song)</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Tub! Tubbie-O!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tubbytime comes and me not wanna go.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got grime and slime and lots of goo.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time for bubbles and my rubber duck too.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The yoghurt on my face is stuck like glue!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time for bubbles and my rubber duck too.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm stinky and gross and kind of pee-you!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time for bubbles and my rubber duck too.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I rub dirty face and also shampoo!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time for bubbles and my rubber duck too.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Splashin' in the water is always yahoo!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time for bubbles and my rubber duck too.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tubbie all done, now I feel brand new!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Done with the bubbles and the rubber duck too.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The moms held their applause but I still think this has the potential to become a classic.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s5upFIMKD3Y/TtZl14jRRRI/AAAAAAAAAdE/JnOr8r5Z9BY/s1600/IMG_0001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-s5upFIMKD3Y/TtZl14jRRRI/AAAAAAAAAdE/JnOr8r5Z9BY/s320/IMG_0001.JPG" width="263" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Elsie in motion -- Actually, come to storyhour and you'll see A LOT of Elsie in motion</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tqOk5w4Tkv8/TtZl3Nz2QVI/AAAAAAAAAdM/g_7J4hFI1zk/s1600/IMG_0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tqOk5w4Tkv8/TtZl3Nz2QVI/AAAAAAAAAdM/g_7J4hFI1zk/s320/IMG_0002.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Happy mom, thoughtful child</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WcnqCesWK5U/TtZl5YwC_oI/AAAAAAAAAdU/--jAIierSqE/s1600/IMG_0004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-WcnqCesWK5U/TtZl5YwC_oI/AAAAAAAAAdU/--jAIierSqE/s320/IMG_0004.JPG" width="247" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">What a cheap thrill: a rainbow colored plastic slinky. I always keep one on hand.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-5990964861132428880?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-72285376172344709222011-11-23T08:39:00.001-08:002011-11-23T09:02:42.250-08:00My Day Storyhour<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Play: <i> Five Bears in the Bed</i>.</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course, Lydia kidnapped my biggest bear before we could even get start, but I retrieved him so that we could sing this fun song. The moms added a wonderful chorus of "Oh, WHOOPsie," as I tipped the bears on to the floor -- where Lydia and Kiley were waiting to scoop them up. Fun.</span><br /><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Clothespin story: <i>Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?</i></b><i> </i><a href="http://www.dltk-teach.com/books/brownbear/index.htm" target="_blank">DLTK</a> has all the templates for this tale. I just printed them off on the color copier (and then gave them to poor Andrew to cut out and laminate! Thanks Andrew!)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Story: <i>Chugga-Chugga Choo-Choo</i></b> by Kevin Lewis is a wonderful rhyming readaloud. I got out my train whistle for this book. Nothing establishes your authority over an audience like a train whistle. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Story:<i> Let's Play </i></b>by Leo Lionni. I love Lionni's cheerful mice. I had some of the props for this story ("Let's play ball! Let's read a book! Let's gather leaves!") and acted out the others ("Let's go swimming! Let's climb trees!") Very fun.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Songs:</i> All our favorites.</span><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1EZayRqiyJY/TqhbWRxuuNI/AAAAAAAAAV4/Q-pvqwocJVc/s1600/Raga+and+Baby+Face+Nelson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1EZayRqiyJY/TqhbWRxuuNI/AAAAAAAAAV4/Q-pvqwocJVc/s1600/Raga+and+Baby+Face+Nelson.jpg" /></a></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're going to miss that cutie pie, Raga! She is flying home to India. Oh, well, at least she has two grandmothers there who know how to give baby massages!</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-7228537617234470922?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-29885242862161168272011-11-16T11:37:00.001-08:002011-11-23T08:39:23.049-08:00My Body Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-95d9pjMG66Y/TsQRCqKzVuI/AAAAAAAAAb0/kKcH2BjneIw/s1600/ten+little+fingers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="175" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-95d9pjMG66Y/TsQRCqKzVuI/AAAAAAAAAb0/kKcH2BjneIw/s200/ten+little+fingers.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Story: <i>Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes</i></b><i> </i>by the great Mem Fox. What fun it was to read this fun, rhymy book as you moms chorused along so beautifully with, "had<i> ten</i> little fingers and <i>ten</i> little toes!"</span><br /><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Story: <i>From Head to Toe</i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> by Eric Carle. Just do the familiar animals, and spend a little time on the sounds they make as well as the movements.</span><br /><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Story: <i>Wiggle</i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> by Doreen Cronin. Not quite in the mood for this book.</span><br /><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <i>Here Are My Hands</i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> board book by Bill Martin. This little board book is juuuuust right for babies, short & sweet.</span><br /><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Song: </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I fell in love with </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXU8RJw3L3g" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;" target="_blank">Wiggles' Dr. Knickerbocker</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and did my own version in storyhour today. You moms did a great job clapping along and for a first performance, it was a lot of fun. So many counting songs are backwards, I've noticed. 5 little pumpkins, then 4, 5 little monkeys, then 4, etc. I was glad to find one that counts up for a change, and with lots of action.</span><br /><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Song: Where is My Hand?</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (and foot, elbow and knee) to the tune of </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where is Thumbkin. </i><br /><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Teeth Are Not for Biting</i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> board book by Elizabeth Verdick. As I said during story hour, books are like scripts. We talk to our children, but books provide us with beautifully varied and fresh material. And just in case any of you have a young one who needs a frank discussion about biting...</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When a dozen or so moms went home, the rest of us watched Sandra Boynton's </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One Shoe Blues</i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> as sung by the great B. B. King to his missing sock.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T2Az16pN5MQ/TsQsoClB2KI/AAAAAAAAAcU/SmNL5q2xnkE/s1600/IMG_0003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-T2Az16pN5MQ/TsQsoClB2KI/AAAAAAAAAcU/SmNL5q2xnkE/s320/IMG_0003.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We were a happening storyhour today!!! Do you see that tiny little Sophia in the corner? Wish her a happy birthday -- she'll be a year old! And there's Olivia in the right. She just turned 29!</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Next Year: <b>Show Me</b> board book Tracy</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-2988524286216116827?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-56684726689292852522011-11-09T09:46:00.000-08:002011-11-09T09:46:59.500-08:00Farm Animal Storyhour<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wGUyoxiJPJ8/Trq1m8WAo4I/AAAAAAAAAbk/BhIDZWfriug/s1600/51YMKCDN9TL._BO2%252C204%252C203%252C200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click%252CTopRight%252C35%252C-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wGUyoxiJPJ8/Trq1m8WAo4I/AAAAAAAAAbk/BhIDZWfriug/s200/51YMKCDN9TL._BO2%252C204%252C203%252C200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click%252CTopRight%252C35%252C-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" width="186" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Book PPLC Big Book:</b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Old MacDonald Had a Farm</i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. The moms did a GREAT JOB of singing along with this shortened version. As I turned the pages I pulled out matching stuffed animals or flannel figures.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song </b>: (To 5 little speckled frogs, but just 3 for babies.)</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <i>3 pigs so squeaky clean</i>, cleanest pigs you've ever seen.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Wanted to go outside and play (shout IN THE MUD!)</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> 1 jumped into the mud, landed with a great big THUD!</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (slap leg)</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Now there are 2 pigs squeaky clean (oink oink) etc.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Thanks, <a href="http://melissa.depperfamily.net/blog/?p=1068" target="_blank">Mel's Desk</a> , for sharing!</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book:<i> Peekaboo, Puppy</i></b><i>.</i> A board book by Beth Harwood. This book is pretty perfect for baby storytime -- it only has four animals and they play peekaboo!</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book</b>: <b><i>Mary Had a Little Lamb,</i></b> a lift the flap by Linda Jennings. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We sang the song as I turned the pages, but when we got to the end, instead of the lamb going to school</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It followed her to STORYHOUR one day,</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> STORYHOUR one day, STORYHOUR one day,</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> It followed her to STORYHOUR one day.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And Ms. T was REALLY SURPRISED!!!</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> We did Mel's <i>Where is Thumbkin</i> only changed to Where is Big Toe (elbow, tummy, etc.) First day of a new song always goes a little rough!</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book:</b> <b><i>Mommy and Baby Farm</i></b> board book by Melanie Mitchell. This is really a puzzle book. The pieces come out and you can hand them around the group. This always confuses the kids! We have to keep those babies on their toes!</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book/Song</b>: <b><i>Barnyard Dance</i></b> by Sandra Boynton. This book has such great rhythm. I love to dance to it.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> <i>This Little Piggy Went to Market.</i> We sang this song as we all learned it originally in 1782. (Kidding!) But why not update? It's a cute song and right now we want our children to be learning more vocabulary than just "market" (and who goes to market anymore) and eating "roast beef" (and how many of our piggies are eating roast beef?) So we sent our piggy to Nana's house, the doctor's office, and we fed him some yogurt and mashed bananas. Hmmmm. Where will our piggy go this week? And what will he eat there? </span><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LkEyBHJNby8/Trq68uE0ZuI/AAAAAAAAAbs/DFEKQKbKewU/s1600/_DSC0560.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LkEyBHJNby8/Trq68uE0ZuI/AAAAAAAAAbs/DFEKQKbKewU/s320/_DSC0560.JPG" width="296" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Look at these cute giraffes who came to storyhour two weeks ago! And is that a ladybug I see in the corner? And there's another baby -- disguised as a BABY -- right in the middle!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-5668472668929285252?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-9868359417560199792011-11-02T09:48:00.000-07:002011-11-02T09:48:15.254-07:00Food Storyhour, Eating Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Puppet:</b> Turtle & Vachel Lindsay poem: <i>There was a little turtle, who lived in a box. He swam in the puddles, he climbed on the rocks. He snapped at the mosquitoes, he snapped at the fleas, he snapped at the minnows, he snapped at me! He caught the mosquitoes....</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> Roll, roll sugarbabies.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dWA+xnNEL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dWA+xnNEL._SL500_AA300_.jpg" width="200" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Play: </b> <b><i>Who Stole the Bookie from the Cookie Jar</i></b> illustrated by Christine Schneider. This fun classic (with built-in disappearing cookies!) made a great play when I read it aloud with a fish, a guinea pig, a cat and a dog puppet. The moms sang along beautifully.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> <i>Five Little Gingie Men lying on a tray, </i>1 jumped up and ran away. Shouting "Catch me, catch me, catch me if you can... I'm really quick, I'm a gingerbread man." I thought this group was ready to do number songs at 5, but 3 might have been a better choice. Moms were a great audience though.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song: </b><i>Mama's Little Baby Love Bouncin'</i> because I LOVE bouncin' with the babies.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Book:</b> <b><i>Yummy YUCKY</i></b> by Leslie Patricelli. This is even funnier that most of Patricelli's books and a great pick for babies.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> (to Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush) <i>This is the way drink our milk,</i> drink our milk, drink our milk, this is the way we drink our milk, so early in the morning. (And I use the sign for milk and demonstrate with a plastic cup painted white.) This is the way we drink our juice (using abandoned sippy cup), and then, using plastic cup of rubber worms This is the way we drink our WORMS???!!!! Do we drink worms? But we did talk about the pretty colors of these plastic worms.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> <i>Five Little Monkeys</i>. They were over it. Two long number songs are too many for this group; I should have stuck to <i>This Little Piggy</i> and <i>Mashed Potatoes</i> (instead of pease porridge) Hot.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <i>1 potato, 2 potato, 3 potato 4.</i> This settled everyone down, as we went faster and faster!!!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Story:</b> <b><i>Cookie Monster's Good Time to Eat!</i></b> by Allen. A good intro can really save story hour. The munchkins were ready to gremlin out on me, but by asking them lead questions, ("Does Cookie Monster eat worms? Does Cookie Monster eat hamburgers?") most began listening to this cute, short book about the times of the day.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s8QiL-Is6yc/TrFy0KApEAI/AAAAAAAAAZg/T_kfdkK4u0E/s1600/IMG_0003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="255" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s8QiL-Is6yc/TrFy0KApEAI/AAAAAAAAAZg/T_kfdkK4u0E/s320/IMG_0003.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> See this group shot! Everyone in this picture is teething! If you went to a cocktail party with these babies, they would all be chomping on the plastic dip spoons and it would be very distracting.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XC3rBXJx_Nw/TrFy17c8u-I/AAAAAAAAAZo/7ed6Q5n8uwU/s1600/IMG_0007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XC3rBXJx_Nw/TrFy17c8u-I/AAAAAAAAAZo/7ed6Q5n8uwU/s320/IMG_0007.JPG" width="304" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Thank goodness some people don't have to have a plastic object in their mouths at all times! Now you can have long conversations with this cutie -- only problem, you may not understand anything.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-986835941756019979?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-71164450980156607672011-10-26T12:22:00.000-07:002011-10-27T09:17:33.948-07:00Halloween Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: 'Snap ITC'; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 118%;">Halloween </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Snap ITC'; font-size: 48px; line-height: 56px;">Party </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZgWK515MdOo/TqhZ42Y_3MI/AAAAAAAAAVA/DvLqbk8F3eg/s1600/angel+group+.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="283" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZgWK515MdOo/TqhZ42Y_3MI/AAAAAAAAAVA/DvLqbk8F3eg/s320/angel+group+.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aOQLYxKDgt0/Tql8EWl0nJI/AAAAAAAAAXw/pmoK40IW5yo/s1600/Halloween.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aOQLYxKDgt0/Tql8EWl0nJI/AAAAAAAAAXw/pmoK40IW5yo/s320/Halloween.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fbAkj6zYbF4/TqhaBzoKYgI/AAAAAAAAAVI/6iV8s18ihU0/s1600/Princess+Zelda.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="207" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fbAkj6zYbF4/TqhaBzoKYgI/AAAAAAAAAVI/6iV8s18ihU0/s320/Princess+Zelda.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bH_MGRxDM_E/Tql7B_5cdpI/AAAAAAAAAXo/c7YycIqpVyM/s1600/_DSC0537.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-bH_MGRxDM_E/Tql7B_5cdpI/AAAAAAAAAXo/c7YycIqpVyM/s320/_DSC0537.JPG" width="258" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whooeee! What a bunch of cutie pies came to storyhour today! (Although we're missing a few -- where are Kiley and Sophia?) </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mHe725VsbAY/Tqha9lbzadI/AAAAAAAAAVo/mnZQyjLXc9Q/s1600/Wisdom+the+fish.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mHe725VsbAY/Tqha9lbzadI/AAAAAAAAAVo/mnZQyjLXc9Q/s320/Wisdom+the+fish.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Wisdom says, "Hey, why am I dressed up as a fish?"</span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VHYFRTj7HbU/TqhbTwOXf6I/AAAAAAAAAVw/DZVzw0pJW1o/s1600/Chili+pepper+%2526+zebra.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="236" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VHYFRTj7HbU/TqhbTwOXf6I/AAAAAAAAAVw/DZVzw0pJW1o/s320/Chili+pepper+%2526+zebra.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">That's one hot chili pepper & a zebra.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1EZayRqiyJY/TqhbWRxuuNI/AAAAAAAAAV4/Q-pvqwocJVc/s1600/Raga+and+Baby+Face+Nelson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1EZayRqiyJY/TqhbWRxuuNI/AAAAAAAAAV4/Q-pvqwocJVc/s1600/Raga+and+Baby+Face+Nelson.jpg" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Raga looked gorgeous as a peacock -- she's even sparkling with bling on her wrists!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_gYmYZutsEY/TqltYTBNTKI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/gztEZeDjPzA/s1600/Princess+Zelda.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_gYmYZutsEY/TqltYTBNTKI/AAAAAAAAAWQ/gztEZeDjPzA/s320/Princess+Zelda.JPG" width="195" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's Princess Zelda flying through the air.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X-GzH139JX8/Tqhawd0qyVI/AAAAAAAAAVY/3C8sjvVdp2c/s1600/ladybug.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X-GzH139JX8/Tqhawd0qyVI/AAAAAAAAAVY/3C8sjvVdp2c/s320/ladybug.JPG" width="252" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">And look at this adorable ladybug!<br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6OYtX5YAzoM/Tqha1wa1YUI/AAAAAAAAAVg/tghsXM3ozFc/s1600/Wisdom%252C+Scott+%2526+Mercy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6OYtX5YAzoM/Tqha1wa1YUI/AAAAAAAAAVg/tghsXM3ozFc/s320/Wisdom%252C+Scott+%2526+Mercy.jpg" width="310" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Wisdom's dad took some great pictures for us. Thanks, Scott!</span><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Snap ITC'; font-size: 48px; line-height: 56px;"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-7116445098015660767?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-25080919731812159492011-10-19T12:09:00.000-07:002011-10-19T12:09:26.408-07:00Costume Parade next Wednesday! Don't forget!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hey you babies! Wear your costumes next Wednesday! We want to bask in your cuteness!</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hLopkQI7XbQ/Tp8gCxnw2pI/AAAAAAAAAT8/kOEqsNDUbXQ/s1600/Halloween+babies+019.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-hLopkQI7XbQ/Tp8gCxnw2pI/AAAAAAAAAT8/kOEqsNDUbXQ/s320/Halloween+babies+019.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who are those cute babies from last year? I heard that blue frog is growing up to become...a fish!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-2508091973181215949?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-59344649177687000932011-10-19T12:02:00.000-07:002011-10-21T12:25:49.419-07:00Monster Storyhour<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Chiller; font-size: 26pt;">Monster Storyhour<o:p></o:p></span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Poem: (My bad Vachel Lindsay Halloween poem!)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><i>There was a little turtle who loved peek a BOO</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt;">He tried to scare me. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px;">He tried to scare you.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt;">He booed at the yellow moon. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px;">He booed at the cats.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt;">He booed at the spider. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px;">He booed at the bats!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt;">He scared the yellow moon. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px;">He scared the cats.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt;">He scared that big spider. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px;">He scared those bats!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt;"><i>I hung bats, a moon, black cats and spiders around the room & that turtle booed!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><i>Songs: Eentsy Weensy Spider</i>, followed by Great Big Mama Spider done with the Halloween tarantula. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">I didn’t do <i>This is Little</i>, although it would have been a good segue.</span></span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Book: Little Monster by Jan Pienkowski. (office) A very well done pop-up.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Song: The Halloween Bus. The babies are a bit young for this, but the toddlers enjoyed it.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Book: Monster Mess! easy Cuyler This book has great sound effects, but the concept is way over the kids’ heads. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Give it a good intro and shorten by half for this group.</span><o:p></o:p></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wTgf-f9c5yM/Tp8d2LWuSBI/AAAAAAAAATk/zkrBila6GvI/s1600/IMG_0007.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-wTgf-f9c5yM/Tp8d2LWuSBI/AAAAAAAAATk/zkrBila6GvI/s320/IMG_0007.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Flannelboard:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt;">5 little monsters sleeping in my bed<br />One crawled out from underneath my spread<br />I called to Mama and Mama said<br />"No more monsters sleeping in your bed"<br /><br /><i> continue until there are no little monsters and say</i><br />No little monsters sleeping in my bed<br />none crawling out from under my spread<br />I called to Mama and Mama said<br />"There are no more monsters, go to bed!"</span><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Book: Go Away, Big Green Monster by Ed Emberly. A five star favorite with me. You get colors, shapes, parts of the body AND a real big attitude!<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">You babies are growing up to be wonderful <b>NON</b>monsters! You get cuter and smarter every day!</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OgZLi81MxwE/Tp8eOsmmqLI/AAAAAAAAATs/65Fmj6bosvc/s1600/IMG_0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="228" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OgZLi81MxwE/Tp8eOsmmqLI/AAAAAAAAATs/65Fmj6bosvc/s400/IMG_0002.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_kuUHL021lw/Tp8eXaXMTcI/AAAAAAAAAT0/Lz4HcOznd7g/s1600/IMG_0001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_kuUHL021lw/Tp8eXaXMTcI/AAAAAAAAAT0/Lz4HcOznd7g/s320/IMG_0001.JPG" width="168" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-5934464917768700093?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-63454445004053279592011-10-07T09:54:00.001-07:002011-10-07T09:54:50.722-07:00Wednesday, October 12 storyhour CANCELLED!!!See you October 19 for MONSTERS!!! (Baby monsters, of course.)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-6345444500405327959?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-25977377964364738422011-10-05T10:22:00.000-07:002011-10-05T10:22:08.389-07:00Sounds Storyhour and Movement Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're all going to miss Raga and her mommy so much! Going all the way back to India! By they tell me they're going to start an Indian Baby and Me storytime there, and that will be fantastic!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6OKlw1lmEl8/ToyMLusrbFI/AAAAAAAAAS8/ljUVYjjHtXc/s1600/IMG_0001+%2528640x372%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="231" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6OKlw1lmEl8/ToyMLusrbFI/AAAAAAAAAS8/ljUVYjjHtXc/s400/IMG_0001+%2528640x372%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Every week I am astonished again (even though there is no such word as re-astonished) at how much I love seeing all the wonderful little babies who come to story hour with all their wonderful moms.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pQVQ7VAuo6g/ToyMNB7h_LI/AAAAAAAAATA/C6PKQ3u_I4c/s1600/IMG_0002+%2528640x271%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="167" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-pQVQ7VAuo6g/ToyMNB7h_LI/AAAAAAAAATA/C6PKQ3u_I4c/s400/IMG_0002+%2528640x271%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OWi1KblL5yk/ToyNvEpA6BI/AAAAAAAAATI/PT8P6C-bzbM/s1600/do+monkey%2527s+tweet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OWi1KblL5yk/ToyNvEpA6BI/AAAAAAAAATI/PT8P6C-bzbM/s1600/do+monkey%2527s+tweet.jpg" /></a></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Songs:</b> <i>Roll, Roll, Sugarbabies</i> & <i>Down by the Banks of the Hanky Panky</i></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Stories:</b> <b> Snappy Sounds</b>, a pop-up book by Harwood, noisy & fun.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Songs:</b> <i>The Wheels on the Bus</i></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Stories:</b> <b><i>Do Monkeys Tweet?</i></b> by Melanie Walsh. No! This silly book gets it wrong until the very end. The babies loved listening to their brilliant moms get the answers right time and again: Do butterflies growl? (turn page) No, tigers do! A wonderful interaction story.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Wiggle</i></b> by Doreen Cronin. I couldn't help but wiggle as I read this silly rhyming story. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>Song:</i></b> <i>Shake our Sillies Out.</i> We had to shake our sillies out after listening to a book about wiggling. and after we shook our sillies out once, we had to pass out the percussion instruments (plastic Easter Eggs taped shut with beans inside) and shake our sillies out again to music. Festive indeed!</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Story:<i> Peek-a-Boo </i></b>by Marie Cimarusti. We'll repeat this book again this month because it is a) so cute and because b) the babies were a little past it by this time.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HvXDpdqfYks/ToyMOrbCbaI/AAAAAAAAATE/I7IBfhzo-iQ/s1600/IMG_0004+%2528640x578%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="289" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HvXDpdqfYks/ToyMOrbCbaI/AAAAAAAAATE/I7IBfhzo-iQ/s320/IMG_0004+%2528640x578%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And after storyhour, some people <strike>escaped</strike> visited the children's area to read some more books!</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-2597737796436473842?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-77883038506648248222011-10-03T13:36:00.000-07:002011-10-03T13:36:59.485-07:00Storyhour Schedule<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">THIS Wednesday, October 5, storytime will be dancing and music, but just to let you know, NEXT Wednesday, October 12, I will be on vacation (yes!) so storytime is cancelled -- although I think the Gulf Beaches Library is always happy to see you moms!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-7788303850664824822?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-30319853969388022422011-09-28T14:27:00.000-07:002011-09-28T14:28:16.172-07:00Sun and Moon Storyhour<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> <i>Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star</i></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Story:</b> <b><i>Lights Out, Nights Out</i></b> by William Boniface. This scanimation features owls, wolves, bats and frogs, such exciting critters for babies.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> <i>Down by the Banks of the Hanky-Panky</i> followed up, with a little ribbity practice.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Story:</b> <b><i>Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me by Eric Carle. </i></b> I have a beautiful new copy which I've reinforced where the pages open! I do love this book. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b><i>Goodnight Moon</i></b> by Margaret Wise Brown. Such a classic. I know everyone in the world should have heard it by now.</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i> Kitten's First Full Moon</i></b> by Kevin Henkes. A little mewing and talking about kittens. When I have 25 babies in the room, I keep in mind that introducing books and art and authors is more important than trying to read the text verbatim. </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Song:</b> <i>Two Little Clouds in the sky so blue</i></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TjdoqZ7bgvE/ToOQC5N3o-I/AAAAAAAAASo/9t7AaunW7TE/s1600/IMG_0005+%2528640x480%2529+%2528640x480%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TjdoqZ7bgvE/ToOQC5N3o-I/AAAAAAAAASo/9t7AaunW7TE/s400/IMG_0005+%2528640x480%2529+%2528640x480%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Oh, we had a good time today!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MI-9eAGN_AE/ToOQFw-IooI/AAAAAAAAASs/YV7K349fNxA/s1600/IMG_0006+%2528640x406%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="253" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-MI-9eAGN_AE/ToOQFw-IooI/AAAAAAAAASs/YV7K349fNxA/s400/IMG_0006+%2528640x406%2529.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">All kinds of weird new toys!</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BSq55icf1Tg/ToOQITJ6y5I/AAAAAAAAASw/iW5FzLTkgrI/s1600/IMG_0009+%2528537x464%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="276" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BSq55icf1Tg/ToOQITJ6y5I/AAAAAAAAASw/iW5FzLTkgrI/s320/IMG_0009+%2528537x464%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">And some happy faces.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-3031985396938802242?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-15451903960525983942011-09-21T12:06:00.000-07:002011-09-21T12:18:17.409-07:00Bear Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Play:</b> <i>"Five bears in the bed and the little one said, roll over, roll over."</i> I love getting out our big cushion, saying night night to the five bears, putting them in bed, and then singing this song with the moms while tipping the bears unmercifully onto the floor -- often into the arms of a waiting toddler, and to the bemusement of the moms.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Story</b>: <i>"Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?</i>" Remembering that there are Florida brown bears, I tipped my hat to Bill Martin and subbed in Florida critters in brilliant day glo colors. I taped them up around the room and as I picked them off I hung them on a clothesline. </span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-amjwaDxmFAo/TnoyhJhj0OI/AAAAAAAAASY/VPdHLNfTLc0/s1600/IMG_0007+%2528640x238%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="119" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-amjwaDxmFAo/TnoyhJhj0OI/AAAAAAAAASY/VPdHLNfTLc0/s320/IMG_0007+%2528640x238%2529.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pink seagull, blue lizard, green turtle, orange alligator, yellow butterfly and gray snake</span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Story:</b> <b><i>Bossybear</i></b> by David Horvath. An adorable morality, but not a big hit with these little ones.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Story:</b> <b><i>Bearobics</i></b> by Vic Parker. This bouncy, cheerful read is a lot of fun -- but note to self, don't forget your maraccas next time!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Story:</b> <b><i>The Big Hungry Bear</i></b> by Don and Audrew Wood. A very cute little readaloud. I went around the room offering the babies imaginary strawberries to nibble on. Note to self, don't forget your giant teddy bear and your tiny little mouse fingerpuppet next time.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Song: The usual favorites, plus, of course, <i>Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around.</i></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MhSWbuz8rdY/Tno1o1vyp8I/AAAAAAAAASc/beOaNIVJ3qE/s1600/IMG_0001+%2528640x413%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="206" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MhSWbuz8rdY/Tno1o1vyp8I/AAAAAAAAASc/beOaNIVJ3qE/s320/IMG_0001+%2528640x413%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Alivia offers Victoria a green ball.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f09hJHFlgGg/Tno1ssMXOUI/AAAAAAAAASg/FOcBd7n3ikM/s1600/IMG_0006+%2528640x548%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="274" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-f09hJHFlgGg/Tno1ssMXOUI/AAAAAAAAASg/FOcBd7n3ikM/s320/IMG_0006+%2528640x548%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Kiley's amazed as he tries to fit the whole thing in his mouth.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-1545190396052598394?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-8988545462740581162011-09-14T09:38:00.000-07:002011-09-20T12:06:56.121-07:00Trains and Planes Storyhour<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Stories:</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Max's Ride</i></b> by Rosemary Wells. I introduced this story by zipping three little airplanes into the air, a red one, a blue one and a yellow one. One went UP, one went OVER, and one I let plummet DOWN. Nothing like flying airplanes to get babies' attention! Then I read this particularly cute board book, with its emphasis on UP, DOWN, and UNDER, demonstrating each one. Short and fun!</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Freight Train</b></i> by Donald Crews. I printed out all the train cars courtesy of the wonderful folks at <a href="http://kizclub.com/">KIZCLUB</a> -- imagine making all the pictures of some of the greatest kids' classic available for download, what a great idea. I wish I could say that I then took the trouble of stretching up my clothesline and told the story that way, but I'm afraid that'll have to wait till Friday. I learned the hard way that the train is quite a long one and will NOT fit on top of my easel!</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>In the Driver's Seat</b></i> by Max Haynes lends itself perfectly to a great interactive storytime readaloud. From the first page, "Okay, start the engine and rev it up, Brroooom, Brrrrooooom! Now wave good-bye!" it's full of action that the kids can play along with. A favorite. Of mine.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X4yyn2-1L._AA160_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X4yyn2-1L._AA160_.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>The Little Engine that Could,</b></i> board book by Watty Piper. (ISBN 0448401010) I asked the moms to help me read the book, and when we got to the "I think I can" chorus, they joined in so beautifully. There's a simple one, TWO, three, four, one, TWO, three, four step that goes along with the "I think I can" and "I thought I could" very nicely.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Play:</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Airplanes -- what an easy, fun prop! I had some leftover styrofoam ones from Oriental Trading.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Freight Train from KIZCLUB.com</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Train whistle -- this really started the storyhour off right. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Songs:</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Wheels on the Bus, of course!</i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><i style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Motor Boat, of course!</i></span><br /><div style="background-color: #93c47d; color: #4c1130;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maybe I've said this before, but I'd like to state for the record here that today's babies were among the cutest yet. They were the perfect mix: half of them were sleepy and half of them were really loving </span><i style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The Wheels on the Bus. </i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">:)</span></b></div><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ulYgM1h3bP8/TnDSamVW9fI/AAAAAAAAASE/kSJ7nU1zV4Q/s1600/IMG_0004+-+Copy.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ulYgM1h3bP8/TnDSamVW9fI/AAAAAAAAASE/kSJ7nU1zV4Q/s320/IMG_0004+-+Copy.JPG" width="274" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alexandria showing her serious side. </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f6P4a0lAEqI/TnDSgInmW_I/AAAAAAAAASI/QL9PPt9HWwE/s1600/IMG_0004+-+Copy+%25282%2529.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f6P4a0lAEqI/TnDSgInmW_I/AAAAAAAAASI/QL9PPt9HWwE/s320/IMG_0004+-+Copy+%25282%2529.JPG" width="295" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vcA2FyXdkWM/TnDSmxOPCPI/AAAAAAAAASM/5-GhrTzlfo8/s1600/IMG_0005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="264" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vcA2FyXdkWM/TnDSmxOPCPI/AAAAAAAAASM/5-GhrTzlfo8/s320/IMG_0005.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"What gives?" Raga asks. "I just had my mundan hair-shaving ceremony, but this baby is balder than I am!"</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-898854546274058116?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-54604004430081265682011-09-07T09:39:00.000-07:002011-09-07T09:40:26.715-07:00Train Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uzCvX-rZwzI/TmeaS1EtXeI/AAAAAAAAAR8/mMbYXzDEtk0/s1600/see+me+go.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uzCvX-rZwzI/TmeaS1EtXeI/AAAAAAAAAR8/mMbYXzDEtk0/s200/see+me+go.jpg" width="138" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Stories:</b> </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><i>Silly Faces See Me...Go!</i></b> We started storyhour with this silly book, holding up the book to Sophia & Ryan & Wisdom and other friend's faces and Seeing Them Go! (I won't say they made silly faces -- they took it very seriously.)</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>Clickety Clack</b></i> by Rob and Amy Spence is great to read out loud because you can start quiet, get faster & noisier, and then quiet down again. But it is a bit of a challenge for the babies and the timing was off. <span style="font-size: x-small;">Next year: <i><b>In the Driver's Seat</b></i> by Max Haynes: even more action, and shorter text. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Play:</b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I did my first clothespin story! I did Hillenbrand's<b> <i>Down by the Station</i></b>, and I loved the dimensionality of it. <span style="font-size: x-small;">That said, I don't think I did it very well. Next year, first hang up the animals, and ask what they are. Then talk about where they might be going. To the zoo? How are they going to get there? Then start singing the song and loading up the animals on the cars.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Flannelboard: I asked the babies to move along with me, while I held up a flannelboard w/the different lights on it.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Green says, Go! </div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Go! Go! Go!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yellow says, "Slow!"</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Slow...slow...slow.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And red says,</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">"Stop!"</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Stop! Stop! Stop</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Go, go, go!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Slow...slow...slow</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">And STOP!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Songs: </b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Motor boat, Motor Boat.</i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>The Wheels on the Bus.</i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>2 Little Boats </i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2 little boats are on the sea (hold baby on lap)</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">All is calm as calm can be.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gently the wind begins to blow.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2 little boats rock to and fro (rock gently)</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Loudly the wind begins to shout.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">2 little boats are tossed about (bounce!)</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Gone is the wind, the storm, the rain (stop rocking)</span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">2 little boats sail on again.</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-5460400443008126568?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-23191715008440731812011-08-31T11:34:00.000-07:002011-08-31T11:49:55.353-07:00House Storyhour<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">What a wonderful crowd of smart AND smartly dressed babies we had today! Look out world!</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Stories:</b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>The Napping House </b></i>by Audrey Wood. The bright pictures in this Big Book kept the babies' interested. I added some repetitive sound effects: a snoring grandmother, a dreaming child (ahh!), a dozing dog, (woof), etc.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>The Itsy Bitsy Spider</b></i> by Iza Trapani. Fingerplay only.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>Bling Blang</b></i> by Woody Guthrie. This book has nice hammering and sawing actions to go along with the bright rhymes.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><b>Leap Back to Me</b></i> by Lauren Thompson. After Wisdom kindly demonstrated leapfrogging for me, I read several pages of this funny and sweet book.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Special songs:</b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Over in the Meadow</i> on metalboard.</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i>Three Green and Speckled Frogs</i> (I cut everything down to three for the babies.)</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b>Puppet:</b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My wonderful turtle, with the original Vachel Lindsay turtle poem.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-2319171500844073181?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-29174093082994105192011-08-24T11:10:00.000-07:002011-08-26T09:12:21.685-07:00Dinosaur Storyhour<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">It was a beautiful, sunny day, and we had a swamp full of babies for dinosaur storyhour.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Stories: </span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Dinosaurs Galore</b></i>! by Giles Andreae. The babies appreciated the flannelboard dinos -- next time I really should share and let Oliver and Kiley and Wisdom help put them up.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp</b></i> by Carol Diggory Shields. I did skip quite a few pages, but I love this story, and I had the big book.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Dinosaur vs. Bedtime </b></i>by Shea. This goofy, short book has vividly brilliant pictures.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Snappy Little Dinosaurs</b></i> -- pop-up book. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Dinosaur Songs:</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b><i>Large & Small </i></b>-- because dinosaurs are large and small!</span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Dino Ditty, Ditty Dum Ditty Do</b></i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">"sung to "Do wah Diddy Diddy"</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here he comes Just a stomping with his feet,</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Singing "Dino ditty, ditty dum ditty do."</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Searching all around for something good to eat,</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Singing "Dino ditty, ditty dum ditty do."</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">He's huge (he's huge). He's strong (he's strong).</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">He's huge, he's strong, won't be hungry very long.</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dino ditty, ditty dum ditty do...</span> </span> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HDTggYlRyJw/TlUtaVsljII/AAAAAAAAARI/rytzItK2nlQ/s1600/007+%2528567x640%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HDTggYlRyJw/TlUtaVsljII/AAAAAAAAARI/rytzItK2nlQ/s320/007+%2528567x640%2529.jpg" width="283" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qHZt81Ud22M/TlUt96OealI/AAAAAAAAARM/4a13Z5Zc3NM/s1600/009+%2528578x640%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qHZt81Ud22M/TlUt96OealI/AAAAAAAAARM/4a13Z5Zc3NM/s320/009+%2528578x640%2529.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Oh, we're going to miss Sabrina!</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
</tbody></table><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-2917409308299410519?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-54589546699213646702011-08-18T12:55:00.000-07:002011-08-18T12:55:35.925-07:00Color Storyhour<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fmIgFEBrL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51fmIgFEBrL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-click,TopRight,35,-76_AA300_SH20_OU01_.jpg" width="200" /></a><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">We had another deluge this Wednesday, so many of our babies stayed home safe and sound. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">We missed you, of course, but I suppose until your parents figure out a way to teach <i>you</i> to park the car and carry <i>them</i> through the puddles, we'll have to continue to miss you.</span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;">Play:</span><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Brown Rabbit's Shape Book</b></i> by Alan Baker. So easy to create all the props for this story: a beautiful green box with a big red ribbon and a cylinder (TP roll) inside filled with balloons. I carefully counted out the balloons by turns, and then, one by one, blew them up and let them go winging around the room. Unfortunately, the second one hit me in the face, and the third nicked Amanda. One of the babies began to cry! Note to self -- point the balloons away from the babies!</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Flannelboard of <i>Teddy wore a red shirt, red shirt, blue pants, blue pants</i>, etc. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Books:</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>Go Away, Big Green Monster</b></i> by Ed Emberley. I emphasized the parts of the body a little for the babies, ruffling my hair and then the purple monster hair, etc.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>My Colors Mis Colores </b></i>by Rebecca Emberley. I had a red apple and a black crow. 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</style> <![endif]--> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">One little, two little, three little crayons,</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Four little, five little, six little crayons,</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Seven little, eight little, nine little crayons,</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Ten little crayons in a box.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Take out a red one and draw a big circle…</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Take out a blue one and draw a straight line…</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Take out a yellow one and draw a triangle.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> </span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Then put them back in the box!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I like this song so much I like to sing it while I'm getting my crayons out AND putting them away.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">To : <i>This is the way we wash our clothes, etc.</i> <span style="font-size: x-small;">It's a good song for sign language. I use three props: a cup I've painted white on the inside, a juicy cup (abandoned), and a cup full of colorful stretchy worms.</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This is the way we drink our milk, drink our milk, drink our milk.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This is the way we drink our milk, so early in the morning.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This is the way we drink our juice, drink our juice, drink our juice.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This is the way we drink our juice, so early in the morning.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">This is the way we drink our worms!!!! EWWW! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">(Useful because my stretchy rubber worms were so many beautiful colors to look at.)</span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span></span></div><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-5458954669921364670?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-38275926249581292362011-08-10T09:39:00.000-07:002011-08-12T09:23:59.843-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51b1lIGmBmL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA160_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51b1lIGmBmL._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA160_.jpg" /></a></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">We had a wonderful storyhour for those brave souls who tossed their fates to the winds and risked all to make it here through the torrential rains! Savvy moms knew all the short cuts and detours around local flood plains. By the time storyhour was over, the rains were too.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Play:</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><i>Mouse Count</i></b> by Ellen Stoll Walsh. I had an enormous snake puppet from PPLC, 10 little mice (actually only 9 because I lost one but who's counting?) a jar, and a stone I quickly harvested from the library landscaping. Remembering all I had learned from magicians visiting this summer, I palmed the mice and pulled them out from behind the babies. The babies were a little scared of that large snake. I look forward to scaring the older children more. This wonderful story is just concrete enough and has just enough about being eaten up ("But he was still hungry," Isabella kept repeating) to hold toddler attention.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Stories:</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Whose Mouse Are You?</b></i> by Robert Kraus. Great pictures, charming, simple story.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Maisy Goes on Vacation</b></i> by Lucy Cousins. Rather episodic in detail, but then what do you expect from a mouse named Maisy? It's a cute enough story. </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Next year don't forget train whistle & beach ball & towel.</span><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><b>Let's Play</b></i> by Leo Lionni. I love Lionni's cheerful little mice! </span></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Special songs:</span></b></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Three Nice Mice:</i> </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">3 nice mice, 3 nice mice</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">See how nice they are, see how nice they are.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">They're always polite when they nibble their cheese.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">They never forget to say "thank you" and "please"</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"> They cover their noses whenever they sneeze.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">AHH CHOO AHH CHOO AHH CHOO!</div><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">They're 3 nice mice, 3 nice mice.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">&</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>The Old Gray Cat</i> (only I had young white cat)</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The old gray cat is sleeping, sleeping, sleeping,</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The old gray cat is sleeping in the house.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The little mice are dancing, dancing, dancing (children dance)</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The little mice are dancing in the house.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The little mice are nibbling, nibbling, nibbling (children nibble)</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The little mice are nibbling in the house.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The little mice are resting, resting, resting,</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The little mice are resting in the house.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The old gray cat comes creeping, creeping, creeping,</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The old gray cat comes creeping in the the house.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The little mice go scampering, scampering, scampering (children run in place)</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The little mice go scampering in the house.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The old gray gray cat is sleeping, sleeping, sleeping,</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">The old gray cat is sleeping in the house. </span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; margin: 0in 9.8pt 0.0001pt 29.45pt;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AlA381tRN30/TkKzJtphmrI/AAAAAAAAAQo/uYdMljKBWDA/s1600/IMG_0004+%2528640x412%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="206" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AlA381tRN30/TkKzJtphmrI/AAAAAAAAAQo/uYdMljKBWDA/s320/IMG_0004+%2528640x412%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This mouse-like group can be counted on to do a lot of scampering, dancing, nibbling, and sleeping at <i>every </i>storyhour.</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aMbsJs96zCg/TkKzRaQw-fI/AAAAAAAAAQs/1HPme6HcLo0/s1600/IMG_0001+%2528640x496%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="248" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-aMbsJs96zCg/TkKzRaQw-fI/AAAAAAAAAQs/1HPme6HcLo0/s320/IMG_0001+%2528640x496%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
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</tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-3827592624958129236?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-43880955143486194742011-08-03T09:49:00.000-07:002011-08-05T11:16:33.947-07:00Jungle Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dUnXSaRqdCc/TjlxDAFfECI/AAAAAAAAAQA/I2EXciIk40o/s1600/rumble+in+the+jungle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dUnXSaRqdCc/TjlxDAFfECI/AAAAAAAAAQA/I2EXciIk40o/s200/rumble+in+the+jungle.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><b>Stories:</b><br /><ul><li><b><i>The Pop-up Rumble in the Jungle</i></b> by Giles Andreae is just the best. I loved the way Sabrina rushed the bright pop up book like a kamikaze, touching it I suppose to test its reality, and fading back to mom's lap.</li></ul><ul><li><b><i>Cha-Cha Chimps</i></b> by Julia Durango. I took a LOT of liberties reading this book to make the cha cha come out right. I also cut it from 10 chimps to 5 because I thought that was as much excitement as the babies could stand. Cha cha rhythm is <b>1, 2,</b> 3-4-5. So I simplified the chimp chorus as <b>EEE, OOO,</b> AH-AH-AH, while moving my feet step 1, step 2, steps 3-4-5. The next line went<b> 5 </b>(or 4, 3, etc) <b>chimps</b> cha-cha-cha. The rhymes in between are fun but I had a hard time finding the right rhythms in them for the dances, so I just fooled around and had fun with them. </li></ul><b>Play</b> w alligator puppet:<br />There was a little gator who lived in a swamp.<br />He liked to go swimming, he liked to go chomp. <span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(on noses)</i></span><br />He chomped on a turtle, <span style="font-size: x-small;">(on noses, etc.)</span> he chomped on a fishie.<br />He chomped on a bullfrog and he chomped on me!<br /><br /><b>Songs:</b><br /><ul><li><i>Wheels on the Bus Through the Jungle.</i> First we drove our regular bus, then we got on one in deepest Africa and rode with a lion, a gorilla, a snake and a monkey.</li></ul><ul><li><i>Itsy-Bitsy Spider </i>was fun but then we did <i>Great Big Mama Tarantula.</i></li></ul><ul><li><i>5 Little Monkeys.</i> I didn't have time to whip up a gorgeous flannelboard like <a href="http://storytimewithmissmollie.blogspot.com/">Miss Mollie's</a> . But I realized that babies just don't get fingerplay without props. Monkeys? What monkeys? So I did up a fast metalboard, ate the monkeys off it with my giant and impressive crocodile puppet, and good times were had.</li></ul><ul><li><span class="site"><i>Down in the Jungle.</i> This was REALLY fun because I had a wonderful Chinese drum on hand. I'm going to have to use drumming more often. Those babies were fascinated!</span></li></ul><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">Walking through the jungle, what did I see?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">A big lion roaring </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">At me, me me!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">Walking through the jungle, what did I see?</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">A baby monkey laughing</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">At me, me, me!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">Walking through the jungle, what did I see?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">A slippery snake hissing</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">At me, me, me!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">Walking through the jungle, what did I see?</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">A crocodile crunching</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">At me, me, me!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">Walking through the jungle, What did I see?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">An elephant stomping</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 12pt;">At me, me, me!</span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vsyRBjyV6wY/Tjl6sQZlbDI/AAAAAAAAAQE/wCQwZZms1pg/s1600/IMG_0002+%2528640x418%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="209" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-vsyRBjyV6wY/Tjl6sQZlbDI/AAAAAAAAAQE/wCQwZZms1pg/s320/IMG_0002+%2528640x418%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kiley being eaten by a crocodile</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oq3v6S7jbAg/Tjl6yUqBG4I/AAAAAAAAAQQ/KBPk50GErPg/s1600/IMG_0005+%2528553x640%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oq3v6S7jbAg/Tjl6yUqBG4I/AAAAAAAAAQQ/KBPk50GErPg/s320/IMG_0005+%2528553x640%2529.jpg" width="276" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">More monkeys endangered by that crocodile.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w9cWi1XY8Jk/Tjl6wL72T4I/AAAAAAAAAQM/wB-7j4zwv5w/s1600/IMG_0004+%2528640x601%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w9cWi1XY8Jk/Tjl6wL72T4I/AAAAAAAAAQM/wB-7j4zwv5w/s320/IMG_0004+%2528640x601%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Good work, Elsie! You've got both buckets!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LDc9s9mcHVY/Tjl6uuFmnzI/AAAAAAAAAQI/uwV4Hrugvog/s1600/IMG_0003+%2528465x640%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LDc9s9mcHVY/Tjl6uuFmnzI/AAAAAAAAAQI/uwV4Hrugvog/s320/IMG_0003+%2528465x640%2529.jpg" width="232" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is a blue ball, Mia. And you have the red.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span class="site"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-4388095514348619474?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-41552315167729057552011-07-27T10:45:00.000-07:002011-07-27T10:45:33.126-07:00Pet Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61XIChEssQL._AA160_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61XIChEssQL._AA160_.jpg" /></a></div><b>Stories:</b><br /><i><b>Fifteen Animals</b></i> by Sandra Boynton. I corralled 15 stuffed animals in a big box, and while reading the book, pulled out the animal. This could really be done with ANY 15 animals. It's a nice little play -- pull it out and show off the animals for this group.<br /><i><b>The Pigeon Wants a Puppy!</b></i> by the great Mo Willems. Love that Pigeon! Such a fun tale.<br /><i><b>Emma's Elephant </b></i>by David Ellwand has extraordinary black & white photos of unusual pets.<br /><i><b>Pet Shop Lullaby </b></i>by Mary Ann Fraser lets you read aloud with lots of animal noises, always a good ploy for this age group.<br /><br /><b>Songs:</b> All our favorites<br /><br /><b>Play: </b> Turtle puppet & poem. The original Vachel Lindsay:<br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">There was a little turtle who lived in a box.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">He swam in the puddles, he climbed on the rocks.</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">He snapped at the mosquitoes, he snapped at the fleas,</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">He snapped at the minnows, he snapped at me!</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">He caught the mosquitoes, he caught the fleas,</span><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">He caught those minnows, but he didn't catch me!</span><br /><br />I always love snapping at all the little baby mosquito and minnows in the room.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7_uEF1uw3ps/TjBNrcSuYzI/AAAAAAAAAPs/9Cq_sEtZs6Y/s1600/IMG_0004+%2528640x525%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="260" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7_uEF1uw3ps/TjBNrcSuYzI/AAAAAAAAAPs/9Cq_sEtZs6Y/s320/IMG_0004+%2528640x525%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">We've started saying goodbye to our summer visitors, but in the meantime, we were a big party!!! </span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-4155231516772905755?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-32049053922761847842011-07-20T09:58:00.000-07:002011-07-26T14:10:10.700-07:00Pig Storyhour<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KJb3E6lcb0A/TicHMvf_1SI/AAAAAAAAAPM/RjReOea0H3s/s1600/baby+storyhour+12.1.10%252C+1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KJb3E6lcb0A/TicHMvf_1SI/AAAAAAAAAPM/RjReOea0H3s/s320/baby+storyhour+12.1.10%252C+1.JPG" width="212" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Having a baby is like getting a new sun -- we get to revolve around a new celestial body that resets the nature of our time itself. There is little Oliver in the upper right corner. This picture was taken in December, and now he's already two and talking although we ourselves haven't changed a bit. Perhaps this is the most important reason to read to our children -- because we can. A few minutes a day lets us orbit together.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Props:</b> I wore a pig nose (pink styrofoam egg carton) and we grunted. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Stories: </b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Try: Piggy Pie Po by Audrey & Don Wood</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>"Eat!"</i> Cried Little Pig by Jonathon London. A short, rhyming tale of a greedy little pig, good for a little sign language practice.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Olivia's Opposites</i> by Ian Falconer. Good for acting out the difference between up and down, etc., although my rendition of "loud", vis a vis a lion growling loudly, did cause one baby outburst.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Let's Dance, Little Pookie</i> by Sandra Boynton. A great song, but they were a bit past it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>Songs:</b> All our favorites. A pig rode on the bus with us.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-3204905392276184784?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-51743700714861868822011-07-13T09:19:00.000-07:002011-07-27T08:31:22.267-07:00Cat Storyhour<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3jwaGXQa6gI/Th3DRCcX7ZI/AAAAAAAAANw/uzEn-Wa63Sc/s1600/IMG_0003.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-3jwaGXQa6gI/Th3DRCcX7ZI/AAAAAAAAANw/uzEn-Wa63Sc/s200/IMG_0003.JPG" width="172" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Alivia playing with the cat puppet after storyhour.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Cat </b>by Matthew Van Fleet would have been great if I could have gotten a good copy in time.</span></i><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">Stories:</span></b></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Have You Seen My Cat?</i> by Eric Carle. I showed the Big Book from PPLC (love those wonderful Eric Carle illustrations) but I acted it out more than read it. I had the animal puppets hidden around the room, and said, "Have you seen my cat?" and then pulled out the panther and said, "This is not my cat!" etc. Worked VERY well for the babies.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There are Cats in This Book</i> by Viviane Schwarz. Did not hold their attention 100%, but it is a good book for the babies. Maybe shorten a little more.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Cat's Colors by Jane Cabrera. Again, not 100% involvement. The babies were a little young for the color concept.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Who Said Meow?</i> by Maria Polushkin. This dopey little book is really pretty good for babies -- it has a dog, a mouse, a bumblebee and a cat in it -- how could it miss?</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Play:</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Have You Seen My Cat</i> made a very good impromptu play, with some, but not all of the puppets.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Songs: Our usual favorites. Love that <i>Sugar Baby & Mama's Little Baby</i>!</span></div><br /><br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ee-5PRhJw9Q/Th3DPMRqwEI/AAAAAAAAANs/WgJoG_iFwYw/s1600/IMG_0001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ee-5PRhJw9Q/Th3DPMRqwEI/AAAAAAAAANs/WgJoG_iFwYw/s320/IMG_0001.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Remember that book --</span><i style="font-family: inherit;"> Hundreds of Babies, Thousands of Babies, Millions & Billions & Trillions of Babies?</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> No? I don't either, but maybe I'll write it.</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LogeZwmatis/Th3DUSyoKwI/AAAAAAAAAN0/5PweN6X4eO8/s1600/IMG_0005.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LogeZwmatis/Th3DUSyoKwI/AAAAAAAAAN0/5PweN6X4eO8/s320/IMG_0005.JPG" width="215" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cute little Emma</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FF432EAjaLU/Th3DYwqGViI/AAAAAAAAAN4/UkKRsIi8rD0/s1600/IMG_0008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="318" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FF432EAjaLU/Th3DYwqGViI/AAAAAAAAAN4/UkKRsIi8rD0/s320/IMG_0008.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dGNyi49Il9I/Th3DcWKoDPI/AAAAAAAAAN8/BiPPyF-ecKQ/s1600/IMG_0012.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="293" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dGNyi49Il9I/Th3DcWKoDPI/AAAAAAAAAN8/BiPPyF-ecKQ/s320/IMG_0012.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-5174370071486186882?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-72887689738269426092011-07-06T09:10:00.000-07:002012-02-14T12:41:11.521-08:00Dog Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">I am <i>very </i>happy to report that this week the little gremlins changed back into Sugar Babies, especially considering there were <i>sooo</i> many pups present. It's wonderful to see them growing up right before my eyes! How many milestones we've seen in just the last few months -- little Sophia can crawl through the tunnel, Oliver knows how to work the water fountain, and I expect in another month or two, Isabella will be able to take off her ski cap!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rloVAESf_9k/ThSDJspaa_I/AAAAAAAAAMY/R2YgIqVstpk/s1600/Bark%252C+George.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rloVAESf_9k/ThSDJspaa_I/AAAAAAAAAMY/R2YgIqVstpk/s200/Bark%252C+George.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b> Stories:</b> We actually did get to read a couple.</div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><i>Go, Dogs, Go,</i> by P.D. Eastman. I love this great classic.</li></ul><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><i>Bark, George</i> by Jules Feiffer. Another perfect story for baby bedtime.</li></ul><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li><i>Dog's Day by Jane Cabrera.</i> Her bright illustrations make her books great pix for babies.</li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Play</b></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Little Scooby and Big Scooby visited in the puppet theater. Then of course we sang <i>This is Little.</i></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>Songs</b></div><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All our favorites. It's a good thing everyone likes </span><i style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Motor Boat</i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> as much as I do.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l9w3T8m9Si0/ThSHySwRjcI/AAAAAAAAAMc/YTtMS7F1r_k/s1600/IMG_0001.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l9w3T8m9Si0/ThSHySwRjcI/AAAAAAAAAMc/YTtMS7F1r_k/s320/IMG_0001.JPG" width="216" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a cupcake! Anybody else working out a theory for Isabella's hat? Do you think she's trying to cool off the July weather by wearing a ski cap, like Christmas in July? </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><strong style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">Prop song:</strong><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"> How much is that doggie in the window? (in which I pile up all my dog puppets on the wall and everyone sings along… </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">arf arf</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">)</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;">from </span></span><a href="http://storytime.readingchick.com/">Rain Makes Applesauce</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: justify;"><br /></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-7288768973826942609?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-43063453368712276582011-06-29T09:22:00.000-07:002011-07-09T12:22:10.253-07:00Bird Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4BSqkEqCjS8/TgtL51WQEsI/AAAAAAAAALY/MBdSV2r1qXk/s1600/oneworldmanystoriesbird.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4BSqkEqCjS8/TgtL51WQEsI/AAAAAAAAALY/MBdSV2r1qXk/s200/oneworldmanystoriesbird.JPG" width="192" /></a></div>Stories:<br /><ul><li><b>I Like It When</b>... by Mary Murphy. Perfect for babies.</li></ul><ul><li><b>BooBoo</b> by Olivier Dunrea. A baby bird who eats too much! I burped for the audience.</li></ul><br />Plays:<br /><div class="MsoNormal">Using a penguin puppet, I did: </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>There was a little penguin /Who squawked in a flock.</i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He swam in the ocean. He climbed on some rocks.</i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He snapped at a squid. He snapped at an eel.</i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He snapped at some shrimp. He snapped at me!</i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He caught that squid. He caught that eel.</i></span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><i> </i></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>He caught that shrimp. But he didn’t catch me! <span style="font-size: x-small;">(by T. Sherman)</span></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">Songs:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;">We stuck to the favorites. I always love Mama's Little Baby and the Happy Song. Today doing a story hour for all of you remarkable toddlers reminded me of the movie theater sequence in Gremlins. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-4306345336871227658?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-52349057772317361052011-06-22T09:47:00.000-07:002011-07-09T12:22:59.908-07:00Car Storyhour, Truck Storyhour, & Construction Storyhour<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7ElOLFmOcOE/TgIt58EB4iI/AAAAAAAAAK8/B7kR598Im-o/s1600/Babies%2521.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-7ElOLFmOcOE/TgIt58EB4iI/AAAAAAAAAK8/B7kR598Im-o/s320/Babies%2521.jpg" width="268" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A circle of busy babies.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s4x19C4vdJg/TgIt8LM_BHI/AAAAAAAAALA/ZpA7xFrzz1s/s1600/IMG_0006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-s4x19C4vdJg/TgIt8LM_BHI/AAAAAAAAALA/ZpA7xFrzz1s/s320/IMG_0006.JPG" width="263" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chelsesa hard at work sorting the hedgie balls. </td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stories:</div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>Bling-Blang by Woodie Guthrie. We hammered and sawed and moved to this book.</li></ul><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>Dump Truck. A DK shaped board book. </li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Plays:</div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>I built a house out of cardboard boxes, asking them to count with me. (They were on top of a table so the toddlers couldn't knock them over before I finished!) We counted up & up, from big to little to tiny, and then DOWN went the big box building when I knocked it over.</li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><ul style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><li>I built a flannelboard house out of a pink square, purple rectangular door, etc. </li></ul><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Songs: </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Motor Boat, Motor Boat</i>, go so fast was a big hit.</span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"><i>Five Big Trucks</i> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(I wrote this years ago.)</span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> </span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> Five big trucks went out one day</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Over the road and far away. </span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">FIRE TRUCK, GARBAGE TRUCK, TOW TRUCK, DUMP TRUCK & BACKHOE </span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The dispatcher said, “Come on back!”</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">But only four big trucks came rolling back.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The HOOK & LADDER FIRE truck is needed at a fire!</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> <i>(Picture: The hook and ladder has stopped to put out a fire.)</i></span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Four big trucks went out one day</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Over the road and far away.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">GARBAGE TRUCK, TOW TRUCK, DUMP TRUCK & BACKHOE </span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The dispatcher said, “Come on back!”</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">But only three big trucks came rolling back.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> The garbage truck needs to drop off a stinky load!</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">(Picture: The garbage truck has stopped to pick up garbage.)</span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Three big trucks went out one day</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Over the road and far away.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">TOW TRUCK, DUMP TRUCK & BACKHOE </span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The dispatcher said, “Come on back!”</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">But only two big trucks came rolling back.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The tow truck has stopped to tow a car!</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">(Picture: The backhoe has stopped at a construction site.)</span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Two big trucks went out one day</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Over the road and far away.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">DUMP TRUCK & BACKHOE </span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The dispatcher said, “Come on back!”</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">But only one big truck came rolling back.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The dump truck needs to drop off some dirt!</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">(Picture: The dump truck has stopped to make a drop.)</span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">One big trucks went out one day</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Over the road and far away.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">BACKHOE</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The dispatcher said, “Come on back!”</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">But no big trucks came rolling back.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> The back hoe is needed at a construction site! </span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">(Picture: The tow truck has stopped to tow a car.)</span></i></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">No big trucks went out one day</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Over the road and far away.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The dispatcher said, “Let’s go to the race!”</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">And the trucks came back from all over the place.</span></span></div><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">FIRE TRUCK, GARBAGE TRUCK, TOW TRUCK, DUMP TRUCK & BACKHOE!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Construction poem</span></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Now we're <b>front loaders</b>!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Lift the rocks, lift the rocks, way up!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Lift the rocks, lift the rocks, way up!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Now we're <b>cement mixers</b>!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Stir it up, stir it up, round & round!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Stir it up, stir it up, round & round!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Now we're <b>cranes</b>! </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Reach up high, reach up high, way high!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Reach up high, reach up high, way high!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Now we're <b>rollers!</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Smooth it out, smooth it out, way flat!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Smooth it out, smooth it out, way flat!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Now we're <b>jackhammers!</b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Jig jiggle, jig jiggle, bounce bounce bounce!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Jig jiggle, jig jiggle, bounce bounce bounce!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Now we're done & the road is built!</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-5234905777231736105?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-1942762482040751802011-06-15T13:51:00.000-07:002011-07-09T12:23:20.527-07:00Movement Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r7TZh16KDso/TfkVtK3KPQI/AAAAAAAAAJI/ZFiVh5OG2AE/s1600/Laurie+Berkner+Band.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r7TZh16KDso/TfkVtK3KPQI/AAAAAAAAAJI/ZFiVh5OG2AE/s200/Laurie+Berkner+Band.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Stories: </div><ul style="font-family: inherit;"><li>Jump, Frog, Jump! by Robert Kalan. Aaron and Oliver and Sabrina did some good jumping too!</li><li>Sailor Boy Jig by the great Margaret Wise Brown. Another fun one.</li><li>Stretch by Doreen Cronin</li></ul><div style="font-family: inherit;">Songs: The books were good but this session was all about the singing. We did all my favorites, <i>Sugar Baby, Mama's Little Baby Loves Bouncing, Barnyard Dance, Motor Boat, </i>and of course,<i> Wheels.</i></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4F5MdxAUfIU/TfkZxH0iawI/AAAAAAAAAJM/4eSc2qCuWj4/s1600/IMG_0012+%2528640x464%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="232" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4F5MdxAUfIU/TfkZxH0iawI/AAAAAAAAAJM/4eSc2qCuWj4/s320/IMG_0012+%2528640x464%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Babies in motion!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jLDsgccUbHk/TfkZ1IYhRvI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/pv10PX8MrAE/s1600/IMG_0009+%2528640x527%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="263" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jLDsgccUbHk/TfkZ1IYhRvI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/pv10PX8MrAE/s320/IMG_0009+%2528640x527%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brody's beautiful smile</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x-imJ9LklfI/TfkZ_z9j1GI/AAAAAAAAAJU/yALuhFIejyw/s1600/IMG_0013+%2528640x366%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="183" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-x-imJ9LklfI/TfkZ_z9j1GI/AAAAAAAAAJU/yALuhFIejyw/s320/IMG_0013+%2528640x366%2529.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And where did Kiley go?</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-194276248204075180?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-61607476811803281842011-06-08T09:47:00.000-07:002011-07-09T12:23:47.882-07:00Beach Storyhour<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><a href="http://gulfbeacheslibrarykids.blogspot.com/2011/06/babies-at-beach.html"></a> </h3><div class="post-header"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8eI53Hg_RzQ/Te-W9bRWIlI/AAAAAAAAAJA/qC2VEtTFETQ/s1600/commotion+in+the+ocean.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8eI53Hg_RzQ/Te-W9bRWIlI/AAAAAAAAAJA/qC2VEtTFETQ/s200/commotion+in+the+ocean.jpg" width="200" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Books:</div><ul><li><b><i>Commotion in the Ocean Pop-Up</i></b> by Giles Andreae. Love those big bright pop-ups!</li><li><b><i>Water Babies</i></b> by Zena Holloway. Those weirdly gorgeous book is illustrated with photos of babies swimming underwater with sea creatures, each page tinged a bright color. The library copy keeps disappearing -- I have to keep reordering it second hand from amazon, but it is worth it.</li><li><b><i>At the Beach.</i></b> A board book</li></ul>Stories:<br /><i>The Three Fish and the Big Bad Shark. </i> I had an incredibly gorgeous shark puppet and rounded up three fish of varying sizes for a brief but impressive telling of this sea classic.<br /><br />Songs & Poems. I have a nice supply of special sea songs and poems:<br /><b>My Vachel Lindsay Dolphin Song:</b><br /><i>I had a little dolphin. He lived in the sea.</i><br /><i> He splashed in the water, then he smiled at me.</i><br /><i>He snapped at the minnows, he snapped at the fish.</i><br /><i>Then he swam through the waves to give me a kiss.</i><br />We sang the Wheels on the Bus and then did the <b>Waves on the Sea</b><i>:<span style="color: black;"></span></i><br /><i><span style="color: black;">The waves on the sea go up and down, up and down, up and down, the waves on the sea go up and down all day long.</span></i><br /><i>The</i> <i><span style="color: black;">shark in the sea goes snap snap snap..</span></i> <br /><i><span style="color: black;">The fish in the sea go swish swish swish..</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: black;">The boats in the sea go toot toot toot...</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: black;">The gulls on the sea go swoop swoop swoop…</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: black;">The babies on the sea go splash splash splash..</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: black;">The waves on the sea go up and down, up and down, up and down, the waves on the sea go up and down all day long.</span></i><br /><b><span style="color: black;">Four Little Fishes</span></b><br /><i><span style="color: black;">4 little fishes swimming out to sea, 1 met a shark! And then there were 3.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: black;">3 little fishes wondering what to do. One hid in a great big shell BUT IT STILL GOT EATEN BY A GREAT BIG SHARK, so then there were 2.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: black;">2 little fishes looking for some fun, 1 chased a wave... AND THEN IT GOT EATEN BY A GREAT BIG SHARK, and that left one.</span></i><br /><i><span style="color: black;">1 little fish with all his friends gone, went back home to find his mum...BUT HE FOUND A GREAT BIG SHARK INSTEAD and that left none!</span></i><br /><span style="color: black;">I had a giant shark puppet eating the little fish fingerpuppets off my fingers one by one and I know this was a good version -- at the end Sabrina shook my pants leg to see if the fish would fall out.</span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rvznrn6DFdQ/Te-kpcDdEaI/AAAAAAAAAJE/30OhD0s1WYY/s1600/Isabella+listens+to+Elmo.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Rvznrn6DFdQ/Te-kpcDdEaI/AAAAAAAAAJE/30OhD0s1WYY/s200/Isabella+listens+to+Elmo.jpg" width="159" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">So nice of Isabella to share a classic Elmo title with her dad.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-6160747681180328184?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-27796251103714950372011-06-01T11:40:00.000-07:002011-07-09T12:24:12.169-07:00Bug Storyhour<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6IvIfmMq9Hw/TeaH4eOL9AI/AAAAAAAAAI0/6BKL9MIpUPA/s1600/Lapsitting+lineup.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="212" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6IvIfmMq9Hw/TeaH4eOL9AI/AAAAAAAAAI0/6BKL9MIpUPA/s320/Lapsitting+lineup.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at these cuties!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><b>Stories:</b><br /><br /><b>Bugs Pop-Up</b> by Sallie Hewitt. These giant bugs astonished the babies, esp. Wisdom & Oliver.<br /><br /><b>Plays:</b><br />We fingerplayed eentsy-weentsy spider, and then did a <i>Spider on the Floor.</i> I did a mash-up between Raffi's version and Peter, Paul & Mary's Boa <i>Constrictor</i>:<br /><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal">There's a spider on the floor, on the floor.<br />There's a spider on the floor, on the floor.<br />This is nutty for sure! To have a spider on the floor.<br />But there's a spider on the floor, on the floor.<br /><br />Now the spider's on my knee, on my knee.<br />Now the spider's on my knee, on my knee.<br />Oh, gosh, oh gee! There’s a spider on my knee.<br />Now the spider's on my knee, on my knee.<br /><br />Now the spider's on my tum, on my tum!<br />Now the spider's on my tum, on my tum!<br />Oh, now I’m really bummed, with a spider on my tum!<br />Now the spider's on my tum, on my tum!<br /><br />Now the spider's on my neck, on my neck!<br />Now the spider's on my neck on my neck!<br />Oh, I'm gonna be a wreck, I've got a spider on my neck!<br />Now the spider's on my neck on my neck!<br /><br />Now the spider's on my head, on my head!<br />Now the spider's on my head, on my head!<br />Oh, I wish that he were dead. I've got a spider on my head!<br />Now the spider's on my head, on my head! </div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">There’s a spider on the floor, on the floor.</div><div class="MsoNormal">There’s a spider on the floor, who could ask for anything more?</div><div class="MsoNormal">There’s a spider on the floor, on the floor.</div><div class="MsoNormal">Luckily I had a gorgeous big spider puppet, but an oversized Halloween one would do.</div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b>Very Hungry Caterpillar</b></div><div class="MsoNormal">I had the big book, the puppets, and the story cards. I didn't attempt audience participation -- the babies would have eaten the food picture cards faster than the caterpillar! They were a little antsy by then.</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Songs: All our regular favorites: Mama's Little Baby, Sugar Babies, Wheels, etc.</div><br /><span id="goog_1551293084"></span><span id="goog_1551293085"></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-2779625110371495037?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-27762988385950085502011-05-18T09:06:00.000-07:002011-07-09T12:25:02.754-07:00Turtle Storyhour, Frog Storyhour, Snake Storyhour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ezs0Ov0QL._AA160_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Ezs0Ov0QL._AA160_.jpg" /></a></div>Stories: We read <b><i>I Wish I Could Fly</i></b> by Ron Maris (we even had all the puppets so I could act it out), but now I realize that even though no creature in the story could crawl like the snake, hop like a bunny or splash like a frog, the babies could do all that and more! At the end I asked someone to turn out the light and we pretended it was raining.<br /><br />I'm waiting for the storyhour when a mom says, "Oh, Tyler's learned to fly now and he's into everything." Then I'll have to deal with babies zooming around the room while we're singing <i>The Happy Song</i>. The lapsitters will be so jealous! "When am I going to be able to fly too?"<br /><br />We also read <b><i>The Wide-Mouthed Frog</i></b> by Faulkner and <b><i>Big Frog Can't Fit In</i></b>, by Mo Willems. Oliver was particularly enthralled; his mother almost had to wrestle him down the ground to get it away from him. (It was on the cart, but maybe he's one of those flying babies.)<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SLFoZgUjrzo/TdPuSu0WJ_I/AAAAAAAAAII/kAw_lpZF8M8/s1600/baby+storyhour+5.18.2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="174" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SLFoZgUjrzo/TdPuSu0WJ_I/AAAAAAAAAII/kAw_lpZF8M8/s320/baby+storyhour+5.18.2011.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And this was the mob scene AFTER half the babies went home! It was a wonderful storyhour!<br /><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: small;">Songs: Of course we sang <i>3 Green & Speckled Frogs</i> (I shorten for babies) as well as my old favorites, <i>Sugar Babies</i> and <i>Mama's Little Baby.</i> </span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-2776298838595008550?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-28934040535337168372011-05-11T10:03:00.000-07:002011-07-09T12:26:04.875-07:00Babies everywhere!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CiN55fqY7Yk/Tcq_0ICR0cI/AAAAAAAAAHw/SVhlsmtoHDY/s1600/IMG_0006.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CiN55fqY7Yk/Tcq_0ICR0cI/AAAAAAAAAHw/SVhlsmtoHDY/s320/IMG_0006.JPG" width="301" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Recognize this artistic interpretation of <b><i>Wow! Said the Owl</i></b>, by Tim Hopgood? It was fun to read this book and paint the picture as I went along. Only Chelsea and I got paint on our fingers. Everyone else listened very nicely. Other stories were <b><i>Dancing Feet</i></b> by Lindsey Craig, a wonderful book with lots of movement, <b><i>Spot and Friends Play</i></b>, a sticker book, and <i><b>Tubby</b></i> by Leslie Patricelli.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NafvF2wn8cQ/Tcq-D0EFv-I/AAAAAAAAAHk/VTwUD9JiF10/s1600/IMG_0008.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NafvF2wn8cQ/Tcq-D0EFv-I/AAAAAAAAAHk/VTwUD9JiF10/s320/IMG_0008.JPG" width="286" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Isabella checking out the action.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FHL9bmcKkuw/Tcq-JzT7WUI/AAAAAAAAAHo/6-fTF3KpUns/s1600/IMG_0004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="221" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FHL9bmcKkuw/Tcq-JzT7WUI/AAAAAAAAAHo/6-fTF3KpUns/s320/IMG_0004.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Isabella's glad at what she finds.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4YDBx-HP8CQ/Tcq-UY1De9I/AAAAAAAAAHs/ouS3GwhJGxw/s1600/IMG_0002.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="198" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-4YDBx-HP8CQ/Tcq-UY1De9I/AAAAAAAAAHs/ouS3GwhJGxw/s320/IMG_0002.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Taking it seriously.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-2893404053533716837?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-53146468462290685232011-05-04T10:40:00.000-07:002011-05-04T10:40:25.048-07:00Happy Mother's Day, all you great moms!!!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.dovercards.com/_images/0486276392_02_Anna%2520Pomaska_Mother%2527s%2520Day.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://www.dovercards.com/_images/0486276392_02_Anna%2520Pomaska_Mother%2527s%2520Day.jpg" width="284" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A great big Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful moms who work so hard every day to make your children and grandchildren's lives happy! You're the best!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-5314646846229068523?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-40456792886856010152011-04-27T09:20:00.000-07:002011-04-27T09:20:27.563-07:00A Bundle of Babies today<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51a5pUyMHvL._AA160_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51a5pUyMHvL._AA160_.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We did a lot of bouncing and hand clapping and wiggling and stretching today! Doreen Cronin's books are always fun -- what till you're old enough for her classic, "Diary of a Worm!"</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>We sang many songs today. "Mama's little baby loves bouncin', bouncin'" is still my all time favorite, but I did enjoy performing the new "Socks and shoes" to the tune of Three Blind Mice: "Socks and shoes, socks and shoes/ <span style="font-size: xx-small;">They're off</span> Whenever I choose, Whenever I choose/ I take them off and I throw them away/But then I need them to go out and play/Maybe I should leave them on someday/My socks and shoes." The babies stopped what they were doing for a moment as they watched me unvelcro my sandals and throw them over my shoulders. Worked in vaudeville!<br /><br />The babies were exceptionally well dressed today, a pastel rainbow, in their eyelet lace and embroidery:<br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--xbbMTXJyg8/TbhBxE2Lt5I/AAAAAAAAAGY/ND7KS-PZbE8/s1600/IMG_0003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="209" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--xbbMTXJyg8/TbhBxE2Lt5I/AAAAAAAAAGY/ND7KS-PZbE8/s320/IMG_0003.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3oxb7P6Mnqg/TbhB0PqYIII/AAAAAAAAAGc/TZ05Ueg9WDI/s1600/IMG_0004.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="267" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3oxb7P6Mnqg/TbhB0PqYIII/AAAAAAAAAGc/TZ05Ueg9WDI/s320/IMG_0004.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elsie likes to play afterwards, but during story hour she's a very good listener!</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-4045679288685601015?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-49953391011796375232011-04-20T11:33:00.000-07:002011-04-20T11:33:38.210-07:00Serious cuteness<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H83C5Sp4L._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA160_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51H83C5Sp4L._SL160_PIsitb-sticker-arrow-dp,TopRight,12,-18_SH30_OU01_AA160_.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ever want to be big? Or green? Or <i>fly</i>? You and me both, Little White Rabbit!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Other stories: <br /><ul><li><i>the bunnies are not in their beds</i> by Marisabina Russa. Those naughty bunnies! Even though we turned out the lights in storyhour, they still made a lot of noise & wouldn't go to bed.</li><li><i>Carry Me</i> by Rosemary Wells. </li></ul>Songs:<br /><ul><li>Our Peter Rabbit started off the show with this poem: "There was a little bunny who lived in the wood/He wiggled his ears the way a good bunny should./ He hopped by a bush. He hopped by a tree./ He hopped by a flower. He hopped by me./ He nibbled at the bush. He nibbled at the tree./ He nibbled at the flower./ But he winked at me!" Peter Rabbit hopped around the audience nibbling at babies/bushes, babies/flowers, babies/trees by turns, and they seemed to enjoy it very much.</li><li>Peter also performed a rendition of the following song, to <i>Battle Hymn of the Republic</i> "Little Peter Rabbit had a fly upon his nose/ Little Peter Rabbit had a fly upon his nose/ Little Peter Rabbit had a fly upon his nose/ and he flicked it till it flew away...& then ear, paw, tail, etc. <a href="http://missmaryliberry.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/flannel-friday-little-peter-rabbit-songword-game/">(Thanks Miss Mary Liberry!)</a> I forgot my fly finger puppet but luckily I had a bumblebee handy. </li><li>And lots of other favorites. I love to watch those babies clapping and rolling their hands and moving.</li></ul>I love watching those babies period! <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2lQCISa_YmI/Ta8mhqKY0gI/AAAAAAAAAGM/h7xILfni4ZA/s1600/IMG_0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2lQCISa_YmI/Ta8mhqKY0gI/AAAAAAAAAGM/h7xILfni4ZA/s320/IMG_0003.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing after storytime. What a good time!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-4995339101179637523?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-54546147837838699922011-04-13T09:55:00.000-07:002011-09-26T11:16:41.239-07:00Spring StoryhourStoryhour was so much fun today with everyone joining in to make it happen. I loved it when all you moms quacked, neighed and mooed with <b>Ducks Like to Swim</b> by Agnes Verboven and counted and sang for <b>Big Fat Hen</b>. I was very impressed and I'm sure your babies were too.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> Next year: Hurry! Hurry! by Eve Bunting</span><br /><br />Some of our <b>songs</b> were new. I just learned "Roll, roll, sugarbabies, roll, roll, sugarbabies, Push, Pull, Clap, clap, clap," which may become a new standard for us. (Thanks <a href="http://storytime.readingchick.com/?p=10">http://storytime.readingchick.com/?p=10</a>) I'm going to change our "Hello, Everybody," song a bit -- it's come to my attention that babies can't touch their toes OR their noses! But I sure love our new "Mama's little baby loves bouncing" -- I find myself singing it at very inconvenient times during the day because I'm usually without a baby to bounce.<br /><br />I am definitely going to have to get some gorilla glue to permanently seal up our easter eggs. Although I suppose the beans are sort of edible. We'll have to ask Chelsea. <br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lbVyXBslGBw/TaXT75O0-BI/AAAAAAAAAF0/HTP52dAUhcA/s1600/great+storyhour+4.13.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="203" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lbVyXBslGBw/TaXT75O0-BI/AAAAAAAAAF0/HTP52dAUhcA/s320/great+storyhour+4.13.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Look at that great crew gathered for storyhour!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dsdA5jrtnA8/TaXUOb-YOCI/AAAAAAAAAF4/fjgnL-kZhTA/s1600/great+storyhour2+4.13.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="237" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dsdA5jrtnA8/TaXUOb-YOCI/AAAAAAAAAF4/fjgnL-kZhTA/s320/great+storyhour2+4.13.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The good times AND the Easter eggs rolled.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2Uzs9Eajwug/TaXUQ-O-3CI/AAAAAAAAAF8/35dwDDx5YEU/s1600/storyhour+4.13.2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="236" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-2Uzs9Eajwug/TaXUQ-O-3CI/AAAAAAAAAF8/35dwDDx5YEU/s320/storyhour+4.13.2011.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oliver explaining the nature of life to Mia. Kiley's heard it already.</td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-5454614783783869992?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-66427791641283500222011-04-06T09:04:00.000-07:002011-04-06T09:04:58.008-07:00What good babies!Ooooeeee! What's better than a roomful of babies <i>listening</i>! Ms. Travis & her chicken were in hog heaven today, doing their thing while Sabrina & Kiley & Brooke & Aaron & Wisdom just took it all in. (Oh, and welcome back Victoria the Sleeping Beauty.) The babies were much more relaxed in the conference room instead of the wacky children's area, and we had a much better storyhour experience which I think will just continue to get better every week. (Of course, <i>lively</i> Oliver wasn't here -- just kidding Oliver)<br /><br />Books: <u>Little White Duck</u> by Walt Whippo, which I <i>sang</i>. <u>Hurry! Hurry!</u> by Eve Bunting which didn't grab the babies attention despite the farm animal theme. Luckily I happened to have a large gold egg handy with a large yellow chick in it, so at the end of the story, I pulled out the egg and recited: <i>"Who's that scratchin', scratchin'? Is it somebody hatchin', hatchin'? I think I hear a little shout! </i>(ear to egg, and then pull out chick)<i> Let me out!"</i> <u>Clap Your Hands</u> by Lorinda Bryan Cauley was a big hit with the moms -- they joined in beautifully so it was a lot of fun.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uI0cGn4EwrM/TZyPDRssR9I/AAAAAAAAAFc/LKrHWaDBP-Y/s1600/chick.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uI0cGn4EwrM/TZyPDRssR9I/AAAAAAAAAFc/LKrHWaDBP-Y/s1600/chick.jpg" /></a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-6642779164128350022?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-68911283054391793762011-03-30T09:10:00.000-07:002011-03-30T09:10:25.054-07:00Last storyhour in children's area<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td style="text-align: center;"></td><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--5rKIIvRTfo/TZNUb6P2VjI/AAAAAAAAAE8/Zg19mCBrYpE/s1600/babies+064.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="257" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--5rKIIvRTfo/TZNUb6P2VjI/AAAAAAAAAE8/Zg19mCBrYpE/s320/babies+064.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr align="center"><td class="tr-caption">Sabrina, Chelsea, and Oliver playing together. Sort of.</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XmrBBSf2cao/TZNUgdLO0XI/AAAAAAAAAFA/fXmZjDuGezA/s1600/babies+070.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XmrBBSf2cao/TZNUgdLO0XI/AAAAAAAAAFA/fXmZjDuGezA/s320/babies+070.JPG" width="208" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We're going to miss this cutie-pie! Toronto! Brrrr!</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w9AOG1pjEVM/TZNUUd8uU8I/AAAAAAAAAE4/TwdN-C1Rpv0/s1600/babies+069.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="219" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-w9AOG1pjEVM/TZNUUd8uU8I/AAAAAAAAAE4/TwdN-C1Rpv0/s320/babies+069.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kiley is very pleased to hear that ... I don't know what. Clapping is always fun.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-6891128305439179376?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-51851085601984013632011-03-23T09:50:00.000-07:002011-03-23T09:50:21.376-07:00Let's get physicalNo more laptime for you babies! Yesterday, Oliver called me on his cell phone. "Here's how it's going to work from now on. While we run around and check things out -- the puzzles, the board books, and especially each other's noses and hair -- you just go ahead and read your books. After all, not all of us can walk yet, so some of us will be listening. I'll dance with you and listen to the songs." <br /><br />So that's why we're going to be doing a lot of bouncing around. I'm not going to try to argue with Oliver.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-5185108560198401363?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-81225198058099677802011-03-11T13:27:00.000-08:002011-03-11T13:27:15.633-08:00New improved WednesdaysI'm thinking that now that a new room is available, and also now that the babies are getting a little bigger, we might want to think about structuring an extra little activity in after the storyhour. I don't think they're old enough yet to go more than 20 minutes, but I'm looking at bubble machines, music CDs, and even beginning art lessons. (http://familyfun.go.com/crafts/crafts-by-age/toddler-crafts/ -- most of these crafts are things that are done TO toddlers rather than by toddlers, but they'll be old enough to string Fruit Loop necklaces and experiment with colors in no time. <br /><br />You are such a creative group of moms that I know we could put together really great mornings. I loved the get well card waiting for me on my desk. I loved all your messages, and I was really impressed by the presentation -- the perfect paper, the gold stamped butterflies and the lovely print. What a lot of fun we can have!<br /><br /> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-8122519805809967780?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-556561448384796648.post-31076135743293947252011-03-10T14:50:00.000-08:002011-03-10T14:50:18.402-08:00You smart babies!How proud I was when Maggie told me that all of you smart babies came to storyhour and had yourselves a great time, singing all your favorite songs and visiting with each other! I'm so proud of you. Thanks to all you moms, too, for driving! I pretty much move heaven and earth NOT to miss storyhour, so it's a major relief for me to know that everyone can carry on just fine when I have an unpleasant bug. See you next week!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/556561448384796648-3107613574329394725?l=gulfbeachesbabies.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>TravisAnn Shermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09396450060213644648noreply@blogger.com0