Storytime: Folktales

Storytime for older kids: grades 3-5.



Love and Roast Chicken
by Barbara Knutson


 
Who Took My Hairy Toe?
by Shutta Krum and pictures by Katya Krenina


 
Mabela the Clever 
by Margaret Read MacDonald and pictures by Tim Coffey

Storytime: Frogs

Storytime for preschoolers about our jumpy, green friends.



A Frog in the Bog
by Karma Wilson and pictures by Joan Rankin


 
See How They Grow: Frog 
by Angela Royston and Mary Ling




Peeping and Sleeping 
by Fran Manushkin and pictures by Jennifer Plecas


 
Jump, Frog, Jump! 
by Robert Kalan and pictures by Byron Barton


 
The Wide-Mouthed Frog
by Keith Faulkner and pictures by Jonathan Lambert and Rory Tyger



Here is a Bullfrog

Here is a bullfrog
(make a fist)
Sitting on a rock
(place fist on hand, palm up)
Into the water he jumps
(make hand jump)
KER-PLOP
(clap hands together)  



Roll Your Hands

Roll your hands so slowly
As slowly as can be
Roll your hands so slowly
And fold them just like me
Roll your hands so quickly
As quickly as can be
Roll your hands so quickly
And fold them just like me
Clap your hands so softly
As softly as can be
Clap your hands so softly
And fold them just like me
Clap your hands so loudly
As loudly as can be
Clap your hands so loudly
And fold them just like me

Storytime: Clothes (Let's Get Dressed)

Storytime for preschoolers about getting dressed and the clothes we wear.


 
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
by Simms Taback


 
The Magic Hat 
by Mem Fox and pictures by Tricia Tusa


 
Whose Shoe?
by Margaret Miller


 
Ella Sarah Gets Dressed
by Margaret Chodos-Irvine


 
Jesse Bear What Will You Wear?
by Nancy White Carlstrom and pictures by Bruce Degen  



Put Your Finger on Your Shirt
(tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It")

Put your finger on your shirt, on your shirt.
Put your finger on your shirt, on your shirt.
Put your finger on your shirt,
put your finger on your shirt.
Put your finger on your shirt, on your shirt.

Put your finger on your pants, on your pants.
Put your finger on your pant, on your pants.
Put your finger on your pants,
put your finger on your pants.
Put your finger on your pants, on your pants.

Put your finger on your shoe, on your shoe.
 Put your finger on your shoe, on your shoe.
Put your finger on your shoe,
put your finger on your shoe.
Put your finger on your shoe, on your shoe.  


Grandma's Glasses

These are grandma’s glasses.
(Make circles around eyes.)
This is grandma’s hat.
(Cup hands and place on head.)
And this is the way she folds her hands and puts them in her lap.
(Fold hands and put them in your lap.)

(Say with a deep voice:)
These are grandpa’s glasses.
(Make circles around eyes.)
This is grandpa’s hat.
(Pretend to put on a hat.)
And this is the way he folds his arms.
(Cross arms and fold.)
Just like that!

Storytime: Jungle

Storytime featuring jungles for older kids: grades 3-5.



The Great Kapok Tree
by Lynne Cherry
as Reader's Theater


 
Horton Hatches the Egg
by Dr. Seuss


 
Cha-Cha Chimps 
by Julia Durango and pictures by Eleanor Taylor

Storytime: Laugh it Up

Jokes and silly stuff for the parks and rec crowd (older kids, grades 3-5).  They loved this set of books.

 
(excerpts from) Jokelopedia 
by Ilana Weitzman, Eva Blank, and Roseanne Green


 
Monster Goose
by Judy Sierra and pictures by Jack E. Davis


 
The Dumb Bunnies Go to the Zoo
by Sue Denim and pictures by Dav Pilkey


 
Dog Breath
by Dav Pilkey