Land Ahoy Storytime and My Banned Book

Land Ahoy Storytime
Ages 6 and under

We read:

Big Bear's Big Boat by Nancy Carpenter
Once Upon a Tide by Tony Mitton
Sail Away by Donald Crews

We sang:

The Bubble Song
SEE THE LITTLE SAILORS
See the little sailors rowing out to sea.
Rowing, rowing, one, two, three.
Jean Warren
(Have children pretend to row three times.)

We continued with scarves. I love my new scarves sooooo much. Today, in addition to the usual
up, down, all around, throw it in the air and catch, we also blew on on scarves and became sailboats.
So much fun.

The craft was paper plate boats. Boats can be made many different ways, with many different materials (I used pool noodles this summer in my Ocean Craft). I just adore these.

And now a note about Banned Books Week. You can read about it here. I'm not running a program or doing a display about it this year, but I do try to read one title that has been challenged. The problem is.....I've read most of them. Here is a list of modern banned or challenged titles.

I'm going to go with:

A Bad Boy Can Be Good for a Girl
by Tanya Lee Stone

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How to Make a Sharknado for Your Shark Craft

I have had an insane amount of fun this summer, but I always try to do something for Shark Week. This year I called it Shark Lab and we are making three crafts I have never done with the kids before.

But for ME, I wanted a Sharknado.
Inspired by this post, and I tried several different dish soaps and NONE of the tornadoes looked as good as they did in this lady's posts. She must have magic soap, but it really works!

Then I went to three stores to find either plastic sharks that would be light enough to float and not just sink to the bottom of the jar and/or shrinky dink material (make my own damn sharks!) Both hunts were fail, so I made them myself using a template I cannot find again. Sorry.

I flipped the images, cut them out, glued them together and then book-taped the hell out of them! Presto, waterproof.

The jar needed something....so I made a small label with
"Sharknado" bookended with some fancy orange chainsaws and voila!

One Sharknado for the parents to play…

Teddy Bear Storytime

Tonight's storytime followed the same format I use for all of my day storytimes as I have temporarily suspended my idea of doing storytime in reverse in order to get the kids sleepy. They only seem to run out into the library to pick out movies and books and the effect is lost. So here is what we did tonight.

Our theme was teddy bears, but our night storytime is always wear jammies, bring a lovey, and low action.

My opening song is Hello Bubbles which I learned from Read Sing Play here. BTW this woman is a storytime goddess and I have picked up many great ideas on her blog.

Story the 1st: The Red Hat by Lita Judge

Why? Because I want to get across to my kids that books do not always have to have words in order for us to "read" them, and I want to give pre-readers a chance to feel proud they finished a book on their own. I plan to try to read or highlight at least one wordless read for the next couple of storytimes.

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I used a modified versi…

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