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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 re...

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. Flannel Board: Ten in the Bed I used a mod...