Thursday, September 29, 2011

Dirty Jobs Storytime

Message: 4
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:58:43 -0500
From: Erin I


A few people asked for the results from my "Dirty Jobs" storytime theme
question.  Thank you all for your help!  Here are the terrific ideas that
were sent to me:

Five Little Monkeys with Nothing To Do by Eileen Christelow

I Stink or I'm Dirty, by  Kate and Jim McMullan

Mrs. McNosh Hangs Up Her Wash by Sarah Weeks

Trashy Town by Andrea Zimmerman

Dirt Boy by Slangerup

Diggy Dan: A Room Cleaning adventure by Kamish

Fun song: Wishy Washy Washerwoman:
http://greenghoulie.com/games/songs/the_wishy_washy_washer_woman.htm

Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site by Sherri Duskey Rinker

Tip Tip Dig Dig by Emma Garcia

Trashy Town by: Dan Yaccarino

*Garbage & Recycling*

*Drop In Family Story Time*

*Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 @ 10:30 AM*

**

1)       Here We Are Together / Hands on Shoulders

2)       *Trashy Town: *Andrea Zimmerman

3)       Stretch: The Garbage Truck

4)       Flannel Story: *Bingo*

5)       Stretch: Let?s Recycle

6)       *I Stink!: *Kate McMullan

7)       Stretch: Come Garbage Truck

8)       *Trash Trucks!: *Daniel Kirk

9)       Stretch: Shake Your Sillies Out

10)   *Tin** Forest**: *Helen Ward

11)   Goodbye Song

   - Alternate Stories: *The Great Trash Bash: *Loreen Leedy; *Trash! Trash!
   Trash!:* Shelly Neilsen

*The Garbage Truck*

(Tune: The Wheels on the Bus)

The garbage truck rolls down the street,                       *roll hands*

Down the street, down the street.

The garbage truck rolls down the street,

Picking up garbage!                                                 *lift
and dump imaginary can*

* *

*Let?s Recycle
Come Garbage Truck*

(Tune: London Bridge is Falling Down)                            (Tune:
Frere Jacques)

*Clap in rhythm to the song                                  *

*
*Come garbage truck,

Let?s recycle, do it now
*beckon with hand*

Do it now, do it now
Come garbage truck,

Let?s recycle, do it now
Come right now,

Keep our world clean!
*point down*


Come right now.

Save your plastic, glass and cans,                                      Lots
of trash is waiting,

Glass and cans, glass and cans.
*stretch out arms*

Save your plastic, glass and cans,                                      Lots
of trash is waiting.

Keep our world clean!
Honk honk honk,

                                                                    *pretend
to honk horn*

*
*Honk honk honk.

* *

* *

*Garbage & Recycling*

*Terrific Tales for Twos and Threes Story Time*

*Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 @ 9:30 AM*

**

1)       Here We Are Together / Hands on Shoulders

2)       *Smash! Mash! Crash! There Goes the Trash!: *Barbara Odanaka

3)       Stretch: The Garbage Truck

4)       *Trash Trucks!: *Daniel Kirk

5)       Stretch: Let?s Recycle

6)       Flannel Story: *Bingo*

7)       Stretch: Come Garbage Truck

8)       *I Stink!: *Kate McMullan

9)       Stretch: I Love Trash, *(CD)*

10)   *Trashy Town: *Andrea Zimmerman

11)   Goodbye Song

*The Garbage Truck*

(Tune: The Wheels on the Bus)

The garbage truck rolls down the street,                       *roll hands*

Down the street, down the street.

The garbage truck rolls down the street,

Picking up garbage!                                                 *lift
and dump imaginary can*

*Let?s Recycle
Come Garbage Truck*

(Tune: London Bridge is Falling Down)                            (Tune:
Frere Jacques)

*Clap in rhythm to the song                                  *

*
*Come garbage truck,

Let?s recycle, do it now
*beckon with hand*

Do it now, do it now
Come garbage truck,

Let?s recycle, do it now
Come right now,

Keep our world clean!
*point down*


Come right now.

Save your plastic, glass and cans,                                      Lots
of trash is waiting,

Glass and cans, glass and cans.
*stretch out arms*

Save your plastic, glass and cans,                                      Lots
of trash is waiting.

Keep our world clean!
Honk honk honk,


*pretend to honk horn*

*
*Honk honk honk.

*Garbage & Recycling*

*Preschool Story Time*

*Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 @ 10:30 AM*

**

12)   Here We Are Together / Hands on Shoulders

13)   *Smash! Mash! Crash! There Goes the Trash!: *Barbara Odanaka

14)   Stretch: The Garbage Truck

15)   *I Stink!: *Kate McMullan

16)   Stretch: Let?s Recycle

17)   Flannel Story: *Bingo*

18)   Stretch: Come Garbage Truck

19)   *Too Much Garbage: *Fulvio Testa

20)   Stretch: I Love Trash, *(CD) *

21)   *Trashy Town: *Andrea Zimmerman

22)   Goodbye Song

   - Alternate Story: *Trash Trucks!: *by Daniel Kirk

*The Garbage Truck*

(Tune: The Wheels on the Bus)

The garbage truck rolls down the street,                               *roll
hands*

Down the street, down the street.

The garbage truck rolls down the street,

Picking up garbage!
*lift and dump imaginary can*

*Let?s Recycle
Come Garbage Truck*

(Tune: London Bridge is Falling Down)                    (Tune: Frere
Jacques)

*Clap in rhythm to the song                                          *

*
*Come garbage truck,

Let?s recycle, do it now
*beckon with hand*

Do it now, do it now                                                       Come
garbage truck,

Let?s recycle, do it now                                                  Come
right now,

Keep our world clean!
*point down*


Come right now.

Save your plastic, glass and cans,
Lots of trash is waiting,

Glass and cans, glass and cans.
*stretch out arms*

Save your plastic, glass and cans,
Lots of trash is waiting.

Keep our world clean!                                                   Honk
honk honk,


*pretend to honk horn*

*
*Honk honk honk.


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Kindergarten Read Alouds


Message: 12
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:13:04 +0000
From: Kelly K

A big thanks to the many many people who responded to my call for kindergarten read-alouds.
I apologize that for lack of time the list is not better organized.  However, for those of you who requested the list, there will no doubt be some helpful suggestions here.





Skippyjon Jones all the way. Recent favorite: Interrupting
Chicken.



Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas

Mo Willems

Wide Mouthed Frog / Faulkner

The Doorbell Rang / Hutchins (we have felt plates and cookies on the

feltboard to use with the story)

Put Me In The Zoo / Lopshire

The King the Mice and the Cheese / Gurney

Baby Beebee Bird / Massie

Karma Wilson's Bear books

Silly Sally / Wood

A Fish Out of Water / Palmer

Round Robin / Kent

Caterpillar and the Polliwog / Kent

Froggy Gets Dressed / London

One Duck Stuck by Root

Fortunately by Remy Charlip

Munsch books

Patricia Polacco

Margie Palatini (Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes, Sweet Tooth)

Ted Arnold's books

Dav Pilkey's books

Lane Smith's Happy Hocky family

Scieszka's books

Superdog: heart of a hero

Kevin O'malley's books (Once Upon a cool motorcycle dude)

Hoffman's Grace books

Kimmel's Anansi stories

Non-fiction picture books

Melanie Watts

Todd Parr

The Best Book to Read by Debbie Bertram

The Shelf Elf by Jackie Hopkins

Winston the Book Wolf by Marni McGee

A Book by Mordicai Gerstein

My Little Sister Ate One Hare by Bill Grossman.

Bark George Jules Feiffer

Stephanie's Ponytail (Munsch)

Aaaarrgghh! Spider (Monks)

Epossumondas (Salley)

Never Tease a Weasel by Jean Conder Soule,

Miss Suzy by Miriam Young

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin

Porkenstein by Kathryn Lasky

Clifford, Curious George, and Amelia Bedelia.

Minerva series of picture books

The Mitten (Aylesworth and Brett)

Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch

Higher, Higher by Leslie Patricelli

Duck, Rabbit by Amy Rosenthal

Birds by Kevin Henkes

All God's Critters by Bill Staines

The Curious Garden by Peter Brown

Moonshot by Brian Floca

Princess Hyacinth by Florence Perry Heide

Mary Louise loses her manners by Diane Cuneo ; illustrated by Jack E.

Davis

Ivan the Terrier by Peter Catanlano (spelling)

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Almost anything by William Steig

Miss Nelson Is Back by Allard

A Bad case of Stripes by Shannon

The Library by Stewart

Story of Little Babaji by Bannerman





To get recommendations you might want to check out the
website at 
http://molib.org/awards/buildingblock/index.html -



Pout Pout Fish   Deb Diesen

Pete the Cate (2 books)  Eric Litwin

Do you do a Didgeridoo?   Nick Page

Charlie & Lola books by Lauren Child

Over in the Jungle Rainforest Rhyme

How I became a Pirate - Melinda Long

Gulliver Snip by Julia Kay

Charlotte's Web - White

Aesop's Fables



Two of my favorites are Don't Forget the Bacon, and Harold
and the Purple Crayon.  We all recite the shopping list together in the
1st story.  We talk a lot about Harold's resourcefulness and determination
in the 2nd.  Also spend time guessing what will Harold do now?



Anything by Mo Williams

My Little Sister Ate One
Hare (Grossman)

Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp (Shields)

Silly Sally  (Audrey
Wood)

Farmer Mc Peepers and His Missing Milk Cows (Duffield)

Duck! Rabbit! (Rosenthal)

Yes Day (Rosenthal)

What are you so grumpy about? (Lichtenheld)

Shark vs. Train (Barton)

Sheep in a Jeep (Shaw)

All Aboard the Dino Train (Lund)

Wiggle (Cronin)

Parts (books)  (Tedd
Arnold)

I Took My Frog to the Library (Kimmel)

Double Trouble in Walla
  Walla (Clements)

Icky Sticky Frog (Bentley)

Library Lil (Williams)

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie (Numeroff)

Mrs. Biddlebox (Smith)

A Birthday for Cow (Thomas)

Dinosaur vs. Bedtime (Shea)

Duck Soup (Urbanovic)

Miss Bindergarten Gets Ready for Kindergarten (Slate)



Croakey Pokey (Ethan Long)

Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes (James Dean)


http://www.brookhillelementary.org/?PageName=LatestNews&Section=Highlights&ItemID=57593&ISrc=School&Itype=Highlights&SchoolID=281





Stephanie?s Ponytail
(Munsch)



The Grufalo by Donaldson

Wolf's Chicken Stew by Kasza

Pig Pig Grows Up - McPhail

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Barrett

Anything by William Steig but especially Dr. DeSoto, Brave Irene, Amazing Bone

The Empty Pot and The Hungry Coat by Demi

Horton Hears a Who by Dr. Seuss

Story about lemon pudding from the Stories Julian Tells by Cameron



Are You a Horse? (Andy Rash)



A New Brain for Igor / Teddy O'Connor

Brave Little Monster / Keith Baker

Frank was a Monster Who Wanted to Dance / Keith Graves



Any of Mo Willems' Piggie & Elephant books, especially
There Is A Bird On Your Head!

Rhyming Dust Bunnies / Jan Thomas

Once Upon a Cool Motorcycle Dude / Kevin O'Malley (I've done
this with 5th-6th graders and they loved it, too)

Round Robin / Jack Kent

Piggie Pie / Margie Palatini

My Big Dog , Tops & Bottoms, Great Fuzz Frenzy (one of
my favs but some groups don't get it) / Janet Stevens





Don?t Read this Book (Jill Lewis)



Miss Nelson is Missing and  Mabela the Clever
might work.



Kinder Books Read?the
kids are different every year so you could just reuse this list if you want



Discovery: Fridays @
1pm

Magic Hat (ok)

Waking Beauty (liked)

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible? (ok)

I know an old teacher? (liked)

Parts by Arnold
(ok)

Scaredy Squirrel (had already read it)

Frog Prince, continued (ok)

Perfect Nest (liked)

Gunniwolf (liked)

Book Eating Boy (ok)

Falling for Rapunzel (ok)

Ivan the Terrier (ok)

Porkenstein (liked)

Caterpillar and the Polliwog (ok)

Epossumondas (ok)

The Old Woman and Her Pig (liked)



Small Friends:
Thursdays @ 1:30pm

Gunniwolf (liked)

Falling for Rapunzel (liked)

Squeaky Door (liked)

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything (liked,
but had read before)

The Terrible Plop (liked)

Ivan the Terrier (ok)

Porkenstein (liked)

The Wolf?s Chicken Stew (liked)

My Little Sister Ate One Hare (liked)

Magic Hat (ok)

The Fox in the Dark (liked)

Frog Prince, Continued

Talent Show (liked)

Epossumondas (liked)

Old Woman and Her Pig (loved)

Purple Kangaroo (liked-not sure if they got all the jokes,
but still loved it)

Silly Tilly (liked)

The Three Little Gators (liked)

Waking Beauty (liked, but didn?t get the puns)



Possible future reads:

Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed

Millie Waits for the Mail

The Great Monster Hunt





Kindergarten Read-a-Louds, just title and/or author

Recommended:

Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas

Mo Willems

Wide Mouthed Frog / Faulkner

The Doorbell Rang / Hutchins (we have felt plates and
cookies on the feltboard to use with the story)

Put Me In The Zoo / Lopshire

The King the Mice and the Cheese / Gurney

Baby Beebee Bird / Massie

Karma Wilson's
Bear books

Silly Sally / Wood

A Fish Out of Water / Palmer

Round Robin / Kent

Caterpillar and the Polliwog / Kent

Froggy Gets Dressed / London

One Duck Stuck by Root


Fortunately by Remy Charlip

Munsch books

Patricia Polacco

Margie Palatini (Lousy Rotten Stinkin' Grapes, Sweet Tooth)

Dav Pilkey's books

Lane Smith's Happy Hocky family

Scieszka's books

Superdog: heart of a hero

Kevin O'malley's books (Once Upon a cool motorcycle dude)

Hoffman's Grace books

Kimmel's Anansi stories

Non-fiction picture books

The Best Book to Read by Debbie Bertram

The Shelf Elf by Jackie Hopkins

Winston the Book Wolf by Marni McGee

A Book by Mordicai Gerstein

My Little Sister Ate One Hare by Bill Grossman.

Bark George Jules Feiffer

Stephanie's Ponytail (Munsch)

Aaaarrgghh! Spider (Monks)

Epossumondas (Salley)

Never Tease a Weasel by Jean Conder Soule,

Miss Suzy by Miriam Young

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin

Porkenstein by Kathryn Lasky

Clifford, Curious George, and Amelia Bedelia.

Minerva series of picture books

The Mitten (Aylesworth and Brett)

Somebody Loves You Mr. Hatch

Higher, Higher by Leslie Patricelli

Duck, Rabbit by Amy Rosenthal

Birds by Kevin Henkes

All God's Critters by Bill Staines

The Curious Garden by Peter Brown

Moonshot by Brian Floca

Princess Hyacinth by Florence
Perry Heide

Mary Louise loses her manners by Diane Cuneo ; illustrated
by Jack E. Davis

Ivan the Terrier by Peter Catalano (spelling)

Almost anything by William Steig

A Bad case of Stripes by Shannon

The Library by Stewart

Story of Little Babaji by Bannerman

Tree of Birds by
Susan Meddaugh

Birdfeeder
Banquet by Michael Martchenko

Two Frogs by
Christopher Wormell ? this may appear like a very simple picture book but it
has a twist at the end which younger children won?t get, I use it for kids up
to Grade 3



Discovery Kinder Books Read

Put on hold: Children Make Terrible Pets

Waking Beauty (liked)

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible? (ok)

I know an old teacher? (liked)

Parts by Arnold
(ok)

Scaredy Squirrel (had already read it)

Frog Prince (ok)

Perfect Nest (liked)

Gunniwolf (liked)

Book Eating Boy (ok)

Falling for Rapunzel (ok-didn?t get the rhymes)

Ivan the Terrier (liked)



Small Friends Kinders Read

Gunniwolf (liked)

Falling for Rapunzel (liked)

Squeaky Door (really liked)

The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything (liked,
but had read before)
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