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Pigs – Infant Storytime

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Today we celebrated all things porcine in storytime!

SONG: Now it’s Time to Say Hello*
taken from jbrary

MOVEMENT: Peek a Boo*

BOUNCE: To Market, To Market*

SIGN LANGUAGE: sign for Pig


Taken from My Smart Hands

BOOK:
PepoandLoloRedApple
Pepo and Lolo and the Red Apple by Ana Martín Larrañaga

MOVEMENT: “Clap, Tap and Bend” from It’s Toddler Time by Carol Hammett and Elaine Bueffel

FLANNELBOARD:
The Tail of a Pig
Tail of the Pig flannelboard cropped named
Pattern taken from clip art.  Song from Preschool Education.

The tail of the pig curls round and round
round and round, round and round.
The tail of the pig curls round and round
All through the mud.

…mouth of a pig goes oink, oink, oink.
…snout of a pig goes root, root, root.
…hooves of a pig go run, run, run.
…ears of a pig go twitch, twitch, twitch.

I put up a flannelboard pig and pointed to the different parts as we sang about them.

BOUNCE: “Ladies Ride” from Wiggleworms Love You by Old Town School of Folk Music 

MOVEMENT: Patty Cake

BOOK:

Piggies by Audrey Wood and Don Wood

TICKLE: Round and Round the Garden*

NURSERY RHYME FLANNELBOARD:
Dickery Dickery Dare
DickeryDickeryDareFlannelboard
Template and Rhyme from Mother Goose’s Playhouse by Judy Sierra

Dickery Dickery Dare,
A pig flew up in the air!
The man in brown
Soon brought him down.
Dickery Dickery Dare.

MOVEMENT: “Itsy Bitsy Spider” from Children’s Favorite Songs Volume 3 from Walt Disney
MOVEMENT: “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” from Songs for Wiggleworms by the Old Town School of Folk Music

MOVEMENT:  Now it’s Time to Say Goodbye
taken from jbrary

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL IDEAS:

Book: Pepo and Lolo are Friends by Ana Martín Larrañaga
Flannelboard:  This Little Piggy
Flannelboard: Old MacDonald
Flannelboard: Five Pigs So Squeaky Clean
Book:

OTHER BLOGS TO CHECK OUT:
Pigs – Infant Storytime from 2014/02
Pigs – Toddler Storytime from 2014/02

HOW IT WENT:
Today was a good storytime day.  It felt like things went a lot more smoothly than it did last week.  Maybe it’s just getting back into the routine of things again, both for me and the babies.

I had made that beautiful pig for the Tail of a Pig flannelboard, but then left it on my desk!  So I used a different pig, but we still sang the song.

ATTENDANCE: 33 people

* For these songs, please see my page Storytime Movements & Music

Pigs – Toddler Storytime

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Sometimes, it’s helpful to have a storytime theme in your back pocket that just is always a go to theme.  For me, that theme is often about my perfectly porcine pals – pigs.

MOVEMENT: Welcome Song*

MOVEMENT: “Clap Everybody and Say Hello” from Sally Go Round the Sun by Kathy Reid-Naiman

MOVEMENT: Open Shut Them*

BOOK:

How Kind by Mary Murphy

MOVEMENT: “Roll Your Hands” from Toddlers on Parade by Carol Hammett and Elaine Bueffel

MOVEMENT: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

COUNTING SONG:*
10PigsFlannelboard
Pigs

FLANNELBOARD:
This Little Piggy
This Little Piggy Flannelboard

This little piggy went to market.
This little piggy stayed home.
This little piggy had roast beef.
This little piggy had none.
And this little piggy cried,
“Wee Wee Wee” all the way home.

MOVEMENT: “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” from Songs for Wiggleworms by the Old Town School of Folk Music

MOVEMENT: Itsy Bitsy Spider

BOOK:

Piggy Pie Po by Audrey & Don Wood


MOVEMENT: “Two Little Blackbirds” from Fingerplays and Footplays by Rosemary Hallum and Henry “Buzz” Glass

VIDEO:

“Iggy’s Book” from Baby’s First Word Stories: Nighttime

MOVEMENT:  Storytime’s Over*

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS IDEAS:

Book: Pepo and Lolo are Friends by Ana Martin Larranga
Book: Pepo and Lolo and the Red Apple by Ana Martin Larranaga
Book: Piglet and Mama by Margaret Wild (or any others in the Piglet series)
Book: Z-Z-Zoink by Bernard Most
DVD: Any Peppa Pig video
HOW IT WENT:
I had a request to add in “Twinkle Twinkle” which is why you see that in this storytime.  I might keep it in, but move it to a different part of the program.  I think it might be good to add another calmer rhyme (like Twinkle Twinkle) after “Row Row Row Your Boat” because that one seems to get the kids really amped up and then it is hard for them to sit back down after that.  Will test it out next week and see how it goes.  How Kind is a great book, and I love the illustrations, but it didn’t seem to work as well at this time.   Will have to be on the lookout for more good pig toddler books.  At the start of today’s 10am storytime, one of the toddlers, a little girl, came out of the storyroom to where I was waiting in the Children’s Room for more families to arrive.  She took my hand, and proceeded to lead me back to the storyroom because she felt storytime needed to start RIGHT THEN.  It was pretty adorable.  It’s hard to not love your job when you get kids doing things like that. 🙂

ATTENDANCE:  10 am:  51 people      11 am: 41 people

* For these songs, please see my Storytime Movements & Music page

Pigs – Infant Storytime

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Piggies are always fun storytime topic! And they are especially fun for infant storytime, because there are so many great rhymes and bounces involving pigs or “piggies” to do!

MOVEMENT: Welcome Song*

MOVEMENT: Peek-a-Boo*

BOUNCE: To Market To Market*

BOOK:

Piggies by Audrey Wood and Don Wood

MOVEMENT: “Clap, Tap and Bend” from It’s Toddler Time by Carol Hammett and Elaine Bueffel

FLANNELBOARD:
This Little Piggy
This Little Piggy Flannelboard

This little piggy went to market.
This little piggy stayed home.
This little piggy had roast beef.
This little piggy had none.
And this little piggy cried,
“Wee Wee Wee” all the way home.

BOUNCE: “Ladies Ride” from Wiggleworms Love You by Old Town School of Folk Music

BOOK:

Pepo and Lolo are Friends by Ana Martin Larranaga

FLANNELBOARD:
Dickery Dickery Dare
DickeryDickeryDareFlannelboard
Template and Rhyme from Mother Goose’s Playhouse by Judy Sierra

Dickery Dickery Dare,
A pig flew up in the air!
The man in brown
Soon brought him down.
Dickery Dickery Dare.

TICKLE: Round and Round the Garden*

MOVEMENT: “Itsy Bitsy Spider” from Children’s Favorite Songs Volume 3 from Walt Disney

MOVEMENT: “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” from Songs for Wiggleworms by the Old Town School of Folk Music

MOVEMENT: Storytime’s Over*

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL IDEAS:

Book: Pepo and Lolo and the Red Apple by Ana Martin Larranaga
Book: How Kind! by Mary Murphy

HOW IT WENT:
I really enjoyed this storytime, because there were so many ways of making it interactive.  When reading Piggies I encouraged all the parents to do the motions with their child.  We did Dickery Dickery Dare as a bounce where you lift the child up in the air.  And of course we did This Little Piggy as a fingerplay along with the flannelboard.  With all the bouncing and lifting, parents got a workout with their children today!

ATTENDANCE: 50 people

* For these songs, please see my page Storytime Movements & Music

Pigs – Preschool Storytime

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MOVEMENT: Welcome Song*

MOVEMENT: “Jump Jump” from I’m a Rock Star by Joanie Leeds and the Nightlights

BOOK:
MyLuckyDaybyKasza
My Lucky Day by Keiko Kasza

FINGERPLAY:
Two Mother Pigs
Two mother pigs live in a pen.  (Put both thumbs up)
Each had 4 babies and that made 10. (Show all fingers and thumbs)
These 4 babies were black as night. (Hold up 1 hand, thumb in palm)
These 4 babies were black and white. (Hold up other hand, thumb in palm)
But all 8 babies loved to play,
And they rolled and rolled in the mud all day (roll hands over each other)
At night with their mother, they curled in a heap (make fists, palms up)
And squealed and squealed till they went to sleep.

FLANNELBOARD:
This Little Piggy
This Little Piggy Flannelboard

MOVEMENT: “Shake My Sillies Out” from More Singable Songs for the Very Young by Raffi

FLANNELBOARD:
Old MacDonald
OldMacDonaldFlannelboard2

BOOK:
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Z-Z-Zoink! by Bernard Most

VIDEO:
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“The Pigs’ Wedding” from Click, Clack, Moo Cows that Type …and More Fun on the Farm

MOVEMENT:
If You’re a Pig and You Know It
(To Tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It”)
If you’re a pig and you know it say “Oink Oink”
“Oink Oink”
If you’re a pig and you know it say “Oink Oink”
“Oink Oink”
If you’re a pig and you know it,
Then you really ought to show it.
If you’re a pig and you know it say “Oink Oink”
“Oink Oink”

If you’re a pig and you know it wiggle your tail…
trot your feet….

MOVEMENT: Storytime’s Over*

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL IDEAS:
PingPongPigbyChurch NotAStickbyPortis IfYouGiveaPigAPancakebyNumeroff RibbitbyFolgueiraPepoandLoloRedApple
Book: Ping Pong Pig by Caroline Jayne Church
Book: Not a Stick by Antoinette Portis
Book: If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff
Book: Ribbit! by Rodrigo Folgueira
Book: Pepo and Lolo and the Red Apple by Ana Martin Larranaga
Video: Any Peppa Pig Movie

THOUGHTS ON THIS STORYTIME:
I had a mix of ages for this storytime.  I thought since there were some older kids in the audience I would start with My Lucky Day and see how that went over, especially since it is one of my favorite books to read-aloud.  But I think that was too long for the group as a whole, and one of the younger girls in the group kept getting really scared whenever the pig got into the roasting pan.  So after I finished that one I went into a fingerplay and then the flannelboard This Little Piggy so that things could be a little less terrifying for the audience.  I thought Z-Z-ZOink! was a really good read aloud.   Also, “The Pigs’ Wedding” might be a bit of an older video as well, but it is just so fun.

ATTENDANCE: 32 (adults and children)

*To see the words to these movements and activities I use frequently, please visit my A-capella Movements Section on my Storytime Movements and Music Page