Uh-Oh! Trouble Storytimes - Week of December 4, 2010

This week at Storytime we talked about getting into trouble!

Our Toddler Storytime included:
Song - Fingerpopping from Preschool Aerobic Fun
Introduction to the letter T for Teddy bear and Time-out
Book - Please, Baby, Please by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee
Action Rhyme - Time for Bed
Song - Shake Your Sillies Out from Raffi's More Singable Songs
Book - Oh No, Anna! by Vivian French
Flannel Story - Cookie's Week from the book by Cindy Ward
Prop Story - When Cookie Came to Storytime
Book - No Biting by Karen Katz

Our Preschool Storytime lineup included:
Song - Can't Wait to Celebrate from Jim Gill's Irrational Anthem
Book - Old Black Fly by Jim Aylesworth
Song - There's a Spider on the Floor from Raffi's More Singable Songs
Book - To Market, To Market by Anne Miranda
Song - Stick to the Glue from Jim Gill Makes It Noisy in Boise, Idaho Flannel Story - Cookie's Week
Book - No, David! by David Shannon

Ready To Read Skill - Narritive Skills (Storytelling)

Narritive Skills means being able to describe things and events and tell stories. Working on this skill will help your child understand what they are reading as they get older and move to more advanced books, because they will be able to recognize that stories have a beginning, middle, and end. Ways to improve Narritive Skills include telling your child are doing throughout the day, listening to them and asking questions, and encouraging them to tell stories. Another way to practice Narritive Skills is to take a favorite book and tell it or act it out in a different way like we did this week with Cookie's Week and Cookie Comes to Storytime.