The Parrot Tico Tango...
Since the book mentions different fruits, I printed out photos of each of the fruit mentioned in the book. I asked the kids if they liked to eat vegetables raise their hands. Of course, most of them were making faces but there was a cute little girl who yelled out that she likes to eat carrots. I then asked them if they liked to eat fruit raise their hands. Then we went around and shared what our favorite fruits were. I asked them if anyone knew what a mango looked like. One of the boys said yes but he couldn't describe what it looked like so I pulled out the picture of the green grapes and asked if that was a mango. They laughed and said no so I pulled out a picture of a lemon and asked if that was a mango; more laughs and no's. When I finally showed them the real picture of the mango, they all said that was a mango. I then showed them the picture of a papaya and asked if they knew what kind of fruit it was. None of the kids could guess it so Shawn (my 10 yr old) told them what it was. They weren't able to guess the fig or dates either. I think it would be really cool to have all the fruits so the kids could see them in person and even taste them but I was on a limited budget so they got pictures. The kids didn't seem that impressed with the book itself but I only had one four year old. The rest of the kids were six and up. I made sure to stop and ask them if they knew what contrite meant and they were very close with their answers. I also stopped before getting to the page where all the fruit dropped and asked them what they thought was going to happen. None of them guessed that the fruit would come crashing down so it was a surprise when we turned the page.
The Animal Boogie...
Before playing the music, I quickly went through the book and showed the kids the movements we would be using for each animal. This one went over a little better than Tico Tango. It was fun and the kids were participating (except one older boy who was embarrassed) and it got the attention of the other customers in the store.
Emily's Tiger...
I thought this book would be hard to keep the kids engaged but thanks to my friend Liz, the kids were interested the entire book! What did Liz tell me? She reminded me that in each scene there was a lady bug. Once I told the kids that, they couldn't wait to point out the lady bug when I was finished reading each page. Besides searching for the lady bug, I really do think they enjoyed the book. I asked the kids what they thought was making Emily turn into a tiger and heard from them they think she turns into a tiger when she doesn't get her own way. I told them that when we don't get our own way, we get angry and then asked them how they calm themselves down when they get angry. They had a little bit of trouble answering this and when I suggested that taking deep breaths could help them calm down, I was quickly told that taking deep breaths doesn't work, LOL. I think I might have had a few tigers at storytime : )
The tiger puppet was a big hit with all the kids (even the older ones)! I pre-cut all the pieces and put numbers on the back of the pieces so putting it all together would go smoothly. I also used orange paper bags that I got at the craft store. Here are the instructions and template for the tiger puppet: http://www.dltk-kids.com/animals/mbagtiger.htm and here are our puppets...
Stories and craft lasted for one hour. All in all, I was happy with how the storytime went and can't wait to do another one!
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