Plenty of fish in the sea

I found plenty of good books about fish, so I though it might be time to share with the kiddos!!

Opening Song: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea by Jan Peck

Song: Alphabet Song

Book: Gilbert Goldfish wants a Pet by Kelly DiPucchio

Song: 5 Little Sea Creatures (Taken from Preschool Education - Ocean Songs)

Book: Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On by Lois Ehlert


Craft: Fish Bowl Craft (Taken from First School)

Nice shoes!!

I have a brand new favorite book about shoes, so I just had to have a story time around it!!

Opening Song: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes by Eric Litwin

Song: Hickory Dickory Dock

Book: Which Shoes Would You Choose? by Betsy Rosenthal


Flannel Board Activity: Count the Shoes

Book: Whose Shoes? A Shoe for Every Job by Stephen Swinburne


Craft: Footprint and Hand print Butterfly

Animals on the Farm

There are always plenty of fabulous books about farm animals!!!

Opening Song: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: Stuck in the Mud by Jane Clarke

Song: Old McDonald

Book: Pigs to the Rescue by John Himmelman


Rhyme: This Little Piggy

Book: Does a Cow Say Boo? by Judy Hindley

Craft: Googly eye pigs with a curly pipe cleaner tail!! (idea taken from All Kids Network - Pig Craft for Kids)

New Year, New Books!

I just LOVE reading new books to the kids!! I always tell them that these are BRAND NEW books, and NO ONE has heard them in story time - they get to be FIRST!!! They love that and we always have a good time with them!!

Opening Song: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: The Croaky Pokey! by Ethan Long

Song: Humpty Dumpty

Book: Homer the Library Cat by Reeve Lindberg

Song: Itsy Bitsy Spider

Book: The Artist Who Painted a Blue Horse by Eric Carle


Craft: In Honor of Homer the Library Cat - Cat Faces!!

Time for Christmas

And now, Christmas!!! Nothing like posting about Christmas story time in March, is there?? But, I have some great Christmas books and loved sharing them with my kids!!

Opening Song: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: Bear Stays Up for Christmas by Karma Wilson

Song: Jingle Bells

Book: Merry Christmas, Big Hungry Bear! by Don and Audrey Wood


Song: Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

Book: Counting Christmas by Karen Katz

Craft: Decorate Christmas Trees

Snow falls in winter

Now that it is 80 degrees outside - let me post my story time about SNOW!!!

Opening Song: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: Ten on the Sled by Kim Norman

Song: I'm a Little Snowman

Book: All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle

Song: 1 Little, 2 Little, 3 Little Snowflakes

Book: Mouse's First Snow by Lauren Thompson


Craft: Cotton Ball Snowman

Watch out for the Monsters!!

It was very exciting for me to find some fun books about Monsters. They're not really so scary, I promise!!

Opening Song: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: My Monster Mama Loves Me So by Laura Leuck

Song: 1 Little, 2 Little, 3 Little Monsters

Book: Big Scary Monster by Thomas Docherty

Rhyme: Five Little Monsters Jumping on the Bed (just like 5 little monkeys!)

Book: If You're a Monster and You Know It by Rebecca and Ed Emberly


Craft: Monsters!! (Taken from All Kids Network - Shape Monster Crafts)

Hats off!!

I happen to own a HUGE box of awesome random hats that my parents and their friends collected for me. I was SUPER excited to bring them all to story time and pass them along to my kids for this awesome Hat story time!!! They LOVED picking out a hat to wear and it was super amazing!!!

Opening Song: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: Where's Mary's Hat? by Stephane Barroux

Song: On my head (we put the hat on your head, on your knee, on your foot, on your elbow)

Book: Which Hat is That? by Anna Grossnickle Hines

Song: If You're Happy and You Know It

Book: Whose Hat? by Margaret Miller


Craft: Paper Plate Crowns

Thanks for Thanksgiving

**yes, this is how behind I am...**

I found a couple really great Thanksgiving books this year!! I love finding new things I haven't seen before and I extra love sharing them with my kids!!

Opening Song: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: Thanksgiving in the Barn by Nadine Bernard Westcott

Rhyme: 5 Little Turkeys (Taken from Preschool Education - Thanksgiving Songs) I turned it into a flannel board!!


Book: Run, Turkey, Run! by Diane Mayr

Song: I'm a Little Teapot

Book: Thanks for Thanksgiving by Julie Markes



Craft: Paper Plate Turkeys

Special Bedtime Stories

I had a special request from a school to do a parents night! I was so excited, and broke out some of my favorite bedtime stories!!

Opening Song: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: Froggy Goes to Bed by Jonathan London


Song: Twinkle Twinkle

Book: The Caterpillow Fight by Sam McBratney

Song: Tooty-Ta by Dr Jean and Friends

Book: The Woods by Paule Hoppe


Craft: Paper plate Moon and Star (I can't remember where I got the Moon pattern - so sorry!!)

Random Favorites

It was a weird week in story time! I had a performer call out sick just two hours before a very special Fairy Tales program, and then I had a group from a ballet school in town come to perform a program for my regular preschool story time - but I didn't even know they were coming!!! They only stayed for the first story time, though, and I didn't want to use my already planned story time (because it was super exciting, and wanted to use it for BOTH groups). So, I scrambled again and picked out a couple of my favorite story time books.

Opening Song: Shake My Sillies Out - Raffi

Book: Knuffle Bunny: A Cautionary Tale by Mo Willems


Rhyme: Hey Diddle, Diddle

Book: Dinosaur vs. The Library by Bob Shea (LOVE this series!!!)



Dance: The Freeze - Greg and Steve (from Greg and Steve We All Live Together Vol.2)

Book: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.

Craft: Since I still had lots of supplies, I decided to make the crowns again!! I LOVE paper plates!!!


It's another edition of FMRNS!!! The feature this week was The Crow, a drama from 1994 starring Brandon Lee and Rochelle Davis. I remember thinking this movie looked really weird when it came out, and didn't really have a desire to see it. But, I trust my friend A wholeheartedly when it comes to what is on The List, so we watched it. I was NOT disappointed!!