Dance Dance Revolution
/We like to move it, move it here at the library so I thought a dance storytime was in order. We hop, leaped, and twirled our hearts out!
BOOKS:
We read Dance Dance Underpants! by Bob Shea and I Got the Rhythm by Connie Schofield-Morrison.
These were both really good for storytime. I was a little worried because Ballet Cat is a little long at times, but it's so funny that the kids didn't mind. I stopped from time to time to ask questions - like do you think that Butter Bear wants to do really high leaps? How can you tell? and so on. I Got the Rhythm worked well because it's almost a call and response kind of book. We would shake our hips and clap and snap along with the narrator.
ACTION SONG:
For our in-between books activity, we did the hokey-pokey. Simple as that.
SONG:
For our song this week, we listened (and danced) to "Dance with Me" by the Not-Its! I love this song. It's so catchy. I previewed the steps before we listened and then we went to it.
CRAFT:
Normally, I would have done dance ribbons with this theme, but we made them not too terribly long ago, so I went in a different direct. We made our own rhythm sticks out of paint stir sticks and painted them with watercolors. I like the watercolors because they soaked into the light wood quickly so there was little dry time, but still good color. The kids were excited because we've used my rhythm sticks several times in storytime. Here are mine.