Silly Stories

I try to plan all of my themes around a month in advance, so I have them all in the back of my head while I’m working on other things or am out in the stacks.  This week’s theme of Silly Stories was due in part to April Fool’s Day which landed on Tuesday storytime.  Unfortunately, we had a blizzard on Monday.  And my boss was out of town.  Luckily she is super tech savvy and we were able to text back and forth and decide to close due to the weather.  The storm ended sometime in the early early morning on Tuesday and the weather was all nice and sunny and everything BUT we had close to three feet of snow in our street.  And in all of the other surrounding streets.  It was so much snow that my husband said that he wouldn’t let me even attempt to drive to work even in the four wheel drive pick-up.  So we delayed opening until ten, thinking that the plows would be out in the morning.  Nope.  We didn’t get plowed out until 3:00 in the afternoon.  And then we spent an hour digging out the end of the driveway.  Needless to say, perhaps, we closed again on Tuesday and I missed one of my April Fools storytimes.  The kids were out in FORCE today though.

BOOKS:

Chicken Big by Keith Graves and Rhyming Dust Bunnies by Jan Thomas

The kids enjoyed Chicken Big.   I would ask them if they thought that the big chick was a squirrel or a sweater or an umbrella and they would all say noooooooooo.  Four chicken characters got to be a few too many for me to handle with voices so I think I would maybe cut one out in retelling.  Same thing with Rhyming Dust Bunnies but it was a fun short read (like most Jan Thomas books)

SONG:

We danced to “Shake My Sillies Out” by Raffi.  My new sound system is working fabulously, I am happy to report.

CRAFT:

I really wanted to do silly sculptures for this week with clay and pipe cleaners, but we have a volunteer who likes to come in and cut out shapes for storytime crafts.  Sometimes I think of other things for her to do, but this week, I relented and made up a craft to cut anyway.  We made these goofy glasses (modeled by MOI).