Check our calendar for the next Antioch or other JCL Location Storytime, hope to see you there!
1. HAVE FUN WITH BOOKS
Here are the books we read at storytime:
Sixteen Runaway Pumpkins by Dianne Ochiltre ©2004
Pick a Circle, Gather Squares: A Fall Harvest of Shapes by Felicia Sanzari Chernesky ©2013
Pumpkin Countdown by Joan Holub ©2012
The Little Old Woman Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams © 1986 (Watch a sung version of this book on YouTube.)
Booklist: JoCoLibrary - Kids - Pumpkins
2. NOTICE PRINT ALL AROUND YOU
Check out our Staff Picks for Notice Print All Around You.
3. TALK, TALK, TALK
Check out our Staff Picks for Talk, Talk, Talk.
4. TELL STORIES ABOUT EVERYTHING
Read aloud and read along with Tumblebooks: interactive books, puzzles and more. Also give Bookflix a try!
5. LOOK FOR LETTERS EVERYWHERE
Try some fun alphabet activities from the Antioch Youth Services Pinterest page.
6. TAKE TIME TO RHYME, SING AND PLAY WORD GAMES
Here are the rhymes and songs from today:
Welcome To Storytime! [tune: Twinkle, Twinkle]
Welcome, welcome everyone,
Now we're here, let's have some fun.
First we'll sing the ABC's,
then we'll read and sing with me.
Welcome, welcome, everyone,
Now we're here let's have some fun.
One day I found two pumpkin seeds.
I planted one and pulled the weeds.
It sprouted roots and a big, long vine.
A pumpkin grew; I called it mine.
The pumpkin was quite round and fat.
(I really am quite proud of that.)
But there is something I'll admit,
That has me worried just a bit.
I ate the other seed, you see.
Now will it grow inside of me?
(I'm so relieved since I have found
that pumpkins only grow in the ground!)
Have You Ever Seen a Pumpkin? [tune: "Did You Ever See a Lassie?" ]
Have you ever seen a pumpkin, a pumpkin, a pumpkin,
Have you ever seen a pumpkin, that grows on a vine?
A round one, a tall one, a fat one, a small one.
Have you ever seen a pumpkin, that grows on a vine?
Peter, Peter, Pumpkin-eater
Peter, Peter, pumpkin-eater;
Had a wife, and couldn't keep her:
He put her in a pumpkin shell,
And there he kept her very well.
Pumpkin Song [tune: "I'm a Little Teapot" ]
I'm a little pumpkin orange and round.
Here is my stem, there is the ground.
When I get all cut up, don't you shout!
Just open me up and scoop seeds out!
The More We Read Together [tune: The More We Get Together ]
The more we read together, together, together,
The more we read together, the better it is!
'Cause reading and singing and talking together,
Is how you learn the six skills for reading by six.
Hope to see you at our next Antioch Preschool Storytime!