Ducking into Autumn....Storytime, October 12

The leaves may not be turning in the valley yet, but the fruit is ripening. Found some Jonathans at the farmers market on Saturday - tasty for eating but sadly, too small for pie. We're starting storytime off with:

Ducking for Apples, by Lynne Berry
a new addition to Berry's rhyming "duck" series (these ducks do all sorts of fun things...camping, skating....).

Then we'll explore autumn with a wide-eyed young bear experiencing it (with alarm!)for the first time, in David Ezra Stein's Leaves, one of my favorites for fall, now also available as a board book. (Another favorite is Fall Is Not Easy, by Marty Kelley, but the humor in that one is more preschool/early elementary than toddler....still, if you have an older child, check it out....).

We'll close with Bob Shea's Dinosaur vs. Bedtime an excellent book for bedtime, naptime, storytime....if your child likes this one (there might be one or two that don't - it could happen), check out Dinosaur vs. the Potty, Shea's new book.






Some new songs and fingerplays:

Three Red Apples

Three red apples
Hanging on a tree
The juiciest apples
You ever did see
The wind came past
With an angry frown
And one little apple
Came tumbling down.
(two, one..)

and another, along the lines of "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear":

Dinosaur, dinosaur
Turn around
Dinosaur, dinosaur
Touch the ground
Dinosaur, dinosaur
Roar, roar, roar
Dinosaur, dinosaur
Sit on the floor

And, of course, one to go with Leaves:

Leaves are floating softly down (raise arms and flutter fingers downward)
They make a carpet on the ground
Then swish! The wind comes whirling by (sweep ground with hands)
And sends them dancing to the sky (flutter fingers upward)

See you tomorrow for some storytime fun!