Snow & Symmetry Family Program

"Snow and Symmetry" program now available in "Programs for Families All Ages."

New Year and Newest Content Added

So, I'm gearing up for (and have been very busy preparing for) the American Library Association Mid-Winter Conference this week ... and for the final discussions on the Odyssey Award's (secret) final nominations list!  So excited!

While I haven't posted, I have been adding content to the "Youth Services Programs and Resources" area.  For example, recently added a Counting program for 2s and 3s and a Clocks and Counting program for 4s and 5s.  There is a Moon and Stars program for 2-5 Music and Movement program.  You'll see the corresponding public bibliographies on Worldcat.

Enjoy!

Gotta Move : Stop and Go / Red and Green Storytime

PDF here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByZSJgcQD22tQjc2UXVVYWFmb3c/edit?usp=sharing

Programs Added

These programs are now available through the Google Docs links on your right:

Programs for Families All Ages: (2013 11) Butterfly Science

Programs for 2-3: (2013 11) Food

Programs for 4-5: (2013 11) Food

Programs for 2-5: (2013 11) Fast and Slow Fall

Baby Program Outline and Two New

Click on "Baby Programs, under 2 years" on the right to access two of my newest programs for babies.

I've definitely found an outline I am comfortable with:

1) More We Get Together opening song while sharing the book

2) Hello Friends to learn names and have babies tap their name on tamborine (Phono awareness!)

3) Rhyme -- I like the one where I can swap out the letters or numbers and show my big foam ones, or maybe a counting one with felt pieces or toys to count as well as fingers

4) Book with props, particularly stuffed animals or puppets than can touch or tickle the babies or move in ways that get their attention as we repeat the animal's name, or toys that make sound and enforce story

5) Rhyme -- bounce or tickle or one where different body parts are named and moved in different ways

6) Music CD with shakers or scarves or bubbles which invite moving and dancing

7) Happy and You Know It as closing rhyme

Monkey Library Program for Toddlers

Here's a list of monkey stories and songs: https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/MissHayleyMac/lists/2691781 Here'e the program outline for 2s and 3s: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByZSJgcQD22tUVdoS0FHUGMtUEE/edit?usp=sharing

Gotta Move Programs

Here are some of my most recent Music and Movement library programs for ages 2-5: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByZSJgcQD22tTkp6aGlMVnFyd28/edit?usp=sharing UP AND DOWN https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByZSJgcQD22tMzRsMzhtZkJsVm8/edit?usp=sharing DANCE https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByZSJgcQD22tWjhpYnplSXUydFU/edit?usp=sharing STORMS https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByZSJgcQD22td29QZDdrQmZqSTA/edit?usp=sharing VEGETABLES

5 Programs for Babies Ages 0-2

Yikes! Been awhile since I posted ... Here are the baby programs I've done the last few months, with the most recent program first. They are also available on the right hand side link under "Youth Services Programs and Resources."

Alike & Different Toddler and Preschool Programs

Here is a book list: https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/MissHayleyMac/lists/1925658

Color Green Storytimes for Toddlers and Preschoolers

If you are planning ahead already, I did a Color Green theme storytime last March. Here is that list: https://www.worldcat.org/profiles/MissHayleyMac/lists/2975832 FOR TODDLERS, AGES 2 and 3: FOR PRESCHOOLERS, AGES 4 and 5:

Dinosaur Early Literacy Programs for Ages 2-5

For 2s and 3s:



For 4s and 5s:



Gotta Move for Ages 2-5:

Springpad vs Pinterest

I've been working on creating "notebooks" on springpad.com that I am hoping will allow me to better bookmark, organize, and share program handouts, websites, videos, voice recordings, files, and notes.  I am hoping that the efficiency and features of this system will let me move away from Google Drive and Google Docs (which I usually embed in this blog).

The only minor limitation I see with Springpad so far is that to access the site, one's browser (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, or Apple Safari) has to be the newest version. However, from what I understand, one can email a "spring" (bookmark etc) from one's email in an older internet browser (on public computers etc) and this will be added to one's Springpad notebooks.

I also like that Springpad has mobile app (iOs and Android) capabilities and can bookmark and organize websites, notes, videos, and uploaded documents vs. Pinterest.com's picture only boards.

Let's try this and see how it goes ... Click on the link to access my brand new "My Library Programs" notebook -- remember to be in the newest version of one of the internet browsers listed earlier.  So far there is a note called "Tales & Talk for 2s & 3s."  Click on it to access an uploaded .pub and .pdf files of a recent program handout. 

How does that work from your end?

http://sprng.me/h5p5q

Tree Programs for Preschoolers

Gotta Move: Trees

Baby Program: Right-Left ... Up&Down ... Run, Run, Run!

Gotta Move: Noises in the Night

For summer, we grouped the babies, toddlers, and preschoolers into this multi-age, early literacy program. 

We asked the babies to sit in the front, and during the program, provided modified movements for caregivers to do for the babies.  For example, for Wee Willie Winkie, we encouraged the parents to move the babies' feet and lift and lower them on "upstairs" and "downstairs."

I introduced the program by saying, "Let's have fun, be active, and get ready to read!"

I used an iPad to project a sun, a sunset, and a moon scene on a screen (via a VGA adapter and VGA cable) as we repeated Wee Willie Winkie and changed the time on a toy clock from 8 to 9 to 10 o'clock. 

We used puppets/props along with physical/animal motions during Little Owl's Night.

I ended up using the cricket vs. grasshopper activity as my "waiting activity" -- waiting for everyone to come in and get settled before actually starting the program.

Cicada Outreach Program

Waddaleeatcha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh4W2My5dVE&list=UUzw0eB9H2fJqn-rI7Id-iQg&index=2&feature=plcp

Waddaleeatcha Slap knees twice, clap twice
Waddaleeatcha Double scissor cross hands left over right, right over left
Doodleydoo Right hand touches right shoulder, nose, lands on left shoulder
Doodleydoo Left hand touches left shoulder, nose, lands on right shoulder
(Repeat)

Simplest song there isn't much to it
All ya gotta do is doodley doo it
I like the rest but the part I like the best goes
Doodley doodley doo
Quack! Quack!

Draw and Tell: "Cicada" using Singing Fingers App
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCYA7N-vdZA

Listened to different Cicadas songs from The Songs of Insects by Lang Elliott; Wil Hershberger

Showed some pictures and highlighted facts from Cicadas!: Strange and Wonderful by Mr. Laurence Pringle and Meryl Henderson

Insect Parts 1 (http://www.atozkidsstuff.com/bugs.html)
(tune: Head, Shoulders Knees and Toes)
Head, thorax abdomen, six legs
Head, thorax abdomen, six legs
And eyes and ears and antennae
Head, thorax abdomen, six legs

Point to the appropriate parts on your body for each of the insect parts. Put up index fingers and waggle them for antenna, and put three fingers out on each side for 6 legs!!

Showed a dead Cicada that I had found on my porch!  (The inspiration for the program!!!)

Zoo Storytimes for Toddlers vs. Preschoolers

For an after storytime activity/extension, I will place those plastic capsules that have an animal shaped sponge inside into plastic water bottles with warm water (lid screwed on) -- one per bottle and one bottle per child.

The Color Green Storytimes for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Financial Literacy Storytime for Young Children and Their Parents