Birthday Storytime

The Main Library is 8 years old!! A celebration is a must and so our theme this week is.... BIRTHDAYS!!

Hello Everybody

Hello everybody! Glad to see you.

Clap your hands and show you’re glad to see me too. 

Clap your hands, everybody, Clap your hands.

Clap your hands and show you’re glad to see me too.

Hello everybody! Glad to see you.

Stamp your feet  and show you’re glad to see me too.

Stamp  your feet, everybody, Stamp your feet.

Stamp you feet and show you’re glad to see me too.

Clap your hand and show you’re glad to see me too.

Hello everybody! Glad to see you .

Shake your hips and show you’re glad to see me too.

Shake your hips, everybody, shake your hips.

Shake your hips and show you’re glad to see me too.

(Repeat last two actions)

Hello everybody! Glad to see you.

Nod your head and show you’re glad  to see me too.

Nod your head, everybody, nod your head.

Nod your head and show you’re glad  to see me too.

(Repeat last three actions)

Hello everybody! Glad to see you.

Blink your eyes and show you’re glad to see me too.

Blink your eyes, everybody, blink your eyes.

Blink your eyes and show you’re glad to see me too.

(Repeat last four actions)

“A Birthday”
Today is everyone’s birthday
Let’s make us a cake (form cake with hands)
Mix and stir, stir and mix (stir)
Then into the oven to bake (push hands out)
Here’s our cake so nice and round (make a circle)
We frost it pink and white (spread frosting)
We put five candles on it (hold up han)
To make a birthday bright!

A birthday for cow! by Jan Thomas

Another hit by Jan Thomas! The kids loved this book, much like ALL books by Jan Thomas.

Jell-o

Jell-O  in  the  bowl,

(cup hands and wiggle around)

Jell-O in  the  bowl.

Wibble Wobble

Wibble Wobble

Jell-O  in  the  bowl.

Cookies in the jar,

(form “jar” with hands and shake)

Cookies in the jar,

Shake ‘em up,

Shake ‘em up,

Cookies in the jar,

Candles on the cake, (hold up ten fingers)

Candles on the cake,

Blow ‘em out, (“blow out” fingers)

Blow ‘em out,

Candles on the cake.

(Tune of A Huntin’ we will go)

Shaker song- If you're happy and you know it

 If you’re happy and you know it, give a shake

If you’re happy and you know it, give a shake.

If you’re happy and you know it then your face will surely show it.

If you’re happy and you know it, give a shake.

( Tap your knees, tap your feet,  beep your nose, do all  four)

Happy Birthday!
Cumpleaños  feliz  4X

Happy Birthday to you.

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday, happy birthday

Happy Birthday to you.

Birthday Months

If your birthday is in January, turn around

If your birthday is in February, touch the ground
(March, march along; April, sing a song; May, wiggle your nose; June, shake your toes; July, jump up high; August, reach the sky; September, tap your shoe; October, call out “Boo!”; November, tickle your ears; December, give three cheers)

Flannel: Five Candles 
Five candles on a birthday cake
Five, and not one more
You may blow one candle out,
And that leaves four!
(There for all to see / three; Standing straight and true / two; Helping us have fun / one; We know its task is done / none)

Shake my Sillies out

I'm gonna shake, shake, shake my sillies out

Shake, shake, shake my sillies out.

Shake, shake, shake my sillies out.

And wiggle my waggles away.

(Repeat with clap my crazies out, jump my jiggles out,  yawn my sleepies out,  stretch my stretchies out, and shake my sillies out.)

Goodbye Song

Now it's time to say goodbye to all our friends, "Goodbye!"

(clap hands to beat and wave during 'goodbye')
Now it's time to say goodbye to all our friends, "Goodbye!"
Now it's time to say goodbye,
Wave your hands,
Wink your eye,
Now it's time to say goodbye to all our friends, "Goodbye!"

Sang to the tune of “She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain”

Early Literacy Tip of the week: 

Infants and children have the most active brains and the more stimulation they receive, the more connections are made between brain cells. It is repetition that keeps these connections and makes them strong.

A secret birthday message by Eric Carle

We had so many birthday activities planned for this storytime, we actually did not get to the second book today!