PreK & K: Penguins or Winter Storytime
1st & 2nd: Penguin Problems by John Jory, One Cool Friends by Toni Buzzeo, facts from Penguins Penguins Everywhere by Bob Barner and If You Were a Penguin by Wendell Minor. See also Penguins Strange & Wonderful by Laurence Pringle & Penguins by Jane P. Resnick; poetry break from A Pizza the Size of the Sun by Jack Prelutsky
PreK & K: Fairy Tales Storytime
1st & 2nd: Fairy Tale poetry from Mirror Mirror by mrailyn Singer (In the Hood and Bears in the News), The Princess and the Pit Stip by Tom Angleberger, Once Upon a Slime by Andy Maxwell, Flannel Board: Mix & Match Cinderella
AES 1st @ APL: Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion, The Truth about Hippos
Ranger PreK @ MPL: The Day It Rained Hearts by Felicia Bond, Stanley the Mailman by William Bee
PreK & K: Frogs Storytime
1st & 2nd: poems from The Great Frog Race by Kristine O'Connell George (Polliwogs & The Great Frog Race), Fabulous frogs by Martin Jenkins, I don't want to be a Frog by Dev Petty, I'm a Frog by Mo Willems, activity: origami jumping frog
PreK & K:
Book: Pug and Other Animal Poems by Valerie Worth (fox, cat, wood thrush, rabbits, opossum, geese, firefly, toads, dachshund)
Flannel Board: Doggy, Doggy, Where’s Your Bone?
Book: A Perfect Day by Lane Smith
Movement Activity: Can You?
Book: Feathers and Hair: What Animals Wear by Jennifer Ward
Movement Activity: Some Dogs
Book: Chicken Cheeks by Michael Ian Black
1st & 2nd:
Deborah Ruddell
A Whiff of Pine, A Hint of Skunk: A Forest of Poems [Biography of a Beaver, Moonlit Raccoon, Nobody’s Pet (A Word to the Wise from a Red Fox)]
The Popcorn Astronauts and Other Biteable Rhymes (How a Poet Orders a Shake, Your Choices at the Totally Toast Café , Menu for a Gray Day )
Today at the Bluebird Café: A Branchful of Birds (The Cardinal, The Quail, The Swan)
Joyce Sidman
Ubiquitous (Gecko on the Wall, Tail Tale, Fluff Head)
Butterfly eyes and other secrets of the meadow(Shh! They Are Sleeping, Always Together, The Gray Ones)
Red Sings from the Treetops: A Year in Colors (Spring section)
Amy Ludwig VanDerwater
Read! Read! Read! (Cereal Box, Word Collection, Forever)
Forest Has a Song (April Waking , Lady’s Slipper, Waiting for Deer)
With My Hands: Poems about Making Things (Tie-Dye Shirt, Fort, Origami)
PreK & K: May storytimes (farm, sharks pizza)
1st & 2nd: The Donkey Egg by Janet Stevens, Ten Rules of the Birthday Wish by Beth Ferry, Fear the Bunny by Richard T. Morris
PreK & K: Lions Storytime
1st & 2nd: What's Your FAvorite Animal? by Eric Carle & Friends, Frog on a Log? and Dog on a Frog? by Kes Gray , Poetry Break: It's Raining Pigs & Noodles by Jack Prelutsky
AES 1st @ APL: The Good Egg and The Bad Seed by Jory John
PreK & K: October storytimes
1st & 2nd: Mother Bruce, Hotel Bruce, and Bruce's Big Move by Ryan T. Higgins, Black Bear Facts, Poetry Break: It's Raining Pigs & Noodles by Jack Prelutsky
PreK & K: Book: Dino Duckling by Alison Murray, Movement Activity: Dinosaurs, Book: Groovy Joe: Ice Cream & Dinosaurs by Eric Litwin (use CD), Flannel Board: Five Enormous Dinosaurs , Book: Roar: A Dinosaur Tour by Michael Paul
1st & 2nd: Prehistoric Actual Size by Steve Jenkins , The Itchy Book by LeUyen Pham & Mo Willems or Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs by Mo Willems , Dinothesaurus: Prehistoric Poems and Paintings by Douglas Florian
Pets for TLC K & 3rd: Book: The Pet Project: Cute and Cuddly Vicious Verses by Lisa Wheeler, Song with Flannel Board: Fifteen Animals by Sandra Boynton, Movement Rhyme: Can You?, Book: What Pet Should I Get? By Dr. Seuss, Flannel Board: What Would Make a Good Pet? (animals from Laura Numeroff Set), Book: Caring for Your Lion by Tammi Sauer
Little Santa by Jon Agee, Cookiesaurus Christmas by Amy Feller Dominy & Nate Evans, Santa Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins, Here Comes Santa Cat by Deborah Underwood, Click, Clack, Ho, Ho, Ho! by Doreen Cronin, The Animals' Santa by Jan Brett