Song: “Bananas” by Jim Gill, Music Play for Folks of All Stripes. (Sung without the CD) I only had about 12 kids, ranging in age from 2 to 5, which was not quite enough critical mass to make this one fly. If the kids had been older, I might have skipped this one, started with Roadwork, and then used Beautiful Bananas by Elizabeth Laird as my second story. “Because why? He was on the move!” The bright, cheerful colors and repeated refrain made for a fun start to the storyime. A variety of animals tell him that he can not, but he does not listen. This worked pretty well, but I should have practiced ahead of time so I was more intentional about which objects I used, since I didn’t end up using the whole book. I skipped the text altogether I gave clues and let the kids guess the answer, and then showed the picture. And it doesn’t name the objects, just describes and shows them, so there’s plenty of space for the kids to yell things out. This is a nice rhyming text with lots of yellow objects. Nonfiction: Seeing Yellow All Around Us by Sarah L. Opening Song: “I Am Here & You Are Here” by Peter & Ellen Allard (on Sing It! Say It! Stamp It! Sway It! Vol. Is the cover yellow? It counts! Is there something yellow in it? It counts! I liked the flexibility of planning for “yellow” – there was some structure, so it didn’t feel totally willy-nilly, but I also felt pretty free to interpret it broadly. This is the first week of fall storytime, and the first of our color-themed storytimes.
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