S Club Mama

I'm making up posts again as I did this Emotion theme for storytime at the start of February, but I wanted to share these with you. Books : If You're Angry and You Know It - Kaiser & Pillo   - doubled as a song Bear Feels Scared - Wilson The Way I Feel - Cain The Pigeon Has Feelings, Too - Willems   - love these books! Feelings - Alkili Mrs. Biddlebox - Smith & Frazee   - I can't remember if I read this at storytime; it's kind of long but really cute! Glad Monster, Sad Monster - Emberly & Miranda   - didn't read this because I read it with the monster theme but would fit here too. image via Google Songs : If You're Angry & You Know It (along with the book) Craft : I had blank faces for the kids to decorate with emotions. I was going to do masks that they could decorate until I found these and thought they were really cute. image via u-create blog Results : I only got to read these stories once. We had 3 sn...

Oh goodness! I am not doing a very good job keeping up with this idea of storytime posts (I've only done the Monsters theme). I have missed THREE of them! Oops. I'll write next Saturday about the Emotions theme from early February. For now, on to pizza! Storytime Saturday: Pizza! Who doesn't love pizza?! Apparently at least one child in almost every preschool that I read to these past few weeks. Strange kids.  Anyway, I loved the books that I read to the kids. Books : Curious George & the Pizza - Rey (I can't find this on Amazon) Curious George & the Pizza Party - Rey (my version of this book is just called ...George & the Pizza, too) Secret Pizza Party - Rubin & Salmteri (which tended to be a better one-on-one book)    - When I read this one, I used a raccoon puppet which we've had for years "Hi, Pizza Man!" - Walter (this got the best laughs!) Pizza Pokey - Stoodt Pizza at Sally's - Wellington (the kids got a kick o...

I've been the storytime lady at our local library for almost a year now. It's a pretty sweet gig - only during the school year (we have volunteer parents do it during the summertime) and I set the hours. My biggest rule is - no school for my kids, no storytime. That allows me to be with my kids when I need to be and also to ensure that I'm 100% focused on being a mom OR storytime lady. I've learned through children's church teaching and a spring break meltdown during storytime last year that I am not able to do both at the same time. The exception is that Squirt comes with me during an afternoon storytime twice a month (all of my 8 storytimes are twice a month), but he does relatively well during that one. I thought I'd let you all in on my life as the storytime lady (is there a better term for this job? It sounds weird to me.). I really love this, by the way. I love the kids I read to - for the most part, they sit really well. I appreciate the teachers and mo...