Starting this week is our new Summer Reading Storytime schedule! Family Storytimes will now be on Thursdays and Fridays at 9:30 a.m., 10:15 a.m., and 11:00 a.m. See you then!

This week’s storytime theme is “road trip”! Here are some wonderful books we might read in storytime and our recommendations for you to read at home:

Truck Full of Ducks by Ross Burach

Sheep in a Jeep by Nancy Shaw, illustrated by Margot Apple

Snail Crossing by Corey R. Tabor

Sign Off by Stephen Savage

My Side of the Car by Kate Feiffer, illustrated by Jules Feiffer

Here are some songs and/or rhymes we might do in storytime:

Get Ready Song: If You’re Ready for a Story, Clap Your Hands (tune: If You’re Happy and You Know It)
If you’re ready for a story, clap your hands
If you’re ready for a story, clap your hands
If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story,
If you’re ready for a story, clap your hands

Hello song: Clap Everybody and Say Hello
Clap everybody and say “hello”
Clap everybody and say “hello”
Clap everybody and say “hello”
No matter what the weather!

Verses: For June we are learning how to say hello in Italian which is “Ciao”! Then we repeat again with the signs for clap, hello, and weather.

Song: Drive, Drive, Drive Your Car (tune: Row, Row, Row Your Boat)
Drive, drive, drive your car,
All around the town!
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Up the hills and down.

Turn, turn, turn the key,
Make the engine roar.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Let’s go to the store.

Press, press, press the pedal,
Give the engine gas.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Now we’re going fast.

Turn, turn, turn the wheel,
That is how we steer.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Let’s just park right here.

Flannel/Felt: Twinkle, Twinkle Traffic Light (tune: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star)
Twinkle twinkle traffic light,
On the corner shining bright.
Red means, “Stop.” Green means, “Go.”
Yellow means, “Go very slow.”
Twinkle twinkle traffic light,
On the corner shining bright.

Song: Drivin’ In My Car from Ralph’s World (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFlKUCtFmdM)

Song: This is the Way the People Ride
This is the way the people ride,
People ride, people ride,
This is the way the people ride,
So early in the morning.

Verses: babies, bunnies, puppies, kitties, etc!

Shake My Sillies Out by Raffi
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!

Verses: Clap my crazies… Jump my jiggles… Yawn my sleepies… finish with a fast shake your sillies!

Goodbye Song: We Wave Goodbye Like This
We wave goodbye like this,
We wave goodbye like this,
To all our friends at storytime,
We wave goodbye like this!

See you there!

Family Storytimes starting June 3rd until July 26th:
Thursdays and Fridays at 9:30, 10:15, and 11:00

No Family Storytimes week of July 29th and all of August.

Family Storytimes starting September 4th until Summer Reading: Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9:30, 10:15, and 11:00, Fridays at 9:30 and 10:30 except the 3rd Friday of each month