This week’s storytime theme is “outdoor adventures”! What kind of activities do you like to do outside? Maybe going to the park or the zoo? Swimming?

Here are some wonderful books we might read in storytime and our recommendations for you to read at home:

Vampenguin by Lucy Ruth Cummins

We Love Fishing! written by Ariel Bernstein, illustrated by Marc Rosenthal

Wonder Walkers by Micha Archer

Blue Sky by Audrey Wood

Sandy Feet! Whose Feet?: Footprints at the Shore written by Susan Wood, illustrated by Steliyana Doneva

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: Going on a Bear Hunt

Song: Down By The Bay

Song: Rain is Falling (tune: Are You Sleeping?)
Rain is falling, rain is falling,
From the sky, from the sky,
Put up your umbrella, put up your umbrella,
Nice and dry, nice and dry.

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