This week we are celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! Here are some wonderful books we might read in storytime and our recommendations for you to read at home:

A Normal Pig by K-Fai Steele

Lost and Found: What’s That Sound? written by Jonathan Ying, illustration by Victoria Ying

How to Wear a Sari by Darshana Khiani, illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriethoff

Punky Aloha by Shar Tuiasoa

Stormy Night by Salina Yoon

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 May we are learning how to say hello in Polish which is “Cześć! (Chesh-ch)”! Then we repeat again with the signs for clap, hello, and weather.

Song: Bananas Unite!
Peel bananas, peel, peel bananas,
Peel bananas, peel, peel bananas,
Chop bananas, chop, chop bananas,
Chop bananas, chop, chop bananas,
Mash bananas, mash, mash bananas,
Mash bananas, mash, mash bananas,
Eat bananas, eat, eat bananas,
Eat bananas, eat, eat bananas,
Go bananas, go, go bananas!
Go bananas, go, go bananas!
Bananas unite!

Song: The More We Get Together
The more we get together, together, together, (sign: more, together)
The more we get together the happier we’ll be, (sign: more, together, happy)
‘Cause your friends are my friends, (sign: your, friends, my)
And my friends are your friends (sign: my, friends, your)
The more we get together the happier we’ll be. (sign: more, together, happy)

Song: One little blue fish
One little blue fish swimming in the water, (Make a fish with your hands)
Swimming in the water, swimming in the water (Move your fish back and forth)
One little blue fish swimming in the water,
Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble, (use your pointer fingers to draw circles leading up)
Pop! (Clap your hands)

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 September 1st 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