Family Storytime: Colors!
For this week’s storytime theme is “colors”! Here are some wonderful books we might read in storytime:
Mister Kitty is Lost! by Greg Pizzoli
Festival of Colors by Kabir Sehgal & Surishtha Sehgal, illustrated by Vashti Harrison
The Color Monster Goes to School by Anna LLenas
Every Color Soup by Jorey Hurley
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 March we are learning how to say hello in Mandarin Chinese which is 你好 (Nǐ hǎo)! Then we repeat again with the signs for clap, hello, and weather.
10 Little Crayons by The Kiboomers
1 little, 2 little, 3 little crayons,
4 little, 5 little, 6 little crayons,
7 little, 8 little, 9 little crayons,
10 little crayons in a box.
Red and blue and yellow little crayons,
Orange and green and purple little crayons,
Brown, gray, black, and white little crayons,
10 little crayons in a box.
Song: If You’re Wearing ___________ (tune: Farmer in the Dell)
If you’re wearing _____,
If you’re wearing _____,
Stand up and turn around,
If you’re wearing _____.
Song: If You Want to Say Red say Rojo (tune: If You’re Happy and You Know It)
If you want to say red say rojo,
If you want to say red say rojo,
If you want to say red and show you know your colors,
If you want to say red say rojo,
Verses: orange/anaranjado/Naranjo… yellow/amarillo… green/verde… blue/azul… purple/morado… pink/rosado
Song: I See Colors (Tune: Frere Jacques)
I see blue, I see blue,
All around, all around.
Quickly, can you find it,
Quickly, can you find it?
Blue, blue, blue,
Blue, blue, blue.
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
