This week we are featuring the author Jon Agee! Here are some wonderful books we might read in storytime and our recommendations for you to read at home:

My Dad Is a Tree by Jon Agee

It’s Only Stanley by Jon Agee

My Rhinoceros by Jon Agee

I Want a Dog by Jon Agee

Life on Mars by Jon Agee

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 April we are learning how to say hello in French which is “bonjour”! Then we repeat again with the signs for clap, hello, and weather.

Flannel/Felt: Five Small and Spotted Dogs (tune: Five Little Speckled Frogs)
5 small and spotted dogs,
Sat in a big red truck,
Eating some most delicious bones, yum yum!
1 jumped into his bed,
Where he could rest his head,
Now there are 4 small spotted dogs!

Song: The Parts of a Tree (tune: Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes)
Roots, trunk, branches, and leaves (touch toes and middle, hold up arms, wave hands)
Branches, leaves (hold up arms, wave hands)
Roots, trunk, branches and leaves
Branches, leaves
Buds and fruits and flowers in the breeze (sway back and forth)
Those are the parts of trees
Parts of trees. (clap hands twice)

Song: Leaves Are Falling Down (tune: Farmer in the Dell)
The leaves are falling down,
The leaves are falling down,
Down, down to the ground,
The leaves are falling down!

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