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<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nOur books today featured animals that normally hibernate during winter – a frog and a bear. \u00a0We began with Froggy Gets Dressed<\/span><\/a> by Jonathan London, illustrated by Frank Remkiewicz. \u00a0In this silly story Froggy wakes up in the middle of winter to see that it is snowing. \u00a0Even though he’s supposed to sleep until spring, he can’t wait to play in the snow. \u00a0But getting dressed for the cold is harder than it looks! \u00a0Next we read\u00a0Sleep, Big Bear, Sleep!<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by Maureen Wright, illustrated by Will Hillenbrand. \u00a0Big Bear is tired, and Old Man Winter keeps whispering for him to go to sleep. \u00a0But Big Bear doesn’t hear very well, and ends up doing some strange activities before Old Man Winter finds a way to capture his attention.<\/p>\n The Penguin Went Over the Iceberg The penguin went over the iceberg Snowball, Snowball<\/span> Snowball, snowball To play this flannelboard game you hide the snowball behind a mitten before you start. \u00a0Then you recite the name of each color in the poem and see if you can find it. \u00a0You can also let your child select which mitten they would like to look under first.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Try these fun rhymes at home\u00a0with your child!<\/p>\n Cute Little Snowman<\/span> <\/p>\n The Winter Pokey<\/span> You put your right mitten in Other verses: We celebrated winter with the classic story\u00a0The Snowy Day<\/span> by Ezra Jack Keats. \u00a0This gentle story gets the mood of snowfall and the excitement of a snow covered day just right. Still want more\u00a0Winter\u00a0stories? \u00a0Celebrate the season with these\u00a0stories at your Pasadena Public Library branch: <\/p>\n Children’s Room Storytime 12\/20\/2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This storytime was presented on December 20, so of course we had to do a tribute to the upcoming season — Winter! Books We Shared \u00a0 Our books today featured animals that normally hibernate during winter – a frog and a bear. \u00a0We began with Froggy Gets Dressed by Jonathan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-2349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytimes","tag-preschool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71KT0-BT","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2352,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2349\/revisions\/2352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFlannelboard Stories<\/h2>\n
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\n(to tune of: \u201cThe Bear Went Over the Mountain\u201d)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThe penguin went over the iceberg
\nThe penguin went over the iceberg
\nto see what he could see.
\nBut all that he could see
\nBut all that he could see
\nwas the other side of the iceberg
\nThe other side of the iceberg
\nThe other side of the iceberg
\nwas all that he could see.<\/p>\n
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\ncold and round!
\nBehind which mitten
\ncan you be found?
\nAre you behind the\u00a0color<\/em> mitten?<\/p>\n
\nMovements<\/h2>\n
\nA cute little snowman\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(hold up left fist for snowman)<\/em>
\nHad a carrot nose\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (stick out pointer finger on fist to make nose, if you want)<\/em>
\nAlong came a rabbit \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0(hold up 2 fingers of right hand to make a rabbit)<\/em>
\nAnd what do you suppose?
\nThat hungry little rabbit \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(move the right hand closer to the left hand)<\/em>
\nLooking for his lunch
\nAte that snowman\u2019s carrot nose
\nnibble, nibble, crunch. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0(lightly pinch left pointer finger or fist with right hand)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n(to the tune of \u201cThe Hokey Pokey\u201d)<\/p>\n
\nYou put your right mitten out
\nYou put your right mitten in
\nAnd you shake it all about.
\nYou do the winter pokey
\nAnd you turn yourself about
\nThat\u2019s what it\u2019s all about (BRRR! BRRR!)<\/em><\/p>\n
\n\u2013 Left mitten
\n\u2013 Right boot
\n\u2013 Left boot
\n\u2013 winter hat (head)<\/em>
\n\u2013 snow suit (whole body)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nMovie We Watched<\/h2>\n
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\nContinue the Fun<\/h2>\n
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