{"id":4706,"date":"2015-12-01T01:11:33","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T01:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/?p=4706"},"modified":"2015-12-23T01:12:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T01:12:39","slug":"toddler-storytime-rain-and-puddles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/2015\/toddler-storytime-rain-and-puddles\/","title":{"rendered":"Toddler Storytime: Rain and Puddles"},"content":{"rendered":"

As cities across California gear up for “El Ni\u00f1o,” I thought our little ni\u00f1os might enjoy some fun books and songs about rain, puddles, and rainbows. \u00a0We started storytime with our usual opening song, then Open Shut Them<\/a>, and took scarves to sing One Bright Scarf<\/a> and Peekaboo<\/a>. \u00a0Then we read a board book called Water <\/a>by John Hutton and illustrated by Andrea King.<\/p>\n

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We sang Oh My Hat Goes On My Head<\/a> and did a flannelboard activity about counting out the number of boots each animal would need, depending on how many feet they have.<\/p>\n

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We read a third book today, which I had on hand and just thought was too cute not to share–it’s about ponds and includes a finger-puppet fish. \u00a0It’s called In My Pond<\/a> by Sara Gillingham and Lorena Siminovich.<\/p>\n

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We did a flannelboard activity about counting up to and down from ten, singing to the tune of “Ten Little Indians”:<\/p>\n

One little two little three little raindrops<\/p>\n

Four little five little six little raindrops<\/p>\n

Seven little eight little nine little raindrops<\/p>\n

Ten little raindrops falling down!<\/p>\n

Now the sun is out and there are\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Nine little eight little seven little raindrops<\/p>\n

Six little five little four little raindrops<\/p>\n

Three little two little one little raindrop<\/p>\n

Now there\u2019s just a rainbow!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We read\u00a0another short board book called Rain, Rain Go Away<\/a> by Caroline Jayne Church, an adaptation of the nursery rhyme.<\/p>\n

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We did a fingerplay about five little raindrops:<\/p>\n

Five Little Raindrops<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Five little raindrops (hold up five fingers)
\nDancing on the walk (dance hand up and down)
\nPitter patter, pitter patter, that\u2019s the way they talk. (pat legs)
\nOut comes the yellow sun, shining in the sky (raise arms up like the sun)
\nAnd away goes one raindrop (hold up one finger)
\nBye, bye, bye! (wave goodbye)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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We sang Row, Row, Row Your Boat and watched the video “Puddle Jumper” from the DVD Little Bear: Rainy Day Tales<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Thanks for coming! \u00a0I will not be here next week because I’m taking vacation, so you will be in Miss Marie<\/a>‘s talented and very capable hands. \u00a0See you in two weeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As cities across California gear up for “El Ni\u00f1o,” I thought our little ni\u00f1os might enjoy some fun books and songs about rain, puddles, and rainbows. \u00a0We started storytime with our usual opening song, then Open Shut Them, and took scarves to sing One Bright Scarf and Peekaboo. \u00a0Then we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[27],"class_list":["post-4706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytimes","tag-toddler"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71KT0-1dU","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4788,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4706\/revisions\/4788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}