{"id":2006,"date":"2014-10-03T23:38:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T06:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/?p=2006"},"modified":"2016-12-06T18:41:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T02:41:02","slug":"cats-estorytime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/2014\/cats-estorytime\/","title":{"rendered":"Cats &#8211; eStorytime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We held our second eStorytime here at the Children&#8217;s Room today and had a blast with apps and stories about cats.\u00a0 If you missed the fun here, try some of these apps out on the iPads in the Children&#8217;s Room, or download them to share with your child at home.\u00a0 The next eStorytime will be Friday November 14 at 10 am.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Apps We Shared<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/free-animal-sounds\/id580044747?mt=8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/a2.mzstatic.com\/us\/r30\/Purple6\/v4\/17\/44\/01\/174401fe-792b-5eda-2e24-3b06ffeebb86\/mzl.nnqqjvxk.175x175-75.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" \/><\/a><\/strong><b><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/present-for-milo-touch-surprise\/id405288824?mt=8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/d2e111jq13me73.cloudfront.net\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/share_link_image\/public\/product-images\/csm-app\/apresentformiloproductimage.jpg?itok=ysfVbyF-\" alt=\"\" width=\"95\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a><\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jeninthelibrary.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/sago-mini-pet-cafe-cat-game.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sagosago.com\/static\/images\/icons\/icon_big_petcafe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/jeninthelibrary.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/10\/great-big-cat-felt-board-edited.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.softwaresmoothie.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/iTunesArtwork.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"89\" height=\"89\" \/><\/a><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/beans-night\/id723760199?mt=8\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.ggpht.com\/q07dMpjw64TEei7NqPDy_V26luPvwk0xSa3D0Fy_rDILgS_vCBp-ZbNysd3p5oJ-Lg=w300\" alt=\"\" width=\"91\" height=\"91\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We started off using the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/free-animal-sounds\/id580044747?mt=8\">Free Animal Sounds by Hakim Boukhatem\u00a0<\/a>(iOS: Free) and played a guessing game.\u00a0 As the storyteller, I played a sound and hid it from the audience.\u00a0 Then they had to figure out what the animal was based on the should it made.\u00a0 This may sound easy, but when you&#8217;re listening to real animal noises, it much harder than you&#8217;d think!<\/p>\n<p>Next we read <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/present-for-milo-touch-surprise\/id405288824?mt=8\">A Present for Milo\u00a0 written and illustrated by Mike Austin\u00a0 from Ruckus Mobile Media<\/a>.\u00a0(iOS: $2.99).\u00a0 This is a delightful story of a fast paced game of cat-and-mouse chase around the house.\u00a0 But the ending is not quite what you would expect!<\/p>\n<p>Sago Mini is one of my favorite app developers, and their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sagosago.com\/app\/sago_mini_pet_cafe\">Mini Pet Cafe\u00a0 (iOS: $2.99)<\/a> was so fun to share with everyone.\u00a0 We played the cat game (of course!) and matched colors and fed animals all as a group.<\/p>\n<p>We did a few rhymes (see below) with the help of the app\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwaresmoothie.com\/app\/felt-board\/\">Felt Board\u00a0by Software Smoothie<\/a>\u00a0(iOS: $2.99)<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we finished things off with the calming app story\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/beans-night\/id723760199?mt=8\">Bean&#8217;s Night\u00a0 words by Sarah Hines Stephens, pictures by Anna Grossnickle Hines. from appropos.<\/a> (iOS, Android, Nook $1.99)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>\u00a0Movements<\/h2>\n<p>Try these fun rhymes at home\u00a0with your child!<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">\u00a010 Little Kittens<br \/>\n<\/span>10 little kittens, standing in a row <em>(hold hands up, palms forward.)<br \/>\n<\/em>They bow their heads to the children so. <em>(bend fingers up and down.)<br \/>\n<\/em>They run to the left, <em>(move arms to the left and wiggle fingers.)<br \/>\n<\/em>They run to the right, (move arms to right and wiggle fingers.)<br \/>\nThey stretch up tall with all their might. <em>(Raise hands over head.)<br \/>\n<\/em>Along comes a dog, looking for some fun; <em>(put fingers on one hand resting on thumb.)<br \/>\n<\/em>Mew, mew, mew,<br \/>\nAway those kittens run! <em>(wiggle fingers then hide hands behind back.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Let&#8217;s Pretend We&#8217;re Cats<\/span><br \/>\nThe tiny little kittens go mew, mew, mew<br \/>\nThe tom cat goes Meow<br \/>\nThe cat with the fiddle goes Fiddle Fiddle Fiddle<br \/>\nAnd the big jungle cat goes ROAR.<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">GREAT BIG CAT and TEENY LITTLE MOUSE<\/span><\/div>\n<div>There was a GREAT BIG CAT<\/div>\n<div><em>(Say \u201cgreat big cat\u201d in a big voice, make one hand be the cat)<\/em><\/div>\n<div>and a TEENY LITTLE MOUSE<\/div>\n<div><em>(Say \u201cteeny little mouse\u201d in a small squeaky voice, have other hand be small mouse)<\/em><\/div>\n<div>Who ran around and around <em>(Roll cat and mouse around each other)<\/em><\/div>\n<div>in a tall, tall house! <em>(Stretch arms above head)<\/em><\/div>\n<div>Until that TEENY LITTLE MOUSE <em>(Say \u201cteeny little mouse\u201d in a small squeaky voice)<\/em><\/div>\n<div>got caught at last <em>(Have cat catch mouse)<\/em><\/div>\n<div>Because that GREAT BIG CAT <em>(Say the \u201cgreat big cat\u201d in a big voice)<\/em><\/div>\n<div>ran around so fast! <em>(Roll cat and mouse around each other real fast)<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Book We Shared<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.syndetics.com\/index.aspx?type=xw12&amp;isbn=0060588284\/LC.GIF&amp;client=pasap&amp;upc=&amp;oclc=\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"253\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We also shared the book<a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.pasadenapubliclibrary.net\/ipac20\/ipac.jsp?session=1412379D86SJ8.156180&amp;profile=pcent&amp;uri=link=3100007~!762532~!3100001~!3100002&amp;aspect=browse_search_page&amp;menu=search&amp;ri=1&amp;source=~!horizon&amp;term=Kitten%27s+first+full+moon+%2F&amp;index=PALLTI\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"> Kitten&#8217;s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes<\/span><\/a>. \u00a0This Caldecott award-winning book tells the story of a night when Kitten spots her first full moon &#8212; and thinks it is a bowl of milk. \u00a0Will Kitten ever get to taste some yummy milk?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Continue the Fun<\/h2>\n<p>Want some more fun apps to play with? \u00a0Check out our Pinterest pages:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pasadenalibrary\/apps-we-recommend-preschool-ages-2-5\/\">Apps we Recommend: Preschool (ages 2-5)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pasadenalibrary\/apps-we-recommend-ages-6-and-up\/\">Apps we Recommend: Ages 6 and Up<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We held our second eStorytime here at the Children&#8217;s Room today and had a blast with apps and stories about cats.\u00a0 If you missed the fun here, try some of these apps out on the iPads in the Children&#8217;s Room, or download them to share with your child at home.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/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":true,"_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":[222,5],"tags":[79,38],"class_list":["post-2006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","category-storytimes","tag-estorytime","tag-preschool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71KT0-wm","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2006"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2008,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2006\/revisions\/2008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}