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<\/p>\nIt’s only Dec. 26th, and technically we’re on the 2nd day of Christmas, so today’s storytime was Christmas themed! \u00a0All the books I chose are from popular picture book series.<\/p>\n
After we sang our opening song, kids got to make arctic “North Pole” animals out of felt circles, triangles, pentagons and ovals:<\/p>\n
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Then we read Merry Christmas, Big Hungry Bear<\/a>! by Don and Audrey Wood, a companion to the classic book\u00a0The Little Mouse, the Red, Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear<\/a>:<\/p>\n We sang about Five Little Polar Bears Riding on a Sled (to the tune of Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed):<\/p>\n We read “I’m Not Santa!”<\/a> by Jonathan Allen, from the Baby Owl series. \u00a0In this book Baby Owl meets another animal who is actually whinier than he is! \u00a0Fortunately, a jolly presence comes along to save them both from drowning in baby tears.<\/p>\n We told\u00a0the story of the Gingerbread Man with felt pieces, and read another book by Anna Dewdney called Llama Llama Holiday Drama<\/a>. \u00a0Llama Llama gets overwhelmed with the work of Christmas preparations and tired of waiting for the big day, but Mama Llama reminds him that the season is really about family.<\/p>\n We finished with a clip from the TV show “Peppa Pig,” available on the Peppa’s Christmas<\/a> DVD:<\/p>\n If you’d like some more Christmastime books for preschoolers, try these:<\/p>\n It’s only Dec. 26th, and technically we’re on the 2nd day of Christmas, so today’s storytime was Christmas themed! \u00a0All the books I chose are from popular picture book series. After we sang our opening song, kids got to make arctic “North Pole” animals out of felt circles, triangles, pentagons […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"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":[3,5],"tags":[185,38],"class_list":["post-4801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staff-picks","category-storytimes","tag-holidays","tag-preschool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71KT0-1fr","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801","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\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4801"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4807,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4801\/revisions\/4807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/images.booksense.com\/images\/924\/320\/9780439320924.jpg\")
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