{"id":7611,"date":"2017-03-25T14:52:35","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T21:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/?p=7611"},"modified":"2017-03-25T14:52:35","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T21:52:35","slug":"spots-and-dots-preschool-storytime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/2017\/spots-and-dots-preschool-storytime\/","title":{"rendered":"Spots and Dots – Preschool Storytime"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s storytime was all about spots and dots!<\/p>\n

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Books We Shared<\/h2>\n

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\nIn Dog’s Colorful Day by Emma Dodd<\/a>, Dog is a white dog with one black spot. \u00a0But, this day Dog collects many different spots on his adventures! \u00a0Have fun with colors and counting in this vibrantly illustrated story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Press Here by Herv\u00e9 Tullet<\/a> is a fun interactive book. \u00a0It starts with one yellow dot, but with each page turn you press it, blow it or clap and see what wonderful thing your action has made the dot\u00a0do.<\/p>\n

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Flannelboard Story<\/h2>\n

Five Green and Speckled Frogs
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\nFive green and speckled frogs
\nSat on a hollow log
\nEating the most delicious bugs.
\nYum! Yum!
\nOne jumped into the pool
\nWhere it was nice and cool
\nNow there are four green speckled frogs.
\nRibbit Ribbit!<\/p>\n

Other verses:
\n<\/em>Count down until there are no more frogs left.<\/p>\n

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Movements<\/h2>\n

Our movements today were about insects that could have spots.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m a Little Ladybug
\n<\/span>I\u2019m a little ladybug on the go\u00a0(fly finger around)<\/em>
\nLanding on an arm and then an elbow (touch arm, then elbow)<\/em>
\nSee me fly around and around your hand (circle hand with finger)<\/em>
\nThen watch as on your thumb I land (touch ladybug finger to thumb)<\/em><\/p>\n

The Itsy Bitsy Spider<\/span>
\nThe itsy bitsy spider (L shape with both hands.\u00a0 Place thumb of one hand on forefinger of the other)<\/em>
\nwent up the water spout.\u00a0\u00a0 (\u201cwalk\u201d your fingers up thumb to forefinger, alternating.)<\/em>
\nDown came the rain and (wiggle fingers and bring then downward)<\/em>
\nWashed the spider out. (make baseball \u201csafe\u201d motion)<\/em>
\nOut came the sun and (hands above head in a circle)<\/em>
\nand dried up all the rain. (hands out at side of body)<\/em>
\nAnd the itsy bitsy spider (L shape with both hands.\u00a0 Place thumb of one hand on forefinger of the other)<\/em>
\nwent up the spout again. (\u201cwalk\u201d your fingers up thumb to forefinger, alternating.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Film We Watched<\/h2>\n

\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>
\n<\/strong>\u201cThe Most Wonderful Egg in the World\u201d from Giggle Giggle Quack… and more funny favorites<\/a>.\u00a0Based on the book by Helme Heine<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dotty, Stalky, and Plumy are all beautiful hens. \u00a0When they can’t figure out who is the most beautiful, they ask the King. \u00a0He decides that whoever can produce the most beautiful egg will become a princess. \u00a0Who will it be?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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\u00a0Continue the Fun<\/h2>\n

Spot some more spots and dots books at\u00a0your Pasadena Public Library Branch:
\n<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Preschool Storytime, Central Library\u00a03\/25\/2017<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s storytime was all about spots and dots! Books We Shared In Dog’s Colorful Day by Emma Dodd, Dog is a white dog with one black spot. \u00a0But, this day Dog collects many different spots on his adventures! \u00a0Have fun with colors and counting in this vibrantly illustrated story. Press […]<\/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":[16,38],"class_list":["post-7611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytimes","tag-early-literacy","tag-preschool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71KT0-1YL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611","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=7611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7615,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7611\/revisions\/7615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}