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Family Storytime: Peace & Kindness

1/17/2018

This week it was my turn to put together the Family Storytime basket. In honor of Martin Luther King Jr, I decided to focus on peace and kindness this week.

If you are interested in seeing what types of materials we put into our family storytime baskets, here is a PDF of the materials that I included in my basket for this week:

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Books

This is a fabulous book for teaching children about the power of words.

A poetic book that shows how peace can be found in everyday actions.

How peace is said in different languages around the world.

Recorded Music

These are the songs that we listened or danced to in storytime. If you are interested in checking out these songs, there are links to Amazon where you can listen to a sample and purchase these great songs!

Pre-storytime music: "Hello Friend"

Welcome song: "Hello, Hello"

We danced to: "Everybody is Jumping"

We danced to: "Freeze Dance"

We danced to: "Shake Break"

We danced to: "Row, Row, Row Your Boat"

Goodbye song: "Goodbye"

Post-storytime music: "Smart, Unique, Special" (Instrumental)

Action Rhyme

The action rhyme that I used today came from one of my favorite Children's Librarian blogs, Jbrary. I typed up the words and projected them so that caregivers could say the action rhyme with me.

I Have a Little Heart

I have a little heart, (place hand over heart)
And it goes thump, thump, thump (pat chest three times)
It keeps right on beating,
When I jump, jump, jump (jump three times)
I get a special feeling, when I look at you. (point to child)
It makes me want to give you a hug or two. (hug yourself)

Credit: Jbrary

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Heart clipart by Krista Wallden of Creative Clips.

Flannels

I made two flannels for storytime this week. The first one is based on the book How Kind! by Mary Murphy. I found the idea on Totally Toddler!'s blog. The second one is an adaptation of Big Hugs, Little Hugs by Felicia Bond. I have included the files for the words below, but I did not include the file for the images. If you like the clipart, I purchased it from Krista Wallden of Creative Clips and Whimsy Clips to create my flannels.

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Other Activities

Pre-storytime quote: I typed up the quote "have courage and be kind" and projected it as families walked into storytime.

Letter of the week: The letter of the week this week is the letter L. I created a collage of items that begin with the letter L. I projected the collage and we talked about each picture in the collage.

Take home activity: I created a flyer listing acts of kindness. I printed them off for families to take home with them.