Pre-K Library Storytime

Note to self: Check to see the week before how many pre-k graduates are in y our group. I asked at the beginning of storytime and there was only one!  So I quickly changed over to dinosaurs because doing a storytime about school would have been just plain silly. Books: Pete the Cat, Rockin' in my School Shoes.  Esp. good because Pete the Cat explains where he is as he finds himself in his strange new surroundings -- the playground, the cafeteria, the school library. How Do Dinosaurs Go to School.  Always a favorite series. Llama Llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney.  Try to head off those scared and sad feelings at the pass by -- talking about them ahead of time.  Llama Llama misses her mama, but mama comes back. I'm Your Bus  by Marilyn Singer Monsters Love School  by Mike austin.  These lovable monsters ask the perennial question: Why do we have to go to school? We already can count and we know our ABCs.  And the answer is given! We go to...

        P l a y s Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh. I have an enormous snake puppet and ten little mice and a stone I quickly harvested from the library landscaping. Remembering all I had learned from magicians visiting this summer, I palmed the mice and pulled them out from behind folks' ears. Wonderful story! Update: Big crowd this year. I think next year I'll try doing this like a little play, and letting the kids in on setting up the scene.  Intro: hungry snake, first three snakes, other four snakes, other three snakes, and way over here, the rock.  Then get them in on the joke about, "Go over and get that rock, too!" B o o k s Mouse, Look Out!   by Judy Waite. The children loved joining in on the chorus, "MOUSE, LOOK OUT! THERE'S A CAT ABOUT." Choral reads are  always  fun. Whose Mouse Are You? by Robert Kraus. Great pictures, charming, simple story. Seven Blind Mice by Ed Young. This very simply told tale is relative hi...