Kindergarten Program

Tyler Public Library

Amanda Stephen

Target Audience: Children of Kindergarten age and their caregivers

Goals: To introduce books and some literacy skills to kindergarteners and caregivers. To model
how caregivers can be doing movement, reading books, and singing songs with preschoolers in
the home. To show that books can be fun!
Promotion: Advertise on library website, library bulletin board, and make half-sheet fliers for
program. Go to apartment complexes near library to post and hand out fliers. Distribute fliers
to nearby schools and have them give to their kindergarten students.
Location: Storyroom in Tyler Public Library
Length of Program: 45 minutes
Theme: All Mixed-Up!
Outline:
Introduction: General Introduction and Rules2 minutes
Songs: Author Song, Illustrator Song, Hands Go Up (These are repeated each week)3 minutes
Book: Animals should definitely not wear clothing. 2 minutes
Flannelboard Story: The Mixed Up Chameleon 4 minutes
Song & Movement: Snowky Pokey4 minutes
Book: Imogenes Antlers2 minutes
Song: Down by the Bay4 minutes
Book: The Surprise Party2 minutes
Song: Apples and Bananas2 minutes
Book: Bark, George!2 minutes
Craft: Mixed-Up Masks10-20 minutes

Details:
Songs:
Author Song (Sung to the tune of Hi-Ho Dairy-O)
The author writes the words,
The author writes the words,
Hi-Ho Librari-O,
The author writes the words.
(Sing 1x by self, 1x with kids, 1x kids by themselves)
Illustrator Song (Sung to the tune of Frere Jacques)
Il-u-stra-tor, I-lu-stra-tor
Draws the pictures

Draws the pictures

I-i-lu-stra-tor, I-i-lu-stra-tor, (the Is have to last two counts in this line)
Draws the pictures,
Draws the pictures
(Sing 1x by self, 1x with kids, 1x kids by themselves)
Hands Go Up (Sung to tune of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)
"Hands go up and hands go down,
I can turn myself around,
I can stand up on one shoe,
I can listen, so can you,
(Repeat first 4 lines)
I can sit, I'll show you how,
Storytime is starting now."
http://elementarylibraryroutines.wikispaces.com/Storytime

Snowey Pokey
You put your right mitten in, You take your right mitten out,
You put your right mitten in and you shake it all about.
You do the Snowey pokey and you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about.
Note continue with additional verses:
You put your left mitten in
You put your scarf in
You put your right boot in
You put your left boot in
You put your hat in
You put your snowself in
etc.
http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/winter/songs.htm
Flannel Story
Words:
Once there was a chameleon.
When the chameleon was hungry it sat still
and waited. Only its eyes movedup, down, sideways
until it spotted a fly.
Then the chameleons long sticky tongue
shot out and caught the fly.
That was its life.
It was not very exciting.
But one daythe chameleon saw a zoo!

It had never seen so many beautiful animals.

The chameleon thought: How small I am, how slow, how weak!
I wish I could be big and white like a polar bear.
And the chameleons wish came true.
But was it happy?
No!
I wish I could be handsome like a flamingo.
I wish I could be smart like a fox.
I wish I could swim like a fish.
I wish I could run like a deer.
I wish I could see things far away like a giraffe.
I wish I could hide in a shell like a turtle.
I wish I could be strong like an elephant.
I wish I could be funny like a seal.
I wish I could be like people.
Just then a fly flew by.
The chameleon was very hungry.
But the chameleon was very mixed-up.
It was a little of this and it was a little of that.
And it couldnt catch the fly.
I wish I could be myself.
The chameleons wish came true.
And it caught the fly.

Flannel Patterns:
http://www.alaeditions.org/files/62_MixUpChameleon.pdf
Books: * ones used in above storytime
*Barrett, Judi. Animals should definitely not wear clothing. New York: Atheneum Books for
Young Readers, 1970.
*Carle, Eric. The Mixed-Up Chameleon. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1975.
Davis, Katie. Who Hops? New York: Harcourt, Inc., 1998.

*Feiffer, Jules. Bark, George. New York: Michael di Capua Books, 1999.
Hutchins, Pat. Dont Forget the Bacon. New York: Greenwillow Books, 1976.
*Hutchins, Pat. The Surprise Party. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1991.
Kasza, Keiuko. The Pigs Picnic. New York: Puffin Books, 1988.
*Small, David. Imogenes Antlers. New York: Crown Publishers, 1985.

Craft
Materials: Paper bags, Animal puppet cut-outs, Scissors, Crayons, Markers, Glue
Instructions: Pass out paper bags, scissors, crayons, markers, and glue to students. Spread
animal puppet cut-outs around room. Tell children that they are going to make their own mixedup animal using the parts provided, their own imagination and drawings. Warn them that if they
fight over parts, neither child will get to use that animals parts.
Patterns: http://www.kidscanhavefun.com/paper-crafts.htm
http://www.abcteach.com/directory/prek-early-childhood-fun-activities-paper-bagpuppets-3033-2-1