Shake it up and Get Ready for

Utah's  Earthquake Preparedness Drill . . .

The Great Shake Out!
April 17, 2012 at 10:15 a.m.

An Awesome Earthquake Prep Laptime for our Littlest Library Kids by Dalliene

Are you ready? 

Get set . . .

DROP

COVER and 

HOLD ON!

The Three Little Pigs 
Any version /  Teach the kids to Drop, Cover, and Hold On each time a house gets blown in by the big bad wolf.

Shake My Sillies Out by Raffi
OPL Link 
Dance it up and shake shake shake just like an earthquake

I Read Signs by Tana Hoban
OPL Link
Show kids what an EXIT sign is and to look for it in an emergency
  
 So Say the Little Monkeys by Nancy Van Laan
OPL Link
An Indian folktale from Brazil about some little monkeys left without a home. The book's message: Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today.

















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Additional Ideas

Use Rhythm Sticks to get a thundering and a shaking and verily quaking beat going.

Concepts:

Tana Hoban's Over Under and Through
OPL Link

Over Under by Marthe Jocelyn
OPL Link


On Preparedness: 

Aesop's Fables  / The Grasshopper and the Ants
OPL Link

On Safety:

Peanut's Emergency by Cristina Salat
OPL Link

Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
OPL Link


Earthquakes--Fiction Picture Books:

The Great Shaking : An Account of the Earthquakes of 1811 and  1812 by Jo Carson
OPL Link

Earth Shook: A Persian Tale by Donna Jo Napoli
OPL Link

Perfect Party Pig Day

Guess what day it is today?

It's Pigalific Pigarific Porcine Pig day!

Happy Pig Day! by Mo Willems
OPL Link

Okay everybody, let's get those piggies out . . .

Piggies by Audrey and Don Wood
OPL Link (told as a fingerplay, have book on display for taking home)

A long long time ago, pigs looked just like they do now, except for one thing . . .

Long-Nosed Pig by Keith Faulkner

(told with puppets - make sure you get some fun voice in there!)

And that is why you never hear a pig say anything but. . . 

OINK!

Two Mother Pigs

Two mother pigs

      Both thumbs up

Each had four babies, and that made ten

      Show 4 fingers on each hand

These four babies were black and white

      One hand

These four babies were black as night     

      Other hand

All eight babies loved to play

      Wiggle fingers

So they rolled and they rolled in the mud all day

      Roll hands

But at night, with their mother,

they curled up in a heap

       First, palms up

And they squealed and they squealed ,

until they went to sleep.

      Tuck thumbs under fingers

Now those were some pigs. One of my favorite pigs is, 

Piggie Pie Po by Audrey and Don Wood

OPL Link (read one chapter for a Laptime, all for a Storytime- also consider doing some bubbles here, a bubble dance or other action activity)

My oh my, that little piggie is one swell pig!

Those bubbles from Piggie Pie Po's bath remind me of another pig song. . . 

Higglety Pigglety Pop!

Higglety, pigglety pop!

The dog has eaten the mop

The pig’s in a hurry

The cat’s in a flurry

Higglety, pigglety, pop!

There's just something about that POP :)

Now, for a song that never fails to make me giggle,

This Little Piggy

This little piggy went to market

This little piggy stayed home

This little piggy ate roast beef

This little piggy had none

And this little piggy went

Wee wee wee all the way home

      Tickle tickle tickle

You really have to watch those piggies, they are awfully close to the parts that get tickled.

To Market

To market to market to buy a fat pig

Home again, home again, jiggity jig

To market to market to buy a fat hog

Home again, home again, jiggity jog

To market to market to buy a plum bun

Home again, home again, market is done

Home again, home again, we are done. 

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Additional Material

Fingerplays and Songs

I Had a Little Piggy

I had a little piggy and I fed him from trough,

And he grew so big and fat that his tail popped off

So I took me a hammer

And I took me a nail

And I gave that piggy a wooden tail.

Pettitoes

The pettitoes are little feet

And the little feet are not big

  Hands close together

Great feet belong to the grunting hog

  Hands apart= large

And the pettities to the little pig

 Wee Wee Wee

Piggie Wig and Piggie Wee

  Long fingerplay, consider only for storytime-aged kids

Five Pigs So Squeaky Clean
Sing it to “Five Green and Speckled Frogs”
(From Mels Desk found here)

Five pigs so squeaky clean
Cleanest you’ve ever seen
Wanted to go outside and play
Oink! Oink!
One jumped into the mud
Land-ed with a thud
Then there were four clean squeaky pigs

Books

Laptime

Olivia by Ian Falconer

OPL Link (if done right is okay for Laptime, might be best for Storytime)

There is a Bird on Your Head by Mo Willems

OPL Link

or We Are In aBook by Mo Willems

OPL Link

Three Little Pigs 

(any short version you like)

Storytime

To Market, To Market by Anne Miranda

OPL Link

Three Pigs by David Wiesner

OPL Link

Wait! No Paint! by Bruce Whatley

OPL Link 

Pig, Pigger, Piggest by Rick Walton

OPL Link

True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka

OPL Link

Storytelling Workshops - First Workshop

There's More than One Way to Spin a Tale
Part One

What an inspiration our fabulous volunteer storytellers are!

Checklist:
Invitations went out
RSVP's were collected
Books were pulled for display
Snacks were prepared (Fruit, Cookies and fresh Lemon water)
Program was printed
Nametags prepared
Display put up

And we are ready to go

The following are a few video selections of our storytellers showing the the rest of us a little of what they do in story or laptime for variety, because, as we all know - there is more than one way to tell a tale!

Three Piggy Opera

What FUN we had this week!

Brenda does a fun, fun Three Little Pigs Storytime while playing bits from The Three Piggy Opera - check it out -



Don't you love it!?

If you've just GOT to try it out - get the paperback book and cd here:

Three Piggy Opera at Music in Motion

Brenda told the story using Barry Moser's Three Little Pigs (OPL link)