Today I did another family storytime at BCL. It had a lot more people then the last two times (about 20 people total!), and there were some really good participants. My sister also stopped by to take photos and watch me at work.
Because I’m trying to have a storytelling at each of these storytimes, I need to find some that fit the theme given to me. It was a bit difficult to come up with a story about popcorn. While doing a desperate Google Search I found this website. it is a neat little story so I decided to adapt that. In the style of Brian “Fox” Ellis (one of the storytellers I viewed for my storyteller’s critique, if you didn’t slog through the last post) I decided to add a little education and some audience participation, too. Here's the story:
The children have name tags so I picked a couple of the names to use for the children in the story. The brother, Alex and Cody were sitting in the back so were very pleased that they could be part of the story (Mom and Dad were really happy about that, too). I am really proud of that touch.
For this storytime I ran short on time so only read 2 books, sang 2 popcorn songs, and told my story, before we made our craft of popcorn clouds. The craft was a big hit (even through I told them not to eat the popcorn). Because they got to use liquid glue instead of our usual glue sticks. Exciting times.
Next week stay tuned for my evening of storytelling with members of our class, and "Days of the Week" at the library's family storytime.
Today’s Reading Rainbow Books Are:
Low, Alice. (c1993.). The popcorn shop. New York : Scholastic.
Oppenheim, Joanne. (1997, c1989.). "Not now!" said the cow. Milwaukee : Gareth Stevens Pub.
The story “Popcorn snow” is adapted from the story by A. R Scheinerman, http://scheinerman.net/judaism/popcorn/index.html
with help from:
De Paola, Tomie. (c1978.). The popcorn book. New York : Holiday House.
And
Kudlinski, Kathleen V. (1998.). Popcorn plants. Minneapolis, Minn. : Lerner Publications Company
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