Rabbit’s Snow Dance: My First Planned Storytelling

My story time went really well today-- I was nervous that perhaps I had prepared to much to do and the story time would go on forever, but I had just enough. I felt very confident in the story of Rabbit's snow dance, having told it 3-4 times in front of people before, and twice as many to myself. I felt better about the words I used, (sometimes in practice I would repeat a word over and over as if I was stuck on it, like “snow”, and “dance") I'll have to listen to my recording to see how it really went, but I got a lot of complements on it, so Huzzah! We started with our opening song, then I read a story about dancing and we did the Hokey Pokey. Then it was time for my story. I had my rabbit with me, but I put it to the side after introducing it, and brought it back at the end. The kids seemed to get into the song, (as you can hear in the recording one kid wanted to repeat it every time, but we didn't). The rest of the story time went well, too, I read more books, and we sang more songs. I forgot to sing the closing song, but I did remember the crafts, so Success

Now I'm really excited for next week! It's going to be awesome!

Here are a couple of sound clips from story time. Because of privacy and technology issues I cannot video record them, but this should work well.

Here is the story of Rabbit's Snow Dance:


This is one of the best Storytime songs there is (in my opinion). When I did toddler storytime they all got a huge kick out of snapping the monkeys.



Today's Reading Rainbow Books are:

Bruchac, Joseph, 1942-. (c1995.). The boy who lived with the bears : and other Iroquois stories. New York : HarperCollinsPublishers.

Durango, Julia. (c2006.). Cha-cha chimps. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

Ford, Bernette G. (2008.). Ballet class. New York : Boxer Books.

Jones, Bill T. (c1998.). Dance. New York : Hyperion Books for Children.

London, Jonathan, 1947-. (c1999.). Wiggle, waggle. San Diego : Harcourt Brace.