Our Poetry Month Passive Program table in the Youth Services Department focused on acrostic poems and nursery rhymes.

This story time begins with ponds and creatures that live in/around ponds before segueing into rain. Here's the run-down . . . 

After our Good Morning songs, we had a special guest: Freddy the Frog! He brought clues with him about our storytime theme but before he would share those clues, we had to do a special hippity hoppity dance with him. This segment was 100% stolen borrowed from Wake County Public Library. 

RHYME: Hippity Hoppity Dance

Hip, hop, hippity, hop

Let's hop to the front

And turn around

Hop back once

And touch the ground.

Hop to the left

And then once more

Hop to the right

And sit on the floor. 

Then we read our first book.

BOOK: Ribbit! by Rodrigo Folgueria

MUSIC SONG: The Stand-Up Sit-Down Song by Rick Goldin

SONG: Five Green and Speckled Frogs

( . . . Ok, so we technically sang 3 Green Speckled Frogs . . . )

From here, we talked a little more about where water for lakes, rivers and ponds comes from. 

 This was found on the Groundwater Foundation website. 

This is where we changed from ponds to rain in our storytime because rain also helps fill ponds. 

Because it's been storming alot in our area lately, we sang a song about thunder.

SONG: Thunder Pounding (tune: Frere Jacques)

Thunder pounding, thunder pounding. (slap knees loudly)

Crash, boom, bang. Crash, boom, bang (clap, slap knees loudly, palms open out front)

Little falling rain drops, little falling raindrops. (raindrops falling)

Kiss the ground, kiss the ground. (slap knees quietly)

The last 2 verses are sung quieter than the first 2.

BOOK: Where Does Kitty Go In The Rain by Harriet Ziefert

The kids didn't seem to like this song as much as the first. 

SONG: Skinnamarink

Skinnamarink was our ending song before everyone got a hand stamp. The younger kids really liked it and I will definitely be ending my storytimes with this song in the future. 

My normal go-to good-bye storytime song is The More We Get Together but it's felt a little stale lately. You know how it is. 

Hope this plan gives you some ideas! Happy Storytelling!