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Books:

Once Upon a World: Rapunzel by Chloe Perkins and Illustrated by #OwnVoices Archana Sreenivasan

Lovabye Dragon by Barbara Joosse and illustrated by Randy Cecil

Maybe Mother Goose by Esme Raji Codell and illustrated by Elisa Chavarri

Inclusion:

The Once Upon a World series by Chloe Perkins takes familiar stories and moves them to unfamiliar locations. In this case Rapunzel is transported to India.

In Maybe Mother Goose the pages are filled with children from multiple cultures tripping their way through traditional nursery rhymes. We read one half last week and are reading the other half this week.

Flannel Game:

While elephants don’t show up in our version of Rapunzel, they do show up in many tales of India so we thought we’d use them as an element in this story time.

Elephant Rhymes
5 Elephants on a String
One purple elephant
Balancing step by step on a piece of string
She thought it was such a wonderful stunt
That she called for another elephant!
” ”
Five purple elephants
Balancing step by step on a piece of string
All of a sudden the string broke
And down came all the elephant folk!
Credit Felt Board Magic
Note: As you place the elephants on the felt board, carefully place them on the string. In the last verse tug the string quickly and all the elephants should fly up in the air.

June Repeating Songs and Rhymes:

Song:

Fairies Fly

(sung to the tune of “Frere Jacques”)

Fairies fly, fairies fly (undulate fingers as if they were the fairies, moving hands in the air)

All around, all around (move hands around in the air)

Fairies fly up high (Move hands up high)

Fairies fly down low (move hands low)

All around, all around (move hands around in the air)

Credit : Collaborative Summer Library Reading Program

Song:

(Sung to the tune of “If You’re Happy and you Know it”)

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my nose.

There’s a little elf he’s sitting on my nose.

He’s sitting on my nose, then off away he goes.

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my nose.

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my knee.

He’s sitting on my knee, then quickly he will flee.

There’s a little elf sitting on my knee.

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my head.

Thee’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my head.

He’s sitting on my head, then he goes to find a bed.

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my head.

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my feet.

He’s sitting on my feet, then goes to find a seat.

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my feet.

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my hair.

He’s sitting on my hair, but I don’t really care.

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my hair.

Credit : Collaborative Summer Library Reading Program

Books:

La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya and Illustrated by #OwnVoices Juana Martinez-Neal

Princesses Wear Pants by Savannah Guthrie and Allison Oppenheim, illustrated by Eva Byrne.

Maybe Mother Goose by Esme Raji Codell and illustrated by Elisa Chavarri

Inclusion:

In La Princesa and the Pea the rhyming text includes Spanish and English in this charming retelling of the classic fairy tale. Illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal won the 2018 Pura Belpre. The textiles and culture of the artist’s native Peru influenced the illustrations.

In Maybe Mother Goose the pages are filled with children from multiple cultures tripping their way through traditional nursery rhymes.

Flannel Game:

I use this as a hide and seek game. It’s fun and different because when we play hide and seek we usually just do it by color, but in this case we can also identify by pattern.

June Repeating Songs:

Song:

Fairies Fly

(sung to the tune of “Frere Jacques”)

Fairies fly, fairies fly (undulate fingers as if they were the fairies, moving hands in the air)

All around, all around (move hands around in the air)

Fairies fly up high (Move hands up high)

Fairies fly down low (move hands low)

All around, all around (move hands around in the air)

Credit : Collaborative Summer Library Reading Program

Song:

(Sung to the tune of “If You’re Happy and you Know it”)

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my nose.

There’s a little elf he’s sitting on my nose.

He’s sitting on my nose, then off away he goes.

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my nose.

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my knee.

He’s sitting on my knee, then quickly he will flee.

There’s a little elf sitting on my knee.

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my head.

Thee’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my head.

He’s sitting on my head, then he goes to find a bed.

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my head.

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my feet.

He’s sitting on my feet, then goes to find a seat.

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my feet.

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my hair.

He’s sitting on my hair, but I don’t really care.

There’s a little elf, he’s sitting on my hair.

Credit : Collaborative Summer Library Reading Program

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