In spite of torrential morning downpours and threats of tornados, we had an incredible turnout for preschool storytime on Thursday morning! About 40 children and 26 adults were here for "Crocs and Gators" day! After our opening song, one little girl stood up and threw her hands in the air, calling out, "Miss Terri, I'm here!" We all had a good chuckle with that - she must have thought I couldn't spot her in the crowd! It was a delightful morning and "The Three Little Gators" was a captivating book. I used props with it: a rock, some sticks, and a bag of dirt. (Each little gator is trying to get away from the "Big-Bottomed Boar" as he works hard to bump over each gator's house!) Great day in Middletown!

School Visits & Beyond!

My seventh and final school visit is over - Middletown Elementary School was our destination. I spoke with 104 students! It has been an intensive few weeks and now my schedule can start to get back to "normal."

Thursday morning's storytime was on "travel." Our first story was Ann Jonas' "Round Trip," a book that continues the narration upside down once you think you are at the end of the story! After I turned the book upside down and was reading into a couple of pages, one 4-year old called out, "I gotta get me that book!" The grown-ups started laughing and it was all I could do to keep reading - that, in a nutshell, is a successful storytime:)