<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665</id><updated>2011-07-07T16:48:24.052-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lapsit Storytime!</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>20</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-416959417242573963</id><published>2009-01-30T12:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-30T12:53:46.152-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Week of January 26</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/SYNo1AMNLRI/AAAAAAAAAGo/Qn-3go3ZXUw/s1600-h/Peek-a-Boo.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 120px; height: 186px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/SYNo1AMNLRI/AAAAAAAAAGo/Qn-3go3ZXUw/s200/Peek-a-Boo.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5297192846511385874" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;RHYMES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Cheek, Chin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheek, chin, cheek, chin&lt;br /&gt;cheek, chin, NOSE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheek, chin, cheek, chin,&lt;br /&gt;Cheek, chin, TOES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cheek, chin, cheek, chin,&lt;br /&gt;Cheek, chin, UP BABY GOES! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;"Mother and Father and Uncle John"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mother and Father and Uncle John (bounce child on knee)&lt;br /&gt;Went to town, one by one         &lt;br /&gt;Mother fell off                  (tip to one side)&lt;br /&gt;And Father fell off              (tip to the other side)&lt;br /&gt;But Uncle John went on and on and on&lt;br /&gt;and on and on and on .....        (bounce quickly!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Acka Backa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acka backa soda cracker&lt;br /&gt;Acka backa boo!                   (rock/bounce)&lt;br /&gt;Acka backa soda cracker,&lt;br /&gt;I love you!                       (give baby a hug)&lt;br /&gt;Acka back soda cracker,&lt;br /&gt;acka back boo!                    (rock/bounce)&lt;br /&gt;Acka back soda cracker,&lt;br /&gt;Up goes you!                      (lift child up into the air)&lt;br /&gt;Acka back soda cracker,&lt;br /&gt;I love You!                       (give baby a hug)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;BOOKS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Peek-a-Boo by Jan Omerod&lt;br /&gt;Peek-A-Pet by Marie&lt;br /&gt;Peek-a-Boo by Moira Butterfield&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Twinkle Twinkle Little Star&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/twinkle.mp3"&gt;Listen/download mp3 here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;Twinkle, twinkle, little star,&lt;br /&gt;How I wonder what you are!&lt;br /&gt;Up above the world so high,&lt;br /&gt;Like a diamond in the sky!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2604177374596942665-416959417242573963?l=lapsit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/416959417242573963/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2604177374596942665&amp;postID=416959417242573963' title='42 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/416959417242573963'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/416959417242573963'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/2009/01/week-of-january-26.html' title='Week of January 26'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/SYNo1AMNLRI/AAAAAAAAAGo/Qn-3go3ZXUw/s72-c/Peek-a-Boo.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>42</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-98137727617198521</id><published>2008-10-17T11:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-17T11:29:57.216-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Week of October 10</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/SPjZDnOU0pI/AAAAAAAAAGg/C3crCaH0N6w/s1600-h/applet.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/SPjZDnOU0pI/AAAAAAAAAGg/C3crCaH0N6w/s200/applet.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258191221046956690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Books Read:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Incredible Me &lt;/span&gt;by Kathi Appelt&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Maisy Loves You &lt;/span&gt; by Lucy Cousins&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;The One and Only Me&lt;/span&gt; by Marilyn Singer&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Fingerplay:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Pat-A-Cake"&lt;br /&gt;Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man.&lt;br /&gt;Bake me a cake as fast as you can.&lt;br /&gt;Pat it and roll it and mark it with "B"&lt;br /&gt;And put it in the oven for Baby and me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Twinkle Twinkle Little Star&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/twinkle.mp3"&gt;Listen/download mp3 here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Twinkle, twinkle, little star,&lt;br /&gt;How I wonder what you are!&lt;br /&gt;Up above the world so high,&lt;br /&gt;Like a diamond in the sky!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"You Are My Sunshine"&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;a href="http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/sunshine.htm"&gt;Link to NIH.gov -- lyrics &amp; activities for "You Are My Sunshine"&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;*All recordings are created by the Allentown Public Library from source material believed to be in the public domain. Our recordings may be downloaded, copied, modified, etc. according to Creative Commons licensing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2604177374596942665-98137727617198521?l=lapsit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/98137727617198521/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2604177374596942665&amp;postID=98137727617198521' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/98137727617198521'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/98137727617198521'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/2008/10/week-of-october-10.html' title='Week of October 10'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/SPjZDnOU0pI/AAAAAAAAAGg/C3crCaH0N6w/s72-c/applet.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-5663940448861103936</id><published>2008-09-26T11:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-26T12:47:30.254-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Storytimes 9/24 &amp; 9/26/2008</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/SN0wZp_cPAI/AAAAAAAAAEU/T5Nf0rGoPKg/s1600-h/spid.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 156px; height: 108px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/SN0wZp_cPAI/AAAAAAAAAEU/T5Nf0rGoPKg/s320/spid.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5250405957910674434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;For this week's storytimes we read:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Very Busy Spider&lt;/span&gt; by Eric Carle&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*"Humpty Dumpty"&lt;br /&gt;Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall.&lt;br /&gt;Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.&lt;br /&gt;All the king's horses and all the king's men&lt;br /&gt;Couldn't put Humpty together again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;We sang:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* "The Noble Duke of York"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, the noble Duke of York&lt;br /&gt;He had 10 thousand men&lt;br /&gt;He marched them up to the top of the hill&lt;br /&gt;Then he marched them down again&lt;br /&gt;And when they were up, they were up&lt;br /&gt;And when they were down, they were down&lt;br /&gt;And when they were only half-way up&lt;br /&gt;They were neither up nor down&lt;br /&gt;(EXTERNAL LINK: &lt;a href="http://www.kididdles.com/lyrics/n009.html" target="_blank"&gt;Some activities based on this song at Kididdles.com&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Twinkle Twinkle Little Star&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/twinkle.mp3"&gt;Listen/download mp3 here.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Pat-a-Cake&lt;br /&gt;Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man.&lt;br /&gt;Bake me a cake as fast as you can.&lt;br /&gt;Pat it and roll it and mark it with "B"&lt;br /&gt;And put it in the oven for Baby and me.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;We acted out: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;*Hickory Dickory Dock&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(To play along at home, walk your fingers up and down your child's arm as you recite)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mouse ran up the clock&lt;br /&gt;The clock struck one&lt;br /&gt;The mouse ran down&lt;br /&gt;Hickory Dickory Dock&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;*All recordings are created by the &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Allentown&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; Public Library from source material believed to be in the public domain. Our recordings may be downloaded, copied, modified, etc. according to Creative Commons licensing.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!--Creative Commons License--&gt;&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/" rel="license"&gt;&lt;img style="border-width: 0pt;" alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/2.5/88x31.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2604177374596942665-5663940448861103936?l=lapsit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/5663940448861103936/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2604177374596942665&amp;postID=5663940448861103936' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/5663940448861103936'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/5663940448861103936'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/2008/09/storytimes-924-9262008.html' title='Storytimes 9/24 &amp; 9/26/2008'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/SN0wZp_cPAI/AAAAAAAAAEU/T5Nf0rGoPKg/s72-c/spid.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-7252185344818107756</id><published>2008-03-08T12:12:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-08T12:33:06.201-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Storytime week of 3/3 (storytimes 3/5 &amp; 3/7)</title><content type='html'>This week's theme was "Me Baby"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BOOKS READ:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R9L3s-uQ6xI/AAAAAAAAAEM/mQ_VG9X6-fc/s1600-h/beep.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 190px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R9L3s-uQ6xI/AAAAAAAAAEM/mQ_VG9X6-fc/s320/beep.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5175471273925470994" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;As Big as You&lt;/span&gt; by Elaine Greenstein&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I Went Walking&lt;/span&gt; by Sue Williams&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;You and Me Bab&lt;/span&gt;y by Lynn Resier&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Baby Goes Beep &lt;/span&gt;by Rebecca O'Connell&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FINGERPLAYS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Me&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;I have ten little fingers,&lt;br /&gt;They all belong to me. (hold hands up)&lt;br /&gt;I can make them do things,&lt;br /&gt;Would you like to see?&lt;br /&gt;I can shut them up tight, (hands in fist)&lt;br /&gt;I can open them wide. (spread hands open)&lt;br /&gt;I can put them together, (clasp hands together)&lt;br /&gt;And I can make them hide. (hands behind back)&lt;br /&gt;I can fly them up high, (hands over head)&lt;br /&gt;I can fly them down low. (hands to knees)&lt;br /&gt;I can fold them together&lt;br /&gt;And hold them, just so. (fold hands in lap)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;My Hands Upon My Head&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Hands upon my head I place,&lt;br /&gt;On my shoulders on my face,&lt;br /&gt;On my knees, and at my side.&lt;br /&gt;Then behind me they will slide,&lt;br /&gt;Then I raise them up so high&lt;br /&gt;Till they nearly reach the sky&lt;br /&gt;Now I clap them -- one, two, three.&lt;br /&gt;Then I fold them silently&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Twinkle, Twinkle Little StaR"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;Download/listen to mp3 of &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/twinkle.mp3"&gt;Twinkle Twinkle Little Star&lt;/a&gt;*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;*All recordings are created by the &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Allentown&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; Public Library from source material believed to be in the public domain. Our recordings may be downloaded, copied, modified, etc. according to Creative Commons licensing.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!--Creative Commons License--&gt;&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/" rel="license"&gt;&lt;img style="border-width: 0pt;" alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/2.5/88x31.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2604177374596942665-7252185344818107756?l=lapsit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/7252185344818107756/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2604177374596942665&amp;postID=7252185344818107756' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/7252185344818107756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/7252185344818107756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/2008/03/storytime-week-of-33-storytimes-35-37.html' title='Storytime week of 3/3 (storytimes 3/5 &amp; 3/7)'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R9L3s-uQ6xI/AAAAAAAAAEM/mQ_VG9X6-fc/s72-c/beep.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-6383794165138144384</id><published>2008-02-29T08:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-29T09:01:49.943-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Storytime Week of 2/25 (Storytimes 2/27 &amp; 2/29)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R8g59ewC2WI/AAAAAAAAAEE/Rphk4-gsprA/s1600-h/lunch.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 158px; height: 193px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R8g59ewC2WI/AAAAAAAAAEE/Rphk4-gsprA/s320/lunch.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172447900424395106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today's theme was "THINGS TO EAT"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BOOKS READ:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Lunch &lt;/span&gt;by Denise Fleming&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I Like a Snack on an Iceberg &lt;/span&gt;by Iris Hiskey Arno&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Tickle Tum &lt;/span&gt;by Nancy Van Laan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mouse Mess &lt;/span&gt;by Linnea Riley&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FINGERPLAYS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I Have Ten Little Fingers"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;I have ten little fingers,&lt;br /&gt;They all belong to me. (hold hands up)&lt;br /&gt;I can make them do things,&lt;br /&gt;Would you like to see?&lt;br /&gt;I can shut them up tight, (hands in fist)&lt;br /&gt;I can open them wide. (spread hands open)&lt;br /&gt;I can put them together, (clasp hands together)&lt;br /&gt;And I can make them hide. (hands behind back)&lt;br /&gt;I can fly them up high, (hands over head)&lt;br /&gt;I can fly them down low. (hands to knees)&lt;br /&gt;I can fold them together&lt;br /&gt;And hold them, just so. (fold hands in lap)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SONGS:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Hot Cross Buns"&lt;br /&gt;Hot cross buns&lt;br /&gt;Hot cross buns&lt;br /&gt;One a penny&lt;br /&gt;Two a penny&lt;br /&gt;Hot cross buns.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Twinkle, Twinkle Little StaR"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;Download/listen to mp3 of &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/twinkle.mp3"&gt;Twinkle Twinkle Little Star&lt;/a&gt;*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PEASE PORRIDGE HOT&lt;br /&gt;Pease Porridge hot&lt;br /&gt;Pease porridge cold&lt;br /&gt;Pease porridge in the pot&lt;br /&gt;Nine days old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some like it hot&lt;br /&gt;Some like it cold&lt;br /&gt;Some like it in the pot.&lt;br /&gt;Nine days old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Download/listen to mp3 of &lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/peas.mp3"&gt;Pease Porridge Hot&lt;/a&gt;*)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;*All recordings are created by the &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Allentown&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; Public Library from source material believed to be in the public domain. Our recordings may be downloaded, copied, modified, etc. according to Creative Commons licensing.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!--Creative Commons License--&gt;&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/" rel="license"&gt;&lt;img style="border-width: 0pt;" alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/2.5/88x31.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2604177374596942665-6383794165138144384?l=lapsit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/6383794165138144384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2604177374596942665&amp;postID=6383794165138144384' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/6383794165138144384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/6383794165138144384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/2008/02/storytime-week-of-225-storytimes-227.html' title='Storytime Week of 2/25 (Storytimes 2/27 &amp; 2/29)'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R8g59ewC2WI/AAAAAAAAAEE/Rphk4-gsprA/s72-c/lunch.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-8542111813301460072</id><published>2008-02-29T08:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-29T08:57:04.109-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Storytime Week of 2/18 (Storytimes 2/20 &amp; 2/22)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R8g4f-wC2VI/AAAAAAAAAD8/2SFA34rVhlE/s1600-h/snowflakes.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R8g4f-wC2VI/AAAAAAAAAD8/2SFA34rVhlE/s320/snowflakes.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172446294106626386" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;TODAY'S THEME WAS WINTER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Books Read:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;One Mitten &lt;/span&gt;by Kristine O'Connell George&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Whose Footprints?&lt;/span&gt; by Molly Coxe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The First Snowfall&lt;/span&gt; by Anne &amp;amp; Harlow Rockwell&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Winter is for Snowflakes&lt;/span&gt; by Michelle Knudsen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FINGERPLAYS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mitten Song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Thumb in the thumb place, Fingers all together, That is the song we sing in winter weather" (show thumb and fingers while repeating the rhyme)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Walk In The Snow (to the tune of 'Mulberry Bush')&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;"Let's Go Walking in the Snow&lt;br /&gt;(walk)&lt;br /&gt;Walking, walking, on tiptoe&lt;br /&gt;(tiptoe)&lt;br /&gt;Lift your one foot way up high&lt;br /&gt;(hop on one foot)&lt;br /&gt;Then the other to keep it dry&lt;br /&gt;(hop on other foot)&lt;br /&gt;All around the yard we skip&lt;br /&gt;(skip)&lt;br /&gt;Watch your step or you might slip&lt;br /&gt;(pretend to fall)"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Five Little Snowmen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Five little snowmen&lt;br /&gt;On a winter's day -&lt;br /&gt;The first one said,&lt;br /&gt;"Wake up, so we can play."&lt;br /&gt;The second one said,&lt;br /&gt;"Let's stomp on the ground."&lt;br /&gt;The third one said,&lt;br /&gt;"Let's roll all around."&lt;br /&gt;The fourth one said,&lt;br /&gt;"Let's run and run and run."&lt;br /&gt;The fifth one said,&lt;br /&gt;"I'm afraid I feel the sun"&lt;br /&gt;"Oh dear!" cried the snowmen,&lt;br /&gt;As they looked toward the sky.&lt;br /&gt;And the five melting snowmen&lt;br /&gt;Waved a fond good-bye.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2604177374596942665-8542111813301460072?l=lapsit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/8542111813301460072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2604177374596942665&amp;postID=8542111813301460072' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/8542111813301460072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/8542111813301460072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/2008/02/storytime-week-of-218-storytimes-220.html' title='Storytime Week of 2/18 (Storytimes 2/20 &amp; 2/22)'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R8g4f-wC2VI/AAAAAAAAAD8/2SFA34rVhlE/s72-c/snowflakes.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-5128362465284101637</id><published>2008-02-09T12:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-09T12:15:49.769-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Storytime Week of 2/4 (Storytimes 2/6 &amp; 2/8)</title><content type='html'>"MY TEDDY BEAR"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today was a teddy bear storytime!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BOOKS:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Three Bears &lt;/span&gt;by Byron Barton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R64Js0jZDzI/AAAAAAAAAD0/Ktqk3hxtwTI/s1600-h/BEARS.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R64Js0jZDzI/AAAAAAAAAD0/Ktqk3hxtwTI/s320/BEARS.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165076488266518322" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear Turn Around&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Brown Bear, Brown Bear &lt;/span&gt;by Bill Martin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Chicka Chicka Boom&lt;/span&gt; by Bill Martin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;Search the library's catalog&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FINGERPLAYS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Teddy Bear Teddy Bear Turn Around&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around,&lt;br /&gt;Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch the ground,&lt;br /&gt;Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, reach up high&lt;br /&gt;Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, wink one eye,&lt;br /&gt;Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, slap your knees,&lt;br /&gt;Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, sit down please.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SONGS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;"The Bear Went over the Mountain"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;(tune:  For He's a Jolly Good Fellow)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The bear went over the mountain,&lt;br /&gt;The bear went over the mountain,&lt;br /&gt;The bear went over the mountain,&lt;br /&gt;To see what he could see&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To see what he could see,&lt;br /&gt;To see what he could see&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The other side of the mountain,&lt;br /&gt;The other side of the mountain,&lt;br /&gt;The other side of the mountain,&lt;br /&gt;Was all that he could see&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Was all that he could see,&lt;br /&gt;Was all that he could see,&lt;br /&gt;The other side of the mountain,&lt;br /&gt;Was all that he could see!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Touch Your Nose to Your Toes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;a href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;(Download/listen to mp3 of &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/twinkle.mp3"&gt;Twinkle Twinkle Little Star&lt;/a&gt;*)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;*All recordings are created by the &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Allentown&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; Public Library from source material believed to be in the public domain. 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2/8)'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R64Js0jZDzI/AAAAAAAAAD0/Ktqk3hxtwTI/s72-c/BEARS.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-3624987861392130663</id><published>2008-02-09T11:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-09T12:09:01.319-08:00</updated><title type='text'>WEEK OF 1/28 (storytimes on 1/30 &amp; 2/1)</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R64GZkjZDyI/AAAAAAAAADs/umxr6m84Lj0/s1600-h/lulu.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; 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Each week we will update this blog to include the list of titles of books we read, the lyrics of songs we sang, as well as some other fun stuff (mp3s, links fun activities, etc.) so you can repeat the lessons at home with your little one. Add us to your RSS feeder or just check lapsit.blogspot.com every week. (Some weeks we might not get to the update until Satuday.) Now on to this week's storytime!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;WEEK OF 1/21 (storytimes on 1/23 &amp;amp; 1/25)&lt;br /&gt;HAPPY THOUGHTS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R5tEOupSt6I/AAAAAAAAADY/G3j6I6s9jBo/s1600-h/curlupinaball.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 175px; height: 173px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R5tEOupSt6I/AAAAAAAAADY/G3j6I6s9jBo/s320/curlupinaball.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5159792817913116578" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Books read:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R5tEOupSt6I/AAAAAAAAADY/G3j6I6s9jBo/s1600-h/curlupinaball.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R5tEOupSt6I/AAAAAAAAADY/G3j6I6s9jBo/s1600-h/curlupinaball.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" &gt;I Like it When ... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;by Mary Murphy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" &gt;What Do You Love? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;by Jonathan London&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-size:130%;" &gt;Sometimes I Like to Curl up in a Ball &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;- by Vicki Churchill&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Songs sung:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;The More We Get Together&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; -  "Oh, the more we get together, Together, together, Oh, the more we get together, The happier we'll be. For your friends are my friends, And my friends are your friends. Oh, the more we get together, The happier we'll be!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;                  &lt;/li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/moreweget.htm"&gt;Link to the music of this song @ NIEHS Kids' Pages&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;li style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;You Are My Sunshine&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/lyrics/sunshine.htm"&gt;Link to the lyrics of this song @ NIEHS Kids' Pages&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/twinkle.mp3"&gt;(Download/listen to an mp3 of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star created by the Allentown Public Library!)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;*All recordings are created by the &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Allentown&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; Public Library from source material believed to be in the public domain. Our recordings may be downloaded, copied, modified, etc. according to Creative Commons licensing.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!--Creative Commons License--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/" rel="license"&gt;&lt;img style="border-width: 0pt;" alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/2.5/88x31.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"&gt;To leave a comment CLICK BELOW (Where it says the number of comments)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2604177374596942665-7533927322927372277?l=lapsit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/7533927322927372277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2604177374596942665&amp;postID=7533927322927372277' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/7533927322927372277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/7533927322927372277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/2008/01/2008-storytime-has-begun_26.html' title='2008 Storytime Has Begun!'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/R5tEOupSt6I/AAAAAAAAADY/G3j6I6s9jBo/s72-c/curlupinaball.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-1871864496237108185</id><published>2007-03-30T08:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-30T12:05:47.578-07:00</updated><title type='text'>March 30, 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/Rg02nH7Fq0I/AAAAAAAAADQ/D_bKoPNeqwA/s1600-h/chicka.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 189px; height: 252px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/Rg02nH7Fq0I/AAAAAAAAADQ/D_bKoPNeqwA/s320/chicka.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5047750803121875778" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;March 30, 2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Today was the last session of this round of lapsit storytime. I hope everyone has a fun-filled summer, and I look forward to seeing everyone at the library! -- Miss Sandi&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;Today's Books:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Goodnight, My Duckling&lt;/span&gt; -- Nancy Tafuri&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Peek-a-Pet &lt;/span&gt;-- &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Marie Torres Cimarusti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Chicka Chicka Boom Boom --  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Bill Martin Jr.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hello Lulu&lt;/span&gt; - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Caroline Uff&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;SEARCH THE LIBRARY'S CATALOG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" &gt;FINGERPLAYS/RHYMES:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"Clap your Hands"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clap your hands one, two, three.&lt;br /&gt;Clap your hands just like me!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Variations include "Roll your arms," "Wave your hands," "Nod your head," Stamp your feet.")&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"Two Little Eyes"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two little eyes to look around&lt;br /&gt;Two little ears to hear each sound&lt;br /&gt;One little nose to smell what's sweet&lt;br /&gt;One little mouth that likes to eat&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"Oh, the Noble Duke of York"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, the noble Duke of York&lt;br /&gt;He had 10 thousand men&lt;br /&gt;He marched them up to the top of the hill&lt;br /&gt;Then he marched them down again&lt;br /&gt;And when they were up, they were up&lt;br /&gt;And when they were down, they were down&lt;br /&gt;And when they were only half-way up&lt;br /&gt;They were neither up nor down&lt;br /&gt;(EXTERNAL LINK: &lt;a href="http://www.kididdles.com/lyrics/n009.html"&gt;Some activities based on this song&lt;/a&gt; at Kididdles.com)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;"Pease Porridge Hot"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pease porridge hot&lt;br /&gt;Pease porridge cold&lt;br /&gt;Pease porridge in the pot,&lt;br /&gt;Nine days old.&lt;br /&gt;Some like it hot&lt;br /&gt;Some like it cold&lt;br /&gt;Some like it in the pot&lt;br /&gt;Nine days old&lt;br /&gt;(Download/Listen to mp3 of &lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/peas.mp3"&gt;"Pease Porridge Hot"&lt;/a&gt;*)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;*All recordings are created by the &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Allentown&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; Public Library from source material believed to be in the public domain. Our recordings may be downloaded, copied, modified, etc. according to Creative Commons licensing.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!--Creative Commons License--&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/" rel="license"&gt;&lt;img style="border-width: 0pt;" alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/2.5/88x31.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);font-size:130%;" &gt;To leave a comment CLICK BELOW (Where it says the number of comments)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2604177374596942665-1871864496237108185?l=lapsit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/1871864496237108185/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2604177374596942665&amp;postID=1871864496237108185' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/1871864496237108185'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/1871864496237108185'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/2007/03/march-30-2007.html' title='March 30, 2007'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/Rg02nH7Fq0I/AAAAAAAAADQ/D_bKoPNeqwA/s72-c/chicka.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-2570650899259353672</id><published>2007-03-26T06:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-26T06:19:47.636-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Friday March 23</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RgfFHrg6fvI/AAAAAAAAADE/09CFKpQYrws/s1600-h/mouse+spring.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 232px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RgfFHrg6fvI/AAAAAAAAADE/09CFKpQYrws/s320/mouse+spring.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5046218643222462194" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;March 23, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Today's storytime was about Springtime and also bugs!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Books:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mouse's First Spring -- Lauren Thompson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;In My Garden &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;-- Ron Maris&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Rabbits and Raindrops &lt;/span&gt;-- Jim Arnosky&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;I Love Bugs -- &lt;/span&gt;Philemon Sturges&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;a href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;SEARCH THE LIBRARY'S CATALOG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;SONGS*:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star &lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/twinkle.mp3"&gt;(Download/listen to mp3 of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Eensy, Weensy Spider&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt; (&lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/eensy.mp3"&gt;Download/listen to mp3 of Eensy, Weensy Spider)&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Rhymes:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Little Miss Muffet&lt;br /&gt;Sat on a tuffet,&lt;br /&gt;Eating her curds and whey.&lt;br /&gt;Along came a spider,&lt;br /&gt;Who sat down beside her,&lt;br /&gt;And frightened Miss Muffet away!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;*All recordings are created by the &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Allentown&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; 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Our recordings may be downloaded, copied, modified, etc. according to Creative Commons licensing.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;!--Creative Commons License--&gt;&lt;a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/" rel="license"&gt;&lt;img style="border-width: 0pt;" alt="Creative Commons License" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/2.5/88x31.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"&gt;To leave a comment CLICK BELOW (Where it says the number of comments)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2604177374596942665-2570650899259353672?l=lapsit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/2570650899259353672/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2604177374596942665&amp;postID=2570650899259353672' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/2570650899259353672'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/2570650899259353672'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/2007/03/friday-march-23.html' title='Friday March 23'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RgfFHrg6fvI/AAAAAAAAADE/09CFKpQYrws/s72-c/mouse+spring.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-1864428949934457169</id><published>2007-03-12T07:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-19T08:05:07.286-07:00</updated><title type='text'>March 16, 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;    March 16, 2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RfVsxcmKW0I/AAAAAAAAAC8/8vfHzgYlqto/s1600-h/you+and+me.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RfVsxcmKW0I/AAAAAAAAAC8/8vfHzgYlqto/s320/you+and+me.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041054954656783170" border="0" /&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today's Storytime theme was "families."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BOOKS READ:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Grandma Book &lt;/span&gt;- Todd Parr&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Daddy, Play With Me &lt;/span&gt;- Shigeo Watanabe&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;You and Me Baby &lt;/span&gt;- Lynn Reiser&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Everyday House - &lt;/span&gt;Cynthia Rylant&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FINGERPLAYS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;"Grandpa's Glasses"&lt;br /&gt; Here are Grandpa's glasses&lt;br /&gt; And here is grandpa's hat&lt;br /&gt; And here is the way he folds his arms&lt;br /&gt; And sits like that!&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Grandma's Glasses"&lt;br /&gt; Here are Grandma's glasses&lt;br /&gt; And here is Grandma's hat&lt;br /&gt; And here is the way she folds his arms&lt;br /&gt; And puts them in her lap.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SONGS:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star &lt;a href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;(Download/listen  to mp3 of &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/twinkle.mp3"&gt;Twinkle  Twinkle Little Star&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"&gt;To leave a comment CLICK BELOW (Where it  says the number of comments)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2604177374596942665-1864428949934457169?l=lapsit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/1864428949934457169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2604177374596942665&amp;postID=1864428949934457169' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/1864428949934457169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/1864428949934457169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/2007/03/march-16-2007.html' title='March 16, 2007'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RfVsxcmKW0I/AAAAAAAAAC8/8vfHzgYlqto/s72-c/you+and+me.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-4008467615387990485</id><published>2007-03-12T07:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-03-12T11:20:39.825-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Friday, March 9</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RfVphsmKWzI/AAAAAAAAAC0/URFnGf1LdU8/s1600-h/kidslulusbusyday.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RfVphsmKWzI/AAAAAAAAAC0/URFnGf1LdU8/s320/kidslulusbusyday.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041051385538960178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Friday, March 9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today's storytime's theme was "Playtime!"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:115;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:115;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BOOKS READ:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Lulu's Busy Day &lt;/span&gt;by Caroline Uff&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Now We Can Go &lt;/span&gt;by Ann Jonas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Tom and Pippo Go for a Walk&lt;/span&gt; by Helen Oxenbury&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Maisy Dresses Up&lt;/span&gt; by Lucy Cousins&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;SEARCH THE LIBRARY'S CATALOG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:115;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SONGS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/yankee.htm"&gt;Yankee Doodle&lt;/a&gt;   (external link: NIH.gov)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star &lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/twinkle.mp3"&gt;(Download/listen to mp3 of &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/twinkle.mp3"&gt;Twinkle Twinkle Little Star&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FINGERPLAYS&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;"My Wiggles"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wiggle my fingers&lt;br /&gt;I wiggle my toes&lt;br /&gt;I wiggle my shoulders&lt;br /&gt;I wiggle my nose&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Now the wiggles are out of me&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RfVodMmKWyI/AAAAAAAAACs/vBATDpvO-38/s1600-h/beachball.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 161px; height: 161px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RfVodMmKWyI/AAAAAAAAACs/vBATDpvO-38/s320/beachball.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5041050208717921058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;And I'm just as still as I can be&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;"I'm Bouncing"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm bouncing everywhere&lt;br /&gt;I bounce into the air&lt;br /&gt;I'm bouncing, bouncing like a ball&lt;br /&gt;I bounce and bounce, then down I fall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"&gt;To leave a comment CLICK BELOW (Where it says the number of comments)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2604177374596942665-4008467615387990485?l=lapsit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/4008467615387990485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2604177374596942665&amp;postID=4008467615387990485' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/4008467615387990485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/4008467615387990485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/2007/03/friday-march-16.html' title='Friday, March 9'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RfVphsmKWzI/AAAAAAAAAC0/URFnGf1LdU8/s72-c/kidslulusbusyday.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-6094907621655610376</id><published>2007-03-02T06:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-03-02T13:20:42.254-08:00</updated><title type='text'>March 2, 2007</title><content type='html'>UPDATE:   I got our dates mixed up. Today was actually "Teddy Bear Storytime." See the entry under February 16 for today's books and songs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/ReiVDXGosOI/AAAAAAAAACY/cQZMo1ID4VE/s1600-h/teddy+bear.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 179px; height: 185px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/ReiVDXGosOI/AAAAAAAAACY/cQZMo1ID4VE/s320/teddy+bear.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5037440068187893986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2604177374596942665-6094907621655610376?l=lapsit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/6094907621655610376/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2604177374596942665&amp;postID=6094907621655610376' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/6094907621655610376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/6094907621655610376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/2007/03/march-2-2007.html' title='March 2, 2007'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/ReiVDXGosOI/AAAAAAAAACY/cQZMo1ID4VE/s72-c/teddy+bear.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-1473314282926360954</id><published>2007-02-21T10:39:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-24T06:35:31.338-08:00</updated><title type='text'>February 23, 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RdyTu_nNBRI/AAAAAAAAACM/OJuSeMj_0Kw/s1600-h/LITTLE+QUACK.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 204px; height: 204px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RdyTu_nNBRI/AAAAAAAAACM/OJuSeMj_0Kw/s320/LITTLE+QUACK.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5034060919052502290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;February 23, 2007&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today's theme was "Hide &amp; Seek / Peek-a-Boo"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BOOKS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Little Quack's Hide and Seek&lt;/span&gt; -- Lauren Thompson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Peek-a-Pet&lt;/span&gt; -- Mariet Torres Cimarusti&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Where Can It Be&lt;/span&gt; -- Ann Jonas&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Peekaboo! I See You! -- &lt;/span&gt;Sesame Beginnings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;SEARCH THE LIBRARY'S CATALOG&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FINGERPLAYS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Where is Thumbkin"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where is thumbkin?&lt;br /&gt;Where is thumbkin? (Hands behind back)&lt;br /&gt;Here I am (Bring right hand out from behind back with thumb)&lt;br /&gt;Here I am (Bring left hand out from behind back with thumb)&lt;br /&gt;How are you today, sir? (Move right thumb as if talking)&lt;br /&gt;I am fine, thank you (Move left thumb as if responding.)&lt;br /&gt;Happy day (Clap)&lt;br /&gt;Happy day (Clap)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where is pointer?&lt;br /&gt;Where is pointer? (Hands behind back)&lt;br /&gt;Here I am (Bring right hand out from behind back with index finger)&lt;br /&gt;Here I am (Bring left hand out from behind back with index finger)&lt;br /&gt;How are you today, sir? (Move right index finder as if talking)&lt;br /&gt;I am fine, thank you (Move left index finger as if responding.)&lt;br /&gt;Happy day (Clap)&lt;br /&gt;Happy day (Clap)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where is tallman?&lt;br /&gt;Where is tallman? (Hands behind back)&lt;br /&gt;Here I am (Bring right hand out from behind back with middle finger)&lt;br /&gt;Here I am (Bring left hand out from behind back with middle finger)&lt;br /&gt;How are you today, sir? (Move right middle finger as if talking)&lt;br /&gt;I am fine, thank you (Move left middle finger as if responding.)&lt;br /&gt;Happy day (Clap)&lt;br /&gt;Happy day (Clap)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where is ring man?&lt;br /&gt;Where is ring man? (Hands behind back)&lt;br /&gt;Here I am (Bring right hand out from behind back with ring finger)&lt;br /&gt;Here I am (Bring left hand out from behind back with ring finger)&lt;br /&gt;How are you today, sir? (Move right ring finger as if talking)&lt;br /&gt;I am fine, thank you (Move left ring finger as if responding.)&lt;br /&gt;Happy day (Clap)&lt;br /&gt;Happy day (Clap)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where is pinkie?&lt;br /&gt;Where is pinkie? (Hands behind back)&lt;br /&gt;Here I am (Bring right hand out from behind back with little finger)&lt;br /&gt;Here I am (Bring left hand out from behind back with little finger)&lt;br /&gt;How are you today, sir? (Move right little finger as if talking)&lt;br /&gt;I am fine, thank you (Move left little finger as if responding.)&lt;br /&gt;Happy day (Clap)&lt;br /&gt;Happy day (Clap)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/thumbkin.htm"&gt;Sound File of Thumbkin -- music only &lt;/a&gt;(External link @ NIH.GOV)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"I Have Ten Little Fingers"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;I have ten little fingers,&lt;br /&gt;They all belong to me. (hold hands up)&lt;br /&gt;I can make them do things,&lt;br /&gt;Would you like to see?&lt;br /&gt;I can shut them up tight, (hands in fist)&lt;br /&gt;I can open them wide. (spread hands open)&lt;br /&gt;I can put them together, (clasp hands together)&lt;br /&gt;And I can make them hide. (hands behind back)&lt;br /&gt;I can fly them up high, (hands over head)&lt;br /&gt;I can fly them down low. (hands to knees)&lt;br /&gt;I can fold them together&lt;br /&gt;And hold them, just so. (fold hands in lap)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;"Clown Face"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Who is it that wears a smile?&lt;br /&gt;That seems to stretch a half-a-mile?&lt;br /&gt;And makes his smile turn around?&lt;br /&gt;Why, who could it be but Mr. Clown?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SONGS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Five Little Ducks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star &lt;a href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;(Download/listen to mp3 of &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/twinkle.mp3"&gt;Twinkle Twinkle Little Star&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"&gt;To leave a comment CLICK BELOW (Where it says the number of comments)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2604177374596942665-1473314282926360954?l=lapsit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/1473314282926360954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2604177374596942665&amp;postID=1473314282926360954' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/1473314282926360954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/1473314282926360954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/2007/02/february-27-2007.html' title='February 23, 2007'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RdyTu_nNBRI/AAAAAAAAACM/OJuSeMj_0Kw/s72-c/LITTLE+QUACK.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-390631853876361157</id><published>2007-01-19T12:13:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-02-16T09:28:48.873-08:00</updated><title type='text'>February 16, 2007</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RbEnGdW1DKI/AAAAAAAAACA/bu0FuvzI5FM/s1600-h/bears-three.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021838051407891618" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 258px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 258px" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RbEnGdW1DKI/AAAAAAAAACA/bu0FuvzI5FM/s320/bears-three.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;February 16, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today was a teddy bear storytime!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;BOOKS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;The Three Bears &lt;/span&gt;by Byron Barton&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear Turn Around&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Brown Bear, Brown Bear &lt;/span&gt;by Bill Martin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Chicka Chicka Boom&lt;/span&gt; by Bill Martin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;Search the library's catalog&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;FINGERPLAYS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Teddy Bear Teddy Bear Turn Around&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, turn around,&lt;br /&gt;Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, touch the ground,&lt;br /&gt;Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, reach up high&lt;br /&gt;Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, wink one eye,&lt;br /&gt;Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, slap your knees,&lt;br /&gt;Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear, sit down please.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;SONGS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;The Bear Went over the Mountain&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Touch Your Nose to Your Toes&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;a href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;(Download/listen to mp3 of &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/twinkle.mp3"&gt;Twinkle Twinkle Little Star&lt;/a&gt;*)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;*All recordings are created by the &lt;?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Allentown&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; 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MARGIN: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; WIDTH: 222px; CURSOR: pointer; HEIGHT: 222px" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RbEl99W1DJI/AAAAAAAAAB0/9W10APK_onQ/s320/goodnight+my+duckling.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 9, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today's theme was "Night Time/ Sleepy Time"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;BOOKS READ:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;The Noisy Way to the Bed&lt;/span&gt; by Ian Wybrow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Goodnight, my Duckling&lt;/span&gt; by Nancy Tafuri&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Song of Night&lt;/span&gt; by Katherine Riley Nakamura&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"&gt;Little Donkey Close Your Eyes &lt;/span&gt;by Margaret Wise Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;FINGER PLAYS :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Wee Willie Winkie&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wee Willie Winkie&lt;br /&gt;Runs through the town,&lt;br /&gt;Upstairs and downstairs&lt;br /&gt;In his nightgown,&lt;br /&gt;Rapping at the window,&lt;br /&gt;Crying through the lock,&lt;br /&gt;"Are the children in their beds, for now it's eight o'clock?"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Five little monkeys jumping on the bed,&lt;br /&gt;One fell off and bumped his head.&lt;br /&gt;Mama called the doctor and the doctor said,"&lt;br /&gt;No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"&lt;br /&gt;Four little monkeys jumping on the bed,&lt;br /&gt;One fell off and bumped her head.&lt;br /&gt;Papa called the doctor and the doctor said,&lt;br /&gt;"No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"&lt;br /&gt;Three little monkeys jumping on the bed,&lt;br /&gt;One fell off and bumped his head.&lt;br /&gt;Mama called the doctor and the doctor said,&lt;br /&gt;"No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"&lt;br /&gt;Two little monkeys jumping on the bed,&lt;br /&gt;One fell off and bumped her head.&lt;br /&gt;Papa called the doctor and the doctor said,&lt;br /&gt;"No more monkeys jumping on the bed!"&lt;br /&gt;One little monkey jumping on the bed,&lt;br /&gt;He fell off and bumped his head.&lt;br /&gt;Mama called the doctor and the doctor said,&lt;br /&gt;"Put those monkeys straight to bed!"&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Hold up the number of fingers to match the number of monkeys in the verse, bounce your fingers up and down for "jumping." Hold up one finger each time one falls off, and then hold your head with both hands when the monkey bumps her head. Dial the phone with one finger when the doctor is called, and shake your index finger to indicate "no more monkeys jumping on the bed!")&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;SONGS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rock-a- bye Baby&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rock-a-bye, baby&lt;br /&gt;In the treetop&lt;br /&gt;When the wind blows&lt;br /&gt;The cradle will rock&lt;br /&gt;When the bough breaks&lt;br /&gt;The cradle will fall&lt;br /&gt;And down will come baby&lt;br /&gt;Cradle and all&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Baby is drowsing&lt;br /&gt;Cosy and fair&lt;br /&gt;Mother sits near&lt;br /&gt;In her rocking chair&lt;br /&gt;Forward and back&lt;br /&gt;The cradle she swings&lt;br /&gt;And though baby sleeps&lt;br /&gt;He hears what she sings&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the high rooftops&lt;br /&gt;Down to the sea&lt;br /&gt;No one's as dear&lt;br /&gt;As baby to me&lt;br /&gt;Wee little fingers&lt;br /&gt;Eyes wide and bright&lt;br /&gt;Now sound asleep&lt;br /&gt;Until morning light&lt;br /&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/rockaby.htm"&gt;Sound file -- External link: NIH.gov&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;(Download/listen to mp3 of &lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/twinkle.mp3"&gt;Twinkle Twinkle Little Star&lt;/a&gt;*)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;*All recordings are created by the &lt;?xml:namespace prefix = st1 /&gt;&lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Allentown&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; Public Library from source material believed to be in the public domain. 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(hold hands up)&lt;br /&gt;I can make them do things,&lt;br /&gt;Would you like to see?&lt;br /&gt;I can shut them up tight, (hands in fist)&lt;br /&gt;I can open them wide. (spread hands open)&lt;br /&gt;I can put them together, (clasp hands together)&lt;br /&gt;And I can make them hide. (hands behind back)&lt;br /&gt;I can fly them up high, (hands over head)&lt;br /&gt;I can fly them down low. (hands to knees)&lt;br /&gt;I can fold them together&lt;br /&gt;And hold them, just so. (fold hands in lap)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;*All recordings are created by the &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Allentown&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; Public Library from source material believed to be in the public domain. Our recordings may be downloaded, copied, modified, etc. according to Creative Commons licensing.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;!--Creative Commons License--&gt;&lt;a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/"&gt;&lt;img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width: 0pt;" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/2.5/88x31.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/"&gt;Creative Commons Attribution 2.5  License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"&gt;CLICK BELOW (WHERE IT SAYS THE NUMBER OF COMMENTS) TO LEAVE A COMMENT!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2604177374596942665-5938109755811729164?l=lapsit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/5938109755811729164/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2604177374596942665&amp;postID=5938109755811729164' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/5938109755811729164'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/5938109755811729164'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/2007/01/february-2-2007.html' title='February 2, 2007'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RbEi89W1DII/AAAAAAAAABo/X5gXD6qVdco/s72-c/lunch.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-649643121810692384</id><published>2007-01-16T10:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-22T10:18:51.431-08:00</updated><title type='text'>January 25</title><content type='html'>Hello!&lt;br /&gt;Each week we will post the titles of the books read in storytime, as well as some lyrics, sound files, and instructions on how to do the fingerplays at home. This week we are celebrating the cold weather with a storytime all about "winter fun."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Please leave comments and let us know if you have any questions!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/Ra0hAtW1DEI/AAAAAAAAAAs/55G2mFI4Ep8/s1600-h/bunnys+first+snowflake.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 164px; height: 134px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/Ra0hAtW1DEI/AAAAAAAAAAs/55G2mFI4Ep8/s320/bunnys+first+snowflake.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020705455647034434" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Lapsit Stortyime January 25, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;BOOKS READ:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Winter is for Snowflakes&lt;/span&gt; by Michelle Knudsen&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Bunny's First Snowflake&lt;/span&gt; by Monica Wellington&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Under My Hood I Have a Hat&lt;/span&gt; by Karla Kuskin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Mouse's First Snow &lt;/span&gt;by Lauren Thompson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://206.245.157.133/uPortal/Initialize?uP_tparam=props&amp;props=ACS&amp;amp;uP_reload_layout=true&amp;uP_sparam=activeTab&amp;amp;activeTab=2"&gt;Search the Allentown Public Library's Catalog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;SONGS:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;PEASE PORRIDGE HOT&lt;br /&gt;Pease Porridge hot&lt;br /&gt;Pease porridge cold&lt;br /&gt;Pease porridge in the pot&lt;br /&gt;Nine days old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Some like it hot&lt;br /&gt;Some like it cold&lt;br /&gt;Some like it in the pot.&lt;br /&gt;Nine days old.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Download/listen to mp3 of &lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/peas.mp3"&gt;Pease Porridge Hot&lt;/a&gt;*)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR&lt;br /&gt;Twinkle, Twinkle, Little star&lt;br /&gt;How I wonder what you are&lt;br /&gt;Up above the world so high&lt;br /&gt;Like a diamond in the sky.&lt;br /&gt;Twinkle, Twinkle little star.&lt;br /&gt;How I wonder what you are!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Download/listen to mp3  of &lt;a href="http://apl.lapsit.googlepages.com/twinkle.mp3"&gt;Twinkle Twinkle Little Star&lt;/a&gt;*)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FINGERPLAYS&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;MITTEN WEATHER&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Thumb in the thumb place (thumbs up with both hands)&lt;br /&gt;Fingers all together (hold fingers together like in mittens with thumbs out)&lt;br /&gt;That is the song&lt;br /&gt;We sing in winter weather&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RbD5KNW1DHI/AAAAAAAAABc/pvzT7Ac8gLs/s1600-h/snowman_clipart_4.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/RbD5KNW1DHI/AAAAAAAAABc/pvzT7Ac8gLs/s320/snowman_clipart_4.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5021787538297523314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FIVE LITTLE SNOWMEN&lt;br /&gt;Five Little Snowmen all in a row (hold up 5 fingers)&lt;br /&gt;Each with a hat (pat top of head)&lt;br /&gt;And a big red bow (pull at neck like making a bowtie)&lt;br /&gt;Out came the sun (arms form big circle over head)&lt;br /&gt;And it stayed out all day (lean to right)&lt;br /&gt;And all of the snowmen melted away (droop like melting)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;  &lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;*All recordings are created by the &lt;st1:city st="on"&gt;&lt;st1:place st="on"&gt;Allentown&lt;/st1:place&gt;&lt;/st1:city&gt; Public Library from source material believed to be in the public domain.  Our recordings may be downloaded, copied, modified, etc. according to Creative Commons licensing.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--Creative Commons License--&gt;&lt;a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/"&gt;&lt;img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width: 0pt;" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by/2.5/88x31.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This work is licensed under a &lt;a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/"&gt;Creative Commons Attribution 2.5  License&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"&gt;CLICK BELOW (WHERE IT SAYS THE NUMBER OF COMMENTS) TO LEAVE A COMMENT!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;!--/Creative Commons License--&gt;&lt;!-- &lt;rdf:rdf xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/" dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;work about=""&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;license resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;dc:type resource="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;/work&gt;&lt;br /&gt;    &lt;license about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/"&gt;&lt;permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"&gt;&lt;permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"&gt;&lt;requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"&gt;&lt;requires resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"&gt;&lt;permits resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/DerivativeWorks"&gt;&lt;/license&gt;&lt;/rdf:RDF&gt; --&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2604177374596942665-649643121810692384?l=lapsit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/649643121810692384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2604177374596942665&amp;postID=649643121810692384' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/649643121810692384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/649643121810692384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/2007/01/january-25.html' title='January 25'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KZe3zIyvesQ/Ra0hAtW1DEI/AAAAAAAAAAs/55G2mFI4Ep8/s72-c/bunnys+first+snowflake.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2604177374596942665.post-7448251648487127369</id><published>2007-01-03T14:02:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-01-03T14:10:40.171-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome!</title><content type='html'>If you are reading this, it is assumed that you are a parent of one of the little ones enrolled in &lt;a href="http://www.allentownpl.org"&gt;The Allentown Public Library&lt;/a&gt;'s Lapsit Storytime.   Welcome! &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today's post is pretty much just a test. Once the program starts (1/25/06), we will use this space to provide resources to accompany each week's program. You will find a list of the books read, the text to rhymes and fingerplays, and maybe even audio recordings of songs, stories, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For now, here's a link to the &lt;a href="http://www.allentownpl.org/winter%202007%20storytime%20flyer.pdf"&gt;flyer&lt;/a&gt; for the upcoming storytimes and a link to a page with a bunch of &lt;a href="http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/musicchild.htm"&gt;songs &lt;/a&gt;your little one may enjoy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2604177374596942665-7448251648487127369?l=lapsit.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/feeds/7448251648487127369/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=2604177374596942665&amp;postID=7448251648487127369' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/7448251648487127369'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/2604177374596942665/posts/default/7448251648487127369'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://lapsit.blogspot.com/2007/01/welcome.html' title='Welcome!'/><author><name>Allentown Public Library</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00630408052873491037</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
