Grandparents Day

Grandparents Day is celebrated on September 8th this year.  Make sure you remember to tell all the grandparents and adopted grandparents in you and your children's lives just how grand they are each and every day!

Opening Song: The More We Get Together
*We sing and clap to our opening song.  All Stillwater Public Library story times start with this song and the children learn that song means story time is starting.

The more we get together
Together, together
The more we get together
The happier we'll be
Cause your friends are my friends
And my friends are your friends
The more we get together
The happier we'll be.

Book: Piglet & Granny by Margaret Wild

Fingerplay: Grandpa & Grandma's Spectacles

Here are Grandpa's Spectacles (make circle with thumbs and index fingers and hold over eyes)
And here is Grandpa's Hat (join hands at finger tips and place on head)
And here's the way he folds his arms (fold arms)
And takes a little nap (snore)

Here are Grandma's Spectacles (make circle with thumbs and index fingers and hold over eyes)
And here is Grandma's Hat (make triangle by putting two hands fingertips touching over head)
And here's the way she folds her hands
And puts them in her lap (fold hands and put in lap)

Book: The Napping House by Audrey Wood

Poem: The World's Greatest Grandparents
This is the perfect time to say
that I'm so glad to have
grandparents like you.
When I'm near you
I can feel your love,
when I'm away from you
I miss you very much.
Surely you must be
the greatest grandparents
in the whole wide world.
I love you so very much!
http://freepoemsonline.net/poems-htm/grandparents6.htm

Book: The Giant Hug by Sandra Horning
  
Craft: The children made cards with extra longs arms to give a long distance hug.

Beyond Storytime: How many ways can you tell grandparents that you love them? I can think of sending cards through snail mail, telephoning, sending emails, Skype, and visiting. What can you add to the list?
Super cute printable:  http://www.papercoterie.com/blog/grandparents-are-awesome/

Other books to checkout:
Hooray For Grandparents' Day! by Nancy Carlson
Grandparents Song by Sheila Hamanaka
Silas' Seven Grandparents by Anita Horrocks and Helen Flook