During the month of April, I’ll be participating in the Blogging From A to Z Challenge. My theme for the month is Storytime Plans From A to Z. Each plan will have eight stories as well as four songs, fingerplays or rhymes to match the theme! As you can see, I’ll try and attribute where I found all of this fun (and often you can find it in multiple places). My goal is to make storytime planning a little easier on myself in the future and to make storytime planning for other librarians easy as well! Book List: Not a Box by Antoinette Portis Can You Make a Scary Face? by Jan Thomas It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw Harold and the Purple Crayon by Crockett Johnson Faster! Faster! by Leslie Patricelli That’s How! by Christoph Niemann Isabella: Girl on the Go by Jennifer Fosberry The Most Magnificent Thing by Ashley Spires Songs & Rhymes: “The Pirate Song” When I was one, I banged my drum. The day I went to sea. I jumped aboard a pirate ship, And the captain said to me. We’re going, this way, that way, Forwards and backwards, Over the Irish Sea. A bottle of rum, to warm my tum, And that’s the life for me. (When I was two, I buckled my shoe / When I was three, I banged my knee / When I was four, I knocked on the door / When I was five, I learned to dive) (I changed “rum” to “milk” when I did this one, haha.) “Zoom Zoom Zoom” Zoom, zoom, zoom We’re going to the moon. Zoom, zoom, zoom We’re going to the moon. If you want to take a trip climb aboard my rocket ship. Zoom, zoom, zoom We’re going to the moon. In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Blast off! “Jeremy Draws a Monster” *flannel board story “Touch Your Nose” Touch your nose Touch your chin That’s the way this game begins Touch your eyes Touch your knees Now pretend you’re going to sneeze! Aaachooooo! Touch your hair Touch one ear Touch your two red lips right here Touch your elbow where it ends And that’s the way this touch game ends.