Animal Shenanigans

Animal Shenanigans Synopsis

Featuring our four-legged, no-legged, winged, scaled, and feathered friends, this new series of story program lesson plans from bestselling author Reid will help librarians and teachers unleash kids' curiosity and learning. Using a combination of high-quality picture books, fingerplays, movement activities, songs, and games, these ready-to-use, mix-and-match lesson plans focus on universal themes such as family, friendship, and school-but with animal protagonists. Useful for both school and public libraries, for teaching as well as collection development, Reid's book

• Includes two dozen complete 30-minute story programs for preschoolers that can also be adapted for K-2 children
• Offers 70 new "in-between" activities such as fingerplays and movement activities, songs and musical activities, chants, creative dramatics, imagination exercises, and more
• Provides alternate book lists at the end of each story plan so readers can further customize their own storytimes
• Gives tips on how to energize presentations and encourage audience participation

Using Reid's sure-fire story programs, kids and grownups alike will have a howling, barking, clucking, roaring good time.