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 Pocket Storytime
Books:
Barrett, Judi.
Peter's pocket. Illustrated by Julia Noonan.
New York, Atheneum, 1974.
None of Peter's outfits have enough pockets for all of the treasures that Peter
collects, so his mother designs portable pockets that can be pinned where ever
he needs them.
Braybrooks, Ann.
Plenty of pockets. Illustrated by Scott Menchin.
San Diego : Harcourt, c2000.
Henry tries to solve the problem of his family's messy, crowded house by making lots of pockets and putting everything away in them, but the solution is not a permanent one.
Carter, David A.
What's in my pocket? A pop-up & peek-in book.
New York : Putnam, 1989.
Rabbit, Mouse, and other animals reveal what kinds of food they are carrying in their pockets. Movable flaps conceal the contents of the pockets.
Cazet, Denys.
A fish in his pocket.
New York : Orchard Books, c1987.
All through school Russell the bear is worried about the little orange fish in his pocket, until he figures out how to return it to its pond.
Curtis, Matt.
Six empty pockets. Illustrated by Mary Newell DePalma.
Children's Press, c1997.
Charles's six empty pockets come in handy for carrying such treasures as a blue star marble, an old crow's feather, and seven striped stones.
Freeman, Don.
A pocket for Corduroy: story and pictures
New York : Viking Press, 1978.
When Corduroy accompanies Lisa and her mother to the laundromat, he sets out in
search of a pocket in which to keep a card with his name on it.
Garton, Elizabeth.
A sock is a pocket for your toes: a pocket book
Harper Collins, 2004.
A poetic celebration of non-traditional pockets and what they hold, pointing out that a sock is a pocket for your toes and a vase is a pocket for a rose.
Marshall, Janet Perry.
Ohmygosh, my pocket.
Honesdale, Pa.: Bell Books, Boyd Mills Press; New York: Distributed by St. Martin's Press, 1992.
While waiting for the bus, a young boy decides what to put in his pocket to take
to school.
Payne, Emmy
Katy no-pocket. Pictures by H. A. Rey.
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1944.
Desolate Katy Kangaroo has no pocket in which to carry her son Freddy, so she asks all the other animals how they carry their children and finally goes to the city to find a pocket of her own.
Ravilious, Robin
Two in a pocket.
Boston : Little, Brown, c1991.
When both a wren and a dormouse want to make a home in the pocket of an old tattered coat that a farmer has left in his shed, something has to give.
Rice, Eve.
Peter's pockets. Illustrations by Nancy Winslow Parker.
New York : Greenwillow Books, c1989.
When Peter and his Uncle Nick go on an outing, they discover that Peter's brand
new pants have no pockets in which to put the wonderful things he finds.
Poetry:
What did you put in your Pocket?
By Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
Use two puppets to tell this one. Have children put all the food into their (imaginary) pockets! Ham it up, and shorten if necessary.
What did you put in your pocket
What did you put in your pocket
in your pockety pockety pocket
Early Monday morning?
I put in some chocolate pudding
I put in some chocolate pudding
slushy glushy pudding
Early Monday morning.
Refrain: Slushy ghlushy pudding!
What did you put in your pocket
What did you put in your pocket
in your pockety pockety pocket
Early Tuesday morning?
I put in some ice-cold water
I put in some ice-cold water
nicy icy water
Early Tuesday morning
Refrain: Slushy ghlushy pudding!
Nicy Icy Water!
What did you put in your pocket
What did you put in your pocket
in your pockety pockety pocket
Early Wednesday morning?
I put in a scoop of ice cream
I put in a scoop of ice cream
slurpy glurpy ice cream
Early Wednesday morning.
Refrain: Slushy ghlushy pudding!
Nicy icy water!
Slurpy glurpy ice cream!
What did you put in your pocket
What did you put in your pocket
in your pockety pockety pocket
Early Thursday morning?
I put in some mashed potatoes
I put in some mashed potatoes
fluppy gluppy potatoes
Early Thursday morning.
Refrain: Slushy ghlushy pudding!
Nicy icy water!
Slurpy glurpy ice cream!
Fluppy gluppy potatoes!
What did you put in your pocket
What did you put in your pocket
in your pockety pockety pocket
Early Friday morning?
I put in some sticky treacle
I put in some sticky treacle
sticky, icky treacle
Early Friday morning.
Refrain: Slushy glushy pudding!
Nicy icy water!
Slurpy glurpy ice cream!
Fluppy gluppy potatoes!
Sticky icky treacle!
What did you put in your pocket
What did you put in your pocket
in your pockety pockety pocket
Early Saturday morning?
I put in my five fingers
I put in my five fingers
funny finny fingers
Early Saturday morning.
Refrain: Slushy ghlushy pudding!
Nicy icy water!
Slurpy glurpy ice cream!
Fluppy gluppy potatoes!
Sticky icky treacle!
Funny finny fingers!
What did you put in your pocket
What did you put in your pocket
in your pockety pockety pocket
Early Sunday morning?
I put in a clean white handkerchief
I put in a clean white handkerchief
a spinky spanky handkerchief
Early Sunday morning.
Refrain: Slushy ghlushy pudding!
Nicy icy water!
Slurpy glurpy ice cream!
Fluppy gluppy potatoes!
Sticky icky treacle!
Funny finny fingers!
Spinky spanky handkerchief!
Pockets, Pockets, Pockets
Gather the objects mentioned in this poem, and bring them out one by one
as you recite the poem.
Pockets for rocks
And pieces of string
Pockets for buttons
And round whirly things.
Pockets for papers
And tiny toy cars
Pockets for stickers
Three small shiny stars
Pockets for pennies
And marbles for shaking
Pockets for feathers
And fuzzy nest making
Pockets for hands
To hide from the cold
Pushing and poking
Now pockets with holes
Holes growing bigger
And if we don't sew
Tell me please
Where will these
Pocket things go?
 Flannelboard:
Thelma's Thank you. Pattern
and story can be found in:
Cooking up a story : creative ideas using original stories
and props with cooking activities for young children by Carol Elaine Catron and
Barbara Catron Parks; story illustrations by Jane Shasky, based on original work
of Martha Boone.
Minneapolis, Minn.: T.S. Denison & Co., c1986.
 Fingerplays:
The Brown Kangaroo
| The brown kangaroo is very funny |
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| She leaps and runs and hops like a bunny |
Hop |
| And on her stomach is a pocket so wide |
Put hand on stomach like a pocket |
| Her baby can jump in and go for a ride |
Have other hand jump into pocket |
In My Pockets
by Sue Schliecker (from 1001 Rhymes & Fingerplays, Warren Publishing House, Inc 1994)
| The things in my pockets are lots of fun |
Hold up five fingers |
| I will show you one by one |
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| In my first pocket is a frog |
Point to thumb |
| I found him sitting on a log. |
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| In my second pocket is a car |
Point to index finger |
| It can race off very far |
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| In my third pocket is a ball |
Point to middle finger |
| I can bounce it on a wall |
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| In my fourth pocket is a bunny, |
Point to ring finger |
| She twitches her nose and looks so funny |
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| In my fifth pocket is a dog |
Touch pinky to thumb |
| He's a friend of my little frog. |
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Craft:
Have children color a picture of Corduroy in his overalls, and then glue on a purple pocket. Give each child a small slip of paper with
Corduroy's or the child's name to put into the pocket.
Give each child a portable pocket based on the the book Peter's Pocket.
Rubber Stamp: The Corduroy stamp from Kidstamps
Nametag: A pocket, of course!
This page was updated on June 15, 2004
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