![]() ![]() So I picked up the picture from the stool on my right, slowly panned it from left to right, then slowly went back right to left, and picked up the next one. And even though "holding up a picture" sounds simple, Terri pointed out that there should be rhythm and sameness to the appearance of each picture. ![]() I thought about putting the images on sticks to make them easier to handle, but just using two hands worked fine. So doing 4 per section means that I held each one up for about 4 or 5 seconds. Also, the toddlers really need more time to absorb what they're seeing. With the slide show, we used more illustrations, switching them faster, because clicking for a new slide is seamless. The song divides neatly into 6 sections, and I picked 4 illustrations for each section, grouping them into similar themes for each section: Faces, Animals, People, Vehicles, More Animals, and Faces again to end. I'd also be glad to list the photos I used, but it's also fun to just pick out your favorites. It made sense to me anyway, and did help my planning some, so if anyone wants to try the story and would like the line by line, let me know and I can send it. I don't know anything about music, so my transcription was just a line by line list of sounds, using a "d" for some reason: I actually did go to the trouble of "transcribing" the music, so I could organize the images neatly. The music adds a lot to the experience, and I'm sure there are other tunes that would also work. It also has a strong pattern, so you get very strong end-of-line cues on where to do your page turns. It's an instrumental that has just the right bit of playfulness. In our slide show, we utilized three pieces of music, but for Toddlers I stuck with one: Marvin Hamlisch's recording of Scott Joplin's "The Entertainer" (aka the Theme from The Sting). For our earlier presentation, we selected images from a variety of books, but this time I stuck to just one book, Food Play, which actually consists of pictures from several of the other titles, kind of like a "Greatest Hits" collection. So I decided to enlarge and print out individual pictures, cropping where needed, and show one piece of funny food at a time. Which is great for a book, but in a group presentation you want to be able to focus on one photo at a time. That didn't work too well, though, because most of the pages have at least two separate images. So my first thought was to play the music and use the book, just doing page turns. Also, our Toddler Time crowd is small enough (20-25 kids, but they're little) to see pictures pretty well. Although I've really enjoyed our creative uses of the screen with stories for older kids, we're not going there with 1's and 2's. I decided to give it a try in Toddler Time, but there's just one thing: we never, ever do anything in Toddler Time that puts the pages of a book on the screen. Later, we used an adapted version of that in Family Storytime. We've used them more than once for our "Food in Fact and Fiction" K-2 Book Adventures program, putting scanned photos into a slide show that we ran with musical accompaniment. They're really amazingly creative and kids love to look at them. Saxton Freymann & Joost Elfers have done a bunch of books with photographs of fruits and vegetables put together to look like people, animals, and other stuff. Props: Selected images from the books, scanned, printed, and laminated Book: Food Play by Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers
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