Liberty Public Library: The Circus is Here

1. At Home Project:
Tearing Tickets
Liberty Public
Library
Story Time
Welcome to the
Circus!
Welcome Song:
Are you listening?
Are you listening?
Yes I am! Yes I am!
Now it’s time for Story Time,
Now it’s time for Story Time,
Yes it is! Yes it is!
Tips for Parents: Any activity which requires
finger strength and wrist agility is helpful to
strengthening your child’s fine motor skills.
Big Top Ballads
What You Will Need:
1. Tickets or mock tickets
2. Coffee can, empty and decorated
3. Scissors
Step 1: Take an empty coffee can and pierce
a ticket sized hole in the lid.
Step 2: Tape the can together and decorate it
with your child.
Step 3: Have your child tear and separate
tickets and place it into the can hole.
Step 4: Pretend to be hosting the circus and
get the whole family involved!
Did You Ever See A Clown
Sung to: "Did You Ever See A Lassie?"
Did you ever see a clown,
A clown, a clown?
Did you ever see a clown
Move this way and that?
Did you ever see a clown
Move this way and that?
Move this way and that way,
Move this way and that way.
Did you ever see a clown
Move this way and that?
(Have child form circle. One
child in middle should perform
actions. Take turns.)

2. Tips for Parents:
ECRR (Every Child Ready to Read)
incorporates simple practices, based on
research, to help parents and other
caregivers develop early literacy skills in
children from birth to age five.
Book RecommendationsBlock Play!
Skippyjon Jones Cirque de Ole
By Judy Schachner
“Skippyjon Jones was a real High-Wire
Henry. And that made his mama worried
as a worm in a wading pool.”
Miss Bindergarten Plans a
Circus with Kindergarten
By Joseph Slate
“A circus in Miss Bindergarten’s class-
room? You bet! But it’s not chaos—it’s
well planned by this most beloved of
kindergarten teachers and her classroom.”
Stand Straight Ella Kate: The
True Story of a Real Giant
By Kate Klise & M. Sarah Klise
“It’s not always easy to stand straight
and proud when other people are mean.
But this true story of a real giant shows
how being different can bring wonderful
surprises.”
Created By Samantha Colwell, 2016, Liberty Public Library
The Importance of Block Play:
In a research study, “Block Play
Performance among Preschool-
ers as a Predictor of Later School
Achievement in Mathematics”,
published in the Journal of
Research in Early Childhood
Education, the researchers
proved that children who play
with blocks when they are three,
four and fives years of age will do
better in math,
especially Algebra in middle
school.
Things children learn
from block play:
1. Creativity
2. Problem Solving
3. Mathematics
4. Imagination
5. Self-expression