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Super Powers Storytime Week!

It’s Library Card Sign-up Month and we’re celebrating the super power of a library card by celebrating a Super Power Storytime Theme this week! So grab your library card, or get signed up for one today because we have some super great books to suggest and plenty of great activities to power your reading week.

Type in the tag: #iamsuper into the catalog search bar where you’ll find books such as SuperHero ABC by Bob MacLeod, Batman’s Dark Secret by Kelley Puckett, and I Am Wonder Woman by Erin Stein. With your library card number and 4 digit pin you can up any of these books on hold to pick up at your preferred library branch. 

Super Powers Graphic

During the week we’ll have some online programs you can catch as well, many with our Super Power theme, so be sure to check our library calendar. 

Because playing and singing helps build early literacy skills as well, here are some wonderful super powered theme fingerplays and songs we hope will inspire some playful fun as you celebrate super powers this week! 

Five Brave Superheroes Fingerplay 
Five brave superheroes (hold up five fingers)
Ready to save the day. (hands on hips in ‘superhero stance’)
One flies off to chase a villain, (“fly” one finger behind back)
Up, up and away! (stretch arms up into the air, i.e. ‘flying pose’) Count down from 4, 3, 2…
One brave superhero
Ready to save the day.
She flies off to chase a villain
Up, up and away!
Hooray for superheroes! (clap hands, shout hooray!)

Two Little Superheroes
Two little superheroes, (hold up 2 fingers)
Brave and true.
One wears yellow,
And the other wears blue.
Fly away yellow zip! (one hand behind back) 
Fly away blue, zap! (other hand behind back)
Come back yellow. whoosh! (bring first hand out)
Come back blue. zoom! (bring other hand out)

Two little supervillains grumpy and mean, 
One wears orange, and the other wears green.
Fly away orange - zip!
Fly away green - zap!
Come back orange - whoosh!
Come back green - zoom! 
 
Two more superheroes come to defend!
One wears purple, and the other wears red.
Fly away purple - zip!
Fly away red - zap!
Come back purple - whoosh!
Come back red - zoom!

The Superhero
The Superhero’s arms flex and lift,
Flex and lift, flex and lift,
The superhero’s arms flex and lift, all around the town.
The Superhero’s eyes go zap, zap, zap…
The Superhero’s legs run very fast…
The Superhero jumps up super high…
The Superhero flies zoom zoom zoom…
The person in trouble yells help help help!….
The Superhero goes to save the day!….

Superhero, Superhero!
Superhero, superhero turn around
Superhero, superhero touch the ground
Superhero, superhero put on your suit
Superhero, Superhero put on your boots.
Superhero, Superhero, jump up high
Superhero, Superhero, fly, fly, fly
Superhero, Superhero, turn around.
Superhero, Superhero, please sit down.
 

If You’re a Superhero and You Know It
If you’re Superman and you know it, fly through the sky
If you’re Superman and you know it, fly through the sky
If you’re Superman and you know it, than your pose will surely show it
If you’re Superman and you know it, fly through the sky
If you’re Spiderman and you know it, jump up high…..
If you’re the Flash and you know it, run super-fast…..
If you’re Catwoman and you know, climb a building…..
If you’re Aquaman and you know it, swim through the ocean…..