Finding time for circle time

[Momof4]

Sunnydays, I'm doing exactly what you are doing. I start singing or reading a story or pull out the puppets when I have time or when I get a request and if the children sit and participate I keep going with a few more but if they aren't in the mood to pay attention then I let them go play and try again later.

I've never had the kind of kids in care who will sit for 45 minutes. I don't know where you find those kids. But when we go to the library storytime the librarian runs 1/2 hour and she reads a book then sings a song the reads a book and so on and it works pretty well for her now that my two uner 2's are getting a little older so maybe I'll have more success after the new year.

I tend to sing songs and read stories while the children are eating lunch so I have a captive audience, ha!