Hello friends, welcome to Storytime with The Met. My name is Josefa, and I'm so glad to see all of you today
You can join us each week on Thursday at noon
To join us for a different story and activity each week
Now before we get started, let's sing our
Storytime song. Let's count to the number three. Are you ready?
And in case you don't know it goes to the tune of this old man. Are you ready?
1 2 3
Welcome
friends, get ready, get set, for
storytime with
The Met, where we love to read and sing and look, at works of art and
picture books. We'll use our eyes to look and see, we'll use our ears to hear stories
Now, let's take a seat and give a
Shhhh!
Let's begin with our first book! Round of applause, my friends. That was great!
So our book today is called
"Dreamers"
by
Yuyi Morales. Now, there are some words in here that are in Spanish. You can try to read the words in Spanish with me
"Dreamers" by Yuyi Morales.
I dreamed of you, then you appeared. Together we became
resplendent life, you and I. Are you ready to repeat after me?
Can you all say amor? Amor. Love.
Amor.
Look at all those beautiful pictures!
One day we bundled gifts in our backpack, and crossed a bridge
outstretched like the universe. Adiós Corazón- goodbye heart
And
When we made it to the other side,
thirsty in awe, unable to go back, we became immigrants
Migrantes, you and I
The sky and the land welcomed us in words unlike those of our ancestors.
There were so many things we didn't know.
Unable to understand and afraid to speak,
we made lots of mistakes.
Do you make some mistakes sometimes? I know I do!
You and I became caminantes- which means hikers or walking
Thousands and thousands of steps we took across this land, until the day we found...
a place we had never seen before.
Suspicious. Improbable
What is that place they're in? What do you see? I see lots and lots and lots of books
Unbelievable. Surprising.
Unimaginable.
Can you look at all the different things that you see on this page? Look at their imagination!
Where we didn't need to speak, we only needed to trust.
And we did!
Take a look! It looks like the librarian is giving them a library card. Do you have a library card?
Books became our language. Books became our home.
Books became our lives. We learned to read,
to speak, to write, and to make our voices heard.
Someday we will become something we haven't even yet imagined.
But
right now...
We are
stories. We are two languages. We are lucha. We are resilience. We are hope.
We are dreamers,
soñadores of the world.
We are
Love.
Can you all say amor?
Love
Love. Amor
The End
Great job listening everyone. I
love that story. And I love all of the beautiful illustrations as well.
Now, the story reminds me of an object from The Met collection. Can you all take a closer look with me?
What do you think this object is made out of?
What do you think is happening? I
see a mother and the mother's child.
Can you try to imitate the same pose as the mother and the child?
What do you think they're saying to each other?
Does it look like they love each other?
Take a closer look and let me know what you see and what things you're able to find
All
right, my friends. Well, before we say, goodbye
thinking about dreamers and dreaming-
Let's pretend it's really late at night and we are getting ready to go to bed
We might read a storytime with our family
And we might pretend that we're looking up at the ceiling. And let's pretend it's a beautiful night sky
Filled with lots and lots of stars and a big, big, round moon
Can you make a big round moon with your hands like this?
Alright, my friends let's sing a song about a star. Can you count to the number five with me?
Here we go! 1.. 2.. 3..
4.. 5..
Twinkle, twinkle
little
Star. How I wonder
what you are?
Up above the world so high!
Like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle
little star. How I wonder
what you are?
Round of applause, my friends! Well done.
Now, before we say goodbye, we do have a fun activity for you to do at home! You
can write a letter
or draw a picture to a family member or a friend
to let them know that you are thinking about them and that you miss them. You
can
ask your grown-up
for some stamps and
you can also ask them for an envelope like this!
You can let your family member or friend
know about the book you read today, or about all the pictures that you saw. Or about the art object as well
from our Met collection!
Alright, my friends well thank you so much for joining us. We hope to see you again next week for Storytime with The Met
Goodbye, my friends!