Hi friends! Welcome to Storytime with The Met.
My name is Chloe and I'm so excited to be here again with you today.
We hope you'll join us every Thursday for a new Storytime
song and activity. Now let's get started by singing our Storytime
song all together. Find a nice and cozy spot-
I'm sitting on a couch but you can sit on a chair or on your bed
or on the floor, wherever you feel most comfortable!
Our Storytime song goes nice and slow to the tune of "This
Old Man" and we'll get started on the count of
five. Can you hold up five fingers for me? Okay, let's count together- one, two,
three, four, five. 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 we'll take a seat and give a shhh!
Let's begin with our first book! Yay! Round of applause, friends! You did an
excellent job singing our song together. Today's book is special because not only
is it a story but it's a song that we can sing and move along to.
Our book today is Pete the Cat: The Wheels on the Bus by James Dean
What kind of animal is driving our bus? A cat!
And what sound does the cat make ?Meow, meow!
Okay, let's drive our bus with Pete. You'll see when I'm driving the bus that I
might do some motions that you can do along with me.
Pete the Cat: The Wheels on the Bus. Let's sing together.
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round. The
wheels on the bus go round and round all day long.
The horn on the bus goes beep beep beep, beep beep beep, beep beep beep.
The horn on the bus goes beep beep beep all day
long. Can you beep your own horn? Beep beep!
Oh it looks like it's raining! The wipers on the bus go swish swish
swish, swish swish swish, swish swish swish.
The wipers on the bus go swish swish swish.
All day long! This one we can do two different ways-
are you ready? The signals on the bus go blink blink
blink, blink blink blink, blink blink blink.
The signals on the bus go blink blink blink
all day long.
The motor on the bus goes zoom zoom zoom, zoom zoom zoom, zoom zoom zoom. The
motor on the bus goes zoom zoom zoom all day long.
The door on the bus goes open and shut, open and shut,
open and shut. The door on the bus goes open and shut
all day long.
The kitties on the bus say, "come on, Pete! Come on, Pete!
Come on, Pete!" The kitties on the bus say, "Come on, Pete!" all day long.
Can we help count how many kitties there are on the bus?
One, two, three! Three kitties! Can you hold three fingers?
Great job!
The driver on the bus says, "move on back! Move on back! Move on back!"
The driver on the bus says, "move on back!" all day long.
Oh look! Now there are one, two, three, four kitties on the bus.
We're getting pretty crowded
Pete's friends on the bus say, "sit with us! Sit with us! Sit
with us!" Pete's friends on the bus say, "Sit
with us!" all day long. Do you see who our new bus member
is? It's a puppy!
The back of the bus bumps up and down, up and down, up and down. The
back of the bus bumps up and down all day long.
The kitties on the bus go, "Pete the Cat! Pete the Cat! Pete the Cat!"
The kitties on the bus go, "Pete the Cat!" all day long.
Okay, let's count how many passengers are on our bus now.
We have one dog, two kitty, three kitty, four kitty, five kitty, six
kitties and one puppy! Five kitties, one puppy,
six passengers.
The dog on the bus goes woof, woof, woof! Woof, woof, woof! Woof, woof, woof!
The dog on the bus goes woof, woof, woof all day long.
The cats on the bus shout, "let's rock out! Let's rock out! Let's rock out!" The cats
on the bus say, "let's rock out!" all day long.
and you see Pete the Cat, our trusty driver,
with a guitar rocking out and who's driving the bus now?
It's our dog friend.
The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round, round and round. The
wheels on the bus go round and round all day long.
All day long! All day long!
Thank you so much for reading that story with me. Give yourselves a
big round of applause for that. You did an excellent job moving and
singing along to this book. When I was reading this book I thought
about this painting from The Met's collection
collection by Joseph Schen that shows old Third Avenue New York so if
you're in New York City, you can go see it between 65th and 66th street on Third
Avenue. And this shows a giant station where you can
see lots of different forms of transportation.
Pete and his friends took a bus but everybody uses different forms of
transportation. In this painting you can see a hot air
balloon, which you might use to get somewhere or
just for fun, and a street car and a train and even
people riding horses. How do you get around?
I take the subway and I also like to walk,
but if I was in this painting I would love to ride a horse.
Which one would you like to do most? great answer! Before we leave each other
I have a quick activity that you and your grown-up can do
all together making your own form of transportation
for you and your toys. So I took- you'll need an
empty tissue box- this is my empty tissue box-
you'll need paint or paper- something to collage with-
a pencil and maybe a magazine that you can cut
images out of. So what we're going to do is make whatever form of transportation
you use to get around. You can make a bus or a car
or even a hot air balloon! But I made a subway car because that's the type of
transportation that I use. So using an empty tissue box, I drew on
my tissue box little squares where windows and doors might be
and then I painted on my tissue box to look like
a subway car. I cut out images from a magazine
and then I made myself a little driver and passengers
and I even put a little peacock in the windows.
And so this is my at-home subway car and the hole in the top where tissues go
is a perfect place for you to put a stuffed animal friend
so that they can ride on your subway or bus or car or balloon
too! So next time you sing the wheels on the bus
you can add another verse about your own little vehicle. So if i were singing
wheels on the bus and Iwanted to add a part of the song about my subway
I would say the doors on the bus go ding ding ding, ding ding ding,
ding ding ding. The doors on the train go ding ding ding all day long!
And that's what I'd add but you can change up the words however you want
I hope that you've enjoyed this story time and spending this time with me. I
know that I've enjoyed seeing you so much! So until next time!
I'll see you soon have a great week and we'll see you next Thursday at noon.
Bye friends! Bye!