Hi, my friends! Welcome to Storytime with The Met.
I am so glad to see all of you! My name is Josefa
and I hope you can join us each week, each Thursday, at noon for a different
storytime and art activity. Now, let's all find a
cozy spot and let's get started! Let's sing our
welcome song, just like what we do at the museum.
For those of you that don't know, it goes the tune of "This
Old Man." On the count of three, let's sing the song together!
Are you ready? One... two... three... 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 "shhh!"
Let's begin with our first book. Round of applause, my friends! Well done!
You did a great job singing along. Now, for our book today
the title is "Where The Wild Things Are." Story and pictures by Maurice Sendak.
This is one of my favorite books! Now, I'm going to read the words and I'm going to
need your help looking at the pictures together.
The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind.
Can we all make a sound like a wolf? "Awooooo!"
And another!
Oh no! Does that look really nice? Looks like he's chasing his poor pet.
His mother called him "wild thing!"
And Max said, "I'll eat you up!" So he was sent to bed without eating
anything. Poor Max!
That very night in Max's room, a forest grew.
Whoa! Take a look!
Do you see a full moon through the window?
And grew!
Take a look at all of those different trees.
And grew until his ceiling hung with vines.
And the walls became the world around him.
And an ocean tumbled by with a private boat for Max. It even says
his name on the boat and he sailed off through the night and day.
And in and out of weeks and almost over a year,
to where the wild things are. Take a look at that sea creature! Whoa!
And when he came to the place where the wild things
are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed
their terrible teeth!
And rolled their terrible eyes and showed their
terrible claws! Can we all do that? Can you gnash your
terrible teeth? And can you roar? Make a big roar sound
like a monster!
Does max look scared? Doesn't look like it!
Till Max said "Be still!" and
tamed them with the magic trick of staring all into their yellow eyes
without blinking once. Can we all do that? Can we stare at the monsters?
Don't blink! Then they were frightened and called him "The most wild thing
of all!" Wow!
And made him king of all wild things "And now!"
cried, Max. "Let the wild rumpus start!"
Look at them! They're all dancing under the moon.
Can we all dance a little bit?
Max is even wearing a crown!
What are they doing now? Looks like they're swinging
off the trees. Looks like they're having a lot of fun together.
King Max! Looks like they're in a parade walking down.
"Now, stop!" Max said and sent the wild things off to bed
without their supper. And Max the king of all wild things
was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him
best of all. Then, all around, from far away across the
world, he smelled good things to eat.
So he gave up being king of where the wild things are.
But the wild things cried
"Oh, please don't go! We'll eat you up, we love you so!"
and Max said "No!" The wild things roared their terrible
roars and gnashed their terrible teeth, and rolled their
terrible eyes. And showed their terrible claws.
But Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye. Can we all wave
goodbye at the monsters? Goodbye, monsters!
And sailed back over a year, and in and out of weeks. And through
a day. Take a look at the ocean! What kind of sounds do you think Max is
hearing?
Take a look at the full moon too! What a long time to travel!
And into the night of his very own room, where he found his supper waiting for
him.
The king is tired and hungry! And it was still hot,
Round of applause, my friends! We did all a great job of listening.
Now, let's take a look at an art object from The Met collection.
This is a terra cotta model of a ship. Just like Max's ship! It looks like it is
ready for adventures. Take a closer look and see
what kind of details you can find! This was actually handmade
from a very, very, very, long time ago. What kind of adventures would you want
to go on in a ship or a boat? Take one closer look
and let me know what you are able to find.
All right, my friends! Well, before we say goodbye, we do have a fun
art activity that you can do at home! You will need a
paper plate like this! Or if you don't have a paper plate, paper
works as well. And you can fold it over like this.
And grab some crayons or colored pencils, some scissors, make sure you ask your
grown-ups and some glue. And you are going to make your
very own paper plate monster!
I made one just like the one where Max played with
and it even opens up like this! You can glue on some sharp, sharp teeth
and make some big yellow terrible eyes! Just like the monsters that we saw.
All right, my friends! Well, it was so much fun having you all here today.
Thank you so much for joining us! Goodbye, my friends!