Purple Day Podcast #32: Mushroom in the Rain

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Spring Circle Time Highlights

This episode includes songs, poems, and fingerplays about windy weather, falling rain, and blooming seeds.

This simple fingerplay is great for counting practice. I include it in my spring and summer circles each year.

Here is a beehive, unknown

Here is a beehive, but where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees.
Watch, and you’ll see them come out of the hive.
One, two, three, four, five.

Here is a beehive, but where are the bees?
Hidden away where nobody sees.
Watch, and you’ll see them come out again.
Six, seven, eight, nine, ten.

The Full Story

A honeybee shelters from the rain under a wee mushroom, and it grows a little bigger with every creature who arrives. Read the full story, hear the audio, and find every way to enjoy it on the Mushroom in the Rain story page.

About Purple Day 

Our Purple Day Podcast is the audio from Storytime’s Monday episodes. Storytime in the Schoolhouse® is designed for the screen, and some elements will transfer better to audio-only than others. 

In this week's episode of Purple Day, we will sing springtime songs and then hear a story about creatures who take shelter under a mushroom during a rainstorm. This Storytime episode will teach you and your child seasonal songs, poems, fingerplays, and a nature-based story.

Enjoy Storytime with your child and deepen your connection to each other and the world around you.

Explore all the episodes of Purple Day in our Purple Day Online Library.

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