Purple Day Podcasst #34: Grandpa Ivy's May Day Surprise
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About this Episode
This podcast episode includes a winter-themed circle time with songs, poems, and fingerplays, followed by a gentle, nature-based story.
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In this episode of Purple Day, we will learn springtime songs and poems and then hear a story about a very windy day. 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.
About the Story: Grandpa Ivy's May Day Surprise
Every year on the first day of May, Grandpa Ivy wakes up early and delivers baskets of flowers–May Baskets–to his neighbors and friends in Riverbend. This is how he continues the May Day celebration he loved as a child.

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