My Unintentional Hiatus (with Bonus Crowdsourced Train Song)

Yikes, that was a long gap in posts! I had thought I would have a little breathing room between “end of the winter quarter” and “end of school year mayhem,” but April went by in a hurry over here. I’m really hoping to get back on track for May. In the meantime, here’s a fun thing that happened on Twitter on Monday.

I had learned a new-to-me storytime song last week during a webinar from Cen at @LittleeLit: “This Train Is Going to the City.” You can listen to a version here. There is nothing like learning a new song to put me in a good mood! And of course once I heard it I immediately started to dream up new verses. When I shared a couple of them on Twitter, Amy and Lauren and Kary joined in. We came up with so many verses that I couldn’t resist reporting out.

Here’s the first verse:

This train is going to the city, this train
This train is going to the city, this train
This train is going to the city,
Where the lights are oh so pretty
This train is going to the city, this train

Here’s what we came up with. Thanks @choosejoytoday @laurengsnell @MissKaryReads! And thanks @billyhank for the otters.

This train is going to the jungle / where the monkeys jump and tumble

This train is going to the mountains / where waterfalls all splash like fountains

This train is going to the library / come gather round and listen to the story

This train is going to the forest / where birdies chirp and sing in chorus

This train is going to the shore / where the sleepy walrus snores

This train is going to the river / where the otters shake and shiver

This train is going to the zoo / where flamingoes are pink and the sky is blue

What verses can you add?