Farm Storytime

 

 This week our letter is "T" for tractor and farms.

Book:  Do Cows Meow?

Book: Pete the Cat Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Book: Barnyard Banter

Book : Tractors on the Go!

Book: I Spy on the Farm

Fingerplays:

All the pigs are rolling around,
Rolling around, rolling around.
All the pigs are rolling around,
All through the farm.
Continue:
Spinning around.
Jumping around.

Preschool Craft:

Two's Craft:

Autumn Storytime

 This week our letter is "S" for squirrels and autumn.

Book: Fall Is Not Easy

Book: We're Going on a Leaf Hunt

*For this book I have leaves cut out and I give them to my volunteer who is behind the flannlboard.   When we get to the part of the book where we find a leaf, I have my volunteer use a puppet and hand the leaf to me.  The kids go crazy!

Book: Sneeze, Big Bear, Sneeze!

Book: Baby Loves Fall

Book: Great Aaa-Ooo!

Book: Hungry Bunny

Fingerplay:
Big bear, big bear, turn around
Big bear, big bear, touch the ground
Big bear, big bear, clap your hands 
Big bear, big bear touch your knees.
Big bear, big bear, turn around 
Big bear, big bear stomp your feet.   
Big bear, big bear, show your claws,
Big bear, big bear, growl real LOUD!
Big bear, big bear, jump up and down.
Turn around and sit back down.

Preschool craft:

Two's craft:

Wheels Storytime

 

This week our letter is "R" for roads.

Book: Dalmation in a Digger

Book: Seals on the Bus

Book: Pete the Cat Wheels on the Bus

Book: Animals Go Vroom

Fingerplay/Flannel:

Three cars so squeaky clean,
Shiniest you've ever seen,
Wanted to go out for a drive.
BEEP BEEP!
One drove into the mud.
Spun out with a great big THUD!
Now there's only 2 clean and shiny cars...
Repeat: 2, 1... now there's no clean or shiny cars!

Preschool Craft:

Two's Craft:

New Books 2026

 

I am always on the lookout for a guessing book 

to read at storytime.  

This book is perfect!  

Counting Storytime

 

This week our letter is "O" for one and counting.

Below are the books I read (for all three storytimes-preschool, two's, lapsit), fingerplays and crafts we made.

Book: How to Count to 1

Book: Counting to Bananas

Book: How Many Squirrels Are in the World?

Book: Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons

*Had to throw in a picture of me dressed up like Pete the Cat.

*I like to have paper buttons "rain" down on the kids like confetti as I read this book.  They go crazy anytime I do this with them!

Book: Hen in the Bed

Book: Everybunny Count

Book: Bear Counts

Preschool Craft:

Two's Craft:

Letter "N" Storytime

 This week our letter is "N" for nests and night.

Below are the books I read (for all three storytimes-preschool, two's, lapsit), fingerplays and crafts we made.

Book: Apples and Robins

Book: Monsters Go Night-Night

Board Book: Night Prints

Book: Don't You Know It's Bedtime?

Book: Whooo Is Still Awake?

Preschool Crafts:

Two's Craft:

Moon Storytime

This week our letter is "M" for moon.

Below are the books I read (for all three storytimes-preschool, two's, lapsit), fingerplays and crafts we made.

Book: Mixed-Up Truck

Book: Hickory Dickory Dock 

Book: Little Mouse and the Big Cupcake

This is the top of my cupcake I made for the flannelboard.  As I'm reading the story, I take down a piece of the cupcake. The parents and kids went wild over this!  I hide my mouse behind the cupcake liner and show reveal the mouse at the end of the book.

Preschool Craft:

Two's Craft:

Lion Storytime

This week our letter is "L" for lion.

Below are the books I read (for all three storytimes-preschool, two's, lapsit), fingerplays and crafts we made.

Book: Do Crocs Kiss?

Book: We're Going on a Lion Hunt

Book: Watch Out for the Lion!

Fingerplay: 5 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

Fingerplay: 

The lions in the jungle go roar, roar, roar.

Roar, roar, roar.  Roar, roar, roar.

The lions in the jungle go roar, roar, roar.

All through the day.
Continue:

Alligators go snap, snap, snap.

Birds go flap, flap, flap.

Preschool Craft:

Two's Craft: