Bedtime Storytime

 

Nighty-Nite!  This week our books are about bedtime.

Book: Good Night Owl

Book: The Digger and the Dark

Book: Little Blue Truck Lost and Found

*I love this book because the kids have to hunt for toad all through the book.  I really love visiting the publishers website for some wonderful printables as well.

Book: Bear's Nap

*The kids adored this book and I do too!  The illustrations are wonderful and I how you get to make all the noises of animals in the forest as you read.  Question, can you guess who is making the noise "Cheep"?

Book: Pete the Cat and the Bedtime Blues

Book: Nighty Night, Little Green Monster

Book: Quietly...Quietly...Quack!

Book: When the Sun Goes Down by Pizzoli

Fingerplay:

We wiggle and we wiggle and we stop.
We wiggle and we wiggle and we stop.
We wiggle and we wiggle,
We wiggle and we wiggle,
We wiggle and we wiggle and we stop.

What else can we do?

Song: Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

Preschool Craft:

Two's Craft:

Dinosaur Storytime

To celebrate Dinovember at storytime, we listened and acted like dinosaurs!

Book: 1,2,3 Do the Dinosaur!

Book: I'm Big!

Book: Dinosaur Day

Book: Shape by Shape

Book: Dizzy the Dinosaur

Book: Crunch the Shy Dinosaur

Book: There's a Dinosaur In Your Book

Board Book: Peekaboo Dinosaur

Board Book: Ten Dinosaur Eggs

Fingerplay:

(tune: “The Wheels on the Bus”)
The dinosaurs went, “Roar, roar, roar!”
“Roar, roar, roar!”
“Roar, roar, roar!”
The dinosaurs went, “Roar, roar, roar!”
All around the swamp.

Repeat with the following verses:
The dinosaurs wings went flap, flap, flap.

The dinosaurs teeth went chomp, chomp, chomp.

The dinosaurs feet went stomp, stomp, stomp.

Hiding Game:

This week we hunted for a dinosaur behind the dinosaur eggs.

Videos:

Little Dino Dinosaur (Noodle and Pals on Youtube)

We're Going on a Dinosaur Hunt (Kiboomers on Youtube)

Preschool Craft:

Two's Craft:

Happy Halloween!

 I just wanted to wish everyone a 

spook-tactular Halloween!

Pumpkin Party

 

It is that time of year, pumpkin party time!  I usually hold this party annually and this year we were fortunate enough to hold this at an outdoor barn of a mansion.  We did not have the attendance I wanted, but we still had fun!  Including a pic of me below dressed up as Cleopatra.

Food:

Crafts:

*I do not lay claim to this amazing template, I was able to download it and print out what I needed.  I did change it up by adding the hat and broom as extras.

Games and Activities:

*Pattern blocks that I was able to download for free.  

Not my creation, but I love them!

*Bones sensory bin and pumpkin Jenga.

*These are my knockdown boxes.  The kids adore stacking and knocking down any kind of box.  I normally have it more educational where you have to stack the numbers in order or something similar.

*Monster Bowling

*Poke a pumpkin.  The two pictures above took a very long time to make, but I feel like they were completely worth it!

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!!! I am including the books I've read this week at various storytime, plus some extra books I just didn't have time to read.  What are your favorites that I've missed?

Book: I am Bat

*For this book I have some cherries printed out and placed on my flannelboard.  My volunteer will reach up and pull the cherries off the flannelboard.  It took the kids a few moments to notice but then they loved it and started to let me know to check my cherries, because they were gone!

Book: Are You a Monster?

Book: We're Going on a Pumpkin Hunt

Book: Monsters Love Colors

Book: Spooky Wheels on the Bus

Book: Little Blue Truck's Halloween

Book: Go Away, Big Green Monster!

Book: Happy Halloween, From the Very Busy Spider

Extra Books:

Book: There's a Monster In Your Book!

Book: My Tail's Not Tired

Book: Bats on the Bus

Board Book: Halloween Baby!

Board Book: My Very First Halloween Hidden Pictures

Book: Just Say Boo!

Fingerplay:

If you're a skeleton and you know it, shake your bones!

If you're a bat and you know it, flap your wings.

If you're a wolf and you know it, give a howl.

Preschool Craft:

Two's Craft: