Starting this September, I'm doing an alphabet theme. Every week, the books will center around each letter. There will be a few weeks I won't do this, most likely around holidays. But otherwise I am going to stick to the alphabet. This has been a really good challenge for me, and I have enjoyed doing the planning for this. I hope you enjoy it too! We are kicking off with letter "A"!
Our attendance this week was low with the preschool storytime, but we had a lot of new families, so that's really encouraging to me. I hope to build up the attendance, but we did take the month of August off. I think this impacted our preschool crowd, but the two's storytime was attendance was great!
Preschool Storytime:
Opening: Big Books
Action: Letter Painting
(Write A on white paper with crayon, then paint over with watercolors.)
*I was really excited to introduce the letter "A", but I forgot to grab my paint!
Book: Black and White Factory
*This is a great interactive book to use. The kids really enjoyed letting me know that the colors had sneaked inside the book!
Fingerplay: Missing Paint Brush
*I was super excited to use this fingerplay, but I think the kids were a little too young to catch on. But I still think it's a wonderful guessing game, and I found it here.
Book: Mouse Paint
*This is my favorite color book to use! I found this wonderful idea here, of using actual paint cans to tell this story with. All I did was cover old paint cans with paper and printed out the clipart to go along with the story. Then I told the story using my props and paint cans. They kids loved seeing my mice disappear into the paint cans and then come out a different color!
Fingerplay: Little Mouse, Little Mouse
*The kids love hunting for items and today we found not only the mouse but a bunch of other fun items! I found this great idea here!
*I love using this book with the preschoolers, but we ran out of time to read it today.
Action: Crayon Dancing
Book: Colors All Around
*Before I read this book, I took a giant crayon box we already had and showed my big crayons to the kids. They loved telling me what color crayon I was holding. This is another great interactive books to use, and it helps teach colors too! What I like to do is have items from the book cut out of paper. When we come to that part of the book, I will have that item rain down on the kids like confetti. The kids go crazy over this!
Our craft today was a mouse made out of a paper bag. Of course he was covered in paint!
Our craft today was a mouse made out of a paper bag. Of course he was covered in paint!
Time for Two’s Storytime
Opening: Big Books
Fingerplay: If You Want to Hear a Story, Clap Your Hands
Book: Mix It Up
*I love using this book with the two's. It's so much fun watching their reaction when you show them how the colors have changed inside the book. Their faces are priceless!
Fingerplay: Open Them, Shut Them
Action: We Can Hop
We can hop like a rabbit
We can hop like a rabbit.
We can jump like a frog.
We can quack like a duck.
We can run like a dog.
We can fly like a bird.
We can swim like a fish.
We can turn around, sit back down.
And not say a single word.
*I love doing this fingerplay and I like to use puppets with it.
Action: White Rabbit’s Color Book
*Instead of telling Mouse Paint, I decided to use my paint cans and tell this story instead. I found the great idea for this here. The kids enjoyed seeing my rabbits change color right before their eyes!
*Instead of telling Mouse Paint, I decided to use my paint cans and tell this story instead. I found the great idea for this here. The kids enjoyed seeing my rabbits change color right before their eyes!
Fingerplay: Little Mouse, Little Mouse
*The kids love hunting for items and today we found not only the mouse but a bunch of other fun items! I found this great idea here!
Fingerplay: Open Them, Shut Them
Book: Colors All Around
*Before I read this book, I took a giant crayon box we already had and showed my big crayons to the kids. They loved telling me what color crayon I was holding. This is another great interactive books to use, and it helps teach colors too! What I like to do is have items from the book cut out of paper. When we come to that part of the book, I will have that item rain down on the kids like confetti. The kids go crazy over this!
Action: Crayon Dancing
Our craft today was mouse shapes! The two's did a great job with their craft, they turned out great!
I found the idea for our craft here.
Our
Our craft today was mouse shapes! The two's did a great job with their craft, they turned out great!
I found the idea for our craft here.
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