Preschool Storytime:
*Normally, the kids are very excited but manageable for storytime. I don't know what it was about this particular day, but it was wild and woolly! It could have been our number of kids, which was way above normal, or the fact that we were all in our PJ's. I don't feel like this time was a total flop, but I do feel like I could have done a lot better with it. Do you ever feel that way? I do love all the books I read, but might have changed the second book, looking back on it. That's one of the main reasons I keep this blog, for reflection back on what did and didn't work. All that being said, Pajama storytime is a favorite theme of mine and I will definitely be repeating it!
Book: Ten Pigs in Bed
*For this, I have ten pigs that I prop up on my puppet stage behind me. As I'm reading, my volunteer will take down a pig. This is set to the traditional song "Six in the Bed." When things disappear behind me, the preschooler go crazy screaming at me, and they didn't let me down!
Flannel: Five Cozy Blankets
5 cozy blankets with patterns galore,
1 covered Rabbit and then there were four.
4 cozy blankets as snuggly as can be,
1 covered Raccoon and then there were three.
3 cozy blankets with dots red and blue,
1 covered Fox and then there were two.
2 cozy blankets made just for fun,
1 covered Bear and then there was one.
1 cozy blanket left out in the sun,
It covered Owl and then there were none.
Credit: Flannel Board Fun
*One thing I will do differently with this the next time is have five actual blankets instead of the flannelboard sets I used. I would like to take my blankets and physically cover up the puppets with the blanket. I think the preschoolers would love this!
Book: Twinkle, Twinkle, ABC
*I was so excited to read this book, especially because I've never read it before in storytime. After I read the title and asked the preschoolers to tell me the letters on the cover, it got very interesting. Two or three preschoolers had to sing the alphabet song to me, and I think that kind of got everyone a little distracted. Still, I think this is a wonderful movement book to use.
Fingerplay/Flannel: Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Fingerplay/Flannel: What’s That Noise?
Credit: Librarian vs. Storytime
Our craft today was a sleeping bear! I apologize, I tried to give credit for the website where I found this craft, but the website wouldn't work for me.
Extra Books:
Time for Two’s Storytime:
*Hopefully our crowd will pick back up, but my attendance has been dropping for two's. Ideally I love to have around twenty kids for two's storytime. To me, this is a great balance because the two's help each other feel comfortable and they seem to interact better with me and each other. For this storytime we had five show up and they all seemed to have a great time. When I have a low number of two's show up for storytime, they tend to get very shy and don't always interact as well as when I have a bigger number. But once we got going with the first story everyone seemed to have a good time.
Opening: Big Books
Fingerplay: If You Want to Hear a Story
Book: Ten Pigs in Bed
*For this, I have ten pigs that I prop up on my puppet stage behind me. As I'm reading, my volunteer will take down a pig. This is set to the traditional song "Six in the Bed."
Fingerplay/Flannel: What’s That Noise?
Credit: Librarian vs. Storytime
Book: Everyone Is Yawning
*My two's adore lift-the-flap books and this book doesn't disappoint! We all had fun hissing, oinking and hooting like animals!
Flannel: Five Cozy Blankets
Credit: Flannel Board Fun
Fingerplay/Flannel: Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Action: Six in the Bed
*Instead of singing the song again, I handed out teddy bears to all the two's. I have a big bed with velcro on it, that I stick to my flannelboard. The teddy bears have velcro on the back of them, so that they will stick to the bed. The two's love to put anything on my flannelboard, so this was a lot of fun for them.
Our craft today was a sleeping bear! I apologize, I tried to give credit for the website where I found this craft, but the website wouldn't work for me.
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