Preschool Storytime:
Opening: Big Books
Book: Shapes
*If you don't have this book, then I highly recommend purchasing it! Our copy is office-use only, just because the book is filled with delightful flaps on every page. I'm not sure the book would last beyond a few checkouts. I only read the first two pages, but the preschoolers loved guess what was behind each shape. It's a wonderful book to help teach your preschoolers shapes and how to recognize them in the world around them.
Book: Hidden Animals
*This is a new book that came out last year, and it's fabulous! I've included the first page below, so that you can see just how amazing this book really is! If you look real close, you can see part of the animal, but what is it? Hhmm....you guess it! A yellow bird! When you flip the page over, you reveal the animal! The preschoolers really enjoyed telling me the color and shape on the first page. Then, they were amazed to see the jumble of shapes turn into an animal before their eyes!
Fingerplay/Flannel: Shape Guessing Game
*For this flannel, I have an assortment of shapes up on my flannelboard. For example, I have an octagon, and on the other side of it is a stop sign. I give clues as to what my shapes could be, we all try to guess, then I flip them over! After we guessed all my shapes, I decided we needed to get some wiggles out! I took my stop sign, and we all spelled out what it said. Then, we jumped up and down until I flipped over my shape to show the side that said, STOP!
Fingerplay/Flannel: Kangaroo, kangaroo, behind which shape are you?
Credit: Falling Flannelboards
Book: Shapes, Reshape!
*This is my favorite shape book to use, and I hope that you like it too! You start out each page with all the shapes jumbled up together. There will be a small clue to help you guess what each shape will reshape into. When you turn the page....presto! The shapes reshape into an exciting animal! My volunteer was behind me so that our animals could visit us during this book.
Fingerplay/Flannel: Baa Baa Black Sheep
*The preschoolers love bringing things up to me and sticking them onto my flannel. This activity is perfect to help teach them to listen and recognize shapes. Each sheep on my board has a shape on their belly. Next I hand out little bags with shapes on them. I was pleasantly surprised how well the preschoolers listened for their shape. If you click on the website below, you can read the adorable rhyme to use with this great activity!
Credit: Read Rabbit Read
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Our craft today was a shape butterfly!
Credit: Teachers Pay Teachers
Extra Books:
Time for Two’s Storytime:
Opening: Big Books
Fingerplay: “If You Want to Hear a Story”
Book: Shapes, Reshape! (with puppets)
*Each page of this book starts out with all the shapes jumbled up together. There will be a small clue to help you guess what each shape will reshape into. When you turn the page....presto! The shapes reshape into an exciting animal! My volunteer was behind me so that our animals could visit us during this book. The two's adore puppets, so I always try to work them into storytime somehow.
*Each page of this book starts out with all the shapes jumbled up together. There will be a small clue to help you guess what each shape will reshape into. When you turn the page....presto! The shapes reshape into an exciting animal! My volunteer was behind me so that our animals could visit us during this book. The two's adore puppets, so I always try to work them into storytime somehow.
Fingerplay: Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed
Book: Hidden Animals by Agnese Baruzzi
*This is another wonderful guessing book, with peek-a-boo pages. The two's really liked guessing what animal would be revealed to them.
*This is another wonderful guessing book, with peek-a-boo pages. The two's really liked guessing what animal would be revealed to them.
Fingerplay: Five Little Cookies
*For this, I did doughnuts instead of cookies. I put all my doughnuts up on the flannelboard, and I fed them to my puppets.
Credit: Miss Mary Liberry
*For this, I did doughnuts instead of cookies. I put all my doughnuts up on the flannelboard, and I fed them to my puppets.
Credit: Miss Mary Liberry
Fingerplay/Flannel: Baa Baa Black Sheep
*The two's love bringing things up to me and sticking them onto my flannel. Each sheep on my board has a shape on their belly. Next I hand out little bags with shapes on them. If you click on the website below, you can read the adorable rhyme to use with this great activity!
Credit: Read Rabbit Read
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