This one time...at storytime!: January 2020

Friday, January 31, 2020

T is for Tip Tap Bang Bang Bang (Preschool and Two's)

Preschool Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Book: Huff and Puff (Volunteer doing ASL)

*I absolutely adore using this book in storytime. Why? Because I have three houses that I tape onto boxes. Then the preschoolers help me "blow" down my houses! The best part of this was I had a special guest doing ASL and we all learned the signs for "pig" and "wolf". A lot of the preschoolers and their parents were doing the signs along with me which was amazing!

Fingerplay:

I have 5 little hammers to give away.

Who wants to help me build today?

Here’s a tool to help me! Hooray!

*While I am doing this fingerplay, we will count the hammers each time. Also I will give a hammer to my puppets so that we can make the noise of each animal. (I didn't come up with this adorable fingerplay, so if it is your fab idea, speak up!)

Book: The House That Zack Built

*I've never read this book aloud before, but I'm so glad I did! The illustrations are just beautiful and you can make it more interactive by using puppets. This way the preschoolers can help you make all the noises that the animals make all throughout the book. The best part was at the end when a little boy spoke up and said "Hey! That little boy in the book built a house out of blocks!"

Fingerplay/Flannel: Tool Hiding Game

Bruno needs his hammer lots and lots.

Is it hiding in the (say color) toolbox?

Credit:

http://rovingfiddlehead.com/kidlit/flannel-friday-toolboxes-missing-hammer-flannelboard/

Fingerplay: Twinkle, Twinkle, Traffic Light

(tune: Twinkle, Twinkle, Traffic Light)

Twinkle, Twinkle, Traffic Light,

Shining on the corner bright.

Red means STOP! (hold out hands in “STOP” motion)

Green means GO! (run in place fast)

Yellow means YOU’D BETTER GO SLOW! (run in place slowly)

Twinkle, Twinkle, Traffic Light,

Shining on the corner bright.

Credit: Loudest Librarian

*The preschoolers adore dancing with scarves and this is a really good fingerplay to use with the scarves. I had a traffic light up on my flannelboard to use while we were doing this.

Our craft is a toolbelt! The preschoolers went crazy over this and I truly think because it was something they could wear. All of the tools were separate from the craft so that they could pull them in and out of the toolbelt. We also had the tools not glued together so that gave something else for the preschoolers to put together.

We also had games today! Check out our wintry games here!

Extra Books:

Time for Two’s Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Book: Huff and Puff

*I absolutely adore using this book in storytime. Why? Because I have three houses that I tape onto boxes. Then the two's help me "blow" down my houses! For whatever reason the two's were spellbound by the pigs inside the houses that I had taped to my boxes! Priceless!

Fingerplay/Flannel: Tool Hiding Game

Bruno needs his hammer lots and lots.

Is it hiding in the (say colour) toolbox?

Credit:

http://rovingfiddlehead.com/kidlit/flannel-friday-toolboxes-missing-hammer-flannelboard/

Fingerplay/Flannel: Wheels on the Bus

Book: Moving Blocks

Fingerplay:

I have 5 little hammers to give away.

Who wants to help me build today?

Here’s a tool to help me! Hooray!

Action: Bubbles!

*The two's did the same craft as the preschoolers above. I was happy to see that they enjoyed their toolbelt just as much as the preschoolers did!

Extra Book:

January Sensory Games 2020

Pretty much all of our games this month were penguins! What can I say, I sure do love that adorable animal!

1.) Penguin Bowling
I did not take a picture of our bowling set, but this is always the most popular game. This time was no exception!

2.) Penguin Shapes
I like to incorporate shapes whenever possible and this was too cute to resist. The best part you can download this for free and just print out whatever shapes you'd like to use. I did edit this download by adding the shape to each igloo because not all of my preschoolers can recognize the words yet.
Credit: Free Homeschool Deals

3.) Penguin and Fish Counting
I was a little worried about this one because it has been a while since I've done a number match like this. I had my volunteer there in case the preschoolers needed help but they did fabulous! The preschoolers had a little trouble with the numbers four and five but that just means I need to help them recognize them more.
Credit: Preschool Activities Nook

4.) Snowman Pom-Pom Push
I love this game! Normally I will do a larger version and use sponge balls but this time I changed it up a bit. I wasn't near this game much but from what I could tell everyone enjoyed it. All you need is a shoebox, pom-poms and paper!

Thursday, January 23, 2020

S is for Shapes All Around

Preschool Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Book: Circle Rolls

*I really like this book and the preschoolers enjoyed it, but not as much as I had hoped. Maybe you just need to be closer to it and be able to see the illustrations better? I do have to say on one page there is a fire engine drawn on and one adorable little boy saw that right away and got so excited!

Fingerplay: Kangaroo, kangaroo, behind which shape are you?

Board Book: Animal Shapes

*This is the first time I've used this book in storytime and I'm so glad I did! You get to guess what each animal is. For example, what does a triangle and a bird make? A flyangle! You can see on the cover above what each animal will turn out like. I think the parents enjoyed this just as much or even more than the kids did! I also fed shapes to each of my puppets which delighted the kids.

Fingerplay/Flannel: Shape Guessing Game

*For this I made lots of shapes for the kids to guess what food was on the other side. I used the book below for ideas. The kids loved this!

Action: Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

Our craft is an alligator made out of shapes!

Extra Books:

Time for Two’s Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Fingerplay: “If You Want to Hear a Story”

Book: Shape by Shape

*The two's adored this

Fingerplay: Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

Book: Hidden Animals by Agnese Baruzzi

Fingerplay/Flannel: “Baby Kangaroo, Baby Kangaroo”

Fingerplay: Five Little Cookies (Do Donuts instead) *Shaped like circles

https://missmaryliberry.com/2012/11/30/flannel-friday-5-little-cookies/

Extra Read-Alouds:

Friday, January 17, 2020

R is for Roar (Two's)

Time for Two’s Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Fingerplay: If You Want to Hear a Story

Book: Tiny Little Fly (with puppets)

Fingerplay/Flannel: Jungle Animal Action Cards

Fingerplay/Flannel: Five Little Monkeys Swinging in the Tree

*I was very excited to play the music as we sang this song, but it seemed a little too confusing for the two's. Plus, it had the opposite effect I wanted. The music got the two's a little too energized and they didn't want to settle down for the rest of storytime.

Board Book: I Thought I Saw a Lion!

Fingerplay: Five Ferocious Lions (Put up on puppet stage)

Deep in the jungle, what did I hear?

Five ferocious lions, roaring loud and clear.

“ROAR” said the lion.

“SCAT” said I.

And one ferocious lion said GOODBYE! (Remove lion and repeat until zero.)

*The craft is a cute paper bag lion! ROAR!

Credit: Arty Crafty Kids

R is for Robot (Preschool)

Preschool Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Book: Raybot (use puppets)

*This book took quite a bit longer to read than I remember, but I'm still glad I used it. Little raybot, not robot, wants to find a best friend, a puppy dog! He travels the world looking for a friend who barks!

Fingerplay/Flannel: Five Little Robots Jumping on the Bed

Book: Beep! Beep! Go to Sleep! (With robots on puppet stage)

*This book is so much fun to use! I place robots up on my puppet stage and tell the preschoolers to "watch" my robots. When we get to the part of the book that says "BEEP! BEEP!" we all say the words together. That is the cue for my robots to start moving around. This book is great to teach literacy skills with because it is very repetitive. Plus the preschoolers just enjoy getting to make the beeping noises with you.

Fingerplay: Five Noisy Robots

Five noisy robots in the big toy shop,

Shiny and tall with antennae on the top.

Along came a girl with a penny one day.

Bought a noisy robot and took it away.

(continue with 4, 3, 2, 1 noisy robots)

Credit: Literacious

The robot craft is one of my favorite because of the accordion arms! I do especially love the pocket inside to tuck in all the tools.

Extra Books:

Q is for Quack and Count (Preschool and Two's)

Preschool Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Book: Step by Step

*This is such a fun guessing book to use in storytime. The preschoolers did really good in telling me what animal made the footprints.

Fingerplay/Flannel: Baby Duck, Baby Duck Hiding Game

Credit: Miss Mary Liberry

Book: Seek and Count

*I was so excited to use this book in storytime, but the preschoolers weren't as excited as I was about it. Sometimes it happens and that's okay, but I will definitely give it another try with them.

Fingerplay: Ten Little Froggies (Only do five and use five green and speckled frogs prop)

One little froggie goes hop

Along comes another and they just can't stop so...

Two little froggies go hop, hop

Along comes another and they just can't stop

Three little froggies go hop, hop, hop

Along comes another and they just can't stop. soo

Continue in this manner and end as follows

Ten little froggies go hop, hop, hop, hop hop

Drop! time to stop

Hop each time you count the froggies...and when you get to ten hop ten

times and count on fingers...fall gently down to floor

Credit: http://www.preschooleducation.com/sreptile.shtml

Dancing: Animal Dancing

*To end storytime I passed out two types of animals that I have cut out and laminated. After we danced around with them, I called out for each animal and we stuck them to my flannelboard.

Our craft is a duck, of course! I wanted to incorporate letters or numbers, so we spelled out quack and the preschoolers did amazing matching up the letters.