Y is for Everybody is Yawning (Preschool and Two's)

Preschool Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Book: Llama Llama Red Pajama (With novel effect app)

*If you have never used the Novel Effect app, please, go check it out right now! When I held up this book, almost all of the preschoolers told me they had it at home. Yes, I was fully expecting this reaction, right? Well, then I told them they may or may not hear noises, we would have to wait and see. I already had my bluetooth speaker hooked up and the Novel Effect app ready to go. As you read along, the app will listen to keywords you read. When you hit a certain word, then sound effects will go off to accompany you. This app is absolutely amazing! The preschoolers were spellbound by this! A few of them caught on that the noises were coming from my speaker but they couldn't figure out how. There are so many books to use with this app, I plan on using it again next week too!

Fingerplay/Flannel: Pete the Cat's Missing Button

*This time we hunted for Pete the Cat's button. We looked for his button behind Elephant & Piggie, Curious George, Llama Llama Red Pajama, Clifford and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Fingerplay: Put the Baby to Bed 

*I love the reaction I received from the preschoolers after doing this fingerplay. The best things they suggested feeding the baby were cupcakes and a pumpkin! You can check out the words for this fingerplay below.

Credit: http://drjeanandfriends.blogspot.com/2013/04/put-baby-to-bed.html

Book: Night Animals Need Sleep Too

*This is a brand new book we just got, and I was so excited to read it! I think this would work better if you read this to your child instead of a large group reading. Still, we all had fun acting like the night animals in the book!

Fingerplay/Flannel: Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

Our craft today was based on the book "Bedtime for Baby Shark!" The preschoolers went crazy over the craft, which made me so happy! Basically everything you see in the picture the preschoolers glued down, which made for some very creative sharks!

Extra Books:

Time for Two’s Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Fingerplay: If You Want to Hear a Story

Book: Sheep Go to Sleep

*I love using this book because I have two-sided sheep that I place on my flannelboard. One side the sheep are awake and the other side they are asleep. As I'm reading, my volunteer will flip them over from awake to asleep. I will stop reading and then we will count how many more sheep need to fall asleep. The two's did really good in helping me count! I love this book because it helps with counting skills and you can learn farm animals at the same time.

Fingerplay/Flannel: Pete the Cat's Missing Button

*This time we hunted for Pete the Cat's button. We looked for his button behind Elephant & Piggie, Curious George, Llama Llama Red Pajama, Clifford and The Very Hungry Caterpillar.

Fingerplay: Farm Animal Action Cards

Board Book: Time for Bed, Nori 

*This is a really cute lift-the-flap book that you can do so much with! On each page you can ask the kids to help you choose what Nori, the character of the book, needs to do. I don't normally do this with the two's, but this storytime I had some older two's so I asked them what Nori needed to wear to bed. The choices were silly, and they told me right away Nori needed PJ's! A great book that you can choose to just flip the flap down to reveal the choice or make it more interactive and ask questions before you reveal the picture. 

Action: Dancing

*To end storytime I handed out different colored bears. We danced around with our bears before placing them on the big bed I had up on my flanneboard.

*The two's made the same craft as pictured above, much to their delight!

Extra Books:

X is for X Marks the Spot (Preschool and Two's)

Preschool Storytime

Opening: Big Books

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQdutXqqzKg

Guessing game

Fingerplay/Flannel: Five Ocean Creatures

Book: Whale In My Swimming Pool (Volunteer Doing ASL)

Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQdutXqqzKg

*I haven’t done a guessing game through an app in a long time, but I really need to start doing this again!  The preschoolers loved telling me what ocean creature they saw and this is a great learning tool to use.

Fingerplay: Five Little Pirates Jumping on the Ship

Book: Pirate Nap

*This is such a great book to use for learning your colors! I made pirate hats that corresponded with each color that was introduced. As I got to that color, I would hold up the pirate hat and have the preschoolers tell me what color it was. At the end of this post there is a picture of all my pirate hats up on the flannelboard.

Fingerplay/Flannel: Hiding Game
*For this we hunted for a tiny fish behind different colored seashells.

Fingerplay: Five Little Fishes Swimming in the Sea

The craft for today is an adorable paper bag pirate! The preschoolers loved making it, and I think primarily because it was a paper bag.
Credit: https://iheartcraftythings.com/paper-bag-pirate-craft-kids.html

Extra Books:

Two’s Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Fingerplay: If You Want to Hear a Story

Book: Pirate Nap

*This is such a great book to use for learning your colors! I was a little worried that this would be too long for the two's, so I did skip a few pages. Otherwise, this book was perfect! I made pirate hats that corresponded with each color that was introduced. As I got to that color, I would hold up the pirate hat and have the two's tell me what color it was. At the end of this post there is a picture of all my pirate hats up on the flannelboard.

Fingerplay: Five Little Pirates Jumping on the Ship

Fingerplay/Flannel: Hiding Game
*For this we hunted for a tiny fish behind different colored seashells.

Book: We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt

*This book is absolutely perfect for storytime! I love how you can make this book as interactive as you please. The two's loved stomping their feet and waving their arms as we went all throughout the book. What did we find at the end? A treasure chest, of course! Naturally I had to throw out gold coins at end. Not real ones, paper coins, I promise.

*The two's did the same craft as the preschoolers, which is pictured above. I've never seen the two's this excited about a craft, they didn't even put up their carpet squares! They just took off and ran straight back to the tables and started making the pirates!

March New Books 2020

Winter Party 2020

I am behind in posting, but we had a winter party last month!  I was so excited to be doing this, and had so much prepared.  Unfortunately, our crowd wasn't what I hoped it would be.  We ended up having 19 Kids and 16 adults.  That being said, the kids that came seemed to have a very good time!  Below are pictures of what we did, so I hope you enjoy!


Crafts:
Little Girl Catching Snowflake
Credit: Crafty Morning

Snowman with Redbird
Credit: https://nontoygifts.com/snowman-cardinal-craft-kids/

Torn Paper Polar Bear
Credit: No link, just a picture.

Walrus
Credit: Simple Everyday Mom

Penguin in Egg
Credit: One Little Librarian

Games:
Penguin Bowling

Tic-Tac-Snow
*For this I made two game boards and multiple X's and O's.  I was worried because I have never made a large scale tic-tac-snow board before.  The kids really enjoyed playing this so I plan on doing another giant version of this game again.

Ice Fishing
*I found this adorable fishing set online and hoped that the kids would enjoy it.  They had an amazing time!  The fishing poles had magnets on the end as did all of the fish that went in the water.  The only thing I would change is to put plastic tablecloths underneath the tubs.  Otherwise the setup took no time and they all had so much fun!

Snowman Bingo
Credit: Crazy Little Projects
*As usual, I always have bingo setup in the back.  It took a little while for the kids to catch on that we had bingo for them to play.  Once they did, they didn't want to stop playing!  Fine by me!