This one time...at storytime!: Soup Storytime

Monday, January 23, 2023

Soup Storytime

January 10 and 12: Soup

Preschool:

Opening: If You Want to Hear a Story

Book: Duck Soup

*For this book, I have made pieces of the soup out of paper. Because the animals think that Max the duck has fallen in the soup pot and find "parts" of him. So I like to put the items I've made in a soup bowl and pull them out as I read the book. Of course, I have to ask the kids and parents to help me go "EEEKKK"!

Fingerplay: The Soup is Boiling Up

(tune of The Farmer in the Dell)
The soup is boiling up
The soup is boiling up
Stir it slow, around we go (stir)
The soup is boiling up

*The soup is boiling fast

The soup is boiling slow

The soup is boiling high

The soup is boiling low

Action: Animal Action Movement Cards

Book: Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes

*For this I like to have cupcakes propped up on my flannelboard. As I'm reading, my volunteer will pull down the cupcakes so the kids can tell me they have gone missing!

Fingerplay: Food Hiding Game

*I change this one up often as I use it, but this time I had different colored mice on the flannelboard. I then asked the kids to help me find the pizza behind one of my mice.

Tune: The Bear Went Over the Mountain
My thumbs are starting to wiggle,
My thumbs are starting to wiggle,
My thumbs are starting to wiggle
And so are my hands!
Other verses:
Hands….arms
Arms….feet
Feet…body Credit: Preschool Express

Book: Guess What? - Fruit

Scarf Dancing: Five Little Bears

Five little bears, sleeping on the floor.

One ran away and now there are four!

(Ball up scarf and throw when you say ran each time.)

Four little bears,, cute as can be.

One ran away and now there are three!

Three little bearss, wondering what to do.

One ran away and now there are two!

Two little bears, laying in the sun.

One ran away and now there is one!

One little bear cat got up to stretch and yawn.

I looked away and now he’s gone! (Put scarf behind your back.)

Scarf Dancing:

If you’re happy and you know it, twirl your scarf.
If you’re happy and you know it, twirl your scarf.
If you’re happy and you know it, and you really want to show it.
If you’re happy and you know it, twirl your scarf.

Continue:

Shake your scarf, throw your scarf, hide your scarf.

Scarf Dancing: Popcorn Kernels

Popcorn kernels, popcorn kernels.
In the pot, in the pot.
Shake them, shake them, shake them.
Shake them, shake them, shake them.
Til they POP! Til they POP!

Closing: Goodbye Song

Two's:

Opening: If You Want to Hear a Story

Book: The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry & the Big Hungry Bear

(I use an app called novel effect as I read this book and I highly recommend it!)