Pigs and Pancakes

 Preschool Storytime

Opening: If You Want to Hear a Story

Book: I Spy on the Farm

Fingerplay:
Farmer Brown had 5 green apples, hanging on the tree

He plucked one apple and he ate it hungrily,

Leaving 4 green apples, a-hangin’ on the tree.

…Continue counting down to 1 green apple…

Fingerplay:

Three little pigs, rolling in the mud.

Going squishy, squashy, squishy, squashy, if felt so good!

Farmer took one pig out and cleaned him up nice!

Now there are 2 pigs rolling in the mud!

Continue until zero pigs left.

Book: Do Cows Meow?

Fingerplay:

Five little frogs went hop, hop, hop

STOP!!!!

Did one of my frogs hop away?

Let’s count them again!

Fingerplay:

If you like to eat an apple, clap your hands! (Repeat)

If you like to eat an apple, lick your lips and make 'em smackle.

If you like to eat an apple, clap your hands.

-Stomp your feet, rub your tummy

Book: Barnyard Banter

Fingerplay:

Put your hands up high.  

Put your hands down low 

Put your hands in the middle and wiggle just so 

Put your elbows in the front.

Put your elbows in the back. 

Put your elbows to the side and 

QUACK, QUACK, QUACK

Flannel:

I love apples, so good to eat!

Sweet red apples can't be beat!

I love apples, so good to eat!

Funny yellow apples can't be beat!

I love apples, so good to eat!

Green apples can't be beat!

*For this I hand out different colored apples to the kids and I will do the rhyme above to call for each apple to be placed on the flannel board.

Closing: We Wave Goodbye Like This

Pignic

August 11, 2022

Two’s Storytime

Opening: If You Want to Hear a Story

Book: I Spy on the Farm

Fingerplay:
Farmer Brown had 5 green apples, hanging on the tree

He plucked one apple and he ate it hungrily,

Leaving 4 green apples, a-hangin’ on the tree.

…Continue counting down to 1 green apple…

Fingerplay: Farm Animal Movement Cards

Book: Do Cows Meow?

Fingerplay: Pig in Barn Hiding Game

Action: Farm Animal Movement Cards

Fingerplay:

Five little frogs went hop, hop, hop

STOP!!!!

Did one of my frogs hop away?

Let’s count them again!

Book: Barnyard Banter

Closing: We Wave Goodbye Like This

Apples

Storytime #1:

Opening: Big Books

Fingerplay: Apples

I love apples, they are so sweet!

Let's find a red apple so we can eat!

*For this I hold up different colored apples so that the kids can tell me I have the wrong apple.  Eventually I will get to the "red" apple.

Book: Hungry Bunny

Fingerplay: Worm Hiding Game

Little worm, little worm, where can you be?

Let's find you on the count of three!

*For this game, I made three different colored apples that you can open up and see what's inside.  I think the kids most enjoyed seeing the pineapple inside one of the apples!

Book: Farmyard Beat

Fingerplay: If You Like to Eat an Apple

If you like to eat an apple, clap your hands. (Repeat)

If you like to eat an apple, lick your lips and make 'em smackle.

If you like to eat an apple, clap your hands.

Book: 1,000 Fingerplays & Action Rhymes

Book: Apples and Robins

Storytime #2:

Opening: If You Want to Hear a Story

Book: What About Worms?

Fingerplay: Worm Hiding Game

Little worm, little worm, where can you be?

Let's find you on the count of three!

*For this game, I made three different colored apples that you can open up and see what's inside.  I think the kids most enjoyed seeing the pineapple inside one of the apples!

Book: 5 Little Apples

Book: Bad Apple

Extra Book:

New Books April 2021 (Part 1)

 

Ducking for Apples (Storytime)

Opening: Big Books

Book: Hungry Bunny

Action: Farm Animal Action Cards

Book: Apples and Robins

Fingerplay: 5 Green Apples (Feed apples to puppets.)

Farmer Brown had 5 green apples, hanging on the tree.

He plucked one apple and ate it hungrily.

Leaving 4 green apples, hanging on the tree.

*Continue until no apples are left.

Credit: https://kcls.org/content/farmer-brown/

Book: What About Worms!?

Extra Books:

Ten Red Apples (Preschool and Two's)

Preschool Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Fingerplay: Apples

I love red apples, they are so sweet!

Let’s find a red apple so we can eat!

*I wanted to do something interactive with the preschoolers to open up, and came up with this rhyme at the last moment. Don't you love when that happens? I made different colored apples out of construction paper, and told the preschoolers the rhyme above. Then I proceeded to hold up the wrong colored apple until you I got to correct red apple. The preschoolers screamed and shouted at me until I got to the red apple! It was so much fun!

Book: Terrible Plop

*This is my first time reading this book in storytime, and it went really well! It's a bit lengthy, but it rhymes, so that helps with the flow of the book.

Fingerplay/Flannel:

Acorn, acorn, where do you hide?

Are you under the _____ leaf?

Let's peek inside!

*The preschoolers love hiding games on the flannelboard, so to make this fit with our theme we hunted for an apple.

Credit: Literary Hoots

Book: Shake the Tree

*I was so excited to use this book, I even made a flannel for it, which I've included a picture below. I had plans to hand out dancing scarves to the preschoolers, so that we could shake the scarves like a tree as I read. But I was afraid that would be too distracting, so instead we just shook our arms from side to side. Sadly, the preschoolers didn’t enjoy this book near as much as I’d hoped.

Fingerplay: Tree Shakers (Use Scarves)

Everybody shake high and low,

Shakin’ like a leafy tree.

Everybody shake high and low,

Shaking’ like a leafy tree.

Stretch, stretch, stretch,

Stretch out your branches.

Bend, bend, bend,

Bend in the breeze.

Shake, shake, shake,

Shake all around now.

Stretch, stretch, stretch.

Everybody shake high and low,

Shakin’ like a leafy tree….

Credit: Sunflower Storytime

Fingerplay/Flannel: Five Apples

Five golden autumn leaves,

High up in the tree.

The wind blows,

The leaves shake,

And one falls down to me.

Falling, falling,

Falling down,

Falling, falling,

Falling to the ground.

*For this flannel I placed apples onto my flannel tree. As I tell the fingerplay, I take one apple off my tree. Then, I will have paper apples "rain" down onto the preschoolers, much to their delight!

Credit: Sunflower Storytime

For our craft today we made an apple pie! Then we gave them brown strips cut out to put over the apples to look like crust.  After that, we had cotton balls glued onto white circles to represent cool whip.

  

We also played games today!  To see what we did click here!

Extra books:

Time for Two’s Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Fingerplay: If You Want to Hear a Story

Book: Apples and Robins

*I only read parts of this book, and in the beginning the two's did great with it.  For some reason, they lost interest near the end.  I don't know if it was me, the book or just this storytime.  Still, I highly recommend this book, it's a great book to use for a shapes or apple theme!

Fingerplay/Flannel:

Acorn, acorn, where do you hide?

Are you under the _____ leaf?

Let's peek inside!

*The preschoolers love hiding games on the flannelboard, so to make this fit with our theme we hunted for an apple.

Credit: Literary Hoots

Flannelboard: “Five Little Apples”

Five little apples hung in a tree

The farmer wasn’t looking.

So guess who came to eat?

A rabbit! Munch, munch, munch!

(Mouse, crow, turtle, bat)

Now the tree is bare

There are no more apples there

But when next fall comes around

Guess who’ll be there! The rabbit, the mouse, the crow, the turtle, and the bat!

Credit: Storytime Secrets

Book: Tap the Magic Tree

For our craft today we made an apple pie!  Then we gave them brown strips cut out to put over the apples to look like crust.  After that, we had cotton balls glued onto white circles to represent cool whip. 
 

We also played games today!  To see what we did click here!