New Books October 2021

 

Opening: Big Books 

Book: One Leaf, Two Leaves, Count With Me!

Activity: Riddles

So many leaves are falling on the ground.

Orange ones, yellow ones and even brown.

But the one little leaf that rhymes with....

Is my favorite color, it's the color...

Credit: Verona Storytime

Book: Fall Is Not Easy

Fingerplay: Scarecrow, Scarecrow, Turn Around

Book: Sneeze, Big Bear, Sneeze!

December New Books 2019

August New Books 2019

January New Books 2018

Dinosaurs From Head to Tail

*I am in love with this series of books, and you will be too!  You open them up to see a close up of the dinosaur, then turn the page to reveal the full dinosaur and facts about it.  A great guessing book for kids and a great informational book too.

Look, Look Again!

*Oh my, I love books that surprise you, and this one takes the cake!  Instead of a lift-the-flap book, this one has pages that folds out!  You have a page that opens to reveal a picture of something, but then the pages fold out to show you that it's not what it appears to be!  I can't wait to use this during storytime!



Bugs From Head to Tail



I Want to Be in a Scary Story





Be Brave, Little Penguin



My Toothbrush is Missing!

What a silly but cute book!  I think this would be great to use props with, and as you're reading show the kids everything that appears in the book.  A great one to use for silly storytime!

My Friends Make Me Happy!

Another silly, but great book by Jan Thomas!  I think this one would go over really well for a silly storytime or a letter "F" theme too!

Every Color Soup


Shake the Tree!

Oh my, the ending of this book made me chuckle!  A great book to get the kids shaking, and a really cute book for a tree theme too.

Everybunny Count!

What a cute book!  This has a sweet ending to it, and would be great for a rabbit or counting theme.

L is for Leaf Hunt (Preschool and Two's)

Preschool Storytime

Music: I decided to change up our music and use something from the internet today.  To listen to what I played, click here. 

Opening: Big Books

Book: We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt

*I wanted to change up how I read this book, so I had my volunteer behind me with puppets.  When I find a leaf while I'm reading the book, I stop and ask where my leaf is?  Then the puppet appears behind me with the leaf in it's mouth.  The kids went crazy!

Flannel: Hunt for bird under tree.

Credit: Sunflower Storytime

File Folder Story: Fall Is Not Easy

*My boss made a fabulous file folder story of this book, and I love using it!  

Fingerplay: Scarecrow, Scarecrow

Scarecrow, scarecrow, turn around

Scarecrow, scarecrow, touch the ground

Scarecrow, scarecrow, clap your hands and touch your knees.

Scarecrow, scarecrow, turn around and stomp your feet.   

Swing your arms so very slow.

Now real fast to scare the crows!

Tap your head, now jump up and down.

Turn around and sit back down.

Credit: Play-and-Learn!

Book: Where, Oh, Where is Baby Bear?

*This is a new book, and i"m in love with it!  I had my volunteer pop up the bear puppet after the kids found baby bear inside book.  They went crazy telling me the bear was behind me!

Fingerplay: “5 Little Acorns”

    3 little apples sitting in a tree

Teasing Mr. Horse, you can't reach me!

Along came Mr. Horse as hungry as could be

and SNATCHED that acorn right out of the tree!

* I changed the words to the original, which you can view.  I was really impressed with the kids, by the time we got to the end of the song they had caught on to the tune and was singing along with me.  I changed the words to a horse and 3 apples)

Credit: The Dilley Dally

Book: Tap the Magic Tree

*This is my all-time favorite book to use, and I love to make all the parts of this book.  When the apples would fall from the tree inside the book, I would have paper apples to "rain" down on the kids.  They went crazy over this happening!

Our craft today was an autumn tree. The leaves and trunk are all torn-paper.

*We had games this month and you can check them out here!

Time for Two’s Storytime

Opening: Big Books

Fingerplay: If You Want to Hear a Story

Book: We’re Going on a Leaf Hunt

*I wanted to change up how I read this book, so I had my volunteer behind me with puppets.  When I find a leaf while I'm reading the book, I stop and ask where my leaf is?  Then the puppet appears behind me with the leaf in it's mouth.  The kids went crazy!

Flannel: Hunt for bird under tree.

Credit: Sunflower Storytime

Fingerplay: Scarecrow, Scarecrow

Scarecrow, scarecrow, turn around

Scarecrow, scarecrow, touch the ground

Scarecrow, scarecrow, clap your hands and touch your knees.

Scarecrow, scarecrow, turn around and stomp your feet.   

Swing your arms so very slow.

Now real fast to scare the crows!

Tap your head, now jump up and down.

Turn around and sit back down.

Credit: Play-and-Learn!

Book: Tap the Magic Tree

*This is my all-time favorite book to use, and I love to make all the parts of this book.  When the apples would fall from the tree inside the book, I would have paper apples to "rain" down on the kids.  They went crazy over this happening!

Our craft today was an autumn tree. The leaves and trunk are all torn-paper.  For the two's we had the brown trunk already glued down.



*We had games this month and you can check them out here!