July 2021 New Books

 

All Around the Yard

 Book: Thunder Pug

Action: Ten Little Grasshoppers

One little, two little, three little grasshoppers.

Four little, five little, six little grasshoppers.

Seven little, eight little, nine little grasshoppers.

Ten little grasshoppers hopping all around.

Grasshoppers, grasshoppers, hopping all around me. (Repeat three times.)

Ten grasshoppers hopping in my yard.

Ten little, nine little, eight little grasshoppers.

Seven little, six little, five little grasshoppers.

Four little, three little, two little grasshoppers.

One little grasshopper hopping all around.

Credit: Verona Storytime

Book: One Busy Day

Scarf Dancing: This is What My Feet Can Do

(Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb)

This is what my feet can do, feet can do, feet can do.

This is what my feet can do, can you do it too?

Let your feet go tiptoeing, tiptoeing, tiptoeing.

Let your feet go tiptoeing, can you do it too?

*Repeat with stomping and sit right down.

Book: Hey, Water!

Extra Books:

Buggy for Books

 Opening: If You Want to Hear a Story

Book: Bug Bear

Scarf Dancing:

Wiggle your worms up, wiggle your worms down.

Wiggle your worms around and around.

Wiggle them high, wiggle them low.

Wiggle them fast, wiggle them slow.

Wiggle them over the tops of your toes.

Wiggle them under the tip of your nose.

Wiggle them up your arm to the top.

Wiggle them down to your fingers and stop.

Wiggle your worm across the top of your head.

Then put your worm back in his own little bed.

Credit: Preschool Express

Book: Bye, Bye, Big Bad Bullybug!

Hiding Game: Little Bug

Little bug, little bug, are you under the {red} bug?

Book: Can You Make a Scary Face?

Extra Books:

New Books March 2021

 

Buggy for Books (Storytime)

 Opening: Big Books

Book: Hidden Rainbow

Fingerplay: Little Bug Hiding Game

Book: Bye, Bye, Big Bad Bullybug!

Fingerplay: Bug Action Cards

Book: Swarm of Bees

Extra Books:

We're Going on a Bug Hunt (Preschool and Two's)

Preschool Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Book: What Does the Bee See?

Fingerplay: Hiding Game?

Little bug, little bug, are you under the {red} rug?

Book: Bye, Bye, Big Bad Bullybug!

*I adore using this book for bug storytime, because the big bad bullybug appears one little piece at a time. This time the preschoolers went crazy screaming and hollering when the full picture of the bullybug appeared. It was so much fun!

Fingerplay: Bug Action Cards

Storytelling: Very Hungry Caterpillar

Credit: I apologize, I can't give credit, there was only a picture, no link.

*I wanted to do something different with this story when I tell it to the preschoolers. I was a little nervous, because I've never given them items to hold onto while I'm telling the story. But the preschoolers did great waiting to feed the caterpillar.  They all waited to bring up their food and loved feeding my caterpillar. They were just awestruck when the butterfly appeared, this hasn’t happened in a really long time!

Our craft today was a torn paper bumblebee! (The yellow of the body is torn paper.) Instead of the black torn paper like the link shows, we had solid stripes. We did this to make the craft a little easier for the preschoolers.

Credit: http://www.primarythemepark.com/2016/04/bee-craft-template/

Extra Books:

Time for Two’s Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Book: Where’s the Ladybug?

*These are amazing lift-the-flap books. The primary reason why? The flaps are made out of felt! The two's loved seeing the felt flaps in the book.

Fingerplay: Bug Action Cards

Fingerplay/Flannel: Little Bug, Little Bug, Are You Under the Rug?

Credit: Storytime With Miss Tara

Book: Bye, Bye, Big Bad Bullybug!

Fingerplay: Here is the Beehive

Here is the beehive (hold out one fist)

But where are the bees?

Hiding inside where nobody sees (point to fist)

Watch as the bees come out of their hive

1...2...3...4...5! (count on fingers)

Buzzzzz!

(Buzz them fast, slow, high, low!)

Credit: http://www.abbythelibrarian.com/2015/04/preschool-storytime-bugs.html

*I forget how important doing rhymes like this are, and the two's loved doing this. After we revealed our bees inside our had we stood up and danced around.  One little girl even gave me suggestions, so cute!

Book: Buzz-Buzz, Busy Bees

*The two's loved seeing the puppets pop up behind me, but this book was a little long to do read at the end of storytime. Next time I will try and remember to do this book at the beginning.  The two's really enjoyed seeing the bees disappear inside the book.

Our craft today was a torn paper bumblebee! (The yellow of the body is torn paper.) Instead of the black torn paper like the link shows, we had solid stripes. We did this to make the craft a little easier for the preschoolers.

Credit: http://www.primarythemepark.com/2016/04/bee-craft-template/

Today was our game day!  Check out what we did here!