Showing posts with label Owls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Owls. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 29, 2026


This week we had bedtime stories!  Below are the books that I read and fingerplays, along with our craft.

Opening Song

Book: Good Night Owl
*I love this book because mouse is hiding in a different spot on each page.  The kids love looking for mouse and telling me where he is.

Fingerplay/Song: Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

Book: Don't You Know It's Bedtime?
*This book has doors that you can flip over to reveal each animal.   The kids loved guessing what animal would appear next.

Flannel/Hiding Game: Llama Llama
*For this I have different colored apples that open up.  I hide silly things in each one and tell the kids we are looking for "llama llama red pajama".  The kids can then guess what color apple they think llama is hiding behind.

Fingerplay:                                                                              Tune: Frere Jacques Walking, walking, Walking, walking.  Hop, hop, hop! Hop, hop, hop!  Running, running, running,  Running, running, running,  Now we stop.   Now we stop. Continue: Stomping, Flying

Book: Is Everyone Ready for Fun?
*This book will get you moving, literally! All through the book you will dance, jump and wiggle. This is always a crowd pleaser with any age.

This week our preschool age made a chicken sleeping.

This week our two's made a pig sleeping.









 

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Hoot Owl Hoot!

Opening: If You Want to Hear a Story, Clap Your Hands
If you want to hear a story, clap your hands! (repeat twice)
If you want to hear a story, if you want to hear a story.
If you want to hear a story, clap your hands!



Book: Good Night Owl












Action: Insect Movement Cards


Book: This is Owl












Fingerplay: 5 Little Bugs (Have large bugs for staff to hold up and take down as we do this.)
3 little bugs were flying through the air (make motions with hands)
Buzzing around without a care
Along came a frog with a hippety-hop (Hop up and down)
GULP! GULP! GULP! (snap hands together)
One bug was caught!



Book: Don't Blink!












Closing: We Wave Goodbye Like This (Tune: The Farmer in the Dell)

We wave goodbye like this,

We wave goodbye like this.

We clap our hands for all our friends!

We wave goodbye like this.

We wave goodbye really fast,

We wave goodbye really slow.

We turn around and take a bow,

And then it’s time to go!

Credit: adapted from Storytime Katie

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Sleepy Owls (Storytime)

 Book: Little Owl Lost by Chris Haughton












Fingerplay/Flannel: Owl Hiding Game
Owl, owl, where do you hide? 
Are you in the (color) tree? Let's peek inside!
Credit: http://www.literaryhoots.com/2015/02/owls-storytime.html

Book: Hoot Owl, Master of Disguise by Sean Taylor












Fingerplay: Hoot Owl (Use puppets)
Hoot owl, hoot owl, sitting in the tree,
Hoot owl, hoot owl, what do you see?
I see black cats running by me, (run like a cat)
All night long as I sit in my tree.
Hoot owl, hoot owl, sitting in the tree,
Hoot owl, hoot owl, what do you see?
I see pumpkins rolling by me, (roll like a pumpkin)
All night long as I sit in my tree.
Hoot owl, hoot owl, sitting in the tree,
Hoot owl, hoot owl, what do you see?
I see spiders crawling by me, (crawl like a spider)
All night long as I sit in my tree.
Credit: https://www.mrcpl.org/find-stuff/family/fingerplays-and-rhymes/owl-fingerplays



Book: Hoot & Honk Just Can’t Sleep by Leslie Helakoski










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