Whale of a Tail

 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: Bear & Hare Go Fishing

Fingerplay: Five Little Fishies Swimming in the Sea

*Because this was an outside storytime, I only did 3 fishies. I also made large fish for my co-workers to hold up as we did the actions. Below is a picture of my fish!

Book: Pirasaurs!

Fingerplay: Ocean Animal Movement Cards

Book: We're Going on a Treasure Hunt

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

October Books 2020 Part 2

 

October New Books 2020

 

X is for X Marks the Spot (Preschool and Two's)

Preschool Storytime

Opening: Big Books

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQdutXqqzKg

Guessing game

Fingerplay/Flannel: Five Ocean Creatures

Book: Whale In My Swimming Pool (Volunteer Doing ASL)

Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQdutXqqzKg

*I haven’t done a guessing game through an app in a long time, but I really need to start doing this again!  The preschoolers loved telling me what ocean creature they saw and this is a great learning tool to use.

Fingerplay: Five Little Pirates Jumping on the Ship

Book: Pirate Nap

*This is such a great book to use for learning your colors! I made pirate hats that corresponded with each color that was introduced. As I got to that color, I would hold up the pirate hat and have the preschoolers tell me what color it was. At the end of this post there is a picture of all my pirate hats up on the flannelboard.

Fingerplay/Flannel: Hiding Game
*For this we hunted for a tiny fish behind different colored seashells.

Fingerplay: Five Little Fishes Swimming in the Sea

The craft for today is an adorable paper bag pirate! The preschoolers loved making it, and I think primarily because it was a paper bag.
Credit: https://iheartcraftythings.com/paper-bag-pirate-craft-kids.html

Extra Books:

Two’s Storytime:

Opening: Big Books

Fingerplay: If You Want to Hear a Story

Book: Pirate Nap

*This is such a great book to use for learning your colors! I was a little worried that this would be too long for the two's, so I did skip a few pages. Otherwise, this book was perfect! I made pirate hats that corresponded with each color that was introduced. As I got to that color, I would hold up the pirate hat and have the two's tell me what color it was. At the end of this post there is a picture of all my pirate hats up on the flannelboard.

Fingerplay: Five Little Pirates Jumping on the Ship

Fingerplay/Flannel: Hiding Game
*For this we hunted for a tiny fish behind different colored seashells.

Book: We’re Going on a Treasure Hunt

*This book is absolutely perfect for storytime! I love how you can make this book as interactive as you please. The two's loved stomping their feet and waving their arms as we went all throughout the book. What did we find at the end? A treasure chest, of course! Naturally I had to throw out gold coins at end. Not real ones, paper coins, I promise.

*The two's did the same craft as the preschoolers, which is pictured above. I've never seen the two's this excited about a craft, they didn't even put up their carpet squares! They just took off and ran straight back to the tables and started making the pirates!

February 2020 New Books

November New Books 2019