Saturday Storytime: Animals and More!

I presented an open storytime on Saturday recently and I used materials about animals and more!  There were about 38 people there on that chilly morning.

Hello song:  "My Hands Wave Hello"

Flannel board hides behind:  eggs

Fingerplay:  "Hickory, Dickory Dock"

Book:  Good Thing You're Not an Octopus! by Julie Markes

Flannel board story based on the book Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Music:  "The Silly Dance Contest" from the cd Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes by Jim Gill

Fingerplay:  "Roll, Roll, Sugarbabies"

Prop story based on the book Mrs. Honey's Hat by Pam Adams

Fingerplay:  "Clap Your Lap"

Magnetic board story using "Oscar's B Sandwich" from the cd Sesame Street Sing the Alphabet

Goodbye song:  "My Hands Say Thank You"

Extras:

Books:

Do Whales Have Wings? by Michael Dahl

If I Had a Dragon by Tom and Amanda Ellery

Butterfly, Butterfly by Petr Horacek

Big Book:  Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert

A Preschool Storytime Visit: Friends in Spring!

I presented two storytimes to a visiting preschool last month, and am only now posting about it because things have been so busy while getting ready for the Summer Reading Club!  Both classes walked to the library on a cool April day; the first class had 55 kids and the second had 17.  The following is a combined list of what we did in each storytime session, the theme of which was friends in spring!

Hello song: "Hand Waves Hello"

Hides behind:  Flowers

 

  

Fingerplay: "Hickory Dickory Dock"

Book: My Garden by Kevin Henkes

 

Flannel board story made from A House for Birdie by Stuart Murphy:

Music: "List of Dances" from Jim Gill Makes It Noisy in Boise, Idaho by Jim Gill

Fingerplay:  "Roll, Roll, Sugarbabies"

Storycards made from the book Do's and Don'ts by Todd Parr

Book:  Duckie's Ducklings by Frances Barry

Storycards made from the book Whose Tail? by O.J. Robertson

Whose Tail is an old book, the cover of which is unavailable--so Eeyore will do!

Book:  Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes

Flannel board story made from the book Millie Wants to Play by Janet Pedersen

Fingerplay:  "Two Little Blackbirds"

Storycards made from the book That's What Friends are For by Valeri Gorbachev

Book:  Duckie's Rainbow by Frances Barry

Storycards made from the book Things that Make You Feel Good/Things that Make You Feel Bad by Todd Parr

Goodbye Song: "My Hands Say Thank You"

Extras:

Books:

Who's on the Farm?  by Heather Gondek

Mouse's First Spring by Lauren Thompson

Big Book:  One Duck Stuck by Phyllis Root