Story time themes for preschool
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To assist you in planning your story times for next month, here are some themes I like to use in October. Pumpkins Suggested Books: Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin by Tad Hills Pumpkin Heads! by Wendell Minor It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse! by Laura Numeroff Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman (Audio version with song available here.) This is Not a Pumpkin by Bob Staake The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda D. Williams Extension Activities: Five…
Best Story Time Ideas for Preschoolers Do you have daily story time with a classroom of kids? Do you run story time at your library? Do you just enjoy reading stories and doing book inspired activities and songs with your child? If you answered YES to any of these questions then these ideas are for …
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I've always loved the Little White Duck song. I especially like this version of the book, but I only have a small board book copy which is hard to use with a large group, and which I believe is missing some of the pages from the larger copy. Sometimes I'll use my classroom's old, worn out, too-small felt set of Little White Duck, along with Ivan Ulz's version of the song. But that set is so old, worn out, and too-small that I had to DO something about it!! So, I did this: Here's a video of…
My favorite story time themes for June are all about welcoming warm weather, being outside, and of course, summer reading. The Beach Suggested Books: All You Need for a Beach by Alice Schertle, illustrated by Barbara Lavallee To the Beach by Thomas Docherty Senses at the Seashore by Shelley Rotner At the Beach by Anne Rockwell Extension Activities: We're Going to the Beach Five Pretty Sandcastles What Can We See At the Beach? Five Little Shells Sunshine Suggested Books: What the Sun Sees…
These story times themes for August are a mixed bag of my favorites that didn't quite fit in other months. Berries Suggested Books: Blueberries for Sal by Robert McCloskey Blackberry Ramble by Thacher Hurd Jamberry by Bruce Degen The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Audrey and Don Wood Extension Activities Jamberry Felt Story Pop Goes the Berry Picked a Strawberry Fruit Salad Salsa Australia Suggested Books: Hunwick's Egg by Mem Fox Alexander and the Terrible…
During the month of April, I’ll be participating in the Blogging From A to Z Challenge. My theme for the month is Storytime Plans From A to Z. Each plan will have eight stories as well as four songs, fingerplays or rhymes to match the theme! As you can see, I’ll try and attribute where I found all of this fun (and often you can find it in multiple places). My goal is to make storytime planning a little easier on myself in the future and to make storytime planning for other librarians easy as…
One of the things I love doing with my younger children is reading picture books and doing story-related activities with them to bring the story to life and create fun memories. We have enjoyed doing
