Preschool Storytime - Spring

Howdy
The good news is my storytime is getting bigger; 30 kids today.  The bad news is we do less because passing out scarves and other activies just take longer. 

Opening
Hello Everybody, Yes Indeed by Carole Peterson from H.U.M.
Hello to your toes yes indeed yes indeed yes indeed
Hello to your toes yes indeed my darling

Knees – shoulders - friends

Books
Bear Wants More by Karma Wilson
Red Rubber Boot Day by Mary Lyn Ray
Rainy Day by Patricia Lakin

Music

Leaky Umbrella by Jim Gill for The Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes
Shake Your Scarves by by Johnette Downing from The Second Line - Scarf Activity Songs
I Feel Crazy So I Jump in the Soup by Laurie Berkner from Victor Vito

Felt Board

Five Little Rain Drops

Five Little Raindrops

Five little raindrops (hold up five fingers)
Dancing on the walk (dance hand up and down)
Pitter patter, pitter patter,
that’s the way they talk. (pat legs)
Out comes the yellow sun, shining in the sky (raise arms up like the sun)
And away goes one raindrop (hold up one finger)
Bye, bye, bye! (wave goodbye)

Scarves
Borrowed from Scarf Songs and Rhymes for Storytime on Jbrary.
One Bright scarf - (adapted from 10 Little Fingers at Storytime Rocks)
One bright scarf waiting for the wind to blow (hold in hand)
Wiggle it high (wiggle scarf above head)
Wiggle it low (wiggle scarf by knees)
Shake it fast (wiggle scarf quickly)
Shake it slow (wiggle scarf slowly)
Put it behind your back
Where did it go? (bring out empty hands)

Jack in the box sits so still
Will he come out
Yes he will

Closing
We Clap Our Hands Like This - tune farmer in the dell. Borrowed from Opening/Closing Songs on Storytime Katie who borrowed it from Rhymes for Toddlers on Sunflower Storytime.

We clap our hands like this
We clap out hands like this
We clap our hands with all of our friends
We clap our hands like this.

We blow a kiss like this
We blow a kiss like this
We blow a kiss with all of our friends
We blow a kiss like this.

We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye with all our friends.
We wave goodbye like this.

Rainy-Day Watercolors

Craft
Today's craft was Rainy-Day Watercolors from Mailbox Magazine. I printed a spring themed coloring sheet which the kids filled in with watercolor markers. Then they dipped  paintbrushes in water and painted the marker on the coloring pages.  The result was really pretty. I tested all my washable markers and found that nearly all of them bleed when you add water. The only downside was some children worked at their papers until they made a hole.   I would recommend table clothes and maybe cardstock next time. 


Laura
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Preschool Storytime - Teeth

Opening
Hello Everybody, Yes Indeed by Carole Peterson from H.U.M.
Hello to your toes yes indeed yes indeed yes indeed
Hello to your toes yes indeed my darling

Knees – shoulders - friends


Books
Clarabella's Teeth by An Vrombaut.
Bear's Loose Tooth by Karma Wilson
Snip snap! What's That? by Mara Bergman


Songs

Hands are for clapping by Jim Gill for Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes 

Brush your teeth by Raffi for Singable Songs for the Very Young 

Going to Kentucky by Carole Peterson from Baloney

Goldfish song by Laurie Berkner for The Best of Laurie Berkner Band 

Felt
My Colorful Toothbrushes
Inspired by Growing a Smile - Teeth by Fun with Friends at Storytime. Sung to the tune of Mary Wore Her Red Dress. 

My Colorful Toothbrushes

I went to the store for a new toothbrush
I took my time
to make up my mind
I didn't want to rush
and I thought
I'll use the green toothbrush, green toothbrush, green toothbrush, I'll use the green tooth brush all day long.

Bean Bags
Puppet On Your Heart
From JBrary, you can watch the full video of the song. I changed the lyrics to beanbags and it went very well.

Put your puppet on your heart, On your heart.
Put your puppet on your heart,On your heart.
Put your puppet on your heart,What a lovely way to start!
Put your puppet on your heart,On your heart.
Put your puppet on your knee…
You’ll both be filled with glee…
Put your puppet on your toes…
Now move it to your nose…

Felt 

Five Little Monkeys

Five little monkeys
Sitting in a tree
Teasing Mister Crocodile,
“You can’t catch me!”
Along comes Crocodile,
Quiet as can be
SNAP!
(Continue the countdown until…)
One little monkey….
instead of Snap say “and he tickled those monkeys until he mad them pee”

Closing
We Clap Our Hands Like This - tune farmer in the dell. Borrowed from Opening/Closing Songs on Storytime Katie who borrowed it from Rhymes for Toddlers on Sunflower Storytime.

We clap our hands like this
We clap out hands like this
We clap our hands with all of our friends
We clap our hands like this.

We blow a kiss like this
We blow a kiss like this
We blow a kiss with all of our friends
We blow a kiss like this.

We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye with all our friends.
We wave goodbye like this.

Craft
I saw a game on Mailbox Magazine that I liked called Smiles All Around. I couldn't get the game board to print so I made my own. Be careful when you put the black dots on your beans to be cavities that you only put the dot on one side of the bean. Otherwise you'll end up at the dentist a lot and your patrons will think you are a goofball.  


Laura

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Preschool Storytime - Winter

Opening 
Hello Everybody, Yes Indeed by Carole Peterson from H.U.M.

Hello to your toes yes indeed yes indeed yes indeed
Hello to your toes yes indeed my darling

Knees – shoulders - friends

Books
Snowzilla by Janet Lawler
Ten on the Sled by Kim Norman

Snow Day! by Patricia Lakin

Songs
I’m a Little Snowman by Carole Peterson from H.U.M.
Snowflake Snowflake by Carole Peterson from H.U.M.(scarves)
Ring Those Bells by Carole Peterson from H.U.M. (bells)

Mr Eric's Jumping Song Mr. Eric and Mr. Michael for Outrageous Orange


Hibernation Song from King County Library System.

The weathers getting cold, so bundle up, bundle up, , bundle up
The weathers getting cold so bundle up, winters coming soon

• The bears in the cave they sleep all day
• The squirrels in the trees gather all the nuts
• The frogs and the toads hop deep in the mud
• The ducks and the geese they fly down south
• The people in the town wear hats and gloves

Bells
Bread and Butter Storytime Chant from Jbrary's Just Add Rhythm Sticks
I edited the lyrics slightly to work with my hand bells.

Bread and butter
Marmalade and Jam
Let's tap our sticks as quiet as we can

...loud as we can
...slow as we can
...fast as we can
...high as we can
...low as we can
...nice as we can

Scarves
Popcorn Song (tune of Frere Jacques, so sing each line twice) from Jbrary

Popcorn Kernels (wave scarves overhead)
In the pot (make their scarves 'disappear' by bunching them up in their fists)
Shake them shake them shake them (shake)
'til they POP (Toss scarves up into the air)

Five Little Snowmen

Flannel Board

The snowman pattern is from Button Snowman.

Five little snowmen riding on the sled
One fell off and bumped his head
I called Frosty and Frosty said
"No more snowmen, riding on that sled!"
Four little snowmen... etc

Closing
We Clap Our Hands Like This - tune farmer in the dell. Borrowed from Opening/Closing Songs on Storytime Katie who borrowed it from Rhymes for Toddlers on Sunflower Storytime.

We clap our hands like this
We clap out hands like this
We clap our hands with all of our friends
We clap our hands like this.

We blow a kiss like this
We blow a kiss like this
We blow a kiss with all of our friends
We blow a kiss like this.

We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye with all our friends.
We wave goodbye like this.

Penguin Craft

Craft 
Our craft was this penguin in his igloo from Mailbox Magazine. Its a great way to use up scrap paper.

Laura

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Preschool Storytime - Thankful Thanksgiving and Food

Opening

Sandwich play set-up

Sit Down, Stand Up Song by Rick Goldin
Everybody stand up
Everybody sit down
Now stand up again
And turn around
Keep standing up
But not for long
Cause this is the sit down stand up sit down stand up sit down song

Books
Mmm... Let's Eat by Libby Koponen

Thank You Bear by Greg Foley

Snack Time for Confetti by Kali Stileman

Songs

Turkey Hop by Carole Peterson from H.U.M.

Apple Tree by Carole Peterson from H.U.M.

Hot Potato by the Wiggles from Yummy Yummy

Little Red Box - Dr. Jean Sings Silly Songs
This song was so short that even though I had it on cd we just sang along together. To my surprise several of the children knew the tune already. The song was so well liked that we continued to sing it while adding other things we loved like our siblings and pets, also chickens. :)

I wish I had a little red box
To put my mommy in.
I'd take her out and go,
Kiss, kiss, kiss, (Kiss in air.)
And put her back again.

Daddy: Hug, hug, hug. (Hug self.)
Good Friends: "How do you do?" (Shake hands).

Drums
Aikendrum by Raffi from Singable Songs for the Very Young
We're Walking to the Drum by Kathy Reid-Naiman from I Love to Hear the Sounds

Beanbags
Please Pass the Peas by Carole Peterson from H.U.M.

Please please please pass the peas!
Thank you, thank you, thank you very much
You're welcome welcome welcome welcome welcome
Good manners are a very nice touch!

Felt Board
Stone Soup retold by Heather Forest

Closing
We Clap Our Hands Like This - tune farmer in the dell. Borrowed from Opening/Closing Songs on Storytime Katie who borrowed it from Rhymes for Toddlers on Sunflower Storytime.

We clap our hands like this, We clap our hands like this
We clap our hands with all of our friends, 

We clap our hands like this.

We blow a kiss like this, We blow a kiss like this
We blow a kiss with all of our friends. We blow a kiss like this.

We wave goodbye like this.We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye with all our friends. We wave goodbye like this

Crafts
We made sandwiches for each other using Mailbox Magazines Food Group template. 

Laura

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Preschool Storytime - Fall/Autumn

Opening
Sit Down, Stand Up Song by Rick Goldin

Everybody stand up
Everybody sit down
Now stand up again
And turn around
Keep standing up
But not for long
Cause this is the sit down stand up sit down stand up sit down song

Books
Acorns Everywhere by Kevin Sherry 
Busy Little Squirrel by Nancy Tafuri

Songs

Put Your Fingers In the Air by Carole Peterson from Baloney
Dance Freeze Melt by Mr. Eric and Mr. Micheal from Rockin' Red

Tree Fell Down by Hap Palmer from Easy Does It

The Apple Tree by Carole Peterson from H.U.M

Windy Day by Carole Peterson for HUM by Highly Usable Music

There was a man in our town
Went for a walk one day
The wind, it blew so very hard
It turned him the other way!

Felt Board

Farmer Brown had five green apples
Hanging on his tree.
Farmer Brown had five green apples
Hanging on his tree.
And he plucked one apple (remove apple from tree)
And ate it hungrily.
Leaving four green apples
Hanging on his tree.


Rhymes
Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel! (bounce up and down on the words)
Shake your bushy tail! (shake it)
Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel!
Shake your bushy tail!
Wrinkle up your little nose! (poke your nose)
Put an nut between your toes (touch your toes)
Grey squirrel, Grey squirrel!
Shake your bushy tail!

Apple Craft

Scarves
Leaves are Twirling - From Fall Leaves by  Sunflower Storytime (Tune: Frere Jacques)

Leaves are twirling, leaves are twirling
All around, all around
They are falling softly, very, very softly
To the ground, to the ground.

Wind, Oh Wind - King County Library System
wind oh wind oh wind oh wind I say
what are you blowing away today?
Scarves scarves scarves I say
I’m blowing the scarves away today

Closing
We Clap Our Hands Like This - tune farmer in the dell
Borrowed from Opening/Closing Songs onStorytime Katie who borrowed it from Rhymes for Toddlers on Sunflower Storytime.

We clap our hands like this

Mailbox Magazine

We clap our hands like this
We clap our hands with all of our friends
We clap our hands like this.

We blow a kiss like this
We blow a kiss like this
We blow a kiss with all of our friends
We blow a kiss like this.

We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye with all our friends.
We wave goodbye like this

Craft
Mailbox Education Center - Apple Pictures an idea for along and short A.


Laura

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Preschool Storytime - Art/Colors

Opening

Sit Down, Stand Up Song by Rick Goldin

Everybody stand up

Everybody sit down

Now stand up again

And turn around

Keep standing up

But not for long

Cause this is the sit down stand up sit down stand up sit down song

Books
Press Here by Hervé Tullet
Mix It Up by Hervé Tullet
Ain't gonna paint no more! by Karen Beaumont - I've seen people present this book with paint brushes so I decided we could pretend to paint on ourselves with the scarves. 

Songs
Put Your Fingers In the Air by Carole Peterson from Baloney
Dance Freeze Melt by Mr. Eric and Mr. Micheal from Rockin' Red
Shake With You by Mr. Eric and Mr. Michael from Bouncy Blue

Felt Board
From The Education Center, Inc. www.themailboxcompanion.comAug/Sept 2004

Red is the color of apples in trees. 

Yellow is the color of bumblebees. 

Orange is the color of carrots in a line. 

Purple is the color of grapes on a vine. 

Blue is the color of a great big lake. 

Green is the color of a garden snake. 

Pink is the color of a little flower. 

Brown is the color of a sand castle tower. 

Black is the color of the sky at night. 

White is the color of the moon so bright. 

Take a moment to look around, 

There are so many colors to be found. 

Scarves
Wind, Oh Wind - King County Library System

wind  oh wind oh wind oh wind I say

what are you blowing away today?

Scarves scarves scarves I say

I’m blowing the scarves away today

Closing 

We Clap Our Hands Like This - tune farmer in the dell
Borrowed from Opening/Closing Songs on Storytime Katie who borrowed it from Rhymes for Toddlers on Sunflower Storytime. 

We clap our hands like this
We clap out hands like this
We clap our hands with all of our friends
We clap our hands like this.

We blow a kiss like this
We blow a kiss like this
We blow a kiss with all of our friends
We blow a kiss like this.

We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye with all our friends.
We wave goodbye like this.

Filmstrip of Don Freeman's A Rainbow of My Own.

Parachute 
The parachute makes my kids really wild,;there is a lot of shrieking and shaking, but not a lot of listening.  I don't play any music like I do with my older kids.  Today we did opposites like Up/Down, Fast/Slow, Loud/Soft.  Then we put all the scarves in the parachute, shook them out and repeated over and over.  At the end we sat on the floor, raised the chute over our heads and waved goodbye to everyone followed by us staying seated to sing the goodbye song listed above. I really liked doing the chute at the end of the program and I think if I don't over plan we can definitely do this again. 

Laura

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