Sunday, March 13, 2022

This Week at Preschool Storytime: Vehicles!




Additional details follow the storytime outline.

Sing: Welcome Song

Read: Let’s Go for a Drive by Mo Willems

Sing: If You’re Happy and You Know It

Rhyme: Trashy Town flannelboard Story 
(based on the book by Andrea Griffing Zimmerman and David Clemesha)

Read: Moo by David LaRochelle

Sing: Tiny Tim (March Song of the Month)

Rhyme: Little Duck, Little Duck

Read: Animals Go Vroom! by Abi Cushman

Sing: ABC song

Write: LetterSchool App--Make the Letter I

Play: Endless Alphabet App--I is for Invention


Rhyme: Thank You Rhyme

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Details:

  • See all sorts of fun flannelboard activities for transportation themes on Flannel Friday's transportation board on Pinterest.
  • I don't use Toot Toot Beep Beep by Emma Garcia for my preschool storytime, but it is a great choice for toddlers.

Thursday, March 10, 2022

This Week at Preschool Storytime: Bathtime!



Elephants in the Bathtub, Tiny Tim, and Five Little Ducks can all be seen in the Kenosha Public Library's Six Minute Storytime - Bathtime. Full lyrics follow the storytime outline.


Sing: Welcome Song


Read: Get Out of My Bath


Sing: If You're Happy and You Know It


Rhyme: Elephants in the Bathtub flannelboard story


Read: How Do You Take a Bath? 


Sing: Tiny Tim


Sing: Five Little Ducks on flannelboard


Read: Bubble Bath Pirates


Sing: ABC song


Write: LetterSchool App--Make the Letter “S”


Talk: Endless Alphabet App--Word of the Day “Steam”


Music and Movement: Goldfish by Laurie Berkner


Rhyme: Thank You Rhyme



Complete rhymes and lyrics:


Elephants in the Bathtub


Start with one elephant in the bathtub.


One elephant in the bathtub, 

Going for a swim.

Knock, knock (clap twice)

Splash, splash (slap knees twice)

Come on in! (motion with hands)

Call a specific color so a child can bring 

their elephant up and put it on the board.


Repeat for each color until you have called all the elephants.


Five elephants in the bathtub,

Going for a swim.

CRASH, CRASH!

SPLASH, SPLASH, SPLASH, SPLASH!

They all fell in!


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Tiny Tim


I had a little turtle,

His name is Tiny Tim.

I put him in the bathtub,

To see if he could swim.


He drank up all the water,

He ate up all the soap.

And now he's home sick in bed,

with bubbles in his throat.


Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles,

Bubbles, bubbles, POP!


Bubbles, bubbles, bubbles,

Bubbles, bubbles, POP!


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Five Little Ducks


Five Little Ducks


Five little ducks went out one day 

Over the hill and far away

Mother duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack"

But only four little ducks came back

1, 2, 3, 4


Four little ducks went out one day

Over the hill and far away

Mother duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack"

But only three little ducks came back

1, 2, 3


Three little ducks went out one day

Over the hill and far away

Mother duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack"

But only two little ducks came back

1, 2


Two little ducks went out one day

Over the hill and far away

Mother duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack"

But only one little duck came back

1


One little duck went out one day

Over the hill and far away

Mother duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack"

But none of the five little ducks came back


Sad mother duck went out one day

Over the hill and far away

Mother duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack"

And all of five little ducks came back







Monday, February 28, 2022

This Week at Preschool Storytime: P-I-Z-Z-A




Sing: Welcome Song

Read: Hi, Pizza Man! by Virginia Walter

Sing: If You’re Happy and You Know It

Talk: Pizza Pieces Flannelboard Story
Six pieces of pizza, 
But we’re not done...
Daddy’s really hungry, (pretend to eat the piece)
So he just ate one.
(continue with 4-3-2-1, making up people or animals to give pieces to)

No more pieces of pizza
But we’re not done!
Everyone’s still hungry
Let’s make another one!
(count the pieces as you put them back on the board to make another pizza)

Read: Pete's a Pizza by William Steig

Rhyme: Pizza Man Action Rhyme
Pizza man, pizza man turn around.
Pizza man, pizza man touch the ground.
Pizza man, pizza man give the dough a toss.
Pizza man, pizza man ladle on the sauce.
Pizza man, pizza man sprinkle on the cheese.
Pizza man, pizza man touch your knees.
Pizza man, pizza man put it in the oven.
Pizza man, pizza man press the oven button.
Pizza man, pizza man rub your tummy.
Pizza man, pizza man eat some pizza!  Yummy!

Sing: P-I-Z-Z-A Flannelboard Story (to the tune of B-I-N-G-O)
I had a pizza big and round
And all of it was mine-O
P-I-Z-Z-A, P-I-Z-Z-A, P-I-Z-Z-A, 
And all of it was mine-O!
(Clap out each letter. Sing the song more than once. Try pointing to each letter as you sing it.

Read: Grandpa and Me by Karen Katz

Sing: ABC song

Write: LetterSchool App--Make the Letter Y

Play and Talk: Endless Alphabet App--Word of the Day “Yucky"