Terrific Threes and Super Storytime: Bears!

Some of you may know that aside from just being a blogger, I'm also a Librarian. Just before the new year, I started a new job as a Youth Services Librarian, which means that aside from just doing teen services, I'm also doing two weekly storytimes (for ages 3-5) and a monthly pajama storytime.

Since I've started doing these storytimes, I've found it immensely helpful to read the "set-up" from other storytimes on other blogs to get ideas...so I want to "pay it forward." I'm going to try to put up as many storytimes as I can so that maybe someone else will get ideas for their storytimes!

Let me know if you have any format suggestions, etc!!

This was one of the Terrific Threes and Super Storytimes I did in March.

 

Theme: Bears!

 

Opening Song: 3's - BINGO/4's - Heggity Peggity

*rhythmically clap hands or slap hands on legs*

Heggity Peggity bumble-bee,

won't you share your name with me,

(Child says name)

(Group repeat's child's name twice)

*repeat for entire group*

 

Read:

The Bear Who Shared by Catherine Rayner 3's/

Bedtime for Bear by Brett Helquist 4's

Spring is Here by Will Hillenbrand

 

 

Action Rhyme: Here is a Cave

Here is a cave

(bend fingers to form cave)

Inside is a bear

(put thumb inside fingers)

Now he comes out

(stick thumb out)

to get some fresh air

(move thumb in circles)

When snow starts to fall

He hurries inside

(pull thumb back in)

His warm little cave

and there he will hide!

 

Action Rhyme:   Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear

Teddy Bear, teddy bear, turn around

Teddy Bear, teddy bear, touch the ground

Teddy Bear, teddy bear, nod your head

Teddy Bear, teddy bear, go to bed

Teddy Bear, teddy bear, reach up high

Teddy Bear, teddy bear, touch the sky

Teddy Bear, teddy bear, touch your shoe

Teddy Bear, teddy bear, I love you

Teddy Bear, teddy bear, wink your eye

Teddy Bear, teddy bear, jump up high

Teddy Bear, teddy bear, touch your knee

Teddy Bear, teddy bear, sit quietly

 

Flannelboard: "Clap Your Hands"

A flannel game made up of pictures of a bear doing various activities like clapping his paws, doing a somersault, or jumping up high.  Each child picks a picture and then the group does the corresponding action!

 

Read: Bears! Bears! Bears! by Bob Barner 3's/

The Bear Who Shared by Catherine Rayner 4's

 

 

Action Rhyme: Bear Loves Honey

The bear loves honey

(hug self)

He thinks it's yummy

(rub tummy)

But, oh please

(shake finger)

Watch out for the bees! BUZZ!

(waggle fingers)

 

Read: Children Make Terrible Pets by Peter Brown

 

 

Dance: "That Bear Makes Me Crazy" from CD, Travel Song Sing Alongs

Craft: Bear Hiding in a Winter Cave

 

Supplies needed:

large size paper plates

(cut in half and with "center" cut out)

blue construction paper

brown construction paper square (precut)

googly eyes

cotton balls

gluesticks

chalk

 

It was so much fun to see the kids create their bears hiding in the caves and then to see how they decorated their scenes.  Some were nighttime. Some were sunny winter days.  Some had angry bears peeking out of the caves!!