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!!

Terrific Three's and Super Storytime: Cows!

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 February.

 

Theme: Cows!

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:

Millie Waits for the Mail by Alexander Steffensmeler

Adventures of Cow Too by Cow

 

Action Song:   Cows (Wheels on the Bus)

                          The mouth of a cow goes moo, moo, moo...

                          all around the farm

                                     The tail of a cow goes swish, swish, swish...

                                     The Ears of a cow go flip, flip, flop...

                                     The Hooves of a cow go clip, clip, clop...

 

Action Rhyme: Two Mother Cows

                           Two mother cows lived on a farm

                           (show thumbs)

                           Each had a baby to keep from harm

                           (show pinkies)

                           This little baby was black and white

                           (wiggle one pinkie)

                           This little baby was black as night

                           (wiggle the other pinkie)

                           Both little babies loved to play

                           (wiggle both pinkies)

                           As they ran and they frolicked in the fields all day

                          (swing pinkies from side to side)

 

Flannelboard: "Black Cow, Black Cow, What Do You See?"

*Based on the Eric Carle rhyming book, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?

 

Read:

Too Many Pears by Jackie French

 



Action Rhyme: This Little Cow

                            This little cow eats grass

                            (chomp with fingers)

                            This little cow stomps hay

                            (stomp feet)

                            This little cow dances round

                            (turn in a circle)

                            This little cow runs away

                            (run in place)

                            This little cow does nothing but lay

                            (hands by face as if sleeping)

                            and sleep all day...MOO!!

                            (jump to scare them)

Action Song: Five Cows in the Bed

                       Five cows in the bed and the little one said MOOve over, MOOve over...

                       So they all MOOved over and one fell out... Ahhh!

                       (repeat until only one cow is left)

                       One cow in the bed and the little one said...Hee, Hee, Hee...All mine, Goodnight!

Read:

The Cow Who Clucked by Denise Fleming 3's/Sake's Alive! A Cattle Drive by Karma Wilson 4's

Dance: "I'm A Cow" from CD, Big Red Car by The Wiggles

Craft: Paper Plate Cow

 

Supplies needed:

large size paper plates

large pink construction paper circles (precut)

black construction paper ears (precut)

yellow construction paper horns (precut)

gluesticks

crayons

It was so much fun to see the kids glue these together and then add their own details with the crayons. We had some smiling cows, some frowny ones, some with spots, and some with crazy colors!!

 

Terrific Threes and Super Storytime: Dads!

So, I've decided to try something new. 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 February.

Theme: Dads!

Opening Song: 3's - BINGO/4/5'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:

3's - My Dad by Anthony Browne/4's - My Dad's Job by Peter Glassman
My Father the Dog by Elizabeth Bluemle

Action Rhyme:

Here is the little boy ready for his nap              

(hold up 1 finger)

Lay him down on his daddy's lap                       

(lay finger in other palm)

Cover him up so he won't peep                         

(close hand over fingers)

Rock him til he's fast asleep                               

(rock hands)

 

       

Action Song:

5 little ducks went out one day, over the hills, far away,

Father duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack,"

but only 4 little ducks came back...

*repeat until you get to 1 little duck*

1 little duck went out one day, over the hills, far away,

Father duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack,"

but none of the little ducks came back...

Father duck went out one day, over the hills, far away,

Father duck said, "Quack, quack, quack, quack," 

and ALL of the little ducks came back!!

Read:

3's - Daddies by  Lila Prap/4's - My Dad by Anthony Browne

Flannelboard: The Pet
*A story about a child that goes to the zoo to look for a pet, and decides that Daddy makes the best "pet" of all.*

 

Action Song: My Daddy Works with One Hammer

My daddy works with one hammer, one hammer,

one hammer, (pound one fist on ground)

My daddy works with one hammer,

and now he works with two! (pound two fists on ground)

My daddy works with two hammers, two hammers,

two hammers, (pound two fists on ground)

My daddy works with two hammers,

and now he works with three! (pound two fists and stomp one foot)

My daddy works with three hammers, three hammers, 

three hammers, (pound two fists and stomp one foot)

My daddy works with three hammers,

and now he works with four! (pound two fists and stomp both feet)

My daddy works with four hammers, four hammers,

four hammers, (pound two fists and stomp both feet)

My daddy works with four hammers,

and now he needs a nap! (collapse onto ground)

Read:

The Daddy Book by Todd Parr

Dance: "I Caught Daddy Watching Cartoons" from CD, Big Rock Rooster

Craft: Collage Tie

Supplies needed:

tagboard (precut into simple tie shape)

string (precut)

collage pieces (precut) *we used old wallpaper samples*

gluesticks

single hole punch

It was so much fun to see the kids decorate these "ties" and then either wear them home or vow to make their Dads wear them!!