Opening song: Good Morning/Buenos Días (See My Storytime Set for song lyrics)
Opening fingerplay: One Little Finger
Literacy: The Red Hen by Ed and Rebecca Emberley followed by a feltboard Red Hen story.
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| She baked a cake and iced it all by herself. |
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| She decorated the cake all by herself. |
With the feltboard Red Hen story, I had cue cards that had pictures of a cat, rat and frog on the front and what they say on the back. I held these up when it was time for the animals to speak and the audience said their lines along with me. I like to include a language element where ever I can and I saw this as the perfect opportunity. The cat said: "¡Yo no! Dice el gato." The rat said: "Not I!" said the rat." The frog said: "Ribbit, said the frog."
Song/movement break: Open Shut Them
Literacy: Potato Joe by Keith Baker
New song/movement break: One Potato Clap (can also be a bounce, too)
1 Potato, 2 Potato
(Make
your hands into fists and stack them on top of each other while counting.)
3 Potato, 4!
5 Potato, 6 Potato
(Make
your hands into fists and stack them on top of each other while counting.)
7 Potato, More!
8 Potato, 9 Potato
(Make
your hands into fists and stack them on top of each other while counting.)
Count them up to 10…
(Hold
up all 10 fingers)
I will count all the
potatoes and I will count them all again!
(Clap along with the words. I end up
clapping 8 times.)
Literacy: Orange Pear Apple Bear by Emily Gravett
Closing fingerplay: Two Little Blackbirds
Closing song/movement: Hokey Pokey
Post storytime activity: I usually choose between an art activity or a physical activity, but this morning we did both.
Parachute play: We sang Ring Around the Rosie and Fishies in the Ocean.
Art activity: Cotton ball clouds with tissue paper streamers. I didn't take a picture of the final product, but its such an easy craft I think you can get it just from my description. This is the cloud template I used. I gave the kids glue sticks and cotton balls to glue onto the clouds, which I printed on white cardstock and passed out as is. Then I gave them some long tissue paper strips to glue on for rainbow rays. Voila!
