Preschool Storytime – Clouds

Saturday wasn’t very cloudy, but that didn’t mean we couldn’t have fun reading about clouds! That’s just what we did at our Preschool Storytime.

Books We Shared

Before announcing our storytime theme to everyone, we read the book It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw. The kids had a fun time recognizing the different shapes highlighted in the book — and it was a great way to announce what it actually was making all those shapes!

We also read about a cloud who always dreamt of serving his community in The Police Cloud by Christoph Neimann. When the cloud tries to be a police cloud, however, things don’t work out exactly as he had hoped. Will he ever find a place to be useful?

Flannelboard Stories

For our first flannelboard story, we did a change-up on the song B-I-N-G-O, with C-L-O-U-D-Y:

C-L-O-U-D-Y

(to the tune of “BINGO”)
Today the clouds are in the sky
and cloudy is the weather
C-L-O-U-D-Y
C-L-O-U-D-Y
C-L-O-U-D-Y
and cloudy is the weather

(turn over one of the clouds so the letter is no longer showing)
Today the clouds are in the sky
and cloudy is the weather
clap-L-O-U-D-Y
clap-L-O-U-D-Y
clap-L-O-U-D-Y
and cloudy is the weather.

Continue until all clouds are turned over and you are clapping six times in a row.

(rhyme taken from PreSchool Express)

This can also be changed to other types of weather: Sunny! Windy! Rainy! Have fun exploring other options with your child.

Later in storytime, the audience got to be the wind for our rhyme Five Little Clouds

Five Little Clouds

5 little clouds up in the sky
Drifting, floating way up high.
When a big gust of wind came blowing through
(everyone blows big, wave hands back and forth)
One disappeared from the sky so blue. (remove cloud from flannelboard)

Continue counting down until 0 clouds are left.

(rhyme taken from Mrs. Andre’s Library)

Movements

Try these fun rhymes at home with your child!

I’m a Little Cloud
(to the tune of: “I’m a Little Teapot”)
I’m a little cloud, in the sky (have fingertips meet in circle above head)
You can find me way up high (stretch arms up high and stand on tippy toes)
Sometimes I’m puffy (put hands on hips to make you “puffy”)
sometimes stretched out. (hands out at your sides)
I just love to float about. (move side to side with hands still stretched out)

(rhyme by Jean Warren, taken from Preschool Express)

Movie We Watched

We watched a chapter from The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, where Pooh, driven by his love of honey, decides to try and trick the bees by pretending to be a little black rain cloud.