Thump! Thump! Thump! ROAR!!!! We read books about….DINOSAURS! Mr. T joined us for storytime. (Don’t worry – he’s a vegetarian T-REX…) Below are some of the stories & activities we explored. For a printable list of ALL the songs, rhymes, tickles & bounces we shared, click here: Infant Songs-Rhymes-Dinosaurs Turn the cut-out pages and […]
Toddler Storytime: Forest
Published on :Last week’s Toddler Storytime, our last of the Winter Session, was all about the forest. We put together a flannelboard picture out of shapes, and I based it on the book Orange, Triangle, Fox by Sarah Jones: We played I Spy and talked about forest animals. Then we sang the […]
Toddler Storytime: Swamp
Published on :Yesterday we read books, sang songs and did fingerplays about animals that live in the swamp! First, we made a picture with shapes–circles, half-circles, triangles, rectangles, and a trapezoid and a pentagon–showing some of the animals that live in a swamp or wetland. I lost my picture of all the […]
Toddler Storytime: Savanna
Published on :Today’s Toddler Storytime was about the grasslands or savanna, and we started out by putting together circles, rectangles, diamonds, triangles and hearts to make these animals from the savannas of Africa: We sang “Open Shut Them” and then guessed at the animals hiding in my “I Spy” box. After that […]
Toddler Storytime: Ponds
Published on :On Tuesday we explored the splishy, splashy world of ponds and wetlands. It was a lot of fun because with a Pond theme, there were lots of traditional children’s songs I could use and we sang them with a CD. First we made a beautiful picture out of ovals, rectangles, […]
Toddler Storytime: Farm!
Published on :Yesterday’s Toddler Storytime was all about animals on the farm. We made the faces of these animals with shapes: We sang Old MacDonald Had a Farm and then read a book called Dinnertime for Chickies by Janee Trasler, in which a pig and a sheep are struggling to get the […]
Toddler Storytime: Poles
Published on :Today’s Toddler Storytime was about polar animals in the Arctic and Antarctic regions! We welcomed a few new families from the waitlist, hooray! We started storytime with another picture made out of shapes. They are a walrus, a penguin, an arctic fox and a polar bear: And we read an […]
Toddler Storytime: Jungle!
Published on :Today’s toddler storytime was about the jungle. We made our shapes into animal faces: We read the book Tiny Little Fly by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Kevin Waldron. Rosen is very good at writing books that have the right balance of lyric and repetition to make them fun to […]
Toddler Storytime: Ocean!
Published on :Today’s Toddler Storytime was all about the ocean. We made an ocean scene with jellyfish, kelp, starfish, swimming fishes and a crab: We sang “Open Shut Them” and then read a sweet book by Scott Magoon titled Breathe. The pictures of the little beluga whale swimming through the ocean and […]
Toddler Storytime: Gardens… and Bugs!
Published on :At today’s storytime we started by creating a lovely garden out of shapes–hearts, diamonds, triangles, rectangles, ovals and circles came together to make flowers and a butterfly: We also played with some beautiful Folkmanis bug puppets and sang a rhyme about butterflies, ladybugs and bees: Butterfly, butterfly, Fly up high, […]