I < 3 You Preschool Storytime Plan

Because another staff member and I take turns with presenting preschool storytime at her branch, I don't always get to do the Valentine's Day theme. This year I did.  What fun!
Click the link for the I < 3 Valentine's Day theme.

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As I've mentioned recently, I have a Cricut Explore cutting machine.  I love using it for a variety of crafts - including for materials to use at work.  For the Valentine's Day preschool storytime craft I made bees and hearts on my Circut. I assembled the bees before the program, as we can have as many as 24 children - many younger three-year-olds.  I also wrote "mine." on all of the hearts.  Everyone enjoyed this easy and adorable craft.

Over the Rainbow Preschool Storytime Plan

As a general theme for St. Patrick's Day, we decided to go Over the Rainbow.  I incorporated a holiday themed book into my storytime plan (There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Clover! by Lucille Colandro), but mostly focused on colorful stories and rhymes. 

To download and view the full preschool storytime plan, click here. Please note, to view the files, you will need a version of Adobe Acrobat Reader (get it free here).

Our craft was a fairly simple one.  Using a lovely sky blue colored paper, I copied this rainbow (click here for pdf) that I made a few years ago. The kids could then glue torn pieces of colored paper onto the appropriate bands.  The kids ha a lot of fun with it and several of the adults were thrilled that I incorporated the appropriate number of bands and included indigo.

The finished product.  I made some extras and put them out as a Make-and-Take.

Happy Holidays Preschool storytime plan

My last storytime of 2014 was a holiday theme.  (Miss Brindi's was Santa Stories and fell the week after mine).  In honor of Christmas, during our Music Moment we rocked to Run Rudolph Run sung by Chuck Berry.  The kids had a blast making wreaths from die cut hands.

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Bunny Hope Preschool Storytime plan

We had a hopping good time with the Bunny Hop themed storytime.

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Mom's the Word Preschool Storytime Plan

Mom's the Word for this preschool storytime!

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Holiday fun - two storytimes!

Here's a treat - two holiday storytime plans!  

Thanksgiving - Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving Storytime Plan
Cute turkey craft

For Christmas - Sing a Seasonal Story

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Monster Mash

Happy Halloween!!

Halloween can be a little tricky when planning preschool storytimes, as some parents object to the holiday.  Often they will choose to not attend that week.  While I respect their views, I'm a little saddened that the children miss out on the fun.  There are a lot of cute storybooks to use during this time of year!  

This year we picked monsters as our general them.  I had a hard time picking only three books for storytime!  Click here for the storytime plan.

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A Bonus!! Click here for the Monsters Under the Bed blog post.

Stars and Stripes Preschool storytime

Preschool storytimes at my main location is held on Friday mornings.  This summer one of those Fridays was July 5.  Our theme that week was "Stars and Stripes".  Click on the link for my full storytime plan. 

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Mommy and Me storytime

Happy Mother's Day to all mamas - whether your child is human or of another animal variety. 

On Friday I shared a mommy themed storytime with the preschool gang.  Click here for the handout.


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Books for Mother’s Day

It’s nearly Mother’s Day!  Here are twenty picture books featuring moms.

• Are You My Mother? by P.D. Eastman
• Bedtime for Mommy by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
• A Chair for My Mother by Vera B. Williams
• I Love My Mommy by Giles Andreae
• In Our Mothers' House by Patricia Polacco
• Is Your Mama A Llama? by Deborah Guarino
• The Kiss Box by Bonnie Verburg
• Mommy Hugs by Anne Gutman and Georg Hallensleben
• Mommy Hugs by Karen Katz
• Mommy Mine by Tim Warnes
• Mommy, Carry Me Please! by Jane Cabrea
• Mommy, Mama, and Me by Lesléa Newman
• A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza
• Mother, Mother, I Want Another by Maria Polushkin Robbins
• My Mommy Hung the Moon: A Love Story by Jamie Lee Curtis and Laura Cornell
• My Monster Mama Loves Me So by Laura Leuck
• 31 Uses for a Mom by Harriet Ziefert
• Where's My Mommy? by Jo Brown
• Where's My Mommy? by Carol Roth
• While Mama had a Quick Little Chat by Amy Reichert

Seeing Green - Storytime Plan

Every mid-March we do a green themed storytime.  It's an open-ended topic that allows us to celebrate Saint Patrick's Day without having to find decent holiday books for preschoolers.  Trust me.  It can be difficult!  Holiday books quickly check out as a holiday approaches, making it difficult to find an available title in the system.  Then there are the books that are just plain blah.  Using a more general theme means we call still share the holiday by using fingerplays and, if we can find a good one, reading one holiday story.  

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Grandparents R Great

Grandparents' Day is celebrated in early September.  This year it is on Sept. 9.  A few years ago we did a grandparents themed storytime.

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Monsters under the bed - Storytime plans

 Another from the Way Back Machine, a Monster storytime plan from 2005! 

And a similar theme from a recent storytime, Hiding Under the Bed.

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Mommy and Me Preschool Storytime Plan

As I mentioned in my previous post, I'm trying something new.  Here's my latest attempt at sharing my storytime plans - this time as a PDF link. To view the file, you will need a version of Adobe Acrobat Reader (get it free here).

Mommy and Me preschool storytime

Edited to add: 

Yay! It works!  So expect more storytime plans in the future.