Storytime at Summer Camp, Week 2

My weekly storytime at a local summer camp for 5- and 6-year-olds.  It is a short storytime with a simple art project, but sometimes when it is hot outside that is about all the children need.  

 

Books:

Dog On a Frog by Kes & Claire Gray, illustrated by Jim Field
I am a Dragon by Sabina Hahn 

Craft activity:

Frog headbands to color and cut.  

Storytime Song Videos Round 3

Two more of the storytime song videos I created before my work furlough finally made their way to YouTube.  I was learning so much working on these videos.  I wish I had time to make more before I left. 

Wheels on the Bus

Shake Your Shakers (A song I created just for this video!)

Storytime Song Videos Round 2

As I continue to learn how to work from home and conduct library programs online, I created two more storytime song videos.

Open-Shut Them

Tommay and Tammy Thumb

https://wordart.com/create 

Musical Rhyming Preschool Storytime

Storytime for 3 to 5 year olds:

• Opening - "A Tooty Ta" from Dance Like This by Mr. Al

• Color literacy activity magnet board - Little Mouse House

Children guess which colored house the mouse is hiding under.

• Book #1 - Max Found Two Sticks by Brian Pinkney

• Stand-up activity - "Grand Old Duke of York" from Toddlers on Parade by Kimbo

• Activity - "Shake My Sillies Out" from The Singable Songs Collection by Raffi

  

• Book #2 - Miss Mary Mack by Mary Ann Hoberman, illustrated by Nadine Bernard Westcott

• Book #3 -  Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault, illustrated by Lois Ehlert

• Closing - Use rhythm sticks to the song "The Mice Go Marching" from Rhythms On Parade by Hap Palmer

 

 

• Art experience - Create personal, quiet sounding rhythm sticks using craft sticks. The sticks can be decorated with embroidery thread and color marker pens. 

• Reflection - I put together this storytime 10 minutes before storytime was to start. My coworker made the decision she was too sick to do her storytime 15 minutes before opening the doors.  She was already set up, so I looked over her books and then pulled some songs off my iPod that fit her theme. This is what I came up with.  With more time to plan, I probably would not have used these three books together.  The flow seemed a little stilted.  I definitely would have chosen a different flannelboard. But I made it work. :) 

Rhyming Like Dr. Seuss Toddler Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

• Book #1 – Dr Seuss's Sleep Softly Book (touch & feel board book)

• Stand-up Activity – "The Night I Had a Dream" action song from Whaddaya Think of That? by Laurie Berkner

• Bridge - Open, Shut Them (fingerplay)

Open, shut them
(open and close hands)
Open, shut them
Give a little clap (clap)
Open, shut them

Open, shut them
Put them in your lap
(put hands in lap)

Creep them, creep them
Under your chin
(creep fingers up chest)
Open your mouth, but don't put them in
(do as words say)

Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Give a little clap
Open shut them
Open shut them
Put them in your lap 

• Flannelboard - Four Jedds in Bed (counting rhyme written by Carol Hopkins)

Here is a Jedd

His color is RED

He likes to play with a sled

He has ONE pom-pom on his bed

Here is another Jedd

Her color is PINK

She likes to play in the sink

She has TWO pom-poms on her bed

Here is another Jedd

His color is BROWN

He will not play with a frown

He has THREE pom-poms on his bed

Here is my last Jedd

Her color is YELLOW

She will play on her cello

She has FOUR pom-poms on her bed

• Book #2 – Jamberry by Bruce Degen

• Activity – "I'm a Little Teapot" from This Little Piggy and Other Rhymes to Sing and Play by Jane Holen, Adam Stemple, et al.  

• Closing - Scarves to the song "Popcorn Calling Me" from Buzz Buzz by Laurie Berkner

• Art Experience – Glue a craft foam Jedd head onto a cardstock rectangle along with some pom-poms to make a Jedd bed