Storytime, Winter

New story time sessions have started! I am down to two sessions a week-Wednesday nights and Thursday mornings. This session runs 13 weeks. All of our storytimes are birth to age 5, so there is a wide range of age, activity and comprehension levels. I try to choose shorter books, books that I can sing, books in rhyme or humorous books to share with these groups.

Our sessions usually run 35 to 45 minutes, the first 15 to 20 minutes are stories, rhymes, songs, flannels and the occasional puppet. The last 15 or so minutes we do a craft. We have a divided room with a half wall to separate our rooms, so we move from one area to the next as i play transition music. I know there has been discussion on other blogs about crafts in storytime, but it works well for us. This gives the parents the ability to chat with other parents and lets the kids be creative. I try to have open-ended crafts or multi-part crafts, and the kids really enjoy them.

Plan:

hello song-If You're Ready for a Story, Take a Seat from Miss Meg's Storytime.

Boots song from Laurie Berkner.

B-O-O-T-S boots! 
B-O-O-T-S black boots In my black boots, in my black boots I stomp around in my black boots In my boots (stomp, stomp) In my boots (stomp, stomp) I stomp around in my boots 






Goodbye song from Preschool of Rock.

Craft: I used the patterns from kizclub and cut out a pants and jacket pattern. I used the black and white outline, that way the kids can color the frog and then add his winter clothes.


*I had three under 2s at my Wednesday evening storytime, so we skipped Froggy and did a board book instead. I feel so horrible, one of the kids started to cry during the goodbye song! We had to stop the song and explain that we were just saying goodbye to the stories-but boy, did I sure feel terrible!