Preschool storytime themes

Enhance your circle time lessons with these activities tailored to some of our very favorite children's books.

A blog about children's books, story time, library service, and literacy activities written by a children's librarian turned stay-at-home mom.

Themed story times that you will find on this blog: Baking Breakfast Cars and Trucks / Transportation Christmas Clouds Elephant Farm Flow...

Storytime Theme: Sticky & Slimy – Literacious

In April, I like to do story times about rain, chickens, birds, bunnies, libraries, and jazz. Rain (April Showers) Suggested Books: Rain by Robert Kalan and Donald Crews Rain Dance by Kathi Appelt Rain by Manya Stojic Tap Tap Boom Boom by Elizabeth Bluemle and G. Brian Karas Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema and Beatriz Vidal Extension Activities: Rain, Rain Go Away I Like to See the Raindrops Fall Red Umbrella Keeps Me Dry The Itsy Bitsy Spider Chickens Suggested Books…

I've always loved the Little White Duck song. I especially like this version of the book, but I only have a small board book copy which is hard to use with a large group, and which I believe is missing some of the pages from the larger copy. Sometimes I'll use my classroom's old, worn out, too-small felt set of Little White Duck, along with Ivan Ulz's version of the song. But that set is so old, worn out, and too-small that I had to DO something about it!! So, I did this: Here's a video of…

Best Story Time Ideas for Preschoolers Do you have daily story time with a classroom of kids? Do you run story time at your library? Do you just enjoy reading stories and doing book inspired activities and songs with your child? If you answered YES to any of these questions then these ideas are for …

If you ask my kids what my favorite animal is, my youngest will answer that my favorite mythical creature is a dragon and my favorite real animal is a rabbit. I love that he makes that distinction and that he knows how much I love dragons! Because of that love, I am sharing a dragon […]

These 15 activities based on picture books go great with your kids' favorite stories. Great hands-on activities that help to further explore the books! #earlyliteracy #literacy #picturebooks #preschool #preschoolactivities #art #AGE3 #AGE4 #teaching2and3yearolds

Two amazing children's librarians share their tips and tricks for fun and interactive story times!