Storytime Template - Toddler
Toddler Storytime: Topic
Updated: -1/8/21
Introduction: This Storytime is developed specially for children two and three years old and their caregivers. On this blog you will find various books, songs, rhymes, fingerplays, socialization, and crafts ideas. Each session of toddler storytime consists of a variety of activities that incorporate reading, writing, singing, talking, and playing.
Date: Every Wednesday
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Age Range: 2 to 3 years old
Letter and/or Color: letter B
Skills Supported: Background knowledge
Frequency: Weekly
Attendance: 20 children and their parent/caregiver
Staff or Volunteer Needed: 1 staff member, 1 volunteer
Format: Registration is required.
Books Shared: (from storytime)
Other Books to Display on Book Cart at Storytime:
What’s the Matter, Bunny Blue? By Nicola Smee
Bunny Fun by Sarah Weeks
Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes
Bobby Baboon’s Banana Be-Bop by Barbara deRubertis
Storytime Preparation:
See Craft for prep.
1. Storytime Introduction: Welcome to Toddler Storytime. My name is Ms. Debbie. I am so glad to see you today. Our storytime is designed to be participated by everyone. We will share books, rhymes, and songs with your children. We encourage everyone to participate, but no worries if this doesn't happen. Sometimes when a child sees you participate, they might join in, but if your child is not in the mood, that is okay too. Our storytime can tend to be a little chaotic, but that is okay as well. If your child becomes disruptive, please take them outside the program room and then join us again when your child has settled down. This is normal, it is part of the process. So, let's start with our opening song.
2. Opening Song:
(Credit: No Time For Flash Cards. 2016, January 30).
Lyrics:
How Many Friends are Here Today?
How many friends are here today?
How many friends are here today?
Let's count it out!
Let's clap it out!
Let's dance it out!
There are ______ friends on their feet!
Now it's time to take your seat!
3. Early Literacy Aside: Explain:
Today's early literacy skill is focusing on background knowledge. Background knowledge is information that children are taught and gain through experience. Researchers have found that it is easier for children with strong background knowledge to understand what they read when they are older. (Ghoting, S.N and Martin-Diaz, P. (2013). Storytimes for Everyone: Developing young children's language and literacy. p. 229.
4. Theme Talk:
Today our storytime is about bunnies and the letter B.
5. Action Song:
“Little Rabbit”
I saw a little rabbit go hop, hop, hop
I told that little rabbit to stop, stop, stop
He wiggled his ears and crinkled his nose
And wiggled, wiggled, wiggled right down to his toes.
CREDIT: Storytime Katie. (2015). Retrieved from https://storytimekatie.com/2011/04/25/bunny-storytime/
6. Information Book: Bb by Bela Davis
7. Shakers Shaker Song
Sung to the tune of “London Bridge
“Shake your shakers, shake, shake, shake,
Shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
Shake your shakers, shake, shake, shake,
Shake your shakers!
Other Verses
Shake your shakers high, high, high,
Shake your shakers low, low, low,
Shake your shakers fast, fast, fast,
Shake your shakers slow, slow, slow"
(Mulvenna, L. (2013, January 17)
8. Early Literacy: In order to learn, children need a lot of repetition. They need to hear words over and over again as you are doing things together. They also like you to read favorite books read over and over again. It may get boring for you, but their brains need repetition to learn language. So go ahead read it again!
9. Movement Activity:
If you’re hoppy and you know it, hop around
If you’re hoppy and you know it, hop around
If you’re hoppy and you know it
And you really want to show it
If you’re hoppy and you know it, hop around.
…hop around
If you’re hoppy and you know it, shake your tail
If you’re hoppy and you know it, shake your tail
If you’re hoppy and you know it
And you really want to show it
If you’re hoppy and you know it, shake your tail
If you’re hoppy and you know it, stomp your feet
If you’re hoppy and you know it, stomp your feet
If you’re hoppy and you know it
And you really want to show it
If you’re hoppy and you know it, stomp your feet
If you’re hoppy and you know it, wiggle your nose
If you’re hoppy and you know it, wiggle your nose
If you’re hoppy and you know it
And you really want to show it
If you’re hoppy and you know it, wiggle your nose
or for a younger crowd:
Hop With Me
To the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Hop, hop, hop along
Or bounce on someone's knee
HIgher, and higher and higher and higher
Bunny-hop with me!
Credit: Sunflower Storytime (2011, April 20). Hop Like a Bunny. Retrieved from https://sunflowerstorytime.com/2011/04/20/hop-like-a-bunny/
10. Book: Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
11. Song:
The More We Read Together [Tune: "The More We Get Together" ]
Lyrics:
The more we read together, together, together.
The more we read together, the better it is!
'Cause reading and singing and talking together,
is how you learn the six skills for reading by six.
(Johnson County Library, 2011, February 8).
12. Activity
Prep: Hide plastic easter eggs eye level for children around the library. Inside eggs put in stickers, erasers or other non-food items in each egg.
Children will stand up and hop into the main library. Children will be told they can hunt for (one) Easter egg. Afterwards, children will go back to program room and to to story rug with their egg. Who can tell me the color of their egg?
13. Early Literacy Aside: By spending time talking to your child about their world, you are giving them the background knowledge they need to understand it. If they understand it in life, they will also understand it when they come upon it in a book.
(Ghoting, N.G and Martin-Diaz, P. (2013). Storytimes for Everyone: Developing young children's language and literacy).
14. Good-bye Song
(L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, 2014, September 28).
Goodbye Bubbles:
(Librarian/staff associate will blow bubbles while the parents/caregiver and children sing the song.
Lyrics:
Goodbye Bubbles
Goodbye Bubbles
Time to Go
Time to Go
I will help you
I will help you
With a blow
With a blow
15. Storytime Activity Ideas:
Duck! Rabbit! Craft
Children will make a craft that reinforces the book, Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal.
Prep: One per child.
Print and cut out Duck, Rabbit Template on white cardstock.
Print out poem and cut out.
Supplies:
Cardstock
White copy paper
crayons
Popsicle stick
Glue Stick
Crayons
Cotton ball
Credit: Librarianmade. (n.d). Retrieved from http://librarianmade.blogspot.com/2010/09/duckrabbit.html
Directions:
Bunny Side:
Color the bunny ears and draw a nose and whiskers.
Glue on cotton ball for tail.
Duck Side:
On duck side, color the beak and draw the eyes.
Glue on one feather.
Note: If you want you could give the child goggly eyes. [They love them]
16. Takeaway:
Parents/caregivers are given the Early Literacy Newsletter for Toddlers.
The newsletters are developed around the specific program so they usually have to be tweaked every time we run the program. Additionally, parents get a Letter B worksheet.
Notes: None
References:
Memorial Public Library. (2014, September 28). Goodbye bubbles. [Video]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/RXXQqVx0gT0
Johnson County Library. (2011, February 8).
Shake Shake Shake [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://lisaslibraryland.blogspot.com/2013/07/shake-shake-shake.html
No Time For Flash Cards. (2016, January 30). Circle Time Chant. [Video]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/ECHXNMFVumM
Storytime Kit Craft
Craft: Bunny
Bunny Craft:
Supplies:
Paper plate
Two white outer ears
Two pink inner ears
Two pink pipe cleaners
Pom pom
Directions:
Glue inner ear to outer ear.
Attach ears to paper plate with glue
Glue on fuzzy nose [pom pom] to center of plate
Attach whiskers with stapler under nose
Draw eyes and mouth onto plate
Directions:
Take your craft pieces out of the plastic bag and lay out on the table.
● Paste your blank kite onto the blue “sky” background.
● Have child place the correct size triangle onto the kite, then use a glue stick to glue onto the kite.
● Have your child draw a tail of the kite in the book. Color it to match the colors from the book. (yellow and gold]
Storytime Kit Directions for Parent
Other Crafts:
Bunny Bookmark
Material Needed:
Bunny Bookmark template printed in color on white cardstock.
Glue stick
Scissors
Optional scoring tool
Directions:
Cut out the rectangular outer shapes of the bunny.
Fold along the center line and glue together with a glue stick as depicted in Exhibit 1.
Exhibit 1
Cut around the bunny shapes on the front a shown in Exhibit 2.
Exhibit 2:
Fold the neck tab down and glue the head into place as seen in Exhibit 2 and Exhibit 3.
Exhibit 3
Done!
Credit: Kate: The Craft Train. (2021, March 15). printable bunny bookmark. Retrieved from https://www.thecrafttrain.com/printable-bunny-bookmark/?ck_subscriber_id=1224119219
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