Toddler Storytime: I see with my eyes.
Updated: December 15, 2020
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. The skill supported in this program is vocabulary.
Date: Every Wednesday
Time: 10:30 a.m.
Age Range: 2 to 3 years old
Letter and/or Color: Letter B
Skills Supported: Vocabulary
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:
Time To Sleep written by Denise Fleming
Old Bear by Kevin Henkes
Hibernation by Margaret Hall
Bear Has a Story to Tell written by Philip C. Stead
My H Book by Jane Monocure
Storytime Preparation:
Print out magnifying glass template on white cardstock.
Cut one out for each child.
Cut a square piece of plastic for each magnifying glass.
Print out Hibernating animals from powerpoint slides below:
Laminate and cut out animals. Glue popsicle stick to bottom to make a puppet. You will use this later in the program again.
Hide hibernating animals around the children's department.
STORYTIME BEGINS AT CRAFT TABLE INSTEAD OF STORY RUG.
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.
2. Opening Song:
Source: No Time For Flash Cards. (2016, January 30). Circle Time Chant. [Video]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/ECHXNMFVumM
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!
Today, we are going to start with the craft. When we are done we are going to go on a hunt. We are going to find animals that are hiding in a safe place in the library (children's room). All these animals are hibernating. What does hibernate mean?
When the weather gets cold, some animals curl up in a safe place until the weather begins to get warm again - in the Spring. Can anyone tell me an animal that hibernates?
(bears, ground hog, bumble bees, snake, skunk, bat, box turtle, and deer mouse are examples).
Craft: I see with my Eyes Magnifying Glass
Print out magnifying glass template on white cardstock.
Cut out magnifying glass.
Cut the middle out. Hint: Fold magnifying glass in half to get to the center.
Lay cellophane or a plastic bag under magnifying glass.
Tape or glue it to the magnifying glass and then trim it.
Children will get in line and go into the library. With the help of a parent/caregiver, children will hunt down hibernating animals hiding in the library. Once they find one animal, they will go back to the program room and go to the story rug.
3. Early Literacy Aside: Explain:
Today's early literacy skill is focusing on vocabulary. Today I’ll be pointing out some activities we are doing that support early literacy in the area of vocabulary. This is the term that researchers give to knowing the meanings of words. You can see what we do here in storytime, and you may get some ideas of what you can do with your children throughout the day when you play and talk together.
4. Theme Talk:
Today our storytime is about hibernating animals and the letter B.
5. Action Song:
A bear is sleeping.
A bear is sleeping
In a cave
In a cave
Wake up my dear friend
Wake up my dear friend
Spring has come
Spring has come
A turtle is sleeping
A turtle is sleeping
In a burrow
In a burrow
Wake up my dear friend
Wake up my dear friend
Spring has come
Spring has come
A hedgehog is sleeping
A hedgehog is sleeping
In a log
In a log
Wake up my dear friend
Wake up my dear friend
Spring has come
Spring has come
Pink Fong. (2016, November 4). Hibernation Song. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Pk6NrxZY6s&feature=emb_logo
6. Information Book: Hibernation by Margaret Hall
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"
Source: Shake Shake Shake [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://lisaslibraryland.blogspot.com/2013/07/shake-shake-shake.html
8. Early Literacy: As you sing, talk, read, write and play with your children throughout the day, you can introduce them to new words. Go ahead and use words that are unfamiliar to your children like the word we used today, hibernation. Don’t replace words in books that they may not understand. Explain them. When you talk with them try to use the word for a specific thing. For example, if you see a dog on the street, call it a dog, but also the breed if you know it, like a cocker spaniel.
9. Movement Activity:
Brown bear, brown bear, turn around.
Brown bear, brown bear, touch the ground.
Brown bear, brown bear, reach up high.
Brown bear, brown bear, touch the sky.
Brown bear, brown bear, bend down low.
Brown bear, brown bear, touch your toe.
Brown bear, brown bear, softly creep.
Brown bear, brown bear, go to sleep!
Source: Heather. (2017, December 7). Storytime: Hibernation. Retrieved from http://lady-librarian-life.blogspot.com/2017/12/storytime-hibernation.html
10. Book:
We're Going on a Bear Hunt by Michael Rosen
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. Fingerplay
Use the puppets used for the Bear Hunt.
Where Is Bear?
(sung to the tune of Where Is Thumbkin?):
Where is Bear?
Where is Bear?
Here I am.
Here I am.
How are you this winter?
Very tired, thank you.
Go to sleep.
Go to sleep.
Note: This song can be repeated with different hibernating animals including badger, rabbit, chipmunk, turtle, frog, bat, raccoon, squirrel, and mouse. You can use stick puppets along with the song.
13. Early Literacy Aside: Empower
Having a large vocabulary helps with reading in two ways. When children are learning to read, they sound out words. It is easier for them to know they sounded out the word correctly if they have heard the word before. The second is that they need to understand what they read.
Source: What Can I Say? Sampling of Early Literacy Asides. (n.d). Retrieved from https://web.ncls.org/sites/default/files/what%20can%20i%20say.pdf
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
Source: Memorial Public Library. (2014, September 28). Goodbye bubbles. [Video]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/RXXQqVx0gT0
15. Craft: Done in the beginning of the toddler program.
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. Also parents will get the letter H worksheet to do at home.
17. Game:
Using a brown plastic tablecloth, blanket or even the toddler parachute, make a cave. Let kids go into the cave and hibernate.
Notes: A key to the success to this program is to complete the prep recommendations.
Additional Crafts for other programs such as preschool storytime or family storytime kit.:
Material:
H for Hibernation Craft Template printed on white cardstock
cotton balls
pencil
scissor
glue
Various colored construction paper
Directions:
1. H is for Hibernation
Have child write their name on the construction paper.
Print out the template below on white cardstock.
Color the "H" and then cut it out.
Cut out Bear
Cut out Cave
Glue the "H" on the construction paper
Glue Cave and bear on the bottom middle part of the "H".
Add cotton balls to the top of the cave.
2. Bear in a Bag Craft
Hibernating Bear Cave Craft Template. See below.
Cardstock - white
Gluestick
Scissors
Foam snowflakes or crayons to draw
Directions:
Cut out a hole at the bottom of a brown bag.
Color brown bear and cut out.
Glue inside the bear
Have kids glue snowflakes or color snowflakes on the outside of the bag.
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