We recently started offering a Toddler Time storytime for our nearby preschools/daycares. We do this special storytime once a month, and I’ve been assigned to them in July, August, and September (and hopefully October, November, Decemeber, etc.). I am absolutely loving this storytime, and I was so excited about August’s bug theme that not even a bad sinus infection could stop me!
Since it’s been a few months since I posted a storytime on this blog, here’s what I did for my bug theme:
Books:
I Love Bugs! by Emma Dodd
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Pop-Up Book by Eric Carle
Some Bugs by Angela DiTerlizzi
Activities:
Here is the Beehive:
w/ bee puppet
Here is the beehive,
But where are the bees?
Hiding away where nobody sees.
Here they come.
Out of the hive.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5
BUZZ!
Itsy Bitsy Spider:
3 ways
The itsy, bitsy spider,
Went up the water spout,
Down came the rain and,
Washed the spider out,
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain,
And the itsy, bitsy spider,
Went up the spout again.
Great Big Spider w/ great big voices
Rockin’ Rollin’ Spider sung really, really fast
Very Hungry Caterpillar Flannelboard:
Hand out various food and retell the story. Children put the food on the flannelboard when the time comes.
Wiggle Worms Movement Activity:
I created movement cards based off of bugs: wiggle like a worm, flutter like a butterfly, jump like a grasshopper, buzz like a bumblebee. For this activity, I would randomly select a card and we would move like that bug. The kids loved it!
Fuzzy, Fuzzy Bumblebee
w/ pom-poms as our bumblebees
to the tune of Mary had a Little Lamb
Fuzzy, fuzzy bumblebee,
Bumblebee, bumblebee,
Fuzzy, fuzzy bumblebee,
Landing on my toes [place pom-pom on toes]
Repeat with: knee, elbow, shoulder, head, bed (putting the pom-poms back in the tub)