Old McRainbow's Wheels on the bus

  

I'm revisiting my schoolbus sets with my Old McRainbow rhyme.  I had forgotten that I made this up a couple of years ago.  This is an interactive rhyme.  I hand out the colored wheels to the kiddos. There's enough for 20 kids.  As I say the rhyme I put up a colored bus and the kiddos bring up the matching wheels.  They love doing this activity. There are so many learning skills involved in this game.  They have to stay engaged to wait for their turn.  They need to know that wheels go at the bottom of the bus shape. They see that each bus has 2 wheels. Plus they enjoy the chance to get up and move and the felt just feels good too!  Old McRainbow and his colorful buses are so much Fun with Friends at Storytime!

Shapes, Colors and Counting Felt Puzzle

 

We recently got in 2 adorable board books that have nice large clear pictures and minimal text that will be perfect with our toddler crowd at Storytime.  Miss Margaret asked for a puzzle felt set to  go with them and I noodled a bit and came up with this set. We'll add each row starting with 1 and hopefully they'll guess what it is by the time we get to 10. That's the plan right now...LOL! We'll see how it goes.  I used glitter fun foam for my shapes but I had some butterfly sequins that would fit for the number 10.  There were only 9 shapes in the shape book so we added the trapezoid shaped basket for number 10.  It will be fun to teach them that word!  Shapes and Colors and Counting to 10 are so much Fun with Friends at Storytime!

 

Mary At the Cottage Door.

  Here's a new nursery rhyme set!  I deconstructed  a Google image to make my Mary but I just free hand cut the cottage door and plate and cherries. I did add a little sparkle to the door and cherries and plate with glitter glue. This is a fun counting rhyme!

1 2 3 4  Mary at the cottage door;  5 6 7 8  eating cherries from her plate!  

Yum! Nursery rhymes are so much Fun with Friends at Storytime!

Wee Willie Winkie

So here's my felt piece for the roaming insomniac, Wee Willie Winkie! LOL!  We used him to kick off 2 different storytime themes. Miss Melissa talked about Neighbors last week and this week she's talking about Clocks and Time.  We had a fun home extension for our clock theme too! The kiddos and even parents liked the home extension this week! It was easy prep. We cut paper towel rolls into 1 and 1/2 inch pieces and cut out watch faces printed on card stock. They loved it!

Miss Melissa talked about having a schedule for our day and a digital clock and an analog!   

Wow there was lot's of vocabulary and lots of Fun with Friends at Storytime!

Tick Tock, Here's a Clock!

It's time for a story about time. This storytime is a chance to teach children the word 'analog'! I made a large clock face with numbers hotglued to diecut circles that are removable. The clock hands can also be moved as we talk about the time that we do different activities in our day.  Here's my rhyme 

Counting Numbers on the Clock. There's always time for Fun with Friends at Storytime!!

Pretty Balloons!

You can't go wrong with a storytime about balloons! We needed an interactive rhyme so I just threw together this one and cut out a bunch of 4" balloon shapes with a string tied to the bottom. easy peasy - lemon squeezy! Just hand out the felt balloons and then say the rhyme and count as the kiddos bring up their matching balloons. They never get tired of these interactive rhymes. We'll have some one-to-one correspondence and comparing more than or less than math happening!! Here's my post about birthday balloons.    

Balloons are a lot of Fun with Friends at Storytime!

Counting Balloons

(by Kathryn Roach Sept. 2016)

*Red Balloons, red balloons, how many do we see?

*Red balloons, red balloons, count them now with me!

Yellow, Green, Blue, Orange, Pink, Brown





















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Colorful Puppies Are Ready to Nosh!

Time to do a puppy storytime again and I wanted something new and interactive so...Here are my colorful puppies with dog dish and bones. I used Google images to get ideas for the puppies and finally settled on one body and changed the heads. I was planning on doing 10 puppies and gave out of steam at 7 which still lends itself to eventually a rhyme about a different color pup on the days of the week. I had a dog dish and bone diecut with my Sizzix machine so that was easy peasy.  Here's a printable link for the rhyme, Colorful Puppies. 

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Hickory Dickory Dock!

Nursery rhymes are easy and fun. There are a lot of benefits for preschoolers in hearing and learning nursery rhymes. A wonderful online resource for nursery rhymes is dltk-teach.com.  I found this cute Hickory Dickory Dock that counts from 1-12 (noon). There are printable pieces from this site if you want to print and laminate them.   I made my set a long time ago. It is part Pellon and part felt diecuts and cutouts. I used my basic mouse pattern that I used for the Five Little Mice in this post HERE. I didn't worry that the bee and mouse are as big as the horse and cow! Thank goodness little kiddos don't call me on that! LOL!

Jean Warren has some excellent ideas for using nursery rhymes that I want to share with my prechooler's caregivers from her website, Preschool Express. Her site is a treasure trove of rhymes and activities that can be adapted for storytime! I also found this great song resource at Nancymusic.com. Here's a link for printable pictures to make books that go with the songs, including one for Hickory, Dickory Dock!. Nursery Rhymes are so much Fun with Friends at Storytime! There are more great posts on the Flannel Friday Roundup. Check out the wonderful resources on the Flannel Friday Pinterest Boards. If you want more info about Flannel Friday here's the link for the official Flannel Friday blog. 

Trick or Treat Candy

I was looking at the Halloween blogposts, and I looked through all my Halloween sets and found very few, almost no, rhymes about candy! Oh My! That's one of the main reasons for Halloween for children. The dressing up is fun but the free candy is the best! I found a cute candy song video HERE. Mr. Al has a song about candy on his CD, Kids Wanna Rock. Well, I did some thinking and rhyming and came up with an interactive rhyme I called, Trick or Treat Candy.
You can do this two different ways. 
You can tell the kiddos that we are pretending that the board is our Trick or Treat bag and they can bring their colored candy piece to stick on the flannelboard. Or you could have a Halloween treat bag or plastic pumpkin and have the kiddos drop their colored candy piece in it. The kiddos that come to my storytime like to see the flannelboard full with all the pieces that they brought up. You could instruct them to line up the colored pieces and essentially make a graph. Then you could count the different colors and see which is the most or least. I can slightly control where the pieces go by placing the first piece as I say the color and then I 'help' the kiddos find a place on the board for their piece. I say, "Let's make a line with our pieces." Sometimes, a child that brings up their piece will realign another piece that isn't quite straight in the line. LOL!  Usually once they see the first color in a row, they add their piece after mine right in the row. 

I used a Google image to program a sheet of paper to make copies on colored cardstock and bright paper. I laminated them with my small laminator and cut them out and added a small piece of velcro (hook side) to the back. Now we're ready for some candy Fun with Friends at Storytime!

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