Today was all about animals that come out in the day and animals that come out at night. We also did some other activities that went along with Day and Night theme. Lots of new activities during this Summer Storytime ! 🙂 This was the plan for the morning:
1.) Hello Song with Instruments and Scarves
2.) Book One: Forest Bright, Forest Night
3.) Song-The Apple Tree
4.) Book Two: Go Sleep in Your Own Bed
5.) Book with Flashlight: Whoo’s There?
6.) Song with Instruments: At Night it is Dark
7.) Book and Flannel: It is Night
8.) Book, Flannel, and Yoga: Sleepy Little Yoga
9.) Book and Flannel: Quiet Night
10.) Song with Instruments: The Fireflies at Night
11.) Book: Frankie Works the Nightshift
12.) Activity with Puppets: Nocturnal or Diurnal
13.) Book: Nighttime
14.) Goodbye Song with Instruments and Scarves
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Song-The Apple Tree
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At Night It is Dark
Tune of: Farmer in the Dell
At night it is dark x2
The sun is gone, the moon has come
At night it is dark
I can see the stars x2
They twinkle softly in the sky
I can see the stars
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The Fireflies at Night
Tune of : Wheels on the Bus
The fireflies at night go
blink, blink, blink x3
The fireflies at night go blink, blink, blink
Out in the Garden
Other verses:
The crickets/Field/Munch
Caterpillars/on the leaves/ munch
Spiders/ in the bus/spin their webs
Worms/in the ground/wiggle and squirm
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Activity with Puppets:
I had a bunch of puppets in my bag, about 8 different animals, that I would pull out and the kids would tell me if they slept during the day or slept during the night.
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Great theme, and I love the Usborne books! Do you read through all of these books in one storytime, or are they sort of a backdrop for activities?
Hi there! For this storytime I used just the one, Nighttime, which is part of the Usbourne book series of ‘Peek Insides’, and I read through the book in its entirety. There is always wiggle room though. Some of the flaps I would would show them inside but not read it all. Depending on how your group is makes all the difference but changing up the words or skipping parts of books is all part of storytime 🙂