Teaching children to learn and recognize their feelings is very important. This is why we created this storytime. Books: “The Way I feel” by Janan […]
Shadows
Shadows are awesome. And they are everywhere. And kids seem to like to talk about them. At least they did when we introduced our topic […]
Pandas
Books: “Panda Kindergarten” by Joanne Ryder, photographs by Katherine Feng. “Pi-Shu the Little Panda” by John Butler While reading about Pi-Shu, I held a panda […]
Robots
I am back to teaching Explorastory this month and have already planned a storytime. Last week I chose the theme of Robots. Books: Books: “Hello […]
Libraries
Today’s storytime was about one my favorite places…the library! There are so many fun stories about the library that are excellent to read out loud. Books:My […]
Trains
Rereading Donald Crews’ classic picture book “Freight Train” was the inspiration for this week’s storytime. This is a great book to teach colors, shapes, and […]
Piggies
For the pig theme today, I opened with a pig puppet. I allowed all the kids to come up and pet the piggy.The books we […]
Mittens
For this week’s winter theme, I planned a storytime around Jim Aylesworth’s 2009 adaptation of the folktale “The Mitten”. I love that a version of […]
Snow
This week was an official “snow day,” so what better time to make a post on a story time inspired by the white fluffy stuff. […]
Rocks
What, you say? We did an entire Explorastory program about rocks? Now that is strange. But guess what? There are some great books about rocks, and […]