Turtles

Our theme for this week was funny green turtles!  Before I even introduced our theme with the children, I read this book and had the […]

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Butterflies

C’mon.  You can’t think about springtime without thinking about fluttering butterflies.  So let’s learn about those beautiful winged creatures in this week’s storytime through books, […]

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Flowers

Happy Earth Day everyone!  We wanted to celebrate earth day this week, so we decided to put our focus on flowers.Books: “Sesame Street’s Let’s Help […]

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Rain

This has been one of the wettest Aprils I can remember.  So, what better time to discuss rain with our Explorastory kids than now?Books: “Rain” […]

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Feelings and Emotions

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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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