Preschool story time activities

To assist you in planning your story times for next month, here are some themes I like to use in October. Pumpkins Suggested Books: Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin by Tad Hills Pumpkin Heads! by Wendell Minor It's Pumpkin Day, Mouse! by Laura Numeroff Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman (Audio version with song available here.) This is Not a Pumpkin by Bob Staake The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda D. Williams Extension Activities: Five…

It's time for another story! With fall just weeks away, I thought the perfect story for the month of September would be The Apple Pie Tree by Zoe Hall. *See all Story Time posts here. Crafts

Use these great circle time activities for the first week or two of preschool. Great start of the year lessons with free printables.

Enhance your circle time lessons with these activities tailored to some of our very favorite children's books.

You know we LOVE making activities to go along with books, so I wanted to make a fun activity to go along with, If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, that can be done while the book is being read aloud or after the story is over. #bookswithactivities #kindergarten #preschool #ifyougiveamouseacookie

Best Story Time Ideas for Preschoolers Do you have daily story time with a classroom of kids? Do you run story time at your library? Do you just enjoy reading stories and doing book inspired activities and songs with your child? If you answered YES to any of these questions then these ideas are for …

One of the things I love doing with my younger children is reading picture books and doing story-related activities with them to bring the story to life and create fun memories. We have enjoyed doing

Scarecrows theme activities, printables, centers and games for preschool, pre-K and Kindergarten.

In April, I like to do story times about rain, chickens, birds, bunnies, libraries, and jazz. Rain (April Showers) Suggested Books: Rain by Robert Kalan and Donald Crews Rain Dance by Kathi Appelt Rain by Manya Stojic Tap Tap Boom Boom by Elizabeth Bluemle and G. Brian Karas Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema and Beatriz Vidal Extension Activities: Rain, Rain Go Away I Like to See the Raindrops Fall Red Umbrella Keeps Me Dry The Itsy Bitsy Spider Chickens Suggested Books…

It was probably me :) I love a good cookie! :) Really quick, because we start school tomorrow and you all know how busy this weekend is, I have a little freebie for you. I made this for one of my "get to know you" activities the first week of school. I did not know of an easy way to upload the cookies so that you could type right onto them to put the students' names. You may be able to open the file in publisher or a graphics editing program and add a text box to type into OR you can go old…