Introduction: This storytime is developed specially for preschool children ages 4 & 5 and their parent/caregiver. Enjoy 1 hour of books, songs, rhymes, socialization, and a craft with other young children and their parent/caregiver. Each session of preschool storytime consists of a variety of activities that incorporate reading, talking, writing, singing, and playing. Each week we will introduce new ideas while building knowledge from prior storytimes this year. No worries, if this is your first time here, learning is a process that takes time.
Date: Every Saturday
Time: 11:00 a.m.
Age Range: 4 and 5 years olds
Skills Supported: Print awareness, socialization, reading, writing, and listening.
Preschool Standards:
Letter Knowledge: Children begin to demonstrate an understanding of beginning phonics and word skills. Associate many letters with their names and their most frequent sounds. Phonological Awareness: Draw children’s attention to the sounds children hear in words (e.g., by asking for the children whose name starts with "A" sound)
Social/Emotional: Develop children's awareness of a wide range of feeling with appropriate vocabulary during storytelling. Engage appropriately with peers and librarian.
Information Books: Actively participate in read aloud experiences using age appropriate information books. Compare and contrast favorite story books and favorite informational texts and discuss which book is fiction (e.g., tells a story) and which book is information (explains or shares real information).
Frequency: Once a week
Weekly Attendance: 20 children and their parent/caregiver
Staff or Volunteer: 1 staff member and 1 volunteer
Format: Drop-in program
Budget: $0
Books Shared: (from collection)
Garbage Trucks by Julie Murray
I Stink by Kate and Jim McMullan
Smash! Mash! Crash! There Goes the Trash by Barbara Odanaka
Other Books to Display at Storytime:
Construction Countdown by K.C. Olson
Diggers Go by Steve Light
The Digger and the Flower by Joseph Kuefler
Pre-storytime Preparation: None
1. Introduction: Welcome to preschool storytime. My name is Ms. Debbie. I am so glad to see you today. I am so happy to see adults in our program today. It is more fun for your children, when you are here with them to enjoy reading, writing, singing, talking and playing together.
2. Opening Song
(The Kilboomers: Kids Music Channel,2015)
Lyrics:
Hello, hello, how are you?
Hello, hello, how are you?
Hello, hello, how are you?
How are you today?
I am fine, I am great.
I am fine, I am great.
I am fine, I am great.
I'm very well today.
Hello, hello, how are you?
Hello, hello, how are you?
Hello, hello, how are you?
How are you today?
I am hungry, I am tired.
I am hungry, I am tired.
I am hungry, I am tired.
I'm not so good today.
Hello, hello, how are you?
Hello, hello, how are you?
Hello, hello, how are you?
I am very good today.
3. Early Literacy Aside: Explain
Parents, today our early literacy component is print awareness, which is know how books work, and that print is everywhere and has meaning. During storytime, I will show you how you can do this with your children at home.
4. Theme Talk
Children sit a circle time. My name is Ms. Debbie. My first name starts with the letter "D". Who wants to tell me their name? Go around the circle, have parents encourage children to participate and aide them in telling me their first name and the letter their first name starts with.
How many children have come to storytime today? Let's count together. Point to each child and count. There are ten children here today.
5. Book
Today, our first book is about a garbage truck. Who knows what a garbage truck does? The book we are going to read is a fiction book. It is a story about a garbage truck that can talk? Can garbage trucks really talk? That is correct, garbage trucks can't talk. So the book is make-believe, it is a fiction book.
I Stink! by Kate and Jim McMullan
6. Song
I've Been Working
(To the tune of I've Been Working on the Railroad"
I've been working on the dump truck
All the live long day.
I've been working on the dump truck
Since the break of day. (Image: BCCLS, 2018)
Can't you hear the horn? It's honking-
Rise up so early in the morn.
Don't you hear the foreman shouting-
Hey there, honk your horn.
Hey there, won't you honk?
Hey there, won't you honk?
Hey there, won't you honk your horn?
Hey there, won't you honk?
Hey there, won't you honk?
Hey there, won't you honk your horn?
(Ghoting and Martin-Diaz, 2013, p. 164)
7. Nonfiction Book
Garbage Trucks by Julie Murray
Now what type of book do you think this is? Look at the cover? Is this a real garbage truck or make believe? Your right, this is real so the book we are reading is what? It is a nonfiction book. (Image: BCCLS, 2018)
8. Activity: Volunteer will take recycled paper and roll it up into balls and scatter them around the storytime rug.
Song:
Picking Up Trash
(mime picking things up while singing)
We're picking up trash and putting it in a basket. Picking up trash and putting it in a basket. Picking up trash and putting it in a basket. Way down back in the backyard patch.
(Setterfield, 2008)
9. Early Literacy Aside: Example
We want children to understand that print has meaning. Researchers have found that even for four- and five-year olds, 95% per their attention goes to the pictures. We can gently help them focus on the text. When you read a story, use your finger to follow the words as you read them. This will help your child to start to make the connection that what you are reading are the words from the book (Ghoting and Martin-Diaz, 2013, p. 216).
10. Information Book
March by June Murray
What do you think our next book is, a fiction book or a nonfiction book. (Show the cover of the book. Yes this is a nonfiction book because it tells us ............................. Who can tell me what month it is? I am going to read a nonfiction book about March. Who remembers what month was last month? Yes, it was February. January was the first month of the year. February is the second month of the year and March is the third month of the year. This book will tell us real things about the month of March, like holiday's and the weather. (Image: BCCLS, 2018)
11. Early Literacy Aside: Empower
Parents when you play with your child, there are many ways to help your child develop print awareness. You can have them scribble, draw or write things down on paper. Ask them what they wrote. This will help them to understand what they are writing reflects what they are saying which helps them to develop their print awareness.
12. Closing Song
Lyrics
Goodbye, goodbye.
It’s time to go.
Goodbye, goodbye.
I don’t want to go.
See you later, alligator.
Bye bye bye, butterfly. Goodbye!
13. End of Storytime Activity
The DPW workers will visit us and will bring their truck for a demo. Children will also have the opportunity to have their picture taken with Tom, our DPW worker.
References:
BCCLS. (2018). Garbage Trucks. [Digital Image]. Retrieved from https://catalog.bccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.7&pos=3
BCCLS. (2018). I Stink!. [Digital Image]. Retrieved from https://catalog.bccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.7&pos=1
BCCLS. (2018). March by Julie Murray. [Digital Image]. Retrieved from https://catalog.bccls.org/polaris/search/title.aspx?ctx=1.1033.0.0.7&pos=1
Childrensmusic. (2016, January 16). See you later, alligator: Goodbye song. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/UQfvAlmr5g0
Ghoting, S.N., & Martin-Diaz, P. (2013). Storytimes for everyone!. Chicago, IL: ALA Editions.
The Kilboomers: Kids Music Channel. (2015, August 4). Hello song. [Video]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/x23rTDl4AMs
New Jersey Department of Education. (2017). Division of Early Childhood Education: Program Guidelines/Teaching & Learning Standards. Retrieved from https://www.nj.gov/education/ece/guide/
Setterfield, D. (2008, November 22). Storytime: Garbage Trucks [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://hegnalibrarylinks.blogspot.com/2008/11/garbage-trucks-preschool-storytime.html
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