Saturday, December 2, 2023
Kindergarten Books and Reading Storytime
This week marked my debut in Cherry Hill School District, NJ. I was so happy to welcome Kindergarten to the beautiful media center. The previous librarian's last day was the end of September, and I was held to my contract in my previous district until Thanksgiving Break. Since Library is not a coverage for a prep, students only visited once or twice with their teacher for book checkout only.
My time with them is a quick 30 minutes, so not a lot of time to do a lot. I decided to pattern my kindergarten lessons after many storytimes I have seen at the public library. Fun exciting books, a couple of sing alongs, and fingerplays and of course book checkout.
My first lesson centered around books and reading and welcoming students back to the library. We began with the welcome song The More We Get Together. I changed up the second verse to The More We Read Together. I found this idea online, and thought it was such a cute idea. Our first story was Read It Don't Eat It by Ian Schoenherr. This is such a cute story for both Pre-K and K about how to take care of library books. As I read the story I reinforced with the students what is good book care behavior vs. bad.behavior
After this story we sang another song. Adding a song or fingerplay in between books is a great way to keep kids interested in storytime. We sang If You're a Reader and You Know It. This was sung to the well known song If You're Happy and You Know It. We switched up the Clap Your Hands part to Stomp Your Feet and later on Shout Hooray. The kids had such a good time!
For our last story, we read the story We Are In A Book by the fabulous Mo Willems. They really love the Elephant and Piggie books, and were giggling at all the funny parts.
To end storytime, I added a flannel board piece to storytime. I found a cute activity on Storytime Kate where the students recite the rhyme
Piggie Piggie Where Do You Hide
Are You Behind the _________ book.
Let's Peek Inside
To do this I created 6 different books out of felt, and an elephant and Piggie. I hid Piggie behind one of the books. Children took turns guessing which book Piggie was hidden behind.
After the flannel board game, students were able to each pick out a book and were given bookmarks I made on Canva to color with Elephant and Piggie.
Here is a copy of the bookmark
Here is a copy of my slideshow
Some pictures of my students working on coloring their bookmarks
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