Nonfiction Storytime Theme: Wild Animals
I’m working on something new by offering a storytime with strictly nonfiction titles for kids to learn all about animals! Animals are easy because kids love them and you can find all sorts of amazing nonfiction books for young kids about animals. But, if you wanted to, you could also do a nonfiction storytime about the weather or the seasons, both topics that are found in nonfiction books, especially for young kids.
Today, rather than providing arts and crafts, I’m sharing some really fun experiments and extension activities that are a great way to incorporate STEM skills into storytime in an easy way. Typically, science experiments work better when you set them up as stations because you don’t have to repeat the experiment for each individual child. But, you can do whatever works best for your set-up!
I hope you take the leap and try a nonfiction storytime with your kids! Enjoy learning together!
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Nonfiction Storytime Theme: Wild Animals
Books
- Animals on the Go! by Ruth A. Musgrave
- Bears! Bears! Bears! by Bob Barner
- A Bird is a Bird by Lizzy Rockwell
- Born in the Wild: Baby Mammals and Their Parents by Lita Judge
- Look Again!: Secrets of Animal Camouflage by Steve Jenkins, illustrated by Robin Page
- Over and Under the Wetland by Kate Messner, illustrated by Christopher Silas Neal
- Squirrels Leap, Squirrels Sleep by April Pulley Sayre, illustrated by Steve Jenkins
- Song of the Wild: A First Book of Animals by Nicola Davies, illustrated by Petr Horacek
- Whose Eye Am I? by Shelley Rotner
Songs & Rhymes
- Going on a Bear Hunt – Greg and Steve
- Animal Freeze Dance – The Kiboomers
- Zoo Noises – LiBrionyian
Experiments and Extension Activities
- K-W-L Chart – https://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/printouts/chart-0
These are a fun way for older preschooler and early elementary school age kids to share facts about what they know and then also help them to identify new facts that they learn during the program. - Animal Track Stamps – Green Kid Crafts
- How Do Whales Stay Warm? – Little Bins for Little Hands
