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Storytime Theme: Hearing
This is the next lesson plan in a five-part series for preschoolers to learn more about their five senses! Combining fiction and nonfiction titles, kids will learn about their ears and hearing, things that are quiet and loud, and great words for sound effects! Plus, there are a handful of…
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Storytime Theme: Sight
This is the first lesson plan in a five-part series for preschoolers to learn more about their five senses! Combining fiction and nonfiction titles, kids get to learn about their eyes and sight, why some people have to wear glasses, and how animals use their different kinds of eyes to…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Reasons You’ve DNF’d a Book
This was a little bit of a different theme, but I had a hard enough time thinking about the reasons why I Did Not Finish (DNF) a book. It doesn’t happen often as I know what I’ll like and I don’t often stray too far from those things. But, every…
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Storytime Theme: Giraffes
While I just realized that I created this same storytime a few years ago, I found a couple more cute books to include, so check back to the other lesson plan for even more great ideas! My niece loves giraffes and I was excited to find so many sweet and…
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Storytime Theme: Olympics
This was a little bit trickier to pull together as so many of the Olympics picture books are a lot more text-heavy titles for little readers, or they’re a lot of nonfiction titles about inspiring athletes. Both aren’t necessarily a bad thing, they just don’t always make great read alouds…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Unread Books on My Shelves I Want to Read
I tend to buy books I want to read, and then they sit on my shelves because, in my mind, they’ll always be there, but that new book I want to read that I checked out of the library is a top priority. And then I never really go back…
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Storytime Theme: Sports
Between my neice and nephew and my friends’ kids the spring is busy with so many different sporting events from soccer to baseball, swimming to gymnastics the kids are busier than the adults a lot of the time. They often start trying out sports while in PreK and I thought…
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Storytime Theme: Sharks
I’ve made it my focus this year to try and create more storytime themes that I should have done years ago. A perfect example? Sharks! Now, I have a dolphins and sharks lesson plan from a few years ago, but there are far too many shark picture books out there…
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Top Ten Tuesday: Characters I’d Like to Go on Vacation With
This Top Ten Tuesday theme took a little of time to figure out what direction I wanted to go in. Sometimes these themes are difficult to pull books for because as a reader of children’s literature, it makes it a little different when the characters are kids and not adults.…
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Storytime Theme: Sand
This is a perfect summer storytime lesson plan for toddlers and preschoolers and would work just as well in a library storytime as well as a preschool or childcare center. And if you’re a parent or caregiver, these books, songs, rhymes, and activities work just as well for families to…
