Making Guesses

Reading 
Making Tracks: Park by Cocoretto (I love this book series so much! See extra images above for an inside look)
Can You Guess? Food by Eric Carle

Singing

Here is a Box

Little box, little box, what do you hide?

Can we all guess what you have inside?

For this one, I had a wooden box with random objects inside. I gave the children clues to guess each object before I pulled it out. A great song activity to work on adjectives and descriptor words, as well as making inferences.

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Transitions, Routines, and Making Decisions!

Today was a special day to have storytime: it was Election Day! I didn't read any political books, of course, but I did read Go Vote Baby! which does an excellent job of explaining the concept of voting as choosing between two things. Highly recommended!

Reading
Go Vote, Baby! by Nancy Lambert 
The Great Day by Taro Gomi 

 

Singing

This is the Way 
(Tune: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush)

This is the way we brush our teeth, 
brush our teeth, brush our teeth, 
This is the way we brush our teeth,  
On a cold and frosty morning. 

Other verses: we all wake up (stretch), put on our shirt, put on our hat, bounce around, or anything you want! 

Note: I recommend singing this song with your child during your morning routine as they’re actually doing these actions. Singing can make these transitions and routines easier to get through for your toddler. 

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Opposites

 

Reading

What’s Opposite by Stephen Swinburne

Opposite Things by Anna Kovecses

Singing

Little Spider, Big Spider

(use with a felt board, 5 felt leaves, and 2 spiders)

Little spider, Big spider,
Playing hide and seek!
Are you behind the (color) leaf?

Let’s take a peek!

I know, I know... I need some new spiders. I would prefer some more realistic looking ones!

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