Preschool Storytime

In my preschool storytime, I encorporate Spanish words. For all the songs between the opening and closing songs, we sing the song first in English, and then we change some words to Spanish, I give all parents a copy of the words to the songs. I used to be a kindergarten teacher so I consider my preschool storytime to be kindergarten preparation. I select and preread about 8-9 books for each preschool storytime. I let the children pick which three of these we read. The ones listed are the three we read.

Opening song:  (Tune: "The Farmer in the Dell") 
                         We tap hola like this

                         We tap hola like this

                          Hi-ho cherry

                          We tap hola like this

                          Continue with other verses:

                          We drop hola like this...

                          We circle hola like this...

                          We spin hola like this...

                          We toss hola like this...

                           We spin hola like this...

Introduce and review letter of the day
Find it on the alphabet chart
Make it in the air
Talk about words that start with this letter

Book


Pass out copies of the songs that go with the theme
Have children find and point out an example of the letter of the day in the words to the songs


Song with shakers or scarves that relates to theme 
We sing the song two times: the first time all in English and the second time with some words changed to Spanish.

Book

Song with shakers/scaves that relates to theme
We sing the song two times: the first time all in English and the second time with some words changed to Spanish.

Book

Goodbye song: (Tune: "The Farmer in the Dell") 

                         We tap adios like this

                         We tap adios like this

                          Hi-ho cherry

                          We tap adios like this

                          Continue with other verses:

                          We drop adios like this...

                          We circle adios like this...

                          We spin adios like this...

                          We toss adios like this...

                           We spin adios like this...

Craft Time:

We always do rainbow writing. I still put out the dot pages, but they are optional to complete. I model completing the rainbow writing and the dot page. You can find the free rainbow writing letters here. You can find these dot pages here.

I model the craft, and then parents help their children complete it.


Click here to view a list of my preschool storytimes by schedule and theme.
Click here for a link for letter formation prompts for capital and lowercase letters.