Sleepy Stories for Summer Reading Program Family Storytime
Books
I chose three or four of the following, depending on the age of the group and how much time I had left in storytime.
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| Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein |
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| The Goodnight Train by June Sobel |
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| Llama Llama Red Pajama by Anna Dewdney |
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| What! Cried Granny by Kate Lum |
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| Time for Bed by Mem Fox |
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| Little Hoot by Amy Krouse Rosenthal |
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| Snuggle Up, Sleepy Ones by Claire Freedman |
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| Sleepy, Oh So Sleepy by Denise Fleming |
Visuals
I adapted the board book story Bedtime Kiss for Little Fish by Lorie Ann Grover for this flannel board. It is such a short story, that I added it into the mix as an alternative for a rhyme between longer books. I asked the kids what each animal was before I said the rhyme. I just took some photocopies of the book to use as my template for the ocean and the animals and used Sharpie and glitter glue to embelish.
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| Time for sleep in the deep. |
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| Night is dark, baby shark. |
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| It's so late, little skate. |
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| Make no fuss, octopus. |
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| One last swish, jellyfish. |
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| Tuck your tail, humpback whale. |
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| Time for sleep in the deep, deep, deep. |
I got the template for my version of
Five in the Bed from
MakingLearningFun.com. This is a quick and easy flannel board to make.
Songs, Rhymes & Fingerplays
- Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear Turn Around
- There Were Five in the Bed… (used flannel board visual above)
- Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed (I used a puppet visual we have with our storytime supplies and threw the monkeys over my shoulder when they fell of the bed- always a hit.)
- Wee Willie Winkie (bounce child on lap, clap hands or pat hands on legs)
Music & Movement
I handed out shakers to all the kids and we did the Hokey Pokey from the Carol Peterson's CD Sticky Bubble Gum.
