"Let's All Play" Preschool Storytime

Check our calendar for the next Antioch or other JCL Location Storytime, hope to see you there!

1. HAVE FUN WITH BOOKS 
Here are the books we read at storytime:

Hooray for Today! by Brian Won © 2016
Pete the Kitty and the Groovy Playdate by  Kimberly Dean ©  2018
Rulers of the Playground by Joseph Kuefler © 2017
Five Little Monkeys Play Hide and Seek by Eileen Christelow © 2004

Booklist: JoCoLibrary - Preschool - Play

 

2. NOTICE PRINT ALL AROUND YOU
Check out our Staff Picks for Notice Print All Around You.

 

3. TALK, TALK, TALK ​
Check out our Staff Picks for Talk, Talk, Talk.

 

4. TELL STORIES ABOUT EVERYTHING ​
Read and watch charming classic stories with Bookflix!

 

5LOOK FOR LETTERS EVERYWHERE
Try some fun alphabet activities from the Antioch Youth Services Pinterest page.

 

6. TAKE TIME TO RHYME, SING AND PLAY WORD GAMES
Here are the rhymes and songs from today:

Welcome To Storytime! [tune: Twinkle, Twinkle]

Welcome, welcome everyone,
Now we're here, let's have some fun.
First we'll sing the ABC's,
then we'll read and sing with me.
Welcome, welcome, everyone,
Now we're here let's have some fun.

 

If Your Happy and You Know It

If your happy and you know it clap your hands.
If your happy and you know it clap your hands.
If your happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it
If your happy and you know it clap your hands.

If your happy and you know it, stomp your feet.
If your happy and you know it, stomp your feet.
If your happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it
If your happy and you know it, stomp your feet.

If your happy and you know it, shout "Hooray!".  .... etc
If your happy and you know it, do all three.... etc.

 

Wheels on the Bus [with Pete the Cat]

The wheels on the bus go round and round, round and round.
The wheels on he bus go round and round, all through the town.

The windows on the bus go up and down.... etc

The cats on the bus say, Meow, Meow, Meow... etc

The driver on the bus says "Move on back".... etc

The wipers on the bus go swish, swish, swish... etc

The horn on the bus goes beep, beep , beep... etc

The babies on the bus go "whaaa", "whaaa", "whaaa" .... etc

The mommy's on the bus go "shhhhh", "shhhh", "shhhh".... etc

The wheels on the bus go round and round... etc
 

 

Ten Little Numbers

One little, two little, three little numbers,
four little, five little, six little numbers,
Seven little, eight little, nine little numbers
Ten little numbers.

10, 9, 8 little numbers,
7, 6, 5 little numbers,
4, 3, 2 little numbers,
1 little numbers

 

Alabama, Mississippi  by Jim Gill  (Parachute Game)

Alabama, Mississippi, (life up on Alabama and lower on Mississippi
Alabama, New Orleans (same as above)
Alabama, Mississippi, (same as above)
Shake it on down to New Orleans.  (Life and then gently shake as you lower)

We're gonna shake, shake, shake,
Shake it baby,
Shake it on down to New Orleans. (keep shaking it)

Now shake it really high!

Now shake it really low!
Now shake it in the sky!
Now shake it on your toe!
Now shake it up up up!
Now shake it down down down!
Now we’re going to shake it round and round!

(Walk the parachute in a circle while singing the “shake it baby” chorus twice

 

The More We Read Together [Tune: The More We Get Together]
The more we read together, together, together,
The more we read together, the better it is!
'Cause reading and singing and talking together,
Is how you learn the six skills for reading by six.