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Storytime Theme: Clouds
I will always remember the afternoon when my nephew was maybe three years old. We were at my parents’ house on a beautiful piece of land with wide open skies. He looked at me and said, “Can we look for cloud shapes?” And he absolutely melt my heart, here’s this…
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Storytime Theme: Letter E
We’re moving right on through the alphabet with the letter E today. With books about animals, senses, construction vehicles, and more, this is a fun storytime lesson plan for toddlers and preschoolers. What I love is that you can really expand this lesson plan to spread out across a week…
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Storytime Theme: Animals Down Under
G’day! Today I’m sharing a storytime theme that will take me all the way around the globe to a place on my travel bucket list – Australia! With how popular Bluey is on TV, I thought it would be fun to create an animal-themed Australian storytime. These books include the…
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Storytime Theme: Letter “D”
Today is all about the letter “D”! There are some absolutely adorable picture books for all things letter “D”. Think dogs, doughnuts, ducks, doctors, drums, dragons, and so much more. This is also a perfect time to introduce both upper case and lower case letters and it’s definitely okay if…
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August Read Alouds
It’s time for another month’s read alouds to celebrate wacky, silly, important, and historical holidays! This list combines not only great fictional read alouds, but some nonfiction and biographies as well to teach kids about fun and interesting facts and people. I’m not taking all the credit, as the blog…
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Storytime Theme: Bones
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Storytime Theme: Letter “C”
Today is all about the letter “C”! And while there are a few different pronunciations (think hard c-, soft c-, and ch- sounds too), it was incredibly easy to find all sorts of topics to read about from food to animals, vehicles to weather! There was a little bit of…
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Storytime Theme: Cowpoke
The cowpoke theme is one I took some time to consider as the history of cowboys here in America can be a difficult one. Original cowboys were actually Native American, Black, and/or Mexican men called Vaqueros. Some of these men in the Western United States were hired while many of…
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Storytime Theme: Letter “B”
This was a really easy lesson plan to create – apparently there are A LOT of great words that start with the letter “b” for toddlers and preschoolers! Whether you decide to focus on just one theme or use a little bit of everything, this is a great introduction to…
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Storytime Theme: Sleep
Most likely a popular storytime more for the adults in the room than the kids, but I promise there are some absolutely adorable picture books out there about going to bed! This would make a perfect storytime for the evening or even before naptime. But, you can also use it…
