Breakfast Storytime

 

After our Good Morning songs, this is what we did for breakfast storytime!

RHYME: Bread and Butter, Marmalade and Jam

Bread and butter, marmalade and jam

Let's say "hello" as fast as we can.

Hello!

In this song we practice saying "hello" in different ways. Fast/slow, quiet/loud, mean/nice, high/low

Hidden Game: Find The Strawberry

Strawberry, Strawberry, let's take a look. 

Are you under the __color__ cookbook?

For this one I used pieces from our felt version of The Little Mouse, the Red Rip Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear. At one point I had considered reading this story and/or retelling it with the felt pieces.

In Move, Play, Learn: Interactive Storytime with Music and Movement, Alyssa Jewell talks about story dramas as a good element to add into storytimes for  elementary ages. Often, our Saturday storytimes have a wide range of ages that include elementary students. 

To incorporate interactive play in this storytime, I considered reading The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear and then letting the group retell the story on their own with the felt pieces.