Preschool Story Hour Help?

Question

I have to do a story hour for my Children's Literature class. I was wondering if any preschool teachers or parents had any ideas of how I should do it? I have to a read a book (suggestions?) and then let the children do some sort of project which relates to the story. It only has to be about 10-15 minutes. My mentor teacher said she'd prefer something about spring.

Answer 1

Make way for ducklings. Then you could play "follow the mama duck" and have the children follow whatever you are doing, touch your nose, jump up and down, clap your hands, etc. For a project, have the children make their own ducklings by gluing on feathers.

Answer 2

I think The Very Hungry Catpillar by Eric Carle would be a good choice. You can make felt pieces for the foods, catepillar, and butterfly and have the children help you add the pieces.

Answer 3

you got the the right answer do a story  ....do a spring time story and let the kids act out all the the spring animals birds frogs.etc........

Answer 4

Try an Eric Carle book.  His stories are simple and the illustrations are bright and interesting.  You could read Little Cloud and afterwards, have children do blot painting with blue paper and white paint.  Have them tell you what their "cloud" looks like.  Try The Very Hungry Caterpillar and have the children glue different colored circles on a page and color with crayons to make their own Caterpillar.  Or The Tiny Seed and make flowers with coffee filters folded and painted with watercolors.  Also, a Leo Lionni book called An Extraordinary Egg is fun for this time of year and for the art, get a shallow box, place a piece of paper inside and have the children roll a hard boiled egg covered in paint all around.  That's always a hit in my class.

For a job interview, I read the book The Best Nest and had the children collage string, paper scraps, tissue, cotton, foil, etc on a paper bowl to make a nest.  

My best advice is find a book that makes you smile and that isn't too long.  For the art, keep it simple and open-ended.  The cut and paste projects never impress a mentor teacher.

Good luck to you.

Answer 5

felt board with felt  characters to go with the story book

then the kids can get crafty and make/paste/paint relating to the story

i cant help you with a storybook about spring though  sorry, maybe something to do with the flowers bloooming and fruits coming on the tree buzzing bees , and birds chirping, farm animals being born,  make your own story up maybe and jstu use the felt board with felt characters to tell the story, then the kids can create a massive collage with arty crafty stuff

Answer 6

The one funny thing is children have so many different thoughts, depending on the age and the time of day.

One thing my great-great grandparent would do when it was time to settle down. Their little bodies are going a mile a minute. watch Kindergarden Cop. I think that could be helpful compared to miscellaneous comments.

Answer 7

I’m not a teacher or a parent but here’s my input go to www.kidsturncentral.com and click Spring and there is some books you can look at dealing with spring time and you can match the craft up to the book you pick.  Like the book about kites make a kite or the books about spring flowers and bugs have them make a bug or a flower and have them write why they like spring something like that.Hope this helps ;)