One of my go-to storytimes for the new school year is an animal sounds theme. There are a plethora of good books (I’ll post my storytime plan soon – can’t believe I haven’t done it yet!), and it’s a good topic for new preschoolers (who are on the younger, closer-to-3-years-old side). So when planning my storytimes for September, I naturally gravitated toward this tried-and-true theme. For flannelboards, I got out a set of felt animals I made several years ago. Thinking about how I could use them, I decided to incorporate some print awareness and make a “sign” with each animal’s sound on it. The kids could then help me figure out each animal’s sound, and I could show them how that sound is written in print:
This was super easy, obviously, but incorporates an extra element that just adds to the early literacy experience the kids are getting in storytime. I think that perhaps, later in the year, I will show them the words again, ask them about the first letter, make the letter sound, and then have them figure out the sound. It might work really well!
The question mark, by the way, is for the fish.
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🙂 But in The Great Gracie Chase the fish says “ploop ploop”. So which is it!?
Fish say “glub glub!”. I know because my niece C and I just got back from the lake.
Nice job! Each animal noise starts with a different letter, so once they figured out the first sound, they’d have a good chance of success!
You know me (ok maybe not literally), but this is my kinda story time fun!!!