Description
THIS BLUE LIBRARY STORYTIME IS MADE ESPECIALLY FOR:
My Library Storytime Lessons are the lessons I would have wanted when I was a new, overwhelmed, and exhausted school librarian.
- new PreK-Grade 1 elementary librarians
- PreK-Grade 1 librarians on Specials rotation
- secondary teachers who are now elementary librarians
- busy parents and/or library grad students who just don’t have time to create detailed storytime lessons
FAST FACTS
- Recommended for: Grades PK-1
- Lesson Duration: 1-2 library lessons (about 50 minutes total)
- Formats: PPT, Google Slides, PDF
- Editable: YES, all text is editable
***Please note that this presentation is designed to complement a read-aloud. The actual read-aloud story comes from you! I cannot include a recorded read-aloud due to copyright restrictions.
THIS BLUE LIBRARY STORYTIME LESSON INCLUDES:
- 36-slide PPT + Google™ Slides
- List of blue-themed Recommended Reads (1 page PDF)
- Scavenger Hunt Activity (1 page PDF)
- Prep, set up, detailed lesson plan (7 pages, PDF)
- Detailed, pre-filled, editable lesson plan; includes CC, TEKS, and AASL Standards (2 pages, PDF and PPT)
- Google™ Classroom Basics (4 pages, PDF)
- Instructions on how to set up PPT slide timings for digital bulletin boards (2 pages, PDF)
THE BLUE LIBRARY STORYTIME INCLUDES:
- Oral review of 4 parts of a library book (front cover, back cover, spine, and title)
- Nursery rhyme (“Little Boy Blue”)
- Links to four short blue-themed videos for kids
- “Blue” and “sky” in American Sign Language (includes demo links)
- “Blue” in four languages (French, Spanish, Norwegian, Swahili)
- identifying blue objects around the library or classroom
- Who is wearing blue today?
- naming 5 shades of blue
- What are primary colors?
- first names that mean “blue”
- words that rhyme (and do not rhyme) with blue
- counting syllables in “blue” and “butterfly”
- library books with blue covers
- blue foods
- blue flowers and animals (special emphasis on peafowl)
- What are sapphires?
- common blue sign: International Symbol of Access (“handicapped” sign)
- Word of the Week: “azure”
- two blue idioms: “blue in the face” and “once in a blue moon”
- One “This or That” for the color blue
- blue planets
- birds that lay blue eggs
- All slides are illustrated with real photos and clipart for PK-1.
SCAVENGER HUNT COLORING PAGE
- Includes blackline clipart from Part II of the presentation (the scrolling slideshow).
- Students can color the images from the scrolling slideshow.
- All images are labeled with the names of each object.
RECOMMENDED READS
- Includes picture books and nonfiction for PreK-Grade 1.
- All titles are blue-themed!
- total of 27 titles
- includes small images from the presentation
- titles are editable, so you can customize the books included for your library
- All titles were hand-selected by a veteran school librarian for quality, diversity, positive professional reviews, and currency.
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