Description
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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 ABOUT THIS COLOR GRAY LIBRARY STORYTIME
- 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
- Includes 2 versions for 2 different spellings of gray / grey
***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 COLOR GRAY LIBRARY STORYTIME LESSON INCLUDES:
- 43-slide PPT + Google™ Slides
- List of gray color-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 COLOR GRAY LIBRARY STORYTIME INCLUDES:
- Oral review of periodicals, magazines, and newspapers
- nursery rhyme (“Three Blind Mice”)
- Links to four short gray color-themed videos for kids
- “Gray” and “trash can” in American Sign Language (include demo image and links to video)
- “Gray” in four languages (French, Spanish, German, Swedish)
- identifying gray objects around the school
- Who is wearing gray today?
- 5 shades of gray
- black + white = gray
- first names that mean gray
- words that rhyme (and do not rhyme) with gray
- counting / clapping syllables in “gray” and “trash can”
- library books with gray covers – you add your own book cover images
- gray animals (special emphasis on sharks, opossums, and hippos)
- What is a marsupial?
- Word of the Week: “graphite”
- gray idioms: “gray area” and “gray matter”
- the poem “Fog” by Carl Sandburg
- ways to keep your brain (“gray matter”) healthy
- volcanic ash
- “gray” versus “grey” – which one is correct?
- 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 grey-themed picture book and nonfiction 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.