Description
THIS PINK LIBRARY STORYTIME WAS MADE ESPECIALLY FOR:
My storytimes 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 PINK LIBRARY STORYTIME LESSON INCLUDES:
- 38-slide PPT + Google™ Slides
- List of pink-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 PINK LIBRARY STORYTIME INCLUDES:
- Introductory song (“Flamingos Are Pink”)
- Links to five short pink-themed videos for kids
- “Pink” and “pig” in American Sign Language (includes demo link)
- “Pink” in four languages (French, Spanish, Vietnamese, Samoan)
- identifying pink objects around the library or classroom
- Who is wearing pink today?
- naming 5 shades of pink
- mixing colors: red + white = pink
- first names that mean “pink”
- words that rhyme (and do not rhyme) with pink
- counting syllables in “pink” and “bubble gum”
- library books with pink covers
- pink fruits
- pink animals
- Word of the Week: “blush”
- two pink idioms: “tickled pink” and “stop and smell the roses”
- One “This or That” for the color pink
- One pink joke
- 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, nonfiction, and early chapter books for PreK-Grade 1.
- All titles are pink-themed!
- total of 26 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.