A storytime about sports in the dead of winter? Yep!
A sports storytime has been on my bucket list for a while since its a great opportunity to include movement and action in our learning. I drafted up an idea for a sports storytime about three years ago and got inspired to put it into action after reading Sunflower Storytime's post about a football story time. It was their idea for having a football storytime this time of the year because of the Super Bowl.
Disclaimer: I really do not care about football. However we live in a big football town and saying to you don't care about the local college team tantamount to treason. I try to remain neutral and accept that some people really just love football and I'm just a person who prefers an opera house to a football stadium)
Out Ready to Read skill was talking so we talked about all the excited sports things than have been happening in our city recently (We hosted the NHL All Star game and our college football team just won the national championship, guess where I am?)
Books:
Goodnight Football by Michael Dahl
Peanut and Fifi have a Ball by Randall de Seve- This book touched on several concepts at once. Sharing and when it's hard to share. Playing together and using your imagination.
Spot Loves Spots by Eric Hill
Last week I had a hard time choosing books because there were so many good choices to pick from. This time there where still many good choices, but many were too wordy. For a preschool or family storytime, yes. But not for toddlers. We did extra activities in place of the usual 4th story book.
Instead of focusing on traditional sports, you can also use storybooks about balls.
Songs and Activities:
This is the Way we Bounce the Ball and Flannel Board came from Sunflower Storytime
We did a counting rhyme
A little ball (make ball with fingers)
A bigger ball (make ball with hands)
A great big ball I see (make ball with arms)
Let's count them, one two three.
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