Storytime - Turtles

Toddler

Books: Totty by Paola Opal and Scootby Cathryn Falwell 

Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Down in the Meadow”, “Turtle, Turtle” with turtle puppet, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: Turtles in the Grass. Materials: die cut green construction paper turtles, die cut white construction paper clouds, die cut light green construction paper grass, half sheet of light blue construction paper, crayons, glue, and tape. The toddlers glued their turtles, grass, and clouds to the blue paper and then colored them in.

Preschool

Books: Turtles by Emily Green and Hi, Harry!: The Moving Story of How OneSlow Tortoise Slowly Made a Friend by Martin Waddell

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Hi There, So Glad You Came”, “The Banana Song”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Down in the Meadow”, and “The More We Get Together”. 

Craft: Build a Turtle: dark green construction paper circles, ovals, and triangles, large green die cut construction paper circles, glue, tape, crayons, and scissors. The preschoolers glued and taped their shapes onto their large circles to make a turtle. The template came from First-School.ws.

Songs/Rhymes

Down in the Meadow

Down in the meadow in a little bitty pool
Swam ten little turtles and a mama turtle too
“Swim!” said mama turtle “Swim like I do!”
so they swam and they swam all over the pool

Change to different action words Splash, dive, float, etc.

--PreschoolEducation.com

Turtle, Turtle

Sung to: “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”

Turtle, turtle moves so slow,
Crawling, crawling, watch him go.
At the pond he looks around,
See his head move up and down.
Turtle, turtle wants to swim,
Now he slides and dives right in!

--PreschoolExpress