Preschool Storytime 5/6/2021: Letter L

Singing the Alphabet

Today we sang the alphabet forwards and backwards to the tune of "Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes".

We like to practice our letters in all different ways! Kids tend to learn the alphabet by rote…they memorize it quickly. Switching up the tune or singing the alphabet backwards really challenges them to connect each letter's shape with it’s name and/or sound. We also slow down (especially spots like LMNOP which to many young learners sounds like it’s meant to be a single name or sound)

Happy Llama, Sad Llama

Make "llamas" with your hands by bringing your middle and ring fingers down to meet your thumb. That's llama's face, then your pointer finger and pinky make the llama's ears.

Happy Llama, sad llama, totally rad llama.

Super llama, drama llama, great big mama llama.

Daddy llama, baby llama, let’s pretend to be a llama!

Here’s a llama, there’s a llama, everywhere a llama llama!

We're Going on a Lion Hunt

We're going on a lion hunt (echo)

We're going to see a big one! (echo)

What a beautiful day. (echo)

We're not scared. (echo)

Uh oh! Tall, wavy grass!

We can't go over it. (echo)

We can't go under it. (echo)

We can't go around it. (echo)

We'll have to go through it!

Swishy, swashy, swishy, swashy, swishy, swashy, swishy, swashy!

Repeat with additional obstacles:

A deep, cold river (splash, sploosh)

Ooey, gooey mud (squelch, squerch)

A dark, narrow cave (tiptoe, tiptoe)

Oh no!

We Got a Lovely Letter in the Mail

(tune: If You're Happy and You Know It)

Oh, we got a lovely letter in the mail (clap, clap)

Yes, we got a lovely letter in the mail (clap, clap)

Getting mail is so much fun! Now let’s see what’s in this one

Oh, this lovely little letter in the mail. (clap, clap)

Today's letter said:

Dear Storytime Friends,

I love to lounge in trees. I’m a big cat like a lion is, but I look very different from a lion…I have lots and lots of spots. Can you guess who I am?

I’m a leopard!