Home Preschool Storytimes from VCL: Spring has Sprung
Storytime Theme
Spring will start this year on Thursday, March 19.
Find out more about Spring from DK here.
Let's start Storytime with our "Hello Song"!
Hands go up, and hands go down.
I can turn round and round.
I can listen, so can you.
I can sit I'll show you how.
Hands go up, and hands go down.
Storytime is starting now.
Book 1
When Spring Comes by Call Number: JP HENKESISBN: 9780062331397Publication Date: 2016-02-09The award-winning, bestselling husband-and-wife team of Kevin Henkes and Laura Dronzek collaborate on this beautiful picture book celebrating the arrival of spring. Before spring comes, the trees are dark sticks, the grass is brown, and the ground is covered in snow. But if you wait, leaves unfurl and flowers blossom, the grass turns green, and the mounds of snow shrink and shrink. Spring brings baby birds, sprouting seeds, rain and mud, and puddles. You can feel it and smell it and hear it--and you can read it! Kevin Henkes uses striking imagery, repetition, and alliteration to introduce basic concepts of language and the changing of the seasons. And Laura Dronzek's gorgeous, lush paintings show the transformation from quiet, cold winter to the joyful newborn spring. Watch the world transform when spring comes!
Book 2
And Then It's Spring by Call Number: JP FOGLIANOISBN: 9781596436244Publication Date: 2012-02-14Following a snow-filled winter, a young boy and his dog decide that they've had enough of all that brown and resolve to plant a garden. They dig, they plant, they play, they wait . . . and wait . . . until at last, the brown becomes a more hopeful shade of brown, a sign that spring may finally be on its way. Julie Fogliano's tender story of anticipation is brought to life by the distinctive illustrations Erin E. Stead, recipient of the 2011 Caldecott Medal. This title has Common Core connections. And Then It's Springis one ofThe Washington Post's Best Kids Books of 2012. One ofKirkus Reviews'Best Children's Books of 2012
Book 3
Mouse's First Spring by Call Number: JP THOMPSONISBN: 9780689858383Publication Date: 2005-02-01One bright day, Mouse and Momma head outside to play. The wind blows in something feathery and plump -- a bird, and something wiggly and pink -- a worm, and something green, who hops and leaps -- a frog. But before it's time to go back inside, Mouse finds something that's soft and new with petals... the prettiest flower he's ever seen! Could it mean spring is finally here?
Links to related activities, songs, and rhymes!
- Preschool Songs Five Little Kites Flannel Board Story Children's SongKite Flannel Board rhyme
- Preschool Songs Four Little Umbrella's Flannel Board StoryUmbrella counting rhyme!
Ms. Melinda's Spring Movement Challenge
Can you do all these movements?
Circle your arms over your head until you are round like the sun
Kneel down and "grow" slowly until you are a new Spring flower
Flap your arms like a bid's wings
Move like a worm on the ground
Hop like a baby bunny
Sway like a tree growing new leaves
HAVE FUN!
EBooks From Hoopla Digital all about Spring
Hoopla is one of our digital book resources. You may use up to 4 books per month with a Valley Cottage Library Card.
You can use hoopla from a browser, or download the app. Use your library card to sign in. Your pin number is the last four digits of your phone.
Click the links below to be directed to the titles.
Colores De La Primavera Crayola 
Our good bye song:
Clap your hands 'cause it's time to go.
Stomp your feet 'cause it's time to go.
Wave goodbye 'cause it's time to go,
Storytime's over now.
THANK YOU FOR READING!