I love storytime. I love storytime for babies. I love storytime for toddlers. I love storytime for preschoolers. I love storytime for school-agers. I will even do a storytime for adults–although I haven’t had the opportunity to do that, yet–and I’m not sure what it would look like, but I’m sure it would be fun! It’s a half hour of my day where I get to read stories, sing fun songs, and dance around like I’m five again. It’s true. Oh! And I get to teach parents and caregivers about the benefits of reading and how to have fun with reading at home.
Unfortunately, over the last year , I haven’t done many storytimes due to the nature of my new position. I do try to do it once a month at my Young Moms’ Club program. And so, this week I finally had the chance to test out my new Song Cube. I found the idea here at so tomorrow. I have been wanting to use this idea since I saw her post last year. So this week, I made the song cards, stuffed them into the cube slots, and added it to my storytime set up.
We started with our standard welcome song, “Wiggle Them, Wiggle Them,” and then I read a story. After the book, I told the children (there were four this week), they would each get a chance to roll the cube and pick the song. We did two in a row. We read one more story and then finished with two more songs from the cube. The children were excited to see what song we would do.
The cubes came in a three pack with storytelling photo cards. I think next month we will use the other two cubes to make up a story.
*laughter and literacy* 
Yay, song cubes! What songs did you choose to include? I see “Passing Out the Sticks” and “Row Row Row Your Boat,” but I’m looking for some new ideas for mine. 🙂
To start, I did Row Your Boat, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Banana Song (a very fun song I will write about later), the Scarf is on My Head, Wheels on the Bus, and Tappin on my Sticks. I want to add more though.
Where did you get the cubes? I love the idea
I think we got them at Discount School Supply. 🙂