Storytime: Fish
It’s time to explore life in the water! As your child learns about fish, you can talk about how underwater creatures are similar and different to humans, how we can keep their underwater home clean, and other fantastic fish facts!
Join us Tuesdays, and Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. or Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. in the Community Room.
Ages 2-5
Sing, Talk, Read, Write, Play
Tip
Looking for different uses of one item encourages creativity in inventiveness, one of the skills that helps children be ready to learn. You will be surprised by how many different things children can imagine and make from a simple hand pattern. Children thrive on encouragement!
Activity
Read “High Five” by Adam Rubin, or another book about hands with your child. Then show your her how to trace around her own hand, cut it out, and imagine what it can be… a lion head, a jellyfish, a tree, a turkey, or even a FISH!
Books Presented
Fish Faces by Norbert Wu
The author-photographer, a marine biologist, uses his own photographs to introduce readers to some of the more amusing characteristics of the creatures he’s encountered on his dives.
Hooray for Fish by Lucy Cousins
This is Not My Hat by Jon Klassen
A little fish thinks he can get away with stealing a hat.
Ursula Upside Down by Corey R. Tabor
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Slippery Fish
Slippery fish, slippery fish, sliding through the water,
Slippery fish, slippery fish, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Oh, no! It’s been eaten by an …
Octopus, octopus, squiggling in the water
Octopus, octopus, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Oh, no! It’s been eaten by a …
Tuna fish, tuna fish, flashing in the water,
Tuna fish, tuna fish, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Oh, no! It’s been eaten by a …
Great white shark, great white shark, lurking in the water,
Great white shark, great white shark, Gulp, Gulp, Gulp!
Oh, no! It’s been eaten by a …
Humongous whale, humongous whale, spouting in the water,
Humongous whale, humongous whale,
Gulp! … Gulp! … Gulp! … BURP!
(Cover your mouth.) Excuse me!
Source: Amy Liz
Did You Ever See a Fishy?
(Tune of “Did You Ever See a Lassie?”)
Did you ever see a fishy, a fishy, a fishy
Did you ever see a fishy, swim this way and that?
Swim this way and that way, and that way and this way?
Did you ever see a fishy, swim this way and that?
Source: Storytime Katie
Bubble, Bubble, Pop!
One little red fish
Swimming in the water,
Swimming in the water,
Swimming in the water.
One little red fish
Swimming in the water,
Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble…POP!
Source: Jbrary
Crafts and Activities
Fish Coloring Page
Handprint Fish Craft
Additional Books
High Five by Adam Rubin
Animals present hand slapping skills to readers, just in time for the annual high five contest.
What's It Like to Be a Fish? by Wendy Pfeffer
How can fish live in water? Why don’t they drown? The answer to this fishy question and more can be found in this latest addition to the Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. The book clearly explains how a fish’s body is perfectly suited to life underwater, just as our bodies are suited for life on land.
The Library Fish by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
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