TWO STORIES I WROTE FOR PRESCHOOL. They are kinda lame, but they work.
Story #1: The Very Friendly Fish
There once was a fish named Freddy (put up red beta picture).
He was a very friendly fish and it was his birthday. Freddy has lots of friends, and he knew they would want to play with him on his birthday.
One day, Freddy the fish decided he wanted to go see if any of his friends wanted to play. The first friend he saw was Sally the salmon (put up Salmon picture).
Freddy asked, Sally, “Do you want to play with me?”
Sally looked at Freddy and said, “Sorry, no time to play, I have a party to go to tonight.”
Freddy looked sad, but he kept swimming. Soon, Freddy saw more of his friends. It was Jon, Jill and Jack (put up rainbow fish picture).
Freddy got excited. He loved to play with Jon, Jill and Jack.
Freddy swam up fast and said, “Do you want to play with me?”
Jon, Jill and Jack swam towards Freddy. They looked at each other and then said, “Sorry, we don’t have time to play. We are busy.”
Disappointed again, Freddy started swimming towards home.
As Freddy swam, he wondered why everyone was busy except him. He wondered if his friends didn’t like him anymore…
As Freddy got close to home he heard a lot of noise. He swam faster…. As soon as he was close to home, lots and lots of fish came swimming out his front door. Among them were all his friends.
They yelled, “SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!”
Freddy’s friends did like him; they were planning a party for him all along. This made Freddy happy.
Story #2: The Fish Story [Tell Children before beginning the story: “Every time you hear your fish color, hold up your fish in the air. Make sure you listen really carefully.”]
Once there was a yellow fish. He was fast like lightening. (Children with yellow fish hold them up.)
Across the ocean there was a purple fish, who loved to swim, twirl and whirl. She had no problem keeping up with the yellow fish. (Children with a purple or yellow fish hold them up.)
Right next door to the purple fish (hold up purple fish) was an orange fish (hold up orange fish). She was friends with the yellow fish (Children with yellow fish hold them up.) and the purple fish (Children with a purple fish hold them up.). They all liked to play tag together in the water.
One day the orange fish (hold up orange fish) was very tired and didn’t come out to play. This made the purple and yellow fish sad (hold up purple and yellow fish). The fish wondered why their friend the orange fish (hold up orange fish) was so tired. They went to go ask orange fish’s (hold up orange fish) Mom.
Her mom said that orange fish (hold up orange fish) was on a swim team and it made her very tired. Her mom also said there were two spots left on the team if yellow fish and purple fish (hold up yellow fish and purple fish) wanted to join.
The next day yellow fish, purple fish and orange fish were all on the swim team (hold up all fish).
They had so much fun swimming and playing together on the swim team.
But the next day, not a single fish… not purple, yellow or orange (hold up all colored fish) were out playing. They were all too tired. But they weren’t sad. They would see each other later at swim team.
