Birds

Opening Rhyme
The More We Get Together

Books
Flip, Flap, Fly by Phyllis Root (PROF JE ROO)
Feathers for Lunch by Lois Ehlert (PROF JE EHL)
Little Green by Keith Baker (PROF JE BAK)
Good-Night, owl by Pat Hutchins (PROF JE HUT)

Songs
Five Little Birdies (PROF CD J782.42 STE)

Flannelboard
Pepito the Brave

Craft
Flying birds on strings

Ocean

Opening Rhyme
If You Want to Hear a Story, Clap Your Hands

Books
The Pout Pout Fish in the Big Big Dark by Deborah Diesen (JE DIE)
Sea Sand and Me by Patricia Hubbell (JE HUB)
Fidgety Fish by Ruth Galloway (PROF JE GAL)
Clumsy Crab by Ruth Galloway (PROF JE GAL)
Duck Dunks by Lynne Berry (JE BER)

Flannelboard
Five Little Fishes

Song
The Fishy Pokey (CD J782.4 PAL #21 1:50)
Left fin
Right fin
Fish head
Fish self

Craft
waves with fish

Ponds

Opening Rhyme
The More We Get Together

Books
In the Small, Small Pond by Denise Fleming (JE FLE)
Down by the Pond by Margrit Cruickshank (JE CRU)
Turtle Splash by Cathryn Falwell (PROF JE FAL)
One Dog Canoe by Mary Casanova (JE CAS)
City Dog, Country Frog by Mo Williems (JE WIL)

Songs
Can You Canoe by the Okee Dokee Brothers (CD 782.42 OKE)
Five Little Frogs by Raffi (PROF CD 782.42 RAF)

Craft
Decorate a canoe

Babies

Opening Rhyme
The More We Get Together

Books
Baby Face: A Bok of Love for Baby by Cynthia Rylant (PROF JE RYA)
Me Baby, You Baby by Ashley Wolff (PROF JE WOL)
Te Amo Bebe, Little One by Lisa Wheeler (PROF JE WHE)
What's in Baby's Morning by Judy Hindley (PROF JE HIN)
Baby, Come Away by Victoria Adler (PROF JE ADL)
Baby Knows Best by Kathy Henderson (PROF JE HEN)
Itsy-Bitsy Babies by Margaret Wild (PROF JE WIL)
My Baby and Me by Lynn Reiser (PROF JE REI)
Baby Loves by William Lach (PROF JE LAC)

Songs
Walking by Hap Palmer
Sitting in a High Chair

"B" Sound

Craft
Baby hand puppets

Food

Opening Rhyme
The More We Get Together

Books
The Wolf's Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza (PROF JE KAS)
Who Put the Cookies in the Cookie Jar by George Shannon (JE SHA)
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food by Jane Yolen (JE YOL)


Flannelboard
If You Give a Moose a Muffin

'F' Sound Game

Songs
Victor Vito (CD J782.42 BER)
If You're Happy and You Know It

Craft
Decorate Cookies

Flowers

Opening Ryme
The More We Get Together

Books
Quiet Bunny's Many Colors by Lisa McCue (PROF JE MCC)
My Garden by Kevin Henkes (PROF JE HEN)
Sunflower House by Eve Bunting (JE BUN)
Flower Garden by Eve Bunting (PROF JE BUN)

Big Book
Planting a Rainbow by Lois Ehlert (PROF JE EHL)

Flannelboard
Lady Bugs

Craft
Create a flower scene on paper

Hippos

Opening Rhyme
If You Want to Hear a Story, Clap Your Hands

Books
Hot Hippo by Mwenye Hadithi (JE HAD)
The Hiccupotamus by Aaron Zenz (JE ZEN)
The Hippo Hop by Christine Loomis (JE LOO)
Zoozical by Judy Sierra (JE SIE)
I Know a Rhino by Charles Fuge (PROF JE FUG)

Flannelboard
You Look Ridiculous Said the Rhinocerous to the Hippotamus

Songs/ Rhymes
Sing, Sing, Sing by Benny Goodman (CD 781.65 JAZ)

Did you ever see a hippo
a hippo, a hippo?
Did you ever see a hippo dance this way and that?
Dance this way and that way
And this way and that way
Did you ever see a hippoe dance this way and that?
(hop, twirl, jump)

H-I-P-P-O
There was a creature at the zoo and Hippo was his name-o
H-I-P-P-O
H-I-P-P-O
H-I-P-P-O
and Hippo was his name-o

Craft
Hippo by water