The Letter L

Opening Song
If You Want to Hear a Story

Books

La La Rose by Satomi Ichikawa (JE ICH)

The Little School Bus by Carol Roth (ROT)

Lola Loves Stories by Anna McQuinn (JE MCQ)

If I Were a Lion by Sarah Weeks (JE WEE)

Songs

Head and Shoulders

Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Knees and toes.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Knees and toes.
And eyes, and ears, and mouth,
And nose.
Head, shoulders, knees and toes,
Knees and toes.

Hokey Pokey

Left Hand, Left Foot, Left Ear, Left Side

Craft
Lion Masks

Autumn

Opening Song
If You Want to Hear a Story

Books
Wild Child by Lynn Plourde (JE PLO)
Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf by Lois Ehlert (JE EHL)
Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert (JE EHL)

Songs/ Rhymes
Autumn leaves are falling down (London Bridges)
 Autumn leaves are falling down, falling down, falling down
Autumn leaves are falling down, orange, red, yellow, & brown.
 Take a rake and pile them up, pile them up, pile them up
Take a rake and pile them up, orange, red, yellow, & brown.
 Jump in them and toss them ‘round, toss them round, toss them round
Jump in them and toss them round, orange, red, yellow, & brown.

Flannel board finger play
Five Little Leaves
 5 little leaves so bright and gay, were fluttering on the tree one day,
The wind came blowing through the town, and one little leaf came tumbling down.
 4 little leaves so bright and gay, were fluttering on the tree one day, the wind came blowing through the town, and one little leaf came tumbling down.
 3 little leaves so bright and gay, were fluttering on the tree one day,
The wind came blowing through the town, and one little leaf came tumbling down.
 2 little leaves so bright and gay, were fluttering on the tree one day,
The wind came blowing through the town, and one little leaf came tumbling down.
 1 little leaf so bright and gay, were fluttering on the tree one day,
The wind came blowing through the town, and one little leaf came tumbling down.
 5 little leaves so bright and gay were lying in the ground one day
The wind came blowing through the town and five little leaves went flying around.




































Craft
A green construction paper leaf with tissue paper orange and yellow leaves to glue on to change the color

Spiders

Opening Song
If you want to hear a story

Books
Shoo Fly! by Iza Trapani (PROF JE TRA)
The Itsy Bitsy Spider by Iza Trapani (PROF JE TRA)
Eency Weency Spider by Joanne Oppenheim (Bugs Storytime Kit)
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle (PROF JE CAR)

Flannelboard
I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

Songs
Itsy Bitsy Spider (fingerplay)
The itsy bitsy spider crawled up the water spout
Down came the rain and washed the spider out
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider crawled up the spout again

Little Miss Muffet (sheet music from J782.42 ONE)
Little Miss Muffet, she sat on a tuffet
eating her curds and whey
Along came a spider and sat down beside her
and frightened Miss Muffet away

Craft
Paper spiders

Owls

Opening Song
The More We Get Together

Books

Wow! Said the Owl by Tim Hopgood (PROF JE HOP)

Hootenanny by Kim Ainsworth (JE AIN)

The Little White Owl by Tracey Corderoy (JE COR)

Quiet Night by Marilyn Singer (PROF JE SIN)

Good Night, Owl by Pat Hutchins (PROF JE HUT)

Flannelboard

Owl Babies by Martin Waddell

The Letter 'O'

Songs

Owl Lullaby - Sing A-Z (REF CD J784.6 SHA)

Two Little Owls - Burl Ives Sings Little White Duck (REF CD J782.42 IVE)

Fingerplays

An Owl Sat Alone

An owl sat alone

On the branch of a tree

(Hold up pointer finger)

He was as quiet

As he could be

(Put finger to lips)

It was night

And his eyes were round like this

(Circle eyes with thumbs and fingers)

And when he looked around

Not a thing did he miss

(Move head from side to side)

Little Owl by Jean Warren

Little owl in the tree

He is winking down at me

(Wink eye)

As he winks all through the night

Little owl is quite a sight

Little owl in the tree

He is hooting down at me

(Make hooting sound)

As he hoots all through the night

Little owl is quite a sight

Little Night Owl by Jean Warren

Once there was a night owl

Who lived up in a tree

She could often spot things

That others couldn’t see

Little night owl answer me

What do you see

As you sit along at night

Up in the tree?

Craft
Owl decorated with feathers on a paper tree scene