Thursday, May 30, 2013

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

Thursday, May 23, 2013

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

Thursday, May 16, 2013

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

Thursday, May 9, 2013

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