Planes

Opening Song
Wiggle

Books
Dinosoaring by Deb Lund (JE LUN)
A Plane Goes Ka-Zoom by Jonathan London (JE LON)
What's the Opposite, PiggyWiggy? by Christyan and Diane Fox (JE FOX)
Come Fly With Me by Satomi Ichikawa (JE ICH)
Planes Fly by George Ella Lyon (PROF JE LYO)
Flight 1-2-3 by Maria van Lieshout (JE VAN)

Finger Play

I'm A Little Airplane (From the website: http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/transportation-rhymes.htm)

(Sung to the tune of "I'm a Little Teapot")

I'm a little airplane,

(children raise arms at sides to shoulder height.) 

Now watch me fly! 

(They spin one of their arms in front of them as if it were a propeller) 

Here are my instruments 

From down low to up high. 

(With their other arm, they reach from the ground to above their heads.) 

First I get revved up. 

(Children make engine noises while still spinning their arms.) 

Then I can fly, 

(Children raise arms to shoulder height.) 

Lifting off the runway 

(They start walking forward.) 

Up into the sky! 

(They go up on their tiptoes and continue to move forward. Let them circle awhile before returning to their original positions.) 

Songs 

Ladybug Music #14 Loop De Loop (PROF CD J782.42 LAD)
Musical Scarves & Activities #1 Let's Go Fly a Kite by Georgiana Stewart (PROF CD J796.13 MUS)

Craft
Plane w/propeller flying through the sky

M is for...

Opening Song
The More We Get Together

Books
Moose Tracks! by Karma Wilson (PROF JE WIL)
A Moose That Says Moo by Jennifer Hamburg (PROF JE HAM)
Two Little Monkeys by Mem Fox (PROF JE FOX)
Mammoth and Me by Algy Craig Hall (JE HAL)
Mouse Mess by Linnea Asplind Riley (PROF JE RIL)
Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh (PROF JE WAL)
Mouse Paint by Ellen Stoll Walsh (PROF JE WAL)

Flannel Board
Monkey Land

Letter Awareness
Today's letter is "M"

Songs
Moose Tune For Kids #6 Hey, Mister Moose by Brent D. Holmes (PROF CD J784.6 HOL)
Sing Along w/Bob #1- #8  Five Little Monkeys by Bob McGrath (REF CD J82.42 MCG)

Craft
Paper Bag Monkey Puppet

Hippopotamus

Opening Song
If You Want To Hear a Story Clap Your Hands

Books
The Hiccupotamus by Aaron Zenz (JE ZEN)
Hattie Hippo by Christine Loomis (JE LOO)
Hippospotamus by Jeanne Willis (JE WIL)
The Hippo Hop by Christine Loomis (JE LOO)
I Know a Rhino by Charles Fuge (PROF JE FUG)


Flannel Board
You Look Ridiculous Said the Rhinoceros to the Hippopotamus by Benard Waber

















Songs
Hippo (sang to the tune of Bingo):
There was a creature at the zoo, and Hippo was his name-o. H-I-P-P-O...and Hippo was his name-o

Ken Burns's Jazz Sampler #3 To Sing, Sing, Sing by Benny Goodman (CD 781.65 JAZ)

Musical Scarves & Activities #6 Up a Lazy River by Georgiana Stewart (PROF CD J796.13 MUS)/ with scarves

Dance with scarves:

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 hippo dance this way and that?
hop, twirl, stomp, jump

Craft
Hippo with a pond

Kindergarten Skills

Opening Song
Wiggle

Books
How Do I Put It On? by Shigeo Watanabe (JE WAT)
Wednesday by Anne Bertier (JE BER)
Circle Square Moose by Kelly Bingham (JE BIN)
Bear Counts by Karma Wilson & Jane Chapman (JE WIL)
Square Cat ABC by Beth Schoonmaker (JE SCH)
Planet Kindergarten by Sue Ganz-Schmitt (JE GAN)

Flannel Board
Teddy Wore His Red Shirt

Songs
Action Songs for Preschoolers #12 Shapes in Action by Georgiana Stewart (PROF CD J782.42 STE)
Ribbons & Rhythms Movement Activities for Learning #11 Count with Me by Michael Plunkett (PROF CD J782.42 PLU) w/egg shakers

Craft
Teddy Bear w/removable clothes

Pigs

Opening Song
If You Want to Hear a Story

Books
Piggies in Pajamas by Michelle Meadows (JE MEA)
Cock a Moo Moo by Juliet Dallas-Conte (JE DAL)
If You Give a Pig a Party by Laura Numeroff (JE NUM)
Can You Make a Piggy Giggle by Linda Ashman (JE ASH)

Big Books
I Went Walking by Lois Ehlert (PROF JE EHL)
If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff (PROF JE NUM)

Finger Play

Two Mother Pigs

Two mother pigs lived in a pen

[Show thumbs.]
Each had four babies, and that made ten
[Show fingers and thumbs.]
These four babies were black as night
[Hold up hand, extend fingers, thumb in palm.]
These four babies were black and white
[Hold up other hand, thumb in palm.]
But all eight babies loved to play
And they rolled and rolled in the mud all day.
[Roll hands.]
At night, with their mother, they curled up in a heap,
[Make fists, palms up.]
And squealed and squealed till they went to sleep.

Songs
Ladybug Music-Green Collection #8 Potbelly Pig by Patricia Maertens & Brad Dujmovic (PROF CD J782.42 LAD)

Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Old Macdonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O
And on his farm he had a cow, E-I-E-I-O
With a "moo-moo" here and a "moo-moo" there
Here a "moo" there a "moo"
Everywhere a "moo-moo"
Old Macdonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O

pig.. oink               dog.. ruff

Craft
Pig in a pen