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