Toddler
Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Tall as a Tree”, “Open, Shut Them”, “The Leaves Are Falling Down” with pretend leaves, “Hickory Dickory Dock” on the felt board, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”.
Special Activity: After reading Mouse’s First Fall, I described how much fun fall can be, especially when there are leaves falling down! I sang “The Leaves Are Falling Down” while throwing the pretend leaves in the air. When I was finished, I asked the toddlers to “rake” them back up and put them in a pile (back in the bag).
Craft: There was no craft today. The toddlers took home an M is for Mouse coloring sheet.
Preschool
Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Tall as a Tree”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Five Little Mice”, “A Tooty Tah”, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, “The Leaves Are Falling Down” with pretend leaves, and “The More We Get Together”.
Special Activity: After reading Mouse’s First Fall, Miss Mollie described how much fun fall can be, especially when there are leaves falling down! She sang “The Leaves Are Falling Down” while throwing the pretend leaves in the air. When she was done, Miss Mollie asked the preschoolers to “rake” them back up and put them in a pile (back in the bag).
Craft: There was no craft today. The preschoolers took home an M is for Mouse coloring sheet.
Songs/Rhymes
The Leaves are Falling Down
Sung to: "The Farmer in the Dell"
The leaves are falling down
The leaves are falling down
Red, yellow, green, and brown
The leaves are falling down
Hickory Dickory Dock (felt board)
Hickory, dickory, dock
(clasp hands together and swing gently back and forth)
The mouse ran up the clock.
(run fingers up so hands end up above head)
The clock struck one,
(clap hands once)
The mouse ran down,
(bring arms back down in front)
Hickory, dickory, dock.
--Traditional
Five Little Mice (magnet board)
Five little mice came out to play
Gathering crumbs along the way
Out came the big cat brown and fat
Four little mice go scampering back.
Continue until one
...
One little mouse came out to play
Gathering crumbs along the way
Out came the big cat brown and fat
No little mice go scampering back
Tooty Ta
We do thumbs up, elbows back, feet apart, knees together, bottom up, head back, tongue out.
