Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Storytime - Oh Baby!

Toddler


Books: Bouncing Babies by Mike Brownlow and How Do You Make a Baby Smile? by Philemon Sturges



Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “All the Little Babies Love Bouncing”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Patty Cake”, “Ten Little Babies” on the felt board, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, “Wind, Oh Wind” with scarves, “If You’re Happy and You Know It” with scarves, “Mix a Pancake” with scarves, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: There was no craft today. We played with scarves instead.

Preschool


Books: The Difference Between Babies and Cookies by Mary Hanson and First Brother or Sister by Monica Hughes (non-fiction title).

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “All the Little Babies Love Bouncing”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Patty Cake”, “Ten Little Babies” on the felt board, and “The More We Get Together”.

Special Activity: The preschoolers paired up to sing “Patty Cake”. They clapped each other’s hands and worked together to make the song even more fun! We also played a game with a giant, inflatable die. Each number represented an action that a baby would do. The preschoolers ate, crawled, talked, cried, had stinky diapers, and slept, just like babies!

Craft: There was no craft today. We played the game instead.

Songs/Rhymes

All the Little Babies
Sung to: “Short’nin’ Bread”
All the little babies love bouncing, bouncing
All the little babies just to love bounce!
All the little babies love bouncing, bouncing
All the little babies just to love bounce!
Lean to the left, lean to the right
Hug that baby nice and tight!
--Katie at Sharing Soda

Patty Cake
Patty cake, patty cake, baker’s man,
Bake me a cake as fast as you can
Roll it
And pat it
And mark it with a “B”
And put it in the oven for baby and me.
--Traditional

Ten Little Babies
Sing to: Ten Little Indians
One little two little three little babies
Four little five little six little babies
Seven little eight little nine little babies
Ten baby girls and boys!
*To make the song more interactive, change last line to ten little babies eating/crying/with stinky diapers/sleeping...shh!

Wind, Oh Wind
-- Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsy Diamant-Cohen. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006.


If You're Happy and You Know It (with scarves)
Sung to: "If You're Happy and You Know It"
shake your scarf
wave your scarf
throw your scarf
play peek-a-boo
hide your scarf
scrunch your scarf in your hands
hide it behind your back

Mix a Pancake
--from Lapsit Services for the Very Young II by Linda L. Ernst. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc, 2001.

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