Storytime - Here a Chick, There a Chick

Toddler

Books: Five Little Chicks by Nancy Tafuri and The Little Red Hen on the felt board

Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Head and Shoulders”, “Cluck, Cluck, Red Hen” with hen puppet, “Put Your Egg on Your Head” with shakers, “Shake Your Egg” with shakers, “We Shake Our Shakers Together” with shakers, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: Chicken. Materials: red construction paper die cut circle, yellow construction paper die cut hand prints, orange construction paper die cut triangles, large googly eyes, crayons, glue, and tape. The toddlers glued their pieces together to make chickens. The idea came from First School.

Preschool

Books: The Little Red Hen by Byron Barton and Hungry Hen by Richard Waring on the felt board

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “A Tooty Tah”, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: Paint a Chicken. Materials: chicken outline on cardstock, watercolor paint, paintbrushes, and water. The preschoolers painted their chickens with the watercolors. Many of them made little red hens. The idea came from Little Family Fun. I used this outline.

Songs/Rhymes

Cluck Cluck, Red Hen
Use a chicken puppet and two plastic eggs
Sung to: "Baa Baa, Black Sheep”Cluck, cluck, red hen, have you any eggs?
Yes, sir, yes, sir, as many as my legs: 1,2!

--Storytime Source Page

Put Your Egg on Your Head

Sung to: “There’s a Spider on the Floor”

Use egg shakers
Put your egg on your head, on your head.
Put your egg on your head, on your head.
Put your egg on your head
Put your egg on your head.
Put your egg on your head, on your head.
continue with toes, tummy, etc.

--Librarian Lisa’s Storytimes

Shake Your Eggs

Shake your eggs and shake them high.
Shake your eggs and shake them low.
Shake your eggs and shake them high.
Shake your eggs around you go.

--Librarian Lisa’s Storytimes

We Shake Our Shakers Together

Sung to: “The Bear Went Over the Mountain”

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

Wee Read - Just Us Chickens

Early Literacy Tip of the Week:

Clapping to rhymes and singing allows children to hear that words are made up of smaller parts. This will help them sound out words when they learn to read. --Library Bonanza

Good Morning

Hello, How are You?

Rooster Crows

--from Babies in the Library by Jane Marino. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2003.

Open Shut Them

Book One

Chicky Chicky Chook Chook by Cathy MacLennan

I Went to the Farm One Day

I went to the farm one day.

I saw a hen across the way.

And what do you think the hen did say?

Cluck, cluck, cluck!

I went to the farm one day.

I saw a chick across the way.

And what do you think the chick did say?

Cheep, cheep, cheep!

I went to the farm one day.

I saw a rooster across the way.

And what do you think the rooster did say?

Cockadoodledoo!

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

Cluck Cluck, Red Hen

Use a chicken puppet and two plastic eggs

Sung to: "Baa Baa, Black Sheep”

Cluck, cluck, red hen, have you any eggs?

Yes, sir, yes, sir, as many as my legs: 1,2

--Storytime Source Page

I Wiggle My Fingers

Book Two

Hurry! Hurry! by Eve Bunting

Shake Your Egg With Me

Sung to: “London Bridge”

use shaker eggs

Can you shake your egg with me,

Shake your egg along with me

It’s as easy as can be

Now put it on your knee!

Repeat with head, tummy, etc.

--Nancy Stewart

We Shake Our Shakers Together

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

An Egg is On My Nose

Sung to: “The Farmer in the Dell”

Use egg shakers

An egg is on my nose,

an egg is on my nose,

Heigh-ho, the derry-o,

an egg is on my nose.

(Repeat using other body parts)

--Storytime Source Page

Read Together

Five Little Chicks by Nancy Tafuri

The More We Get Together

Wee Read - At the Farm

Early Literacy Tip: Sing the same song or recite the same rhyme multiple times.

Books

This Little Chick by John Lawrence
Farmyard Beat by Lindsey Craig
Touch and Feel Farm by Dawn Sirett (read-together)

Songs/Rhymes

Head and Shoulders

Head and shoulders, knees and toes,

Knees and toes

Head and shoulders, knees and toes,

Knees and toes

Eyes and ears and mouth and nose

Head and shoulders, knees and toes

Knees and toes!

-- Traditional

I Went to the Farm One Day - With Puppets
-- Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsy Diamant-Cohen. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006.

Trot, Trot to Dover

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

Old MacDonald Had a Farm - With Puppets

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

(repeat using pig, chicken, and horse)

--Traditional

Five Little Piggies - Feltboard

Five little piggies rolling in the mud.

Squishy, squashy, felt so good!

Then along came the farmer,

who took one for a bath.

Continue to one little piggy

-- PreschoolEducation.com

Rooster Crows

--from Babies in the Library by Jane Marino. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2003.