Showing posts with label Pets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pets. Show all posts

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Wee Read - Pets

Books
Cat and Mouse by Ian Schoenherr










Touch and Feel Farm Animals by Julie Aigner-Clark









Songs/Rhymes
Hickory Dickory Dock
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

Here's a Little Bunny
-- from Lapsit Services for the Very Young II by Linda L. Ernst. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc, 2001. 

If You’re a Pet and You Know It

If you’re a doggie and you know it,

Say, “Woof, woof”.

If you’re a doggie and you know it,

Say, “Woof, woof”.

If you’re a doggie and you know it,

And you really want to show it,

If you’re a doggie and you know it,

Say, “Woof, woof”.

Repeat with kitty/meow, fishy/blub, hamster/run in place, bird/tweet.
--Miss Mollie


Five Little Doggies
Five little doggies in the doggie pet store.
Looking so lonely, they want a child to adore.
When along comes a child with a dollar to pay
She buys a doggie and takes him away.
--Miss Mollie



How Much is that Doggie in the Window?
How much is that doggie in the window?
The one with the waggly tail?
How much is that doggie in the window?
I do hope that doggie’s for sale.
--Traditional

Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat
We clapped out each syllable in this song.
-- Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsy Diamant-Cohen. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

Storytime - Pets Galore

Books
I Don't Want a Cool Cat by Emma Dodd
Toddler

I asked the caregivers to help me clap out each syllable as I read.




What Will Fat Cat Sit On? by Jan Thomas
Toddler










Children Make Terrible Pets by Peter Brown
Preschool









Swim! Swim! by James Proimos
Preschool







Songs
If You’re a Pet and You Know It

If you’re a doggie and you know it,

Say, “Woof, woof”.

If you’re a doggie and you know it,

Say, “Woof, woof”.

If you’re a doggie and you know it,

And you really want to show it,

If you’re a doggie and you know it,

Say, “Woof, woof”.

Repeat with kitty/meow, fishy/blub, hamster/run in place, bird/tweet.

--Miss Mollie

How Much is that Doggie in the Window?

How much is that doggie in the window?

The one with the waggly tail?

How much is that doggie in the window?

I do hope that doggie’s for sale.

--Traditional

Activities
Five Little Doggies

Five little doggies in the doggie pet store.

Looking so lonely, they want a child to adore.

When along comes a child with a dollar to pay

She buys a doggie and takes him away.

--Miss Mollie



B-I-N-G-O

There was a farmer who had a dog,

And Bingo was his name-o.

B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O, B-I-N-G-O

And Bingo was his name-o.
--Traditional
*This felt board was made by my friend, Miss Dorothy.



I Went to the Pet Store
--Storytime Magic by Kathy MaMillan and Christine Kirker. Chicago: American Library Association, 2009.

I've been working on rhymes with the preschoolers. I would say the line in the poem, then they'd have to figure out which pet I was talking about. I'd compare each word with the name of the pet and ask if they rhymed.







Craft
Toddlers
Kitty Cats: Foam die cut cats, piece of yarn, foam sheets, and glue. The toddlers glued their cats to the sheet and added the piece of yarn. One little girl led hers around with the yarn like a leash!




Preschoolers
I gave each preschooler a letter K worksheet: http://www.first-school.ws/t/alpha1/k.htm