Zoo Animal Storytime

Storytime for 1-1/2 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum
• Book #1 – Sam Who Never Forgets by Eve Rice
• Activity - Zoo Animals (action song to the tune of "If You're Happy And You Know It")

(Suite actions to words)
If you want to be a monkey, jump up high
If you want to be a monkey, jump up high
If you want to be a monkey, If you want to be a monkey,
If you want to be a monkey, jump up high

Parrot…flap your wings
Elephant…swing your trunk
Lion...roar out loud
Giraffe...stand up tall

• Flannelboard/Math Activity - Five Little Monkeys Swinging from the Tree (counting rhyme)
• Book #2 - Ziggy the Zebra by Libby Ellis, illustrated by Salina Yoon (pop-up)
• Activity - Can You Growl Like a Tiger? (action rhyme)

(Suite actions to words)
Can you growl like a tiger?
Can you hop like a frog?
Can you climb like a monkey?
Can you bark like a dog?
Can you slither like a snake?
Can you fly like a bat?
Can you howl like a wolf?
Can you stretch like a cat?
Can you sit like a kid at storytime?

• Closing - Rhythm sticks to the song " Goin' On a Bear Hunt" (found in Kids In Action by Greg and Steve)
• Craft - Black crayons and pens on a white horse to make a one of a kind zebra