Smile for the Camera Storytime

Storytime for 1 to 3 year olds:

• Opening - Skinnamarink, Sticky Sticky Bubblegum

• Book #1 – Smile, Maisy! by Lucy Cousins (board book, larger size)

• Stand-up Activity – "If You're Happy and You Know It" from Songs for Wiggleworms 

• Bridge - Open, Shut Them (fingerplay)

Open, shut them
(open and close hands)
Open, shut them
Give a little clap (clap)
Open, shut them

Open, shut them
Put them in your lap
(put hands in lap)

Creep them, creep them
Under your chin
(creep fingers up chest)
Open your mouth, but don't put them in
(do as words say)

Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Give a little clap
Open shut them
Open shut them
Put them in your lap 

• Large Group Activity - Use Ipad to film class singing "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" then project the video onto the large screen.

• Letter of the Day - "C" is for camera

• Book #2 – We're Going On Safari by Tom Arma

• Activity – Can You Growl Like a Tiger? (action rhyme I found many years ago)

Can 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 - Shaker eggs using the song "I Know a Chicken" from Whaddaya Think of That? by Laurie Berkner

      

• Art Experience – Use bingo-paint dabbers to decorate card stock picture frames