A Wednesday morning storytime for ages 0-6 years old.
Opening #1: “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” from Songs for Wiggleworms by Old Town School of Folk Music
Opening #2: Roly Poly Oh So Fast (hand rolling
body part chant adapted by Carol Hopkins)
Roly poly, roly poly, oh so fast!
Roly poly, roly poly, oh so slowly.
Roly poly, roly poly, up.
Roly poly, roly poly, down.
Roly poly, roly poly, hands on your head.
Roly poly, roly poly, hand on your feet.
(Repeat with
other body parts)
Roly poly, roly poly, hands in your
lap.
Opening #3: Fee Fi Fo Fum
Fee fi fo fum,
(clap for each syllable)
See my fingers,
(wiggle fingers)
See my thumbs.
(wiggle thumbs)
Fee fi fo fum,
(clap for each syllable)
Good bye fingers,
(hide one hand behind back)
Good bye thumbs.
(hide the other hand behind back)
(Repeat several
times moving and saying the words faster and faster)
Literacy activity
flannelboard: Stacking Colored Blocks
(Hand out colored blocks to the children. When you call their color, the children then bring up their block to stack onto a pile or two.)
Book #1: Maisy Goes on a Bike Ride by Lucy Cousins
Theme activity #1: "If You're Happy And You Know It" traditional action song from WeeSing
Theme activity #2:
Alligator, alligator, alligator pie,
(Open and close arms like the jaws of an alligator)
If I don't get some, I think I'm gonna cry.
(Rub eyes like you are crying)
You can take away the grass,
(Point to the ground)
You can take away the sky,
(Point to the sky above)
But don't take away my alligator pie!
(Open and close arms like an alligator)
Transition: Dance Your Fingers (fingerplay adaption from a video I saw from New York
Public Library)
Dance your fingers up;
(put fingers high in the air)
Dance your fingers down;
(touch the ground)
Dance your fingers from side to side;
(move hands from left to right side of body and back again, several times)
And dance them all around.
(hands move in a large wiggly circle in the air in front of your body)
Dance them on your shoulders;
(fingers wiggle on your shoulders)
Dance them on your head;
(fingers wiggle on top of your head)
Dance them on your tummy;
(fingers wiggle on top of your tummy)
And put them all to bed.
(fold hands in lap or tuck under armpits)
Book #2: Don't Push the Button by Bill Cotter
Book #3: Ada, Go Go, Go! by Daishu Ma (board book)
Closing music
with egg shakers: “I Know a Chicken”
from Whaddaya Think of That? by Laurie Berkner
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Art activity: Shape collage by gluing a variety of paper shapes onto a paper circle or paper plate
Optional other books:
Blocks by Irene Dickson
On Mother's Lap by Ann Herbert Scott, illustrated by Glo Coalson
