Friends - Family Storytime

This is for an all ages, whole family storytime:

• Opening - Look Up, Look Down (sign language song from Pick Me Up!: Fun Songs for Learning Signs)
• Book #1 - Peter Spit a Seed at Sue by Jackie French Koller, illustrated by John Manders
  
• Book #2 - A Visitor for Bear by Bonny Becker, illustrated by Kady McDonald Denton (alternative book: How Do Dinosaurs Play With Their Friends? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague (board book))
  
• Stand up activity - Let's Be Friends Today (action song to the tune of "The More We Get Together" written by Carol Hopkins)

Let's be friends with one another, together forever,
Let's be friends with each other,
Let's be fri-ends today!

As friends we can ju-ump, go jumping, go jumping.
Let's be friends with each other,
Let's be fri-ends today!

As friends we can cla-ap, go clapping, go clapping.
Let's be friends with each other,
Let's be fri-ends today!

As friends we can ru-un, go running, go running.
Let's be friends with each other,
Let's be fri-ends today!

As friends we can spi-in, go spinning, go spinning.
Let's be friends with each other,
Let's be fri-ends today!

As friends we can si-it, go sitting, go sitting.
Let's be friends with each other,
Let's be fri-ends today!

• Flannelboard - Five Friends (a counting backwards rhyme I found on some website)
• Book #3 - Where Are Maisy's Friends? by Lucy Cousins (board book) (alternative book: I Love You, Blue Kangaroo! by Emma Chichester Clark)
  
• Activity - I Like Friends (use sign language to make this an action song, from Tony chestnut & Fun Time Action Songs by The Learning Station)
  
• Closing - If You're Happy & You Know It (no props, action song from Car Songs: Songs To Sing Anywhere by Dennis Buck at Kimbo)
  
• Family Math Activity - Pattern blocks