Chickens - 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 Songs)
• Book #1 - Chickens to the Rescue by John Himmelman
• Book #2 - Hurry! Hurry! by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Jeff Mack (alternative longer book: Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein)
  
• Stand up activity - Mack Chicken Dance (action song from Big Fun by Greg & Steve)
• Flannelboard - Old Macdonald Had a Farm
  
• Book #3 - I Bought a Baby Chicken by Kelly Milner Halls, illustrated by Karen Stormer Brooks
• Book #4 - Chicken Little by Rebecca Emberley and Ed Emberley
  
• Activity - This Is the Way the Chicken Moves (action chant written by Carol Hopkins)

This is the way the chicken walks
Bob the head, chin in front
Bob the head, chin in front
This is the way the chicken stretches
Flap, flap, flap your wings
Flap, flap, flap your wings
This is the way the chicken dances
Move your tail feathers to the left
Move your tail feathers to the right
This is the way the chicken sits
Fold your legs on the nest like so
Fold your legs on the nest like so

• Closing - I Know a Chicken (egg shaker song from Whaddaya Think of That by Laurie Berkner)
  
• Family Small Motor Activity - Create chicken coops out of straw connectors