Toddler Time* -- All About Me

Opening Song: "Hello x & y - how are you - how are you?

Hello x & y - how are you - how are you today?"

Sign Language Song: "Brand New Day" - track#1 from Pick Me Up: Fun Songs for Learning Signs

Book: We’ve All Got Bellybuttons by David Martin

Action Song: "Head Shoulders Knees & Toes"

Book/Song: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush by Sophie Fatus (mentioned to caregivers great book for close perusal -- kids from across the world doing everyday actions, also CD included by Fred Penner -- told caregivers about but didn't use)

Action Song: "If You’re Happy and You Know It" (sad, angry, loving...)

Interactive Book: Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow? by Susan S. Shea (just did some of the pages -- animate/inanimate objects)

Song (with fingerpuppet mouse) "Hickory Dickory Dock" - 2 boo, 3 whee, 4 no more

Action Song: "Wheels on the bus"

Interactive Book: Clap Your Hands by Lorinda Bryan Cauley

Action Song: "Shake Your Sillies Out"  clap-crazies, jump-jiggles, yawn-sleepies

Action Song: "Twinkle Twinkle" Bubble machine acting up, substituted shakey eggs

Note: don’t use the alphabet mats next time...too distracting

 *Substituting for Terry

Didn’t use:

Book Weiss Wonderful World

Itsy Bitsy Spider

CD: Song/action - wake up and march -- open your eyes,
jump out of bed, find your shoes, toothbrush, time to get up

BWL 6.2017

Pre-School Story/Craft "Picnic"

Entering Music – "Teddy Bear’s Picnic" on Gary Rosen’s Album Teddy Bear's Picnic  and/or "Going on a Picnic" from  Raffi’s The Corner Grocery Store

We’re Going on a Picnic by Pat Hutchins (little critters eat all the fruit in the basket while the bigger animals are debating the best spot for the picnic)

Song/Flannel: Baby Bumblebee

Teddy Bear’s Picnic – Prue Theobalds (not sure this still holds that much interest)

The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear by Don & Audrey Wood

Song: "I like to eat, eat, eat...apples & bananas" (Raffi)

It’s the Bear by Jez Alborough – the bear is really there!

The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli (big hit)

DVD: Picnic by Emily Arnold McCully

Craft music – Teddy Bear’s Picnic 734 NEW (Brass Band) – sounds like a merry-go-round

Craft – red & white woven paper placemat (picnic blanket) – kids cut out food (some made 3D!), younger kids just glued white paper squares on red paper – easier than paper weaving

Other possibilities:
Peanut Butter & Jelly: A Play Rhyme by Nadine Bernard Westcott (skipped - used for baking earlier)

A Most Unusual Lunch – Robert Bender
This is the Bear & the Picnic Lunch – Sarah Hayes
Ready for Anything – Keiko Kasza
Claude has a Picnic --Gackenbach

6.2017