Storytime: Gifts & Giving - Bedminster School/Nicole's Special Ed Class/Bedminster Library

A storytime featuring tangible & intangible giving, with a nod to geography, interactive songs, and create your own verses. Great lead-in for holiday toy, coat & food drives.

Book: Rabbit’s Gift – George Shannon (Chinese folktale in which each animal tries to share the turnip left at his doorstep.)

Song/Flannel: Helping  by Shel Silverstein from Free to Be, You and Me. Lyrics & tune: http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2013/08/08/helping-an-illustrated-song-by-shel-silverstein/

The Gift – Gabriela Keselman (Mickey's birthday is coming and his parents cannot figure out what to do when he tells them that he wants something big, strong, smooth, sweet, warm, funny, and long-lasting)  Alternatives:  The Gift of Nothing – Patrick McDonnell or Immi’s Gift – Karin Littlewood

The Marvelous Toy by Tom Paxton (sung) (Several book versions available. Hand-me-down toy has special meaning; performed here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCjslf_a11c)

(Stopped here at Clarence Dillon Library, had an indoor snowball fight - see details below -- to finish)

A gift for the animals... 

Book: Night Tree by Eve Bunting (Every year a family decorates a tree in the woods with edible ornaments for the animals)  

Who knows what a “family tree” is?

Sign Language Song: Family Tree  Song by Tom Chapin & John Forster, additional verses on their album “Family Tree”; video of their performance with signs: http://www.tomchapin.com/docs/lft.htmland and on their video “This Pretty Planet.” 
Signs handout:  http://www.tomchapin.com/docs/ftsigns.html 

Family Tree by John Forster & Tom Chapin © 1988 Limousine Music Co. & The Last Music Co. (ASCAP)
Before the days of Jello
Lived a prehistoric fellow,
Who loved a maid and courted her
Beneath the banyan tree.
And they had lots of children.
And their children all had children.
And they kept on having children
Until one of them had me!
We're a family and we're a tree.
Our roots go deep down in history
From my great-great-granddaddy reaching up to me,
We're a green and growing family tree.

My grandpa came from Russia;
My grandma came from Prussia;
They met in Nova Scotia,
Had my dad in Tennessee.
Then they moved to Yokohama
Where Daddy met my Mama.
Her dad's from Alabama and her mom's part Cherokee.
We're a family and we're a tree.
Our roots go deep down in history
From my great-great-granddaddy reaching up to me,
We're a green and growing family tree.

Well one fine day I may go
To Tierra Del Fuego.
Perhaps I'll meet my wife there
And we'll move to Timbuktu.
And our kid will be bilingual,
And though she may stay single,
She could, of course, comingle with the
King of Kathmandu.
'Cause we're a family and we're a tree.
Our roots go deep down in history
From my great-great-granddaddy reaching up to me,
We're a green and growing family tree.

The folks in Madagascar
Aren't the same as in Alaskar;
They got different foods, different moods
And different colored skin.
You may have a different name,
But underneath we're much the same;
You're probably my cousin and the whole world is our kin.
We're a family and we're a tree.
Our roots go deep down in history
From my great-great-grandmother reaching up to me, (sign for “grandmother is the same hand as grandfather, but thumb touching the chin and bouncing 2x)
We're a green and growing family tree.
We're a green and growing family.

This song appears on Tom Chapin's Family Tree CD.  More very special tree stories here: https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/school-age-storytime-very-special-trees.html

Book: Gifts by Jo Ellen Bogart (A grandmother travels the world bringing back gifts both real and fanciful in this lovely rhyming story illustrated with three dimensional pictures created from plasticine clay. The child grows to a young woman and the grandmother gets more frail until the last page shows the child grown up with a child of her own traveling the world and concludes "and everything she shared with me I'm going to share with you." Kids might identify geographic locations mentioned on maps on the endpapers.)

Speaking of clay... Song/Flannel:  I Had a Little Dreidel (with myriad variations --source unknown -- students encouraged to make up new verses!

Song: We Wish You a Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Year… (lyrics to this and many other holiday songs here: http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/singalong-keep-spiritwinter-holiday.html)

If time, could add some of the materials from the programs here:  

http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Gifts%20and%20Giving

Looking for additional special holiday titles?  Check out this bibliography: http://www.somerset.lib.nj.us/kids/PDFs/holidays2011.pdf

Activity: Snowball fight using plastic bag snowballs, to the music “Sleigh Ride” by Leroy Anderson (on album Season’s Greetings)
Making snowballs for the program:
1) Gather a white plastic grocery bag into a long, skinny tube-like length with the handles on one end.
2) Fold the length in half, then in half again.
3) Wind a rubber band around the middle until it is tight.
4) Cut open both ends to remove any folded areas.
5) Then fluff out pieces
Idea courtesy of:  Susan Dailey, librarian, speaker and author of "A Storytime Year"

Bedm., Dover Special Needs, CDPL 12/22

Thanksgiving 2022 - Bedminster School/Literacy Vols/Nicole's special ed class

A school-age storytime celebrating thankfulness, kindness, and inclusiveness for the Thanksgiving holiday 

Book: Thanksgiving at the Tappletons' by Eileen Spinelli. After calamity stalks every step of the preparations for the Tappletons' Thanksgiving dinner, they realize that there is more to Thanksgiving than turkey and trimmings.

Towel Folding Story: The Case of the Missing Turkey -- Rhonda Turley   Piedmont, OK via PUBYAC. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq4eojAsNlY  (or search youtube for towel and chicken). 
"Last year, I was in charge of cooking the family thanksgiving turkey.

I set my alarm for early in the morning so I could pop it in the oven to cook for our family dinner.

When the alarm went off, I got up, put on my fuzzy slippers and shuffled out to the kitchen to get the bird.  I opened the fridge, and…IT WAS GONE!
Where could it be!? (this is where the towel folding starts…lay the towel out flat)
I looked everywhere!
I rolled up the living room rug (roll one end of the towel to center)…it wasn’t under there.
I pulled down the covers on my bed (roll other end to the center)…it wasn’t there.
I turned over the couch cushion  (Flip rolled towel over so rolled ends are underneath)…it wasn’t there.
I looked under the chair (fold towel in half end to end, and hold upright like a bouquet of flowers)…it wasn’t there.
I looked in the flower vase (peek in end of one tube and pull up the corner of the towel)
I looked in the umbrella stand (peek in end of one tube and pull up the corner of the towel)…it wasn’t there.
I even looked in the trash can  (peek in end of one tube and pull up the corner of the towel)...thankfully it wasn't there!
Finally, I looked in the cookie jar  (pull up last corner of the towel)
(here’s the finale…grasp two corners with one hand, the other two corners with the other hand, and pull them apart…resulting in what looks like a plucked bird.)
…And there it was!"

Image: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Towel-Chicken (I use a brown towel.)

Book: Duck for Turkey Day by Jacqueline Jules. Tuyet is terribly worried because her Vietnamese family is cooking duck for Thanksgiving Day - isn't that against the rules?!

Song with props: I Know An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie – based on the book by Alison Jackson (great song for helping kids work on their memory skills – try to have them remember the different foods in the countdown; can also use rhyming reminders (phonemic awareness) as clues.) (We use a cardboard old lady with a plastic see-through stomach panel and a cardboard box mounted behind for the food items. This can be made as a craft) Lyrics and more images: www.4gaslps.com/IKnewAnOldLadyWhoSwallowedAPie.doc

Book: Balloons over Broadway by Melissa Sweet. The story of the puppeteer who created the balloons for Macy's parade. You can see more about the balloons in this segment from Reading Rainbow's episode "Brush" . Here is another behind-the-scenes look at the parade preparation

Book: Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message -- Jake Swamp 299.7 SWAMP (also available as Reading Rainbow episode with Public Performance Rights called "Stories for Thanksgiving")

Song: The Turkey Shot Out of the Oven (words: Jack Prelutsky, chorus: Cathy Darby)
Tune: “My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean” Check it out on Youtube, subtitled in Chinese! 

The turkey shot out of the oven
And rocketed into the air,
It knocked every plate off the table
And partly demolished a chair.
Oh my, oh me, why didn't I follow the recipe?Oh my, oh me, why didn't I follow the recipe?
It ricocheted into a corner,
And burst with a deafening boom,
Then splattered all over the kitchen,
Completely obscuring the room. Chorus
It stuck to the walls and the windows,
It totally coated the floor,
There was turkey attached to the ceiling
Where there'd never been turkey before. Chorus
It blanketed every appliance,
It smeared every saucer and bowl,
There wasn't a way I could stop it,
That turkey was out of control. Chorus
I scraped and I scrubbed with displeasure,
And thought with chagrin as I mopped,
That I'd never again stuff a turkey
With popcorn that hadn't been popped!

(Literacy Vols program shorter consisted of: Balloons Over Broadway, videos, towel folding, old lady and a puppet craft)

Other Thanksgiving books, ideas and songs:   https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Thanksgiving  

Skipped/No time:

Glove Puppets : Uno, Dos, Tres Amigos (reinforces idea that we all have come from different places but celebrate together; enumeration practice, learn/reinforce Spanish language numbers)
Diez Amigos "10 Friends" (glove puppets)Tune: “10 Little Indians” 
Uno, dos, tres amigos,
Quatro, cinco, seis amigos,
Siete, Ocho, Nueve amigos,
Diez amigos son.
One, two, three friends,
Four, five, six friends,
Seven, Eight, Nine friends,
Ten friends are we. 

Turkey Trot (movement) if needed. 

Halloween 2022 -- Bedminster Library/Nicole Paolino's class

Song: I am the Great Pumpkin (lyrics and many other ideas at: https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/halloween-hootenany-interactive-program.html)

Participatory Storytelling/Props: Big Pumpkin – from the book by Erica Silverman -- In this variant on the folktale, “The Great Big Enormous Turnip,” the witch, ghost, skeleton, and vampire are unable to pull up the pumpkin until a tiny bat ignores their derisive laughter and suggests they all work together.  I sing/chant this to a tune from an old Scholastic recording – feel free to contact me if you want to learn the tune.

Finger Puppets:  Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate

Storytelling (props for children to use - shoes, pants, shirt, hat, gloves, pumpkin head, scarecrow): The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams

Action Song; Scarecrow, Scarecrow Turn Around

Storytelling (puppets or hanging signs): One Dark Night by Edna Mitchell Preston

Action Song: Two Little Ghosts

Participatory Pop-Up Book: In a Dark Dark Wood by David A. Carter

Song: How to Make a Ghost Tune: “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”

Song/Movement: Hookey Spooky (Tune: Hokey Pokey”)

Song/Flannel: Old McDonald had a Haunted House

Action Song: The Witch on Halloween

Close with "Sing" 

skipped: 

Shakey Eggs to “Dem Bones” (track #16 on Spooky Favorites) & Monster Mash (recording unavailable)

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Nicole Paolino's class (Pumpkins/Halloween) (virtual special needs):

Book (K-2): Bear’s Bargain – Frank Asch (also published as Moonbear’s Bargain)  (“have you ever wished you were big, or could fly?”..we tried flying with bear in the book -- clever problem solving).

Song: I am the Great Pumpkin (lyrics and many other ideas at: https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2013/12/halloween-hootenany-interactive-program.html)

Participatory Storytelling (Puppets/Props): Big Pumpkin

Participatory Storytelling/Props: Big Pumpkin – from the book by Erica Silverman -- In this variant on the folktale, “The Great Big Enormous Turnip,” the witch, ghost, skeleton, and vampire are unable to pull up the pumpkin until a tiny bat ignores their derisive laughter and suggests they all work together.  I sing/chant this to a tune from an old Scholastic recording – feel free to contact me if you want to learn the tune.

Finger Puppets:  Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate

Book: Pumpkins: A Story for a Field by Mary Lyn Ray – A splendid modern environmental myth in which a man, saddened by the thought that the field across from his house is about to be sold, sells everything he has, buys seeds, grows pumpkins, and then sends them all around the world (by planes, trucks, ships, and even flying carpets) to get enough money to buy the field and save it.  (10.14 – omitted in kindergarten, did action song “Five Little Pumpkins Sitting on a Gate” instead.)

Participatory Pop-Up Book: In a Dark Dark Wood by David A. Carter

Storytelling (props for children to use - shoes, pants, shirt, hat, gloves, pumpkin head, scarecrow): The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything by Linda Williams

Song/Movement: Scarecrow, scarecrow, turn around (Scarecrow puppet)

Singable Book: There was an Old Monster by Ed Emberley (prefer If You Are a Monster and You Know It by Rebecca & Ed Emberley) -- great art inspiration idea!

 

Action Song: "Horns, Fangs, Knees and Paws...Eyes and Ears and Tail and Claws" (Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes variation)

Fold Out Prop: 10 Trick or Treaters (tune: “10 Little Indians”)

Book: Pumpkin Heads – Wendell Minor – clever and unusual ways to carve a pumpkin

More pumpkin ideas:https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Pumpkins
More monster ideas: https://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Monsters

Matheny School–Program Plans

Asian American History Month

Read: Grandfather’s Journey by Allen Say.  Caldecott-medal winning story of Allen Say’s grandfather who immigrated to the US, then returned to Japan and Say’s own conflicted feelings about home in both countries. Gorgeous illustrations, many of places in the US – great lead-in to singing “This Land is Your Land” – used https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y49N-N11AxE

Read: The Race for the Chinese Zodiac by Gabrielle Wang. Let each student choose several puppets so we could act out the story.

 

Followed with “He’s Got the Whole World in Our Hands” with sign language video  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-xK8ArLEP0  then with the puppets we’d used.  Also did Q&A with puppets asking two-choice questions.

(second group only) Shared selections from A is for Asia  by Cynthia Chin-Lee (915 CHI).  We found pictures and more info. on the Internet for some of the concepts mentioned.
No time for these but left these books for the class:

Gypsy’s a.m. classes 5/11/18, More ideas here: http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Chinese%20New%20Year

Singalong–You and Me and Family (includes Sensory-Friendly Version Notes)

Celebrate Mother’s & Father’s Day, sisters & brothers and all kinds of families in song.  Sensory-friendly program is limited to 10 children
and takes place in a quieter, slower-paced environment.

Sensory-friendly room set-up – large cozy puppets and squeeze toys scattered around the room. ABC squares so kids can define where they want to sit.

(Opening music) Fred Penner’s “Happy Feet”

Sensory Friendly – start program by with holding a mirror up to each child so they can see themselves as we sing “Hello to name…so glad to see you.”

You’ll Sing a Song (action song: You’ll sing a song and I’ll sing a song and we’ll sing a song together. You’ll sing a song and I’ll sing a song in warm or wintry weather….clap hands, stomp feet, turn around, wiggle knees…sit down)

MOMMY & DADDY (flannel:  “BINGO” variations)  -- lyrics to this and others below.

Parents are People (flannel) Song by Carol Hall from album "Free to Be You and Me."

Oh, By the Way (puppets & props) Song from Joe Scruggs “ Deep in the Jungle”

 

Heads, Shoulders, Knees & Toes (action)

Helping by Shel Silverstein (flannel) Song from “Free to Be You and Me”

Magic Penny Song by Malvina Reynolds from her album “Ear to the Ground”

We’ve Got the Whole World in our Hands (puppets) Song from “Sing Along with Bob” – sat in a circle and passed around puppets.

Family Tree (sign language) Played song by Tom Chapin & John Forster, on album “Family Tree” track #8 – signs on their video “This Pretty Planet,” here: www.tomchapin.com/docs/lft.htmland and handout:  www.tomchapin.com/docs/ftsigns.html .  We did the signs (“dancing with our hands”) on the choruses & did a kind of square dance swing on the verses.

Free to Be You and Me (scarf dancing to track #1  of "Free to Be You and Me." )

What a Wonderful World singable book by George David Weiss and Bob Thiele, illustrated by Ashley Bryan

S*I*N*G (song by Joe Raposo available on many Sesame Street albums) – parents & kids together standing in a circle, started singing quietly, everyone moved in & out on the “la las”, second time through sang together and louder.

Hand stamping to Louis Armstrong singing “What a Wonderful World” (many albums)
Recommended album:  “A Child’s Celebration of Family”

Lyrics handout – editable copy available on request.

5.16 BWL

Singalong: All About Me (includes Sensory-Friendly Version notes)

Singalong "All About Me" Join us for a rollicking celebration of ourselves and our possibilities! No registration is required. 
Singalong "All About Me" (Sensory Friendly)   Sensory-Friendly performance for children who would do better in a smaller, slower-paced program. Please register.
 
Regular Singalong: (lyrics for all songs follow)
Opening music playing: Raffi’s Rise and Shine album

Action Song: You’ll Sing A Song

Action Song: Open, Shut Them

Glove puppets: Diez Amigos

Action Song: Put Your Finger In The Air

Action Song: Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes

Big Book: From Head to Toe – Eric Carle (imitating animal actions – worked well)

Action Song: Do Your Ears Hang Low (prop: tights on head)

Singable Book: If You’re Happy & You Know It – Jan Ormerod

Action Song: Hokey Pokey

Action Song: The Funny Hat (prop: hat)

Book: Clap Your Hands – Lorinda Cauley

End with Action Song Sing by Joe Raposo (form circle –go in and out)
Hand stamping
(No time to use other songs on handout)

Sensory-Friendly Program (Dimmer lighting, seating spots, stuffed animals)  Got many useful ideas from: http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2009/06/programming-for-children-with-special-needs-part-one/

Opening music playing softly: Raffi’s Rise and Shine album


Explained program to parents -- gentle program, multi-sensory, lower light, stuffed animals if children want to hold them/manipulate animal instead of self


schedule board-pictographs:
songs  story   songs    story    mirror     scarves   bubbles

Program:
Action Song: You’ll Sing A Song Action song: Open, Shut Them

Big Book: From Head to Toe – Eric Carle (imitating animal actions – worked well)

Action song: Do Your Ears Hang Low (done with a pair of tights on my head.)

Action song: Hokey Pokey

Big Book: Look, Look, Look – Tana Hoban  (cutout guessing game – worked well)


Mirror Activity Song  tune: “Where is Thumbkin?”   (Asked parents for their guidance related to their child’s participation-- All children in group accepted this.)
“Where is Carol? Where is Carol?
There she is! There she is! (point to child)Say hello to Carol, say hello to Carol (wave at child)Clap your hands!  Clap your hands!”    (idea from: http://www.alsc.ala.org/blog/2010/10/follow-up-to-alsc-blog-series-%E2%80%9Cspecial-needs-programming-parts-1-5%E2%80%9D/) 

Movement with scarves to Raffi’s Rise and Shine

Bubbles – sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star or Bubble Song:
http://storytimeunderground.org/2014/08/12/ask-a-storytime-ninja-adapt-for-special-needs/ Bubbles floating all around
Bubbles fat and bubbles round,
Bubbles on your nose and toes,
Blow a bubble, up it goes.
Bubbles floating all around,
Bubbles floating to the ground




Singalong: All About Me – Lyrics & Resources

You’ll Sing A Song by Ella Jenkins
Song on: Raffi’s “The Corner Grocery Store”
You’ll sing a song and I’ll sing a song
And we’ll sing a song together.
You’ll sing a song and I’ll sing a song
In warm or wintry weather.
Continue with: clap your hands, stomp your feet, dance a jig, flap your arms, etc.
To settle the crowd, close with: sit right down

Open, Shut Them
Open, Shut Them, Open, Shut Them
Give a little “clap, clap, clap”
Open, Shut Them, Open, Shut Them
Put them in your lap, lap, lap.
Creep them, creep them,
Creep them, creep them,
Right up to your chin, chin, chin
Open up your little mouth –
But do not let them in!

Put Your Finger In The Air
Tune: “If You’re Happy and You Know It” on: Pete Seeger’s “For Kids and Just Plain Folks”
Put your finger in the air, in the air,
Put your finger in the air, in the air,
Put your finger in the air and leave it about a year,
Put your finger in the air, in the air.
2. toe…and move it to and fro…
3. nose..., feel it as it grows...
4. and see if it’s still here…
5. knee…and tap it 1,2,3,
6. chin... that’s where the food slips in...
7. cheek.., leave it about a week...
8. shoe..., leave it a day or two...
9. head..., tell me is it green or red?...
10. Put your fingers all together...both in dark & stormy weather…
Finish with:
11. Put your fingers on your fingers on your fingers (walk fingers like “Itsy Bitsy Spider” getting faster and faster)
Put your fingers on your fingers on your fingers.
Put your fingers on your fingers on your fingers on your fingers!

Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes Knees and Toes,
Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes Knees and Toes,
Eyes and Ears and Mouth and Nose,
Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes Knees and Toes.

Do Your Ears Hang Low
Song on: “We Sing 25^th Anniversary Collection”
(can be done with a pair of tights on head.)
Do your ears hang low
Do they wobble to and fro
Can you tie them in a knot (ow!)
Can you tie them in a bow
Can you toss them over your shoulder
Like a regimental soldier
Do your ears hang low…
What about your nose?
Can you twitch your nose
Can you bend it to and fro
Can you touch it with your tongue
Can you touch it with your toes
With your finger and your thumb
Pinch the end and sing along
Interesting things are noses…
How 'bout your lips?
Can you purse your lips
Can you make them do a twist
Perhaps a crooked smile
Or even blow a kiss
Can you open them really wide
Waggle your tongue about inside
Clever little things are lips…
How ‘bout your eyes?
Can you roll your eyes?
Can you look from left to right?
Shut them up tight
Open them really wide.
Give a little wink
Blink, blink, blink.
Wonderful things are eyes!

Hokey Pokey
Song on: “Wee Sing 25^th Anniversary Collection”
You put your left hand in,
You take your left hand out,
You put your left hand in,
And you shake it all about.
You do the hokey-pokey
And you turn yourself around.
That’s what it’s all about! (Continue with: right hand, left foot, right foot, head, stomach, whole self!)

The Funny Hat
Tune: “This Old Man”
On my head I wear a hat
It is such a funny hat
That my head will wiggle
Wiggle to and fro
Where else should my funny hat go?
Continue with places suggested by the kids -- toe, knee, elbow, shoulder, ear, hair, nose (pinched nose to sound funny), belly, back, etc. To quiet the crowd, you may want to end with:
On my hands I wear a hat
It is such a quiet hat.
That my hands won’t wiggle, they just go clap.
Then I put them in my lap.

Shake My Sillies Out
Song on Raffi’s “More Singable Songs”; also a book
Gonna shake, shake, shake my sillies out,
Shake, shake, shake my sillies out,
Gonna shake, shake, shake my sillies out,
And wiggle my waggles away.
Gonna clap, clap, clap my crazies out…
Gonna jump, jump, jump my jiggles out…
Gonna stretch, stretch, stretch my sleepies out…
If You're Happy and You Know It   Song on Raffi’s “Let’s Play”
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands
If you're happy and you know it, then your face will surely show it
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.
2. If you're happy and you know it, stomp your feet
3. If you're happy and you know it, shout "Hurray!"
4. If you're happy and you know it, do all three. (clap-clap, stomp-stomp, hoo-ray!)…
Variation Use other Emotions:
If you’re angry and you know it, stomp your feet
If you’re sad and you know it, shed a tear
If you’re loving and you know it, give a hug …etc.

If Your Clothes have any Red Tune: “If You’re Happy and You Know It”

If your clothes have any red, any red
If your clothes have any red, any red
If you clothes have any red
Put your finger on your head
If your clothes have any red, any red.
2. If your clothes have any blue, any blue…
Put your finger on your shoe…
3. If your clothes have any green, any green…
Wave your hands so you are seen…
4. If your clothes have any yellow, any yellow…
Jiggle like a bowl of Jello…
5. If your clothes have any brown, any brown…
Turn your smile into a frown…
6. If your clothes have any black, any black…
Put your hands behind your back…

You Gotta Sing Song on: Raffi’s “More Singable Songs:
You gotta sing when the spirit says sing
You gotta sing when the spirit says sing
When your spirit says sing, you gotta sing all around
You gotta sing when the spirit says sing
Repeat with dance, jump, spin, clap, play, hum, shout, wiggle, shake, etc.

Roll-Over
Song on: “Toddler Tunes: 25 Classic Tunes”
There were ten in the bed and the little one said,
"Roll over, roll over,"
So they all rolled over and one fell out...
Continue counting down until:
There was one in the bed and you know what he said, “Alone at last!”


Sing by Joe Raposo, Song on: “Sesame Street Platinum”
(singing softly)
Sing, Sing a song --
Sing out loud --
Sing out strong --
Sing of good things, not bad --
Sing of happy, not sad --
Sing, Sing a song --
Make it simple to last your whole life long --
Don't worry that it’s not good enough --
For anyone else to hear --
Just Sing, Sing a song!
La, La, La, La, La
La, La, La, La, La
La, La, La, La, La, La, La, La
(Repeat from the beginning singing loud and strong,
End with everyone sitting down in the circle.)

Additional songs - not on handout above:Here We Go Looby Loo
Song on: “We Sing 25^th Anniversary Celebration”
Here we go looby loo,
Here we go looby light,
Here we go looby loo,
All on the Saturday night.
You put a hand in,
You take a hand out.
You give your hand a shake, shake, shake,
And turn yourself about.
Here we go looby loo…etc.
(Repeat using “a foot”, “your head”, “whole self”, etc.)

The More We Get Together Song on Raffi’s “Singable Songs for the Very Young”
The more we get together, together, together,
The more we get together, the happier we'll be.
Cause your friends are my friends,
And my friends are your friends.
The more we get together, the happier we'll be.

This is What My Feet Can Do  Tune: “Mulberry Bush”
This is what my feet can do.
Feet can do, feet can do,
This is what my feet can do –
Can you do it too?
Let your feet go hop, hop, hop,
Hop, hop, hop, hop, hop, hop,
Let your feet go hop, hop, hop,
All around the room.
Make your feet go jump, jump, jump…etc.
Take your feet and skip, skip, skip…etc.
Can your feet go tip, tip-toe?…etc.

Now your feet can sit right down,
Sit right down, sit right down,
Now your feet can sit right down,
Quiet, quiet –ly!



The Magic Hat Tune: “The Farmer in the Dell”
Put on your magic hat. (Pretend to put on hat.)
Put on your magic hat. (Pretend to put on hat.)
Oh, you can do most anything (Spread hands wide.)
In your magic hat!
2. You can hop and hop and hop…etc.
3. You can make a face…etc.
Children’s suggestions:
4. (Close with) You can sit right down…etc.

Bend And Stretch
(suit actions to words)
Bend and stretch, reach for the stars.
There goes Jupiter, here comes Mars.
Bend and stretch, reach for the sky.
Stand on tip-e-toe, oh! so high!

Ten Little Fingers
(fingerplay --suit actions to words)
I have ten little fingers,
And they all belong to me.
I can make them do things.
Would you like to see?
I can shut them up tight,
I can open them wide,
I can put them together,
And I can make them hide.
I can put them up high,
I can put them down low,
I can make them roll around,
And I can fold them so.

This Old Man Song on: “A Child’s Celebration of Song”
This old man, he played one,
He played knick-knack on my thumb;
Knick-knack paddywhack,
Give a dog a bone,
This old man came rolling home.
2. two… on my shoe
3. three… on my knee
4. four … on my door
5. five… on my hive
6. six… on my sticks
7. seven… up in Heaven
8. eight… on my gate
9. nine… on my spine
10. ten… once again!

Diez Amigos "10 Friends" (glove puppets)
Tune: “10 Little Indians”
Uno, dos, tres amigos,
Quatro, cinco, seis amigos,
Siete, Ocho, Nueve amigos,
Diez amigos son.
One, two, three little friends,
Four, five, six little friends,
Seven, eight, nine little friends,
Ten friends are we.

I am Special
Tune: “London Bridge is Falling Down”
I am special, Yes I am, Yes I am, Yes I am
I am special, Yes I am, I’m very special.
No one else has hair like mine,
Just like mine, Just like mine,
No one else has hair like mine, I’m very special.
(continue with children’s suggestions, e.g. a face, eyes, nose, mouth, a family, etc.)

Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday to You!
Happy Birthday to You!
Happy Birthday dear…
Happy Birthday to You!
Happy Birthday We Love You
Song on: Tom Chapin’s album “Moonboat”

Happy birthday, happy birthday we love you.
Happy birthday and may all your dreams come true.
When you blow out the candles, one light stays aglow
It's the love light in your eyes -- where e're you go!

May There Always Be Sunshine
Song on: Raffi’s “Let’s Play”
May there always be sunshine
May there always be blue skies
May there always be mama
May there always be me.

Wave High (Suit actions to words)
Wave high, wave low
I think it’s time we’ve gotta go.
Wave your elbows, wave your toes.
Wave your tongue, now wave your nose.
Wave your knees, wave your lips.
Now blow a kiss with fingertips.
Wave your ears, wave your hair.
Wave your belly, now your derriere.
Wave your chin, wave your eyes.
Now wave your hands and say Goodbye.

A Goodbye Song – source unknown

Tune: “Mary Had a Little Lamb”
Now it’s time to say goodbye, say goodbye, say goodbye,
Now it’s time to say goodbye to our friends who are here today

Books to Sing:

A House is a House for Me – Hoberman
If You’re Happy and You Know It – Ormerod or Cabrera
Knick, Knack Paddywhack – Zelinsky
Mary Wore Her Red Dress…-- Peek
One Was Johnny – Sendak
Pierre – Sendak
Shake My Sillies Out – Raffi
This Old Man – Koontz
Go Away Big Green Monster – Emberley
Arthur’s Nose
-       Brand New Day, Get up and Shake, Where is Baby’s Tummy, Jumping up and Down– sign language song from “Pick Me Up”
-       Hands are for clapping – The Sneezing Song & other contagious tunes by Jim Gill 730 GILL
-       So glad you’re here, I’m a Pretzel – from So Big (Hap Palmer)
-       The Body Rock from Kids in Motion
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Song: You gotta Sing when the spirit says sing
Dance, laugh, yawn, sing (lots of recordings)
This is the way we do it , Bop till you drop, Beanbag
Dance, Can’t Sit Still– Kids in Motion
My Energy , Song in My Tummy, from Laurie Berkner’s Under a Shady Tree
1.15 BWL

Good articles:  

http://upstartpromotions.com/pdf/upstart/el_articles/TheMagicOfSensoryStorytimes_June15.pdf

 

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2016/03/01/sensory-storytime-spectrum-libraries-add-services-for-children-with-autism/

Novelist suggestions:

http://www.ebscohost.com/novelist/novelist-special/all-about-adaptive-storytimes