Zoo Storytime

• Zoo Borns! Zoo babies from around the world by Andrew Bleiman & Chris Eastland
• Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett
• More Life-Size Zoo by Teruyuki Komiya (non-fiction)
• The Baby BeeBee Bird by Diane Realfield Massie, Illus. by Steven Kellogg
• Zoozical by Judy Sierra, Illus. by Marc Brown
• Two at the Zoo: a Counting Book by Danna Smith, Illus. by Valeria Petrone
• My School's a Zoo! by Stu Smith, Illus. by David Catrow

 “Came to the Zoo” (Tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean)

I came to the zoo to see lions, elephants, tigers, and bears!
I came to the zoo to see zebras. I love all the animals there!
Lions, tigers, elephants, zebras, and bears, and bears!
Lions, tigers, elephants, zebras, and bears!

Credit: Mel’s Desk

Song: “You Can Hear” (Tune: She’ll Be Coming ‘Round the Mountain)

You can hear the lions roaring at the zoo, ROAR ROAR!
You can hear the lions roaring at the zoo, ROAR ROAR!
You can hear the lions roaring, you can hear the lions roaring,
You can hear the lions roaring at the zoo, ROAR ROAR!

(Snakes hissing, bears growling, wolves howling, frogs croaking, zebras braying)

Perpetual Preschool

Movement activity:

Walk and stomp like an elephant.
Gallop like a zebra.
Waddle like a penguin.
Dance like a monkey.
Roar like a lion.
Run like a cheetah.
Slither like a snake.
Jump like a kangaroo.

http://www.kidssoup.com/Zoo/Zoo_Activities.html

Storytime: What is a Hole?

• My Rhinoceros by Jon Agee (pokes holes in kites)
• The Great Doughnut Parade by Rebecca Bond
• Roslyn Rutabaga and the Biggest Hole On Earth! by Marie-Louise Gay
• A Hole is To Dig by Ruth Krauss, Illus. by Maurice Sendak
• What's In a...Hole? by Tracy Nelson Maurer (non-fiction)
• Too Many Bunnies by Matt Novak
• Richard Scarry's Egg in the Hole
• The Pocket Dogs by Margaret Wild & Stephen Michael King

The Doughnut Song

(Sung to the tune of Do Your Ears Hang Low)

 Well I walked around the corner and I walked around the block

And I walked right into a doughnut shop
And I picked up a doughnut fresh from the grease
And I handed the lady a five cent piece

 Well she looked at the nickle and she looked at me

And she said this nickle is no good, you see
There's a hole in the middle and it goes right through
And I said there's a hole in the doughnut too!

 Thanks for the doughnut

Good day!

Fingerplay:

Here is a bunny with ears so funny,
And her is her hole in the ground.
When a noise she hears,
She pricks up her ears,
And jumps in her hole so round.

Insect Storytime

• There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Fly Guy by Tedd Arnold
• I Love Bugs! by Emma Dodd
• What the Ladybug Heard by Julia Donaldson, Illus. by Lydia Monks
• Beetle Bop by Denise Fleming
• Bugs Galore by Peter Stein, Illus. by Bob Staake
• I Love Bugs! by Philomeon Sturges, Illus. by Shari Halpern
• Can You Make a Scary Face? by Jan Thomas (ladybug)

Songs:

Bug Song


(sung to the tune of "If You're Happy and You Know It")


Oh, I wish I were an eensy-weensy spider.
*clap, clap*


Yes, I wish I were an eensy-weensy spider.
*clap, clap*


I'd go "creepy-creepy-crawly" down your hall and up your "wall-y!"


Oh, I wish I were an eensy-weensy spider.
*Clap Clap* (clap hands twice)

Oh, I wish I were a yellow honeybee.
*clap, clap*


Yes, I wish i were a yellow honeybee.
*clap, clap*


I'd go "buzzy-buzzy-buzzy" and my stripes would all be fuzzy!


Oh, I wish I were a yellow honeybee.
*2 claps, 2 stomps* (stomp feet twice)


Oh, I wish I were a wiggly caterpillar.
*clap, clap*


Yes, I wish I were a wiggly caterpillar.
*clap, clap*


I'd go "munchy-munchy-munchy." All the leaves would be my "lunch-y"!


Oh, I wish i were a wiggly caterpillar.
*clap, clap, stomp, stomp, click, click* (2 clicks with tongue)


Oh, I wish I were a small red army ant.
*clap, clap*


Yes, i wish i were a small red army ant.
*clap, clap*


I'd go "trompy-trompy-trompy" over hills and through the
"swamp-y"!


Oh, I wish i were a small red army ant.
*clap, clap, stomp, stomp, click, click, jump, jump*


Oh, I wish i were a hungry little skeeter.
*clap, clap*


Yes, I wish i were a hungry little skeeter.
*clap, clap*


I'd go "bitey-bitey-bitey" when you went outside at "night- y"!


Oh, I wish i were a hungry little skeeter.
*clap, clap, stomp, stomp, click, click, jump, jump, Shhhh, Shhhh!!


The End!
From Perpetual Preschool

The Buggy Wuggy
Tune: Hokey Pokey

(right arm bent)
You put your right wing in,
You put your right wing out,
You put your right wing in,
Then you shake it all about.
You do the Buggy Wuggy
And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about.


(left arm bent)
You put your left wing in,
You put your left wing out,
You put your left wing in,
Then you shake it all about.
You do the Buggy Wuggy
And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about.


(head)
You put your head in,
You put your head out,
You put your head in,
Then you shake it all about.
You do the Buggy Wuggy
And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about.


(two fingers on top of head)
You put your antennae in,
You put your antennae out,
You put your antennae in,
Then you shake them all about.
You do the Buggy Wuggy
And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about.


(body)
"an external supportive covering of an animal such as an arthropod"
You put your exoskeleton in,
You put your exoskeleton out,
You put your exoskeleton in,
Then you shake it all about.
You do the Buggy Wuggy
And you turn yourself around.
That's what it's all about.

From Mrs. Jones' Room

Bright Yellow Storytime

• Chicks Run Wild by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen, Illus. by Ward Jenkins
• Big Yellow Sunflower by Frances Barry
• Sam and the Tigers by Julius Lester, Illus. by Jerry Pinkney (probably too long for my group, but I desperately want to use it)
• Little Blue and Little Yellow by Leo Lionni
• My Race Car by Michael Rex
• Yellow Everywhere by Kristen Sterling (non-fiction)
• Banana! by Ed Vere
• Max's Bunny Business by Rosemary Wells (lemonade)

Songs:

Mister Sun (as sung by Raffi)

Oh mister sun, sun, mister golden sun, (Place hands over head to form sun)
Please shine down on me. (Wiggle fingers while moving hands down)
Oh mister sun, sun, mister golden sun,(Place hands over head to form sun)
Hiding behind the tree. (Place hands over eyes)
These little children are asking you, (Points to children)
To please come out so we can play with you. (I don't know sign)
Oh mister sun, sun, mister golden sun,(Place hands over head to form sun)
Please shine down on,(Wiggle fingers while moving hands down)
Won't you shine down on,(Wiggle fingers while moving hands down)
Please shine down on me.(Point at self)

Color Blue Storytime

• Not All Animals Are Blue: a Big Book of Little Differences by Beatrice Boutignon (workable with a small group)
• Blue Chicken by Deborah Freedman
• One Little Blueberry by Tammi Salzano, Illus. by Kat Whelan
• Blue Goose by Nancy Tafuri
• Little Blue Truck and Little Blue Truck Leads the Way by Alice Schertle, Illus. by Jill McElmurray
• Bubble Gum, Bubble Gum by Lisa Wheeler, Illus. by Laura Huliska-Beith (features blue truck)

The Blueberry Bush
(Tune: The Mulberry Bush)

Here we go round the blueberry bush,
The blueberry bush, the blueberry bush.
Here we go round the blueberry bush,
So early in the morning.

Pick the blueberries small and round,
Small and round, small and round.
Pick the blueberries small and round,
So early in the morning.

from Easy Fun School

Color Green Storytime

Green Sheep Cupcakes from memfox.com

• Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley
• In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming
• Where Is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox
• Stanley Mows the Lawn by Craig Frazier
• Too Many Frogs by Ann and John Hassett
• Little Pea by Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Illus. by Jen Corace

Green, Green All Around
Green, green all around,
Look at all the green things we have found.
We found a green __________ under a tree.
We found a green __________ drinking tea.
We found a green __________ riding in a car.
We found a green __________ playing a guitar.
We found a green __________ floating in a boat.
We found a green __________ wearing a coat.

Things that Are Green Words apple, artichoke, avocado, broccoli, cactus, caterpillar, celery, cucumber, emerald, fern, frog, grass, grasshopper, iguana, ivy, leaf, luna moth, lettuce, lime, olive, parrot, peas, pickle, pine tree, praying mantis, shamrock, turtle, zucchini

Both of the above are from: Kidsoup.

5 Little Frogs

5 green and speckled frogs
Sat on a speckled log.
Eating the most delicious bugs- yum yum!
One jumped into the pool
Where it was nice and cool
Now there are 4 green speckled frogs- glub glub!

4 Little speckled frogs.... (Continue until there are no frogs left)

Pink, Pink, Pink! Storytime

• A Small Brown Dog with a Wet Pink Nose by Stephanie Stuve-Bodeen & Linzie Hunter
• Bear in Pink Underwear by Todd H. Doodler
• Milo Armadillo by Jan Fearnley
• Polly's Pink Pajamas by Vivian French, Illus. by Sue Heap
• The Pink Party by Maryann Macdonald, Illus. by Judy Stead
• Annie and Snowball and the Pink Surprise by Cynthia Rylant, Illus. by Sucie Stevenson (Early Reader)
• Sylvie by Jennifer Sattler
• Spots and Feathers and Curly Tales by Nancy Tafuri (pink pigs on the cover)

I’M A LITTLE PIGGYTune: “I’m a Little Teapot”

I’m a little piggy
With a round pig nose.
I’m all pink
From my head to my toes.

Here’s my piggy tail,
As you can see,
It’s pink and curly
As it can be.

            Elizabeth Scofield

Pink

Sung to: "Are You Sleeping"

P-I-N-K

P-I-N-K

That spells pink.

That spells pink.

Bubble gum is pink,

Piggies can be pink,

Pink, pink, pink.

Pink, pink, pink.

and the big hit of the day:

The Color I See

Pink, pink is the color I see. If you are wearing red then show it to me. Stand up, turn around. Show me your pink then sit back down.

Yellow, Yellow is the color I see. If you are wearing Yellow then show it to me. Stand up, turn around. Show me your yellow then sit back down.

Go through as many colors as you wish