Baby Animals
Storytime
Introduction: Today we are going to read stories about baby
animals. We will do fingerplays, sing
songs, play games and finish with the Circle Song, when we do the circle song
we hold hands and do what the circle song says to do. After that we will do a craft or color.
Opening Song:
Naming
Song
Hello
(child’s name,
Hello (child’s name)
Hello (child’s name)
and how are you today?
Fingerplay:
I Take a Book
I take a book (fold hands together)
And open it wide (open hands)
To see the pictures (hold out hands)
That is inside (open up hands wide)
Open a Book
Open a book (fold hands, open)
Close a book, give a little clap (close hands, clap,
clap)
Open a book (fold hands, open)
Close a Book (close hands)
Now lay it on your lap (lay hands slowly on lap)
Song: (CD)
Five Little Ducks
5 little ducks went out to play
Over the hills and far away,
Momma duck called with a quack quack quack,
4 little ducks came swimming back with a quack quack quack quack quack quack
5 little ducks went out to play
Over the hills and far away,
Momma duck called with a quack quack quack,
4 little ducks came swimming back with a quack quack quack quack quack quack
4
little ducks came swimming back
4
little ducks went out to play
Over the hill and far away,
Momma duck called with a quack quack quack,
3 little ducks came swimming back with a quack quack quack quack quack quack.
Over the hill and far away,
Momma duck called with a quack quack quack,
3 little ducks came swimming back with a quack quack quack quack quack quack.
3
little ducks came swimming back
3
little ducks went out to play
Over the hill and far away,
Momma duck called with a quack quack quack,
2 little ducks came swimming back with a quack quack quack quack quack quack.
Over the hill and far away,
Momma duck called with a quack quack quack,
2 little ducks came swimming back with a quack quack quack quack quack quack.
2
little ducks came swimming back.
2
little ducks went out to play
Over the hill and far away,
Momma duck called with a quack quack quack,
1 little duck came swimming back with a quack quack quack quack quack quack.
Over the hill and far away,
Momma duck called with a quack quack quack,
1 little duck came swimming back with a quack quack quack quack quack quack.
1
little duck came swimming back.
1
little duck went out to play
Over the hill and far away,
Papa duck called with a quack quack quack,
5 little ducks came swimming back with a quack quack quack quack quack quack.
Over the hill and far away,
Papa duck called with a quack quack quack,
5 little ducks came swimming back with a quack quack quack quack quack quack.
5
little ducks came swimming back.
From
the CD Where is Thumbkin? By Pam
Schiller.
Book: Baby Duck and
the Bad Eyeglasses by Amy Hest
Fingerplay:
Spring
Babies
Baby
bunny in your hutch, I like you so very much (Nod head)
With
furry coat and ears that flop, and a little hop, hop, hop (hop)
Baby
duck with feathery back, I can hear you quack, quack, quack.
(Cup
hand behind ear.) You swim in the pond
nearby, Soon you’ll fly up to the sky. (Flap arms at sides.) Fluffy little yellow chick, You’ll grow up so
very quick. (Nod head)
Pecking
here and pecking there, cheeping and, cheeping everywhere. (Make cheeping
sound.) From 1001 Rhymes and Fingerplays, Totline Books, 1994.
Activity:
Two
little
Two
little hands go clap, clap, clap
Two
little feet go stamp stamp stamp
One
little body stands up straight
One
little body goes round and rounds
One
little body sits quietly down
Book: Good Morning,
Chick by Mirra Ginsburg
Finger play: Spring Babies
Book: Five Little
Chicks by Nancy Tafuri
Activity: Color sorting
game, handout three color pieces to each child and have them take turns
bringing their colors up to the standing magnetic board.
Closing
Song/dance: Round and Round
We Go, from
It’s Toddler Time, by Carol Hammett and Elaine Bueffel, CD
End of Storytime
Activity/Craft: Make
Chick puppet