Yeehaw! The stock show’s in town, babies, let’s saddle up!
OPENING SONG: Hello Song*
OPENING FINGERPLAY: Open Them Shut Them*
BOOK: Clip Clop by SMEE
Love this series of books for baby and toddler storytimes! Big pictures, repetitive story, good noisy fun.
BOUNCE: This is the Way the Ladies Ride
There are lots of ways to do this! I sing it to “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.”
This is the way the ladies ride,
Jiggity jog, jiggity jog
This is the way the ladies ride,
Jiggity jiggity jog.
Bounce babies ever so gently on your knees.This is the way the gentlemen ride
Gallop and trot, gallop and trot
This is the way the gentlemen ride
Gallop and gallop and trot.
Bounch babies: bigger bounce, smaller bounce, bigger bounce, smaller bounce…This is the way the farmers ride
Hobbledy hoy, hobbledy hoy
This is the way the farmers ride
Hobbledy hobbledy hoy
Sing slowly, rocking baby back and forth on your lap.This is the way the cowboys ride
Giddy up, giddy up
This is the way the cowgirls ride
Giddy up, giddy up, whoa!
Bounce all over the place! Yee haw!
PROP SONG: She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain
Read more about this prop over here!
She’ll be comin’ round the mountain when she comes
She’ll be comin’ round the mountain when she comes
She’ll be comin’ round the mountain,
She’ll be comin’ round the mountain,
She’ll be comin’ round the mountain when she comes.She’ll be drivin’ six white horses when she comes…
We’ll all go out to meet her when she comes…
FLANNEL SONG: A Hunting We Will Go*
Today we used mare/chair, goat/boat, sheep/Jeep, and pig/wig.
LITERACY MESSAGE: Talking
Parents, when you say animal sounds with your baby, what your baby is really learning are the sounds WE say in our language! This will help them become a good reader because they’ll need to hear all those sounds in order to sound out words when they read. Talking with your baby will help them get ready to read!
BOOK: Baby Says Moo! by MACKEN
A new title with a bouncy rhyme. I paperclipped a few pages together to shorten it up for the babies today.
SONG WITH PUPPETS: Old MacDonald
You know this one! My nephew’s first word–and ONLY word for a few months–was E I E I O!
Old MacDonald had a farm E I E I O!
And on this farm he had some pigs E I E I O
With an oink oink here
And an oink oink there
Here an oink there an oink
Everywhere an oink oink
Old MacDonald had a farm E I E I O!
ACTION RHYME: This is Big Big Big*
CLOSING SONG: Sneeze Game*
*Check out the My Baby Storytime page for the words and/or citations for these weekly activities!
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