Halloween is this weekend! I don’t like to get too spooky for the babies, plus I don’t want to assume everyone celebrates this holiday, so I try to stay focused mostly on pumpkins and animals rather than on the supernatural or on dressing up. Though I’m such a big Rosemary Wells fan it made my day to have my friend Max came to storytime dressed as a bunny! <\/p>\n
OPENING SONG: Hello Song*<\/strong> <\/p>\n OPENING FINGERPLAY: Open Them Shut Them*<\/strong><\/p>\n BOOK: Pumpkin Pumpkin<\/strong> by JEAN TITHERINGTON ACTION SONG: Pumpkin, Pumpkin<\/strong> Pumpkin, pumpkin on the ground, LITERACY TIP: Narrative Skills<\/strong> Narrative skills have to do with learning how to describe things and being able to tell stories. Little stories, like the one in this song, are great for babies to start learning how stories work. “First the pumpkin is a seed, then it is a plant, then it is a pumpkin!”<\/em><\/p>\n FLANNEL RHYME: Five Little Pumpkins<\/strong><\/p>\n Five little pumpkins sitting on a gate. FLANNEL RHYME: Brown Bat, Brown Bat, What Do You See?<\/strong> FLANNEL SONG: A Hunting We Will Go*<\/strong> SONG WITH PUPPET: There’s a Spider on the Floor<\/a><\/strong> There’s a spider on my leg, and he’s really really big… RHYME WITH PUPPET: Little Miss Muffet<\/strong><\/p>\n Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet Many Mother Goose rhymes are little stories, with a beginning, middle and end! Learning these rhymes is another great way to build Narrative Skills.<\/em><\/p>\n ACTION RHYME: This is Big Big Big*<\/strong> <\/p>\n CLOSING SONG: Sneeze Game*<\/strong> <\/p>\n *Check out the My Baby Storytime<\/a> page for the words and\/or citations for these weekly activities!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Halloween is this weekend! I don’t like to get too spooky for the babies, plus I don’t want to assume everyone celebrates this holiday, so I try to stay focused mostly on pumpkins and animals rather than on the supernatural … Continue reading
\nWe have the big book and it works well for baby storytime.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nFrom our files, I wish I knew who to credit! Sing to Twinkle, Twinkle.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nHow’d you get so big and round?
\nOnce you were a seed so small,
\nNow you are a great big ball!
\nPumpkin, pumpkin on the ground,
\nHow’d you get so big and round?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nThe first one said, “Oh, my, it’s getting late!”
\nThe second one said, “There are witches in the air!”
\nThe third one said, “But we don’t care.”
\nThe fourth one said, “Let’s run and run and run.”
\nThe fifth one said, “I’m ready for some fun.”
\nThen OOOOOO went the wind and OUT went the light,
\nAnd five little pumpkins rolled out of sight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nMy girls brought home a rhyme like this as homemade books in first grade, and when I Googled it, I found versions all over the web. They are lots of fun and include blue monsters, purple goblins, red vampires, green witches…all sorts of great Halloweeny things. I went and stood in front of all our Ellison dies and came up with this set<\/a> for my little ones. All the grownups chanted it along with me! We’ve read Brown Bear Brown Bear a couple of times already this fall, so this was a great extension.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI did cat\/hat, bat\/mat, owl\/towel…and spider\/glider!<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWe have a spider glove puppet that I use for this song.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThere’s a spider on my tummy, and he feels kind of funny…
\nThere’s a spider on my head, oh, my face is really red…
\nBut he jumps off!
\nThere’s a spider on the floor…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nEating her curds and whey
\nAlong came a spider and sat down beside her
\nAnd frightened Miss Muffet away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n