OPENING FINGERPLAY: Open Them Shut Them*<\/strong><\/p>\n PHOTO CARDS: St Patrick’s Day<\/strong> I show each picture to the babies, and just talk a little about them, modeling to the caregivers the way they might talk with their kids, even before their kids can really join in the conversation. My colleague Nick had the idea to clap out the syllables of the names of each item together as we talked…a great way to build phonological awareness.<\/em><\/p>\n LITERACY MESSAGE: Singing<\/strong> FLANNEL SONG: Over on the Hill<\/strong> Over on the hill in the grass so green GUESSING GAME: Leprechaun, Are You in the Red House?<\/strong> BOOK: Duckie’s Rainbow<\/strong> by BARRY FLANNEL SONG: A Hunting We Will Go*<\/strong> <\/p>\n FLANNEL SONG: The Rattlin’ Bog<\/strong> PHOTO CARDS: Green Things<\/strong> SONG: Five Green and Speckled Frogs<\/strong> Five green and speckled frogs sat on a speckled log Four green and speckled frogs…<\/p><\/blockquote>\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":" Any excuse to sing The Rattlin’ Bog! Actually I only do St Pat’s for a theme if my storytime falls on the day itself. This has been sitting in my draft posts for a year or so, and I finally … Continue reading
\nInstead of looking for a St Patrick’s Day book that would work for the babies, I collected photos from Microsoft Word clip art & printed them out on 8 1\/2 x 11 paper. I found a harp, some clover, a rainbow, a pot of gold, and I wasn’t quick enough to get a photo of a leprechaun, so I used clip art instead. <\/p>\n
\nClapping once for each syllable in a word or a phrase helps children hear that words can “come apart” into smaller segments. Being able to hear the smaller parts of words is a critical skill in sounding out words when they read!<\/p>\n
\nI cut out large (8″) shamrock shapes and laminated them for this song. My laminated shapes have a velcro dot on the back to stick them to the flannelboard. Sing to the tune of Five Little Ducks Went Out to Play.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWere the five biggest shamrocks than I’ve ever seen
\nAlong came someone on St Patrick’s Day
\nAnd they picked a shamrock and took it away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nI used this set of construction paper houses, but hid a leprechaun instead of the Brown Bear. We looked behind every door for that leprechaun. He was in a green house, of course!<\/em>
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\nTraditional. I love this song! Read more about it here<\/a>.<\/em>
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\nMore photos! I found clip art photos so we could talk about green things such as green beans, green grass, and a lizard.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nRaffi has a classic version of this. You could use 5 flannelboard frogs for this song, or make a Storytime Paper Towel Tube Song Prop Thingy<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nEating some most delicious bugs (yum yum)
\nOne jumped into the pool where it was nice and cool
\nThen there were four green speckled frogs.<\/p>\n