The Letter Y

Books:

Yawn by Sally Symes
Little Yoga by Rebecca Whitford
Eli, No! Katie Kirk
Yes Day! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal

Additional Books:

The Little Yellow Leaf by Carin Berger
Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett
Lemons Are Not Red by Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Felt Story:

Go Away Big Yellow Monster 

(adapted from Ed Emberly's Go Away, Big Green Monster)

Big yellow monster has a big yellow face,
two big green eyes,
a long orange nose,
a big red mouth with sharp white teeth,
two squiggly wiggly ears,
and scraggly purple hair...

Does he look scary to you? No!
You don't scare me!

So, GO AWAY, scraggly purple hair!
GO AWAY, two squiggly wiggly ears!
GO AWAY, long orange nose!
GO AWAY, big red mouth with sharp white teeth!
GO AWAY, two big green eyes!
GO AWAY Big Yellow Monster!
And don't come back until I say so!

 

Credit: Storytime Katie

Songs:

Shake Your Sillies Out!

(Ukulele Chords: CGC, FGC) 

I'm gonna shake, shake, shake my sillies out

Shake, shake, shake my sillies out

 I'm gonna shake, shake, shake my sillies out

And wiggle my waggles away!

other verses:

Clap my crazies out

Jump my jiggles out

Yawn my yawnies out

Shake my sillies out

Wednesday Lapsit

Books:

A Kiss Means I Love You by Kathryn Madeline Allen
All of Baby Nose to Toes by Victoria Adler

Signs:

Credit: babysignlanguage.com

Rhymes:

The Grandfather Clock

The Grandfather clock goes
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock
(Sway baby from side to side)

The kitchen clock goes
Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock
(Sway baby a little faster)

Mommy's little watch goes
Tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick
(Jiggle or tickle)

All of the other rhymes have been listed in previous posts.

The Letter X

Books:

Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss
A Fox: The Sound of X by Alice K Flanagan
Max's ABC by Rosemary Wells

Additional Books:

A Call for a New Alphabet by Jef Czekaj
My Mom Has X-Ray Vision by Angela McCallister

Puppet:

Red Fox Red Fox

Red fox, red fox turn around
Red fox, red fox touch the ground
Red fox, red fox reach up high
Red fox, red fox touch the sky
Red fox, red fox touch your nose
Red fox, red fox touch your toes
Red fox, red fox touch your knees
Red fox, red fox sit down please

Credit: Storytime Katie

I was really excited to do A Call for a New Alphabet and My Mom Has X-ray Vision, but we had a pretty young crowd this week and it didn't seem like they would handle the longer stories well so we stuck with the short ones. Fox in Socks went over better than I had expected, though I will admit I cut out much of the middle.

Wednesday Lapsit

Books:

Five Little Chicks by Nancy Tafuri
Peek-a-Bloom! by Marie Torres Cimarusti

Sign Song:

(images taken from www.babysignlanguage.com)

More more more,
Milk milk milk,
More more more,
Please! (x2)

All of the other songs and rhymes we did have been listed in previous posts.

The Letter W

Books:

Whistle for Willie by Ezra Jack Keats
Rainbow Fist and the Big Blue Whale by Marcus Pfister
If Frogs Made Weather by Marion Dane Bauer

Additional Books:

Wemberly Worried by Kevin Henkes
What! Cried Granny by Kate Lum
Little White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes
Hello Sun! by Dayle Ann Dodds
Winter is the Warmest Season by Lauren Stringer

Song:

The Water Pokey

You put your hand in, you put your hand out,
You put your hand in, and you splash it all about
You swim like a fish and you swim like a frog,
That's what it's all about!

You put your foot in...
You put your head in...
You put your whole self in...

Felt Board:

What's the Weather? (to the tune of Clementine)

What's the weather? What's the weather?
What's the weather everyone?
Is it snowy? Is it rainy? Is it Cloudy? Or is there sun?