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

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.

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?

The Letter V

Books:

Love, Splat by Rob Scotton
This is the Van That Dad Cleaned by Lisa Campbell Ernst
The Sleepless Little Vampire by Richard Egielski
There Ones Wad a Man Named Michael Finnegan by Mary Ann Hoberman

Additional Books:

Vulture View by April Pulley Sayre
The Giant Carrot by Jan Peck
Ruby, Violet, Lime: Looking for Color by Jane Brocket

Felt Board Song:

What begins with V?
(to the tune of Farmer in the Dell)

Oh, what begins with V? Oh, what begins with V?
We all know, we'll tell you so
Oh, what begins with V?

Violin begins with V, Violin begins with V.
We all know, we'll tell you so
Violin begins with V.

Van begins with V...
Valentine begins with V... 

The Letter U

Books:

Charlie's Superhero Underpants by Paul Bright
The Thingamabob by Il Sung Na
Goldilicious by Victoria Kann

Additional Books:

Inside All by Margaret Mason
Dinosaurs Love Underpants by Claire Freedman
The Day We Danced in Underpants by Sarah Wilson

 Felt Board Story:

 5 Little Umbrellas

5 little umbrellas by the back door, the red one went outside & now there are four.
4 little umbrellas, pretty as can be, the blue one was needed & now there are three.
3 little umbrellas, oh, how they missed the blue, so, the green one followed & now there are two.
2 little umbrellas, glad there was no sun, the yellow one went into the rain & now there's just one.
1 little umbrella, all alone in the hall, the purple one got picked up & that was all!

The Letter T

Books:

Minerva Louise and the Red Truck by Janet Morgan Stoeke

Monkey Truck by Michael Slack
Thomas and the School Trip -illustrated by Owain Bell
Read to Tiger by S.J. Fore

Additional Books:

Tooth on the Loose by Susan Elya
Tractor Day by Candice Ransom

Song:

Old MacDonald Has a Truck

Old MacDonald Has a Truck, EE-I-EE-I-O
and on that truck he had some wheels, EE-I-EE-I-O
with a spin spin here, and a spin spin there,
here a spin, there a spin, everywhere a spin spin
Old MacDonald Has a Truck, EE-I-EE-I-O

Old MacDonald Has a Truck, EE-I-EE-I-O


and on that truck he had some windshield wipers, EE-I-EE-I-O
with swish swish here, and a swish swish there,
here a swish, there a swish, everywhere a swish swish
Old MacDonald Has a Truck, EE-I-EE-I-O

Old MacDonald Has a Truck, EE-I-EE-I-O
and on that truck he had a horn, EE-I-EE-I-O
with a honk honk here, and a honk honk there,
here a honk, there a honk, everywhere a honk honk
Old MacDonald Has a Truck, EE-I-EE-I-O

 Flannel Board Story:

Clickety Clack (I borrowed this one from Storytime Katie)

Clickety-clack, clickety-clack,
Here comes the train on the railroad track!
Clickety-clunn, clickety-clunn,
Here comes ENGINE number one.
Clickety-clew, clickety-clew,
Here comes COAL CAR number two.
Clickety-clee, clickety-clee,
Here comes BOX CAR number three.
Clickety-clore, clickety-clore,
Here comes TANK CAR number four.
Clickety-clive, clickety-clive,
Here comes COACH CAR number five.
Clickety-clicks, clickety-clicks,
Here’s the CABOOSE, that’s number six.
Clickety-clack, clickety-clack,
There goes the train on the railroad track!
Choo-choooooooo! Goodbye!