Winter 2010 Storytimes

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Pancakes

Picture Books:

If You Give a Pig a Pancake by Laura Numeroff (HarperCollins, 2000)

Hey, Pancakes! by Tamson Weston (Silver Whistle, 2003)

Rhymes:

Let's Cook a Pancake

Oh, let's cook a pancake.

Oh, let's cook a pancake.

Oh, let's cook a pancake.

Let's cook it in a pan.

Let's mix it up and pour it...

Let's pour it in the pan.

The pancake is starting to bubble...

As it cooks inside the pan.

Now it's time to flip it...

Flip it over in the pan.

Let's eat it with butter and syrup...

Let's eat it as fast as we can.

Ten Little Pancakes

One little, two little, three little pancakes.

Four little, five little, six little pancakes.

Seven, eight, nine little, ten little pancakes.

Piled up on my plate. [hands show how tall]

Ten little, nine little, eight little pancakes.

Seven little, six little, five little pancakes.

Four, three, two little, one little pancake.

They all went down just great. [pat tummy]

Songs:

Pancakes, Pancakes (to the tune of Old Susanna)

Pancakes, pancakes!

Oh don't you fly from me!

For I haven't had my breakfast and my stomach is empty.

Crocodiles

Picture Books:

The Fantastic Mr. Wani by Kanako Usui (Tiger Tales, 2006)

Snappy Green: A Mr. Croc Book About Colors by Jo Lodge (Backpack Books, 2007)

Songs:

"Alligator Pie" by Carole Peterson from H.U.M. Highly Usable Music

Rhymes:

Do You Wanna Be a Crocodile?

[tune of Boom, Boom, Ain't it Great to be Crazy?]

SNAP! SNAP! Do you wanna be a crocodile?

SNAP! SNAP! Do you wanna be a crocodile?

Long and lean and all kinds of mean!

SNAP! SNAP! Do you wanna be a crocodile?

SNAP! SNAP! Do you wanna be a crocodile?

SNAP! SNAP! Do you wanna be a crocodile?

Bumpy and brown with a big hungry frown!

SNAP! SNAP! Do you wanna be a crocodile?

...He'll start a big fight, just to grab a little bite.

...I think I'll be me, happy as can be.

SNAP! SNAP! I don't wanna be a crocodile!

I just wanna wear my great big smile!

Babygarten I

Board Books:

I Love Animals by Flora McDonnell (Candlewick Press, 2001)

I Love You Through and Through by Bernadette Rossetti-Shustak (Scholastic, 2005)

Baby! Baby! by Vicky Ceelen (Random House, 2008)

Songs:

"Ring Those Bells" by Carole Peterson from H.U.M. Highly Usable Music

Rhymes:

Hide Your Eyes

[tune of Farmer in the Dell]

Can you hide your eyes?

Can you hide your eyes?

Yes you can, you surely can.

You can hide your eyes.

(cover eyes with hands)

Can you hide your nose?

(cover nose with hands)

Can you hide your feet?

(cover feet with hands)

My Bonnie

My bonnie lies over the ocean,

(rock baby to left)

My bonnie lies over the sea,

(rock baby to right)

My bonnie lies over the ocean,

(lean backwards)

Oh bring back my bonnie to me.

(pull baby to chest)

Bring back, bring back,

(rock baby back and forth)

Oh bring back my bonnie to me, to me.

Bring back, bring back,

(rock baby back and forth)

Oh bring back my bonnie to me.

(end with big hug)

Button Up!

Picture Books:

Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback (Viking, 1999)

Under My Hood I Have a Hat by Karla Kushkin (Laura Geringer Books, 2004)

Rhymes:

The Mitten Song

Thumbs in the thumbs place,

Fingers all together.

This is the song we sing

In mitten weather.

When it is cold, it doesn't matter whether

Mittens are wool, or made of finest leather.

This is the song we sing in mitten weather.

Thumbs in the thumbs place,

Fingers all together!

Songs:

On a Chilly Winter Morning [tune of Mulberry Bush]

We're getting ready to go out in the cold, out in the cold, out in the cold. (shiver)

We're getting ready to go out in the cold,

On a chilly winter morning.

This is the way we put on our coat...(do motions)

This is the way we put on our gloves...

This is the way we put on our hat...

This is the way we put on our scarf...

This is the way we put on our boots...

(repeat first verse)

I'm Putting My Warm Coat On [tune of Farmer in the Dell]

I'm putting my warm coat on, (do motions)

I'm putting my warm coat on.

Who, oh who, has a warm coat too? (point around the room)

I'm putting my warm coat on.

I'm putting my brown coat on...

(repeat with other colors)

Dogs and Cats

Picture Books:

Cat by Matthew Van Fleet (Simon & Schuster, 2009)

Posy by Linda Newbery (Atheneum, 2009)

Rhymes:

Five Little Puppy Dogs

[hold up five fingers and bend down one at a time as the verse progresses]

Five little puppy dogs

Sitting by the door,

Mommy called one puppy home,

and then there were four.

Four little puppy dogs

Running 'round the tree,

One stopped to dig a bone,

and then there were three.

Three little puppy dogs

Playing with a shoe,

One went to chase a cat

and then there were two.

Two little puppy dogs

having so much fun.

One went to have a nap

and then there was one.

One little puppy dog

Sitting in the sun,

He went inside the house

and then there were none.

Kangaroo Hop!

Picture Books:

Pouch by David Ezra Stein (Putnam, 2009)

Polly Hopper's Pouch by Louise Bonnett-Rampersaud (Dutton, 2001)

Rhymes:

Kangaroo, Kangaroo

[perform actions as they are said]

Kangaroo, kangaroo, bounce up and down

Kangaroo, kangaroo, touch the ground

Kangaroo, kangaroo, make your ears go flop

Kangaroo, kangaroo, now let's hop

Kangaroo, kangaroo, bend down low

Kangaroo, kangaroo, now jump just so

Kangaroo, kangaroo, here are your great big toes

Kangaroo, kangaroo, now here we go! [jump around]

Five Baby Kangaroos

Five baby kangaroos standing in a row. [hold up 5 fingers]

And when they see their mothers,

They jump just so. [jump up and down]

They jump to the left. [jump left]

They jump to the right. [jump right]

One jumps in his mother's pouch, [BIG jump]

To sleep throughout the night. [rest head on hands]

[repeat, counting down to 1]

Now there's no baby kangaroos standing in a row.

They are all sleeping now. It's time for us to go.

They jumped to the left. [jump left]

They jumped to the right. [jump right]

They jumped down the road, [jump in place]

Until they were out of sight. [wave goodbye]

Songs:

Baby Kangaroo [tune of Frere Jacques]

I am a baby kangaroo,

I am a baby kangaroo,

Hopping is fun!

Hopping is fun! [hop in place]

Hopping, hopping, hopping, [hop around in a circle]

Hopping, hopping, hopping.

Up and down, up and down.

I am a baby kangaroo,

I am a baby kangaroo,

Hopping is fun!

Hopping is fun! [hop in place]

Won't you please hop with me? [point around]

Won't you please hop with me?

We'll have fun. We'll have fun.

I am a baby kangaroo,

I am a baby kangaroo,

Hopping is fun!

Hopping is fun! [hop in place]

I'll hop on home to mama, [wave and hop]

I'll hop on home to mama,

When day is done. When day is done.

Here We Go Jumping [tune of Looby Loo]

Here we go jumping high,

Here we go jumping low.

Here we go jumping around,

That's how a kangaroo goes.

Here we go jumping fast,

Here we go jumping slow.

Here we go jumping everywhere,

That's how a kangaroo goes.

[match jumping to verses]

Babygarten II

Board Books:

Read to Your Bunny by Rosemary Wells (Cartwheel Books, 2003)

Me Baby, You Baby by Ashley Wolff (Dutton, 2004)

Clap Hands by Helen Oxenbury (Aladdin, 1997)

Rhymes:

Rooster Crows

One, two, three,

Baby's on me knee. [bounce baby on knee]

Rooster crows and away [child's name] goes!

[lift baby up in the air]

Trot, Trot to Boston

Trot, trot to Boston, [bounce baby on lap]

Trot, trot to Lynn.

Look out little [child's name]

You might fall in! [tip baby to side]

Trot, trot to Boston

Trot, trot to town.

Look out little [child's name]

You might fall down! [tip baby to side]