Opening fingerplay: One Little Finger
Literacy: Who Likes Rain? by Herbert Yee
Song/movement break: Open Shut Them
Literacy: Have You Seen My Cat? by Eric Carle
New song/movement break: Where Oh Where Has My Little Cat Gone? (with puppet and felt pieces)
I modified this originally dog-theme song for my needs. The audience, my cat puppet and I sang the song together then, I would look for the cat somewhere: I had a big felt bed, big felt Jeep, big felt tree and big felt bathtub (They're all Artfelt felt pieces). So, it would go like this:
Sing or say with cat puppet:
Oh where, oh where has my little cat gone?
Oh where, oh where can she be?
With her pointy ears and her wiggly tail,
Oh where, oh where can she be?
Me: "Is she hiding underneath the bed?" Lift up
the bed so they can see she's not in there.
Audience: "No!"
Me: "I guess we'll have to keep looking for her."
Sing the song again.
Me: "Is she in the bathtub?..."
Literacy: Meeow and the Big Box by Sebastien Braun
Closing Fingerplay: Two Little Blackbirds
Post storytime activities:
Parachute Play: We sang Ring Around the Rosie and Fishies in the Ocean
Art activity: What can you make with a box? Collage. I don't have any pictures, but it doesn't matter because this art activity didn't really hit its mark. I expected that after reading Meeow and the Big Box parents and children might get the idea that a box is a blank slate for your imagination. So, here's some foam shapes, dot painters, crayons and markers for you to create something with a flat piece of cardboard. Nothing happened. They treated it like it was any old piece of paper and just stuck things on it willy-nilly and spelled out their names. Me and my big ideas, again!
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