Monkeys Themed Storytime

Opening song: Good Morning/ Buenos Días (See My Storytime Set for song lyrics) 
Opening fingerplay: One Little Finger  
Literacy: Monkey Monkey Monkey by Cathy MacLennan 
Song/movement break: Open Shut Them  
Literacy: Banana! by Ed Vere 
New song/movement break:Monkey With a Coconut (Slightly modified version of this: http://freesongsforkids.com/audios/monkey-coconut) 

Monkey with a coconut was sitting in a tree.

Monkey with a coconut was making fun of me.

I told him that I'd like to have a coconut too.

He said if you want it this is what you've gotta do.

He said clap clap clap.

CLAP CLAP CLAP!

You’ve gotta clap clap clap.

CLAP CLAP CLAP!

You’ve gotta clap clap clap.

CLAP CLAP CLAP!

He said clap clap clap.

And the monkey said to stop! 

Other Verse: Stomp stomp stomp! 

Another verse: Scratch scratch scratch!  

Literacy: Five Little Monkeys Jumping On the Bed by Eileen Christelow read and followed with having the kids stand up and saying the rhyme together kinda like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tperYYMCYE 

Closing Fingerplay: Two Little Blackbirds  
Post storytime activity: Zoo Animals Foam Pieces Collage
We have a lot of these from Discount School Supply, so we gave each kids some with a green piece of construction paper and a glue stick. Some kids made a zoo, another made a safari, another made a safari in the zoo. That was my favorite!