| Introduction | Come Along Come along and sing with me, Sing with me, sing with me Come along and sing with me It’s time for storytime!Come along and bounce with me…. Come along and sit with me…. Come along and clap with me…. Come along and stretch with me…. Come along and sing with me….Source: My coworker provided the rhyme for this storytime. Unknown original source. |
| Big Book | The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear
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| Nursery Rhyme | Hickory Dickory Dock Hickory Dickory Dock, (crouch down) The mouse ran up the clock. (jump up) The clock struck one, (clap hands above head) The mouse ran down! (crouch down) Hickory Dickory Dock. |
| Book | Eeny, Meeny, Miney, Mo and Flo
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| Stretch/Rhyme: | This is Big Big Big This is big big big This is small small small This is short short short This is tall tall tall This is fast fast fast This is slow slow slow This is yes yes yes This is no no no Source: Mel’s Desk Clap Clap Your Hands Additional Verses |
| Traditional Rhyme | Where are the baby mice? Where are the baby mice? (make a fist, hide behind back) “Squeak, squeak, squeak!” I cannot see them, Peek, peek, peek, (act like your looking) Here they come out of their hole in the wall. (show fist and extend it) One, two, three, four, five, (show one finger at a time) That’s all!Source: The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems,Fingerplay and Chants |
| Action Song | Slowly, Slowly, Very Slowly Slowly, slowly, very slowly (walk slowly or walk fingers/pump legs) Creeps the garden snail. Slowly, slowly, very slowly Up the wooden rail Quickly, quickly, very quickly (walk fast or fingers fast/pump legs) Runs the little mouse. Quickly, quickly, very quickly Round about the house.Source: The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems,Fingerplay and Chants |
| Action Rhyme | Little Mouse Walk little mouse, walk little mouse (tiptoe around) Hide little mouse, hide little mouse (cover eyes with hands) Here comes the cat! (look around) Run little mouse, run little mouse!Source: The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems,Fingerplay and Chants |
| Dance Song | Walking, Walking |
| Dance Song | I forgot what song I used. 😦 |
| Traditional Song | ABC |
| Goodbye Song | This is the Way We Say Goodbye This is the way our hands say goodbye With a clap, clap-clap Clap, clap-clap This is the way our hands say good-bye With a clap, clap-clap, clap-clap This is the way our knees say goodbye With a tap, tap-tap Tap, tap-tap This is the way our knees say goodbye With a tap, tap-tap, tap-tap This is the way we wave goodbye Wave goodbye, wave goodbye This is the way we wave goodbye Goodbye until next time Source: My coworker provided the rhyme for this storytime. Unknown original source. |
Craft: Unfortunately, I cannot remember for the life of me if I found this craft online or made it up. I scoured the internet, so I think it might have been my own creation.
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