Tales for Twos: Winter Animals

OpeningHello Everybody, Yes Indeed by Miss Carole
Warm-Up ActivityThe Very Hungry Caterpillar: What Can You Do Game?
CalendarWhat is the weather and season?
ASLWe learned how to sign “penguin.”
Weekly RhymeThis 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.  
This is up, up, up.
This is down, down, down.
This is square, square, square.
This is round, round, round.
This is left, left, left.
This is right, right, right.  
This is a great big hug and a kiss goodnight.

Sing it once without sign langue. Add sign language the second time.
Book Where’s the Polar Bear by Ingela Arrhenius
Book Can I Sleep Here? Baby Penguin by Ella Bailey
Activity (goldfish crackers)Penguin Cheer
I like fishies, yes I do! (raise goldfish above head)
When I want a fishy, here’s what I do!
One, two, three…GULP (make goldfish swim and then eat it)

Adapated from the original poem from King County Library System
Activity (goldfish crackers)Bubble, Bubble, Bubble, Pop
One little red fish
swimming in the water,
swimming in the water,
swimming in the water.
One little red fish
swimming in the water,
bubble, bubble, bubble, pop.

Kids found a red goldfish cracker and made it swim. They would then make the fish do the bubble motion. Instead of pop, they popped the fish into their mouth and then made the pop sound. Repeat with different colors and number of fish.
Dance Song  Winter Freeze Dance by The Kiboomers
Cool DownAlphabet; Count up to and down from 5
Goodbye SongSkidamarink by Old Town School of Folk Music

Craft:

The January craft is for this year. The other penguin craft was from another Winter Animal storytime that I did not upload.

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