Fish Rhymes

Introduction	Put Your Little Foot By Miss Carole
Book	Swallow the Leader by Danna Smith
Nursery Rhyme	Once I Caught a Fish Alive One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Once I caught a fish alive, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Then I threw him back again. Why did you let him go? Because he bit my finger so. Which finger did he bite? This little finger on my right.
Book	Go Fish! by Tammi Sauer
ASL	Fish in ASL
Weekly 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: Melissa Depper, a children’s librarian in the Denver metro area We do it twice. Once with our traditional hand movements and second time with ASL.
Action Rhyme	Fish (with die-cut fish) Hold your fish up high Hold your fish down low Hold your fish & turn around Hold your fish up high Hold your fish down low Put your fish on the ground. Source: One Little Librarian
Action Rhyme	Little Fish I’m a little fish watch me go. I swim fast, and I swim slow. When the sharks come out, I dare not play. I dive down deep and swim away. source: No Time For Flashcards
Group Activity	Color Goldfish I printed off a fishbowl sheet. Each kid got a cup of fish and we worked on counting and colors. Source: Pocket of Preschool
Dance Song	Row, Row, Row Your Boat by Old Town of Folk Music
Cool Down	ABCs, Count to 15
Goodbye Song	Say Goodbye by Miss Carole

Our craft was taken from iHeartCraftyThings.

Introduction	Put Your Finger in the Air by Carole Peterson
Book	Gilbert Goldfish Wants a Fish by Kelly DiPucchio
Action Rhyme	The Animal Walk Can you walk like a bug? How would you walk if you had six legs? How do cows walk? They are so big! How do frogs walk? Do they walk or jump? Snakes don’t have legs? How do they get around? They slither! What about horses? They gallop! Do fish walk? No, they swim! Show me how you can swim. Do bees walk? No, they fly! Show me how you can fly.
Book	The Cow Said Meow by John Himmelman
ASL	Fish Water
Action Rhyme	The Fish in the Sea The fish in the sea Go swish, swish, swish,(wave scarf side to side) swish, swish, swish, swish, swish, swish The fish in the sea go swish, swish, swish All day long. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHNmGN_jQzk
Action Rhyme	Fish, Fish *Tune:* *Skip to my Lou* Fish, fish, swim up high. Fish, fish, swim down low. Fish, fish, swim so fast. Fish, fish, swim so slow. source: https://kcls.org/content/fish-fish/
Action Rhyme	Did You Ever See a Fishy (Tune: Did You Ever See a Lassie) Did you ever see a fishy, a fishy, a fishy Did you ever see a fishy, swim this way (lean forward) and that (lean backwards)? Swim this way (lean to the right) and that way (lean to the left), and that way (lean forward) and this way (lean backwards). Did you ever see a fishy, swim this way (lean right) and that (lean left). Source: https://www.adventuresofabookworm.com/2014/02/03/storytime-fish/
Group Activity	Fish Addition I gave each kid a sheet and a cup of goldfish. We did simple addition and subtraction.
Dance Song	The Goldish by Laura Berkner
Cool Down	Alphabet Count to 15
Goodbye Song	Wiggle Finger! By Miss Carole