Preschool Storytime - Eggs

Opening
We Are Here Together (Tune: “Skip to My Lou”)

Here, here, we’ll all here
Here, here, we’ll all here
Here, here, we’ll all here
We’re all here in storytime
Hello, children, how are you?
Hello, grown-ups, how are you?
Hello, friends, how are you?
We’re so glad to see you!

Books
Peep and Egg I’m Not Hatching by Laura Gehl
Daisy and the Egg by Jane Simmons
Odd Egg by Emily Gravett

Songs
Flitter Flutter by Johnette Downing for The Second Line – Scarf Activity Songs (with scarves)
I Know a Chicken by Laurie Berkner for The Best of the Laurie Berkner Band (with egg shakers)
Jumping and Counting by Jim Gill from the Irrational Anthem and More Salutes to Nonsense

Felt

Three Little Birds
I don't know the original inspiration for this story. The felt was made by a previous staff member so I just inherited it. Its a bit like Goldilocks and the three bears.  Basically the three birds Pinkie, Blue Bird and Robin want to be neighbors so they can play together everyday. They go looking at houses but of course there is a perfect house for each bird.  The kids enjoyed watching the bird test each house and then they told me why that house wasn't quite right.  We switched the bird around until everyone was happy. 



Five little Owls - inspired What a Hoot (owls) by Sunflower Storytime

Five hoot owls sitting in a tree

One flew away! How many do you see?
One, two, three, four.

Four hoot owls sitting in a tree
One flew away! How many do you see?
One, two, three.

Three hoot owls… etc.

Rhyme
Way up in the sky, the little birds fly
While down in the nest
The little bird rest
With a wing on the left,
and a wing on the right
The little birds sleep all through the night
Shhh they’re sleeping
The bright sun comes up,
the dew falls away
Good morning good morning
the little birds say

Check the cute video by WCCLS Birth2Six.

Eggs

Five little eggs (fingers on one hand)
And five little eggs (fingers on second hand)
Are 10 little eggs you see (wiggle fingers)
Break their shells and what do you have? (clap)
Ten little chickens as yellow as can be. (wiggle fingers)


Egg Shakers
if you’re happy and you know it give a shake
if you’re happy and you know it give a shake
if you’re happy and you know it give a shake
if you’re happy you know it and you really want to show it
if you’re happy and you it give a shake
clap – tap

everyone can shake shake shake
everyone can shake shake shake
everyone can shake shake shake shake
and now let’s make a stop

tap – clap – wave

Closing
We Clap Our Hands Like This - tune farmer in the dell. Borrowed from Opening/Closing Songs on Storytime Katie who borrowed it from Rhymes for Toddlers on Sunflower Storytime. 

We clap our hands like this
We clap out hands like this

We clap our hands with all of our friends
We clap our hands like this.

We blow a kiss like this
We blow a kiss like this
We blow a kiss with all of our friends
We blow a kiss like this.

We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye with all our friends.
We wave goodbye like this.

Movie
Red Hen by Rebecca Emberley on 20 Stories for Spring

Craft
We did this craft last year for Birds Storytime. The idea is from Hatching Chicks from Little Foundations.

Laura

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