Preschool Storytime - Opposites

Inspired by Jbrary's Opposites at Storytime and Sunflower Storytime's Opposites Storytime.

Opening

Hello Everybody, Yes Indeed by Carole Peterson HUM
Hello to your toes yes indeed yes indeed yes indeed
Hello to your toes yes indeed my darling
Knees – shoulders - friends

Books
Animal Opposites by Petr Horáček
Opposite Zoo by Ila Na
The Three Bears by Byron Barton

Songs
Can't Wait to Celebrate by Jim Gill from Jim Gill's Irrational Anthem

Scarves
Reach Up High from Exercise Party

Two Little Black Birds

Two little blackbirds sitting on a hill.
One named Jack and one named Jill.
Fly away Jack, flay away Jill.
Come back Jack, come back Jill.
Two little blackbirds flying in the sky.
One named Low and one named High...
Two little blackbirds sitting on a pole.
One named Fast and one named Slow...
Two little blackbirds sitting on a gate...
One named Early and one named Late..

Five Clean and Dirty Pigs

Felt Board

Flannel Friday: Clean and Dirty Pigs from Mel's Desk

Sing it to “Five Green and Speckled Frogs”

Five pigs so squeaky clean
Cleanest you’ve ever seen
Wanted to go outside and play
Oink! Oink!
One jumped into the mud
Landed with a big thud
Then there were four clean squeaky pigs.

Egg Shakers

Going to Kentucky by Carol Peterson for Baloney

Bread and Butter Storytime Chant from Jbrary's Just Add Rhythm Sticks. 
I edited the lyrics slightly to work with the egg shakers.

Bread and butter
Marmalade and Jam
Let's tap our sticks as quiet as we can

...loud as we can
...slow as we can
...fast as we can
...high as we can
...low as we can
...nice as we can

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.

Short and Long Dog Craft

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.


Craft
Our craft today used our Large dog Ellison die.  I cut the dogs in half.  I made  accordion  folded strips of paper the same thickness as the dog. The children could assemble the dog first and then color or they could color it first and then glue away.  The result is a stretchy dog who is either short or long.

Laura
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