Stuffed Animal Sleepover

February 2012

Opening Movement Song: “The Body Rock” by Greg & Steve (Kids in Motion)

Poem: “I’m Much Too Tired to Play Tonight” by Jack Prelutsky from Something Big Has Been Here

Book: Five Little Monkeys Reading in Bed by Eileen Christelow

Movement Song: “Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed”

Book: Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! By Mo Willems

Flannel Board Nursery Rhyme: “Hey Diddle Diddle”

Movement Rhyme: “Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear”

Book: Bedtime Bunnies by Wendy Watson

Poem: “Goodnight Mummy” by Roger Stevens from Switching on the Moon: A Very First Book of Bedtime Poems collected by Jane Yolen & Andrew Fusek Peters

Closing Rhyme: Wave Goodbye by Rob Reid

Next: The kids tuck their animals in for the night and say goodbye. After they leave, teens help Miss Bridget pose the animals around the library and take pictures. The kids pick up their animals the next morning. The pictures are posted on Flickr and parents are sent a link to the album.

Links to Photos:

APL

MPL

MML

GCPL 

Summer 2012

Program Agenda @ MML:

Opening Movement Song: “Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed”

Book: A Bedtime for Bear by Bonny Becker

Movement Song: “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes” by The Learning Station (Here We Go Loopty Loo)

Book: Otto the Book Bear by Kate Cleminson

Movement Rhyme: “Book Bear, Book Bear”

Book: The House of 12 Bunnies by Caroline Stills and Sarcia Stills-Blott

Next: The kids tuck their animals in for the night and say goodbye. After they leave, teens help Miss Bridget pose the animals around the library and take pictures. The kids pick up their animals the next morning. The pictures are posted on Flickr and parents are sent a link to the album.

Program Agenda @ MPL, GCPL, & APL:

Opening Movement Song: “Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed”

Book: May I Bring a Friend? by Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

Movement Rhyme: “Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear”

Book: Don’t Let Pigeon Stay Up Late! by Mo Willems

Rhyme with Flannel Board: “Blue Ted Said”

Book: Monkey and Me by Emily Gravett

Next: The kids tuck their animals in for the night, sing them a lullaby (“Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”), and say goodnight. After they leave, Miss Bridget and assistant will pose the animals around the library and take pictures. The kids pick up their animals the next morning. The pictures are posted on Flickr and parents are sent a link to the album.

Links to Photos:

APL

GCPL

MML

MPL 

February 2014

Movement Song: “Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed”

Book: Hugless Douglas and the Big Sleep-Over by David Melling

Poem with Flannel Board: “Goodnight Mummy” by Roger Stevens from Switching on the Moon: A Very First Book of Bedtime Poems collected by Jane Yolen & Andrew Fusek Peters

Book: Let’s Sing a Lullaby with the Brave Cowboy by Jan Thomas

Rhyme with Flannel Board: “Blue Ted Said”

Book: Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late! by Mo Willems

Action Song: “Rockabye Your Bear” by The Wiggles

Book: Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey by Emily Winfield Martin 

January 2015

Song: Cool Bear Hunt 

Book: Hugless Douglas and the Big Sleepover by David Melling 

Song: Shakes My Sillies Out 

Magnet Board: 5 Little Teddy Bears 

Book: Where’s My Teddy? By Jez Alborough 

Summer 2016

Rhyme with Flannel Board: “Blue Ted Said” 

Poem: “I’m Much Too Tired to Play Tonight” by Jack Prelutsky from Something Big Has Been Here

Movement Song: “Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed” 

Poem: “Goodnight Mummy” by Roger Stevens from Switching on the Moon: A Very First Book of Bedtime Poems collected by Jane Yolen & Andrew Fusek Peters

Song: Sleeping Bunnies