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.
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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.
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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