Eggs

May 2013

Opening Song: “The Wheels on the Bus” by Larry Groce (Disney Children’s Favorite Songs Volume 4) [It’s time to get on the bus and go to story time!]

Movement Song: “Can’t Sit Still” by Greg & Steve (Kids in Action)

Announce Theme: Eggs

Listening Song: “If You Want to Hear a Story”

Share Facts & Illustrations: An Egg Is Quiet by Dianna Aston

Book: The Perfect Nest by Catherine Friend

Game with Flannel Board: 5 eggs with a chick, duck, fish, spider, and turtle hid under them.

Book: What Will Hatch? by Jennifer Ward

Book: Except If by Jim Averbeck

Closing Rhyme: Wave Goodbye by Rob Reid

April 2017

Opening Song: “The Wheels on the Bus” by Larry Groce (Disney Children’s Favorite Songs Volume 4) [It’s time to get on the bus and go to story time!]

Movement Song: “Can’t Sit Still” by Greg & Steve (Kids in Action)

Announce Theme: Eggs

Listening Song: “If You Want to Hear a Story”

Book: The Roly-Poly Egg by Kali Stileman

Game with Flannel Board: 5 eggs with a chick, duck, fish, spider, turtle, owl, snake, ant, ladybug, and dragon hid under them. 

Book: Except If by Jim Averback

Sing-Along Song: Spider on the floor by Raffi

Book: Hurry Hurry by Eve Bunting

Closing Rhyme: Wave Goodbye by Rob Reid

Extra Book: Mother Bruce by Ryan T. Higgins

Rhyme with Flannel Board: Chook, Chook, Chook, Chook, Chook (also talk about chickens: beak, comb, color of eggs, hens, chicks, roosters)

Rhyme with Finger Puppets: “This Little Chicken”

Activity: Find the Chick (yellow pompom in plastic egg in a carton)

April 2022

Opening Song: “The Wheels on the Bus” by Eric Litwin

Announce Theme: Eggs

Listening Song: “If You Want to Hear a Story”

Book: Roly-Poly Egg by Kali Stileman

Game with Flannel Board: 5 eggs with a chick, duck, fish, spider, turtle, owl, snake, ant, ladybug, and dragon hid under them

Book: What Will Hatch? by Jennifer Ward

Activity: Find the Chick (yellow pompom in plastic egg in a carton)

Book: Egg by Kevin Henkes

Closing Rhyme: Wave Goodbye by Rob Reid