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