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: Spiders
Listening Song: “If You Want to Hear a Story”
Book: I’m a Shark by Bob Shea
Movement Song: “Spider on the Floor” by Raffi
Fingerplay: “The Itsy Bitsy Spider”
Book: The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
Book: Nic Bishop Spiders by Nic Bishop
Closing Rhyme: Wave Goodbye by Rob Reid
Opening Song: “The Wheels on the Bus” by Eric Litwin
Announce Theme: Spiders
Listening Song: “If You Want to Hear a Story”
Book: The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle (Penguin Young Readers Level 2)
Flannel Board: Five Little Spiders Jumping on the Web
Book: Maybe Mother Goose by Esmé Raji Codell (Itsy Bitsy page)
Book: The Itsy Bitsy Spider by Iza Trapani
Song: Spider on the Floor by Raffi
Flannel Board: Spiders in the Bathtub
Rhyme: “Little Miss Muffet” from The Classic Mother Goose edited by Armand Eisen
Reader’s Theater: “Little Miss Muffet” from You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Mother Goose Tales to Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman
Poems: “Spinning a Tale” by Jane Yolen & “Spider Recalls the Tuffet Fright” by Rebecca Kai Dotlich from Grumbles from the Town: Mother-Goose Voices with a Twist by Jane Yolen & Rebecca Kai Dotlich
Closing Rhyme: Wave Goodbye by Rob Reid
Take Home: Spider coloring page (krokotak)