Activity Breakdown: 

• Introduction Song & Welcome Rhyme: Open, Shut Them 

Open, shut them, open, shut them,

Give a little clap, clap, clap.

Open, shut them, open, shut them,

Put them in your lap, lap, lap.

Creep them, creep them,

Creep them, creep them,

Right up to your chin, chin, chin.

Open up your little mouth,

But do not put them in.

• Movement Song: Freeze Dance

  • 1. • Let children know every time the music stops, they have to stop moving. 

       • Play any appropriate song to dance to and pause when ready to freeze. 

• Book Reading: Everybody Says Meow by Constance Lombardo

Lambardo , J. (2019). Everybody Says Meow. HarperCollins. Hardcover. 32p.

ISBN: 9780062198716. $17.99. Age Range: 4-8. 

• Movement Song: Cool Cat song with maracas 

Hey there everybody, you're a real cool cat.

You got a lot of this, ( spin the eggs around) 

And you got a lot of that. (shake eggs side to side) 

So come on in and get down (shake eggs to the ground) 

To the left (shake eggs to the left) 

To the right (shake eggs to the right) 

Up in the air (shake eggs in the air) 

And get down (shake eggs down) 

• Literacy Tip: Repeat songs, words, and rhymes

  • 1. • Repetition builds memory and helps create a routine for the child –they may associate a certain song with bedtime, the start of storytime, or cleaning up after consistently hearing it at these times. 

• Fingerplay: A Great Big Cat

A great, big cat (open arms wide)

And a wee, little mouse (make hands small)

Ran around and around (spin arms eachother)

In a high, high house (reach to the sky)

But that wee, little mouse got caught at last (clap your hands together) 

Cause the great, big cat ran around so fast! (run in place)

Oh no! What did the cat do....(pause for response)... he .....gave the mouse a hug (ask caregivers to hug thier little ones) 

*repeat with kisses and tickles

• Book Reading: Pete the Cat: The Wheels on the Bus by James Dean 

Dean , J. (2013). Pete the Cat: The Wheels on the Bus. HarperCollins. Hardcover. 32p.

ISBN: 9780062198716. $7.89. Age Range: 2-4. 

• Play and Learn Time: Block and Manipulative Play

• Clean Up 

• Goodbye Song: We Clap and Sing Goodbye

We Clap and Sing Goodbye

"We clap and sing goodbye

We clap and sing goodbye

With our friends in storytime we clap and sing goodbye "

(Repeat with "stomp", "rock", and "wave")