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Book: The Littlest Turtle by Lysa Mullady, illustrated by Erica Salcedo

Sign Language: Turtle

Fingerplay: “My Little Turtle”
This is my little turtle. (make a fist)
He lives alone in a shell.
He likes his little home.
He thinks it’s really swell.
He pokes out his head (poke out thumb)
When he wants to eat.
Then he pulls it back in (hide thumb in fist)
When he wants to sleep.
(Credit: The Librarian Is on the Loose)

Book: Scoot! by Cathryn Falwell

Song: “Tap, Tap, Tap” – Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer: Get Set for School Sing Along

Social Story/Yoga: Tucker Turtle Takes Time to Tuck and Think by Rochelle Lentini, Lindsay N. Giroux, and Mary Louise Hemmeter

Closing Song

Craft: Paper plate turtles

Opening song

Sign language: turtle

Book: Turtles by Emily Green

Puppet rhyme: “There was a little turtle”
There was a little turtle
who lived in a box
he swam in the puddles
he climbed on the rocks
He snapped at a mosquito
He snapped at a flea
He snapped at a minnow
He snapped at me
He caught the mosquito
He caught that flea
He caught that minnow
But he didn’t catch me!
(Source: JBrary)

Song: “Turtle, Turtle” (Tune: “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”)
Turtle, turtle moves so slow,
Crawling, crawling, watch him go.
At the pond he looks around,
See his head move up and down.
Turtle, turtle wants to swim,
Now he slides and dives right in!
(Source: PreschoolExpress)

Book: I Spy Pets by Edward Gibbs