Baby’s Day Story Time – Baby

Opening song

Sign language for morning

Book:  Where are you going, Maisy? by Lucy Cousins

where are you going maisy

Rhyme: Rickety rickety rocking horse (bounce)
Over the hills we go,
Rickety rickety rocking horse
Giddy-up, giddy-up, whoa! (hug baby)

Song: Did you ever see a baby, a baby, a baby?
Did you ever see a baby go this way and that? (lean side to side)
Go this way and that way and this way and that way (lean front to back, side to side)
Did you ever see a baby go this way and that? (lean front to back)

Book: The Baby Goes Beep by Rebecca O’Connell, illustrated by Ken Wilson-Max

baby goes beep

Song: “Baby Hop” – Priscilla Hegner and Rose Grasselli: Diaper Gym

Book/Song:  The Babies on the Bus by Karen Katz

babies on the bus

Rhyme: Baby a-go go, (bounce on knees)
Hey-ah! (tip child to the right)
Baby a-go go, (bounce on knees)
Hey-ah! (tip child to the left)
Baby a go- (bounce on knees)
Oh! (lift up in the air)
Baby a-go go go! (bounce, bounce, bounce!)

Rhyme: Tick tock, tick tock, I’m a little cuckoo clock (swing baby side to side)
Tick tock, tick tock, stop!
What time is it? It’s one-o-clock.
Cuckoo! (lift baby)

Two-o-clock, three-o-clock…

Book (choral reading): Baby’s Day by Michael Blake, photographs by Trish Gant

babys day

Song: “A Tisket, A Tasket” (with shakers) – Sara Hickman: Newborn

newborn

Closing rhyme