Sign Language: butterfly
Book: Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! by Bob Barner
Song: “Hop, Hop, Hop Along” (Tune: “Row Your Boat”)
Hop, hop, hop along (hop)
Or bounce on someone’s knee (bounce)
Higher and higher and higher and higher (lift)
BUGGY hop with me. (hop)
Rhyme: Little Bug
A little BUG NEAR a pond am I, (lap)
Hippity, hippity, hop. (bounce)
And I can jump in the air so high, (lift)
Hippity, hippity, hop!
Book: Snappy Little Bugs by Claire Nielson and Dug Steer, illustrated by Derek Matthews
Song: “On my Toe There is a Flea” – John M. Feierabend and Luann Saunders: Frog in the Meadow
Song/Puppet: “Bumblebee, Bumblebee” (Tune: “Jingle Bells”)
Bumblebee, bumblebee
Landing on my nose,
Bumblebee, bumblebee,
Now he’s on my toes.
On my arms, on my legs, on my elbows,
Bumblebee, oh bumblebee,
He lands and then he goes!
Rhyme: Five Fat Peas
Five fat peas in a pea pod pressed (hold hands in a fist)
One grew, two grew, so did the rest. (Put fingers up one by one.)
They grew and they grew and did not stop,
Until one day that pea pod POPPED! (clap hands together.)
Song: “Let’s Tap Our Feet Together” (Tune: “The More We Get Together”)
Let’s tap our feet together, together, together
Let’s tap our feet together because it’s fun to do.
Additional verses:
Clap our hands
Touch our nose
Touch our ears
Book: Butterfly, Butterfly by Petr Horáček
Song (with shaky eggs): “Caterpillar, Caterpillar” – Kira Willey: Dance for the Sun
