Sign language: Elephant
Book: I Love My Mama by Peter Kavanagh, illustrated by Jane Chapman
Rhyme: Roly poly
Ever so slowly.
Roly poly
Faster, faster, faster.
Song: “I can make my hands go clap, clap, clap” (Tune: “Mary Had a Little Lamb”)
I can make my hands go clap, clap, clap
Clap, clap, clap
Clap, clap, clap
I can make my hands go clap, clap, clap
They’re a part of me.
Additional verses:
I can make my feet go stomp, stomp, stomp, etc…
I can make my hands wave bye, bye, bye…
Book: Always by Emma Dodd
Rhyme: The moon is round
As round can be
Two eyes
A nose
And a mouth like me!
Fingerplay: “Up the Hill”
Here goes a turtle up a hill, creepy, creepy, creepy, creepy (crawl up arm)
Here goes a rabbit up a hill, boing, boing, boing, boing (bounce up arm)
Here goes a snake up the hill, slither, slither, slither, slither (slide up arm)
Here goes an elephant up the hill, thud, thud, thud, thud (clap up arm)
Here comes an elephant down the hill, boom, boom, boom, boom, CRASH! (bounce down, clap hands for crash)
(Credit: adapted by Storytime Katie)
Song: “Do Your Ears Hang Low?”
Rhyme: One, two three,
Baby’s on my Knee.
Rooster crows
And away he goes.
Book: The Thingamabob by Il Sung Na
Song (shaky eggs): “Elephant in There” – Laurie Berkner: Superhero
