Sign language: Apple , Pumpkin
Book: Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell, illustrated by Lizzy Rockwell
Song: “Pumpkin, Pumpkin” (Tune: “Twinkle twinkle”)
Pumpkin, pumpkin on the ground, (touch the ground)
How’d you get so big and round? (make a big circle)
Once you were a seed so small, (hold baby’s hands together)
Now you are a great big ball! (make a big circle)
Pumpkin, pumpkin on the ground, (touch the ground)
How’d you get so big and round? (make a big circle)
Rhyme: Shoe the old horse (tap one foot)
Shoe the old mare (tap other foot)
But let the little pony
Run bare, bare, bare (tap feet together)
Song: Counting sheep (Tune: “This Old Man”)
Counting sheep, counting sheep
Helps my _________ go to sleep
One sheep, two sheep
Three sheep, four —
Soon my _________
Starts to snore
(Credit: Sing a Song of Storytime)
Puppets/Book: The Busy Little Squirrel by Nancy Tafuri
Rhyme: This little pig
Fingerplay: Five Little Apples
Rhyme: Away up high in the apple tree (lift baby)
I saw a little baby smiling at me
I shook that tree as hard as I could (shake gently)
Down came the baby (bring down)
Mmm, was she good! (Kiss)
Book (Choral): Duck and Goose Find a Pumpkin by Tad Hills
Song (shaky eggs): “Apple Pickin’ Time” – Tom Pease: I’m Gonna Reach!
