Book: Don’t Wake Up the Tiger by Britta Teckentrup
Song: “Can’t Wait to Celebrate” – Jim Gill: Jim Gill’s Irrational Anthem
Book: Brownie & Pearl Step Out by Cynthia Rylant, illustrated by Brian Biggs
Song: “Tap, Tap, Tap” – Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer: Get Set for School Sing Along
Yoga/Breathing: Balloon breath
Social Story: “Playing and Sharing” from Quinn at School: Relating, Connecting, and Responding at School by Rick H. Warren
Craft: Paper plate party hats
Book: Can One Balloon Make an Elephant Fly? By Dan Richards and Jeff Newman
Song: “Blow Up Your Balloon” – The Wiggles: Racing to the Rainbow
Puppets: What flies up in the air? (collection of puppets: some flying, some not)
Book: Little Cloud by Eric Carle
Song: “Put Your Finger in the Air” – Bob McGrath: Sing Along with Bob #2
Book: The Wind Blew by Pat Hutchins
Activity: Plastic bag parachute demonstration
Craft: Hot air balloon
Sign language: Balloon, cloud, and kite
Book: Emily’s Balloon by Komako Sakai
Rhyme: Balloon goes up (lift)
Balloon goes down (lap)
Balloon goes up to reach the clouds (lift high)
Storm rolls by (wiggle side to side)
Babe rocks down (sway to lap)
Made it home, safe and sound (hug and kiss)
(Credit: Leah Portz)
Song: “Blow Up Your Balloon” – The Wiggles: Racing to the Rainbow
Song: “I Am a Bubble” – Charlotte Diamond: Charlotte Diamond’s World
Book: And Red Galoshes by Glenda Millard, illustrated by Jonathan Bentley
Song/Bubbles: “Let’s Go Fly a Kite” – Richard Sherman: Mary Poppins An Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
Rhyme: Trot, trot, trot to Boston (gently bounce baby on your knees)
Trot, trot, trot to Lynn.
Look out baby
You’re going to fall in. (lower knees)
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)
Big Book/Puppets: It Looked Like Spilt Milk by Charles G. Shaw
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)
Song (shaky eggs): “In the Clouds” – Laurie Berkner: Laurie Berkner Lullabies
