Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Let's go Camping!

Theme for Wednesday, August 6: Camping

Opening: Open, Shut Them

Book: One-Dog Canoe by Mary Casanova

Fingerplay: Five Little Hot Dogs (with a flannel board!) From: Fun with Friends at Storytime

Five little hot dogs, frying in a pan (hold up 5 fingers and wiggle them)
The grease got hot and one went...BAM! (Clap hands loudly)

(Continue counting: 4, 3, 2, 1...)

Zero little hot dogs, frying in a pan (hold up a fist)
The pan got hot and it went...BAM! (Clap hands loudly)

Transitional Rhyme: Touch your ears and touch your nose

Touch your ears and touch your nose
Now bend down and touch your toes
Wiggle your fingers and turn around
Now bend down and touch the ground
Clap your hands, count 1, 2, 3
Now sit down so quietly.

Book: The Woods by Paul Hoppe

Action Song: A Ram-Sam-Sam; From: Mill Valley Public Library

Hand Motions
A ram-sam-sam = make two fists and pound them, one on top of the other
Gooly, gooly, gooly, gooly = make two fists and roll them in a circle
A raffi, a raffi = raise hands over your head and wiggle your fingers

Lyrics
A ram-sam-sam 
A ram-sam-sam 
Gooly, gooly, gooly, gooly
Ram-sam-sam

A ram-sam-sam
A ram-sam-sam
Gooly, gooly, gooly, gooly
Ram-sam-sam

A raffi! A raffi!
Gooly, gooly, gooly, gooly
Ram-sam-sam

A raffi! A raffi!
Gooly, gooly, gooly, gooly
Ram-sam-sam

I love this song because we did this for my very first summer reading in Ridgeland, Mississippi! 
I've seen a few different versions of the hand motions, but these are the ones I've traditionally used.

Song: Alice the Camel (with flannel board!) From: So Tomorrow

Alice the camel has 5 humps
Alice the camel has 5 humps
Alice the camel has 5 humps
So go, Alice, go!
Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom!

(Remove a hump.  Repeat as you count down 4, 3, 2, 1 humps)

Alice the camel has 0 humps
Alice the camel has 0 humps
Alice the camel has 0 humps
Alice is a horse!

I asked the kids at the very end what they thought Alice looked like, and they said "horse" right away!

Book: Foggy, Foggy Forest by Nick Sharratt

Action Song: Tooty Ta from Johnny Only's CD Kids Music You Can Dance To!

Craft: Picnic craft!

We made a picnic craft today!  I created a checkered template on a blank sheet of white paper in Microsoft Publisher.  The kids decorated the squares and glued on delicious picnic food! 

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