Welcome

Hello Song: We Clap and Sing Hello
To the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell"
Credit: Storytime Katie

We clap and sing hello,
We clap and sing hello,
With our friends at storytime,
We clap and sing hello!

Big Movement Song (ETM): Clap Your Hands

Action Rhyme:  Pumpkin, Pumpkin
Credit: Storytime Katie

Pumpkin, pumpkin, big and round, (Make big circle with hands)
Sitting on the cold, hard ground. (Touch the ground)
Soon I’ll pick you off the vine, (Pretend to pick a pumpkin)
Give you a name, and make you mine (Hug pumpkin tightly)
Carve a face for all to see, (Point to face)
Add a candle for Halloween glee! (Clap your hands)

Letter of the Week: F
Introduce the Letter of the Week with the magic bag.  Wondering what it is - read about it here
Magic Bag items: fries (plastic play food kind), flower (silk/faux), fish puppet, and letter F

"Magic Bag Song"
To the tune of "Do You Know the Muffin Man?"
Credit: N. Lawton

Let's all look in the magic bag,
The magic bag, the magic bag.
Let's all look in the magic bag
to find out what's inside.

Caregiver Handout:

Action Rhyme: Way Up High in the Apple Tree
Credit: Storytime Katie

Way up high in the apple tree (stretch arms up high)
Two red apples smiled at me (hold up two fingers)
I shook that tree as hard as I could (make a shaking motion)
Down came the apples… (make a downward motion)
And mmm, they were good! (smile and rub stomach)

Book: Bella's Fall Coat by Lynn Plourde

Flannel Board Story:  This is Not a Pumpkin
Credit: Snark & Storytmimes
*Note: I adapted it so we didn't talk about jack o'lanterns.  As much as I personally adore and love Halloween, not everyone that comes into the library does.  So this is my way of respecting that.  My pumpkin flannel piece had a kawaii style smiley face.

This is NOT a pumpkin, 
It's round
It's big, 
It has a steam
But this is NOT a pumpkin

You can turn it sideways
You can even turn it upside down.

You can put it in a corner
or throw it high in the air
And wonder if it will come back down

But no matter HOW you look at it this is NOT a pumpkin!

Why because EVERYONE knows that pumpkins
(Turn you pumpkin around)

Don't SMILE!
NO! NO! NO!

Pumpkins don't smile or frown.

Big Movement Song (ETM):  Hop Old Squirrel

Action Rhyme: Apple Roll
Credit: Storytime Katie

Five little apples in the bowl
One fell out and started to roll
It bumped the table and hit my feet
How many apples left to eat?
 (keep counting down until you reach 0 apples)

Book:  Squirrels Leap, Squirrels Sleep by April Pulley Sayre

We Drum and Drum and Stop
To the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell"
Credit: Jbrary
Adapted by N. Lawton for drums

​We drum and drum and stop
We drum and drum and stop
We drum and drum
and drum and drum
and drum and drum and stop

Goodbye Song:  We Wave Goodbye Like This
To the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell"
Credit: Storytime Katie

We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye like this.
We clap our hands for all our friends.
We wave goodbye like this.

Welcome

Hello Song:  We Clap and Sing Hello
To the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell"
Credit: Storytime Katie

We clap and sing hello,
We clap and sing hello,
With our friends at storytime,
We clap and sing hello!

Big Movement Song (ETM):  Clap Your Hands

Action Rhyme:  Pumpkin, Pumpkin
Credit: Storytime Katie

Pumpkin, pumpkin, big and round, (Make big circle with hands)
Sitting on the cold, hard ground. (Touch the ground)
Soon I’ll pick you off the vine, (Pretend to pick a pumpkin)
Give you a name, and make you mine (Hug pumpkin tightly)
Carve a face for all to see, (Point to face)
Add a candle for Halloween glee! (Clap your hands)

Letter of the Week: P
Introduce the Letter of the Week with the magic bag.  Wondering what it is - read about it here
Magic Bag items: Pumpkin, pig puppet, pen, pear, and letter P

"Magic Bag Song"
To the tune of "Do You Know the Muffin Man?"
Credit: N. Lawton

Let's all look in the magic bag,
The magic bag, the magic bag.
Let's all look in the magic bag
to find out what's inside.

​Caregiver Handout

Action Rhyme:  Way Up High in the Apple Tree
Credit: Storytime Katie

Way up high in the apple tree (stretch arms up high)
Two red apples smiled at me (hold up two fingers)
I shook that tree as hard as I could (make a shaking motion)
Down came the apples… (make a downward motion)
And mmm, they were good! (smile and rub stomach)

Book:  Fall is Not Easy by Marty Kelley

Big Movement Song (ETM): High Stepping Horses

Action Rhyme:  Hoot Hoot Went the Little Brown Owl
Credit: Jbrary

Hoot, hoot went the little brown owl one day
Hoot, hoot went the little brown owl
Hoot, hoot went the little brown owl one day
And they all went hoot, hoot, hoot
But...
We know owl goes (clap) la de la de la
La de la de la, la de la de la,
We know owl goes (clap) la de la de la
They don't go hoot, hoot, hoot.

Jump, jump went the little red squirrel one day
Jump, jump went the little red squirrel.
Jump, jump went the little red squirrel one day
And they all went jump, jump, jump.
But...
We know squirrels go rub a dub a dub
Rub a dub a dub, rub a dub a dub
We know squirrels go rub a dub a dub
They don't go jump, jump, jump.

Flannel Board Story: "Leaves are Falling"
from The Mailbox Songs and Rhymes on Parade (PreK), page 6

Leaves are falling,
leaves are falling,
All around
all around.

I can see a (color of leaf),
I can see a (color of leaf)
Falling to the ground.

Big Movement Song (ETM): Hop Old Squirrel

Action Rhyme:  Apple Roll
Credit: Storytime Katie

Five little apples in the bowl
One fell out and started to roll
It bumped the table and hit my feet
How many apples left to eat?
 (keep counting down until you reach 0 apples)

Book:  Nuts to You! by Lois Ehlert

Movement Prop Activity: Parachute

Grand Old Duke of York
Credit: Jbrary
Adapted by N. Lawton for parachute

The Grand Old Duke of York
He had ten thousand men.
He marched them up to the top of the hill (lift the parachute up in the air)
And he marched them down again! (bring the parachute back down to the floor)
And when they're up, they're up. (lift the parachute up in the air)
And when they're down, they're down. (bring the parachute back down to the floor)
And when they're only half-way up, (hold the parachute waist high)
They're neither up nor down! (lift the parachute up in the air and bring  the parachute down again)

Oh he marched them to the left. (bounce parachute up and down)
And he marched them to the right.
Then he marched them round and round
And marched them out of sight. 

Itsy Bitsy Spider

We Wiggle & Wiggle & Stop
Credit: Jbrary
Adapted by N. Lawton for parachute

We wiggle and wiggle and stop
We wiggle and wiggle and stop
We wiggle and wiggle and wiggle and wiggle
and wiggle and wiggle and stop

We go up and down and stop
We go up and down and stop
We go up and down and up and down
​and up and down and stop

Goodbye Song:  We Wave Goodbye Like This
To the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell"
Credit: Storytime Katie

We wave goodbye like this.
We wave goodbye like this.
We clap our hands for all our friends.
We wave goodbye like this.

To the tune of If You’re Happy and You Know It

If You’re happy and you know it shake your bells
If you’re happy and you know it shake your bells
If you’re happy and you know it and you really want to show it
If you’re happy and you know it shake your bells

To the tune of Are You Sleeping?
From The Mailbox Songs & Rhymes on Parade, p. 6

Leaves are falling,
Leaves are falling.

All around,
All around.

I can see a red leaf,
I can see a red leaf.

On the ground,
On the ground.

* Repeat with other fall leaf colors brown, orange, yellow

Knock on the door
Knock, knock, knock
Please come out 
Come out!

Hello pig,
How are you?
Hello pig, 
How are you?

Pig says oink!​

Knock on the door 
Knock, knock, knock
Please come out (have participants echo “come out”)

Hello (insert name of animal), (have participants wave hello to puppet)
How are you?
Hello (insert name of animal),  (have participants wave hello to puppet)
How are you?

(animal name) says (make animal noise)

Bye (animal)  (have participants wave goodbye)

From The Mailbox Songs & Rhymes on Parade, p. 6
To the tune of "Are You Sleeping?"

Leaves are falling,
Leaves are falling.

All around,
All around.

I can see a red leaf,
I can see a red leaf.

On the ground,
On the ground.

From The Richards Institute of Education and Research - Education Through Music program

Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night

I put my hand in
I take my hand out
I give my hand a shake, shake, shake
And then I turn around

Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night

I put my head in
I take my head out
I give my head a shake, shake, shake
And then I turn around

Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night

I put my ear in
I take my ear out
I give my ear a shake, shake, shake
And then I turn around

Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night

I put my whole self in
I take my whole self out
I give my whole self a shake, shake, shake
And then I turn around.

To the tune of "A Hunting We Will Go"
​
We wiggle and wiggle and stop
We wiggle and wiggle and stop
We wiggle and wiggle
And wiggle and wiggle
And wiggle and wiggle and stop

We wave and wave and stop
We wave and wave and stop
We wave and wave
And wave and wave
And wave and wave and stop

*other motions: twirl, toss, swirl, roll

credit The Richards Institute of Education and Research - Education Through Music (ETM) program
​
​Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night

I put my hand in
I take my hand out
I give my hand a shake, shake, shake
And then I turn around

Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night

I put my head in
I take my head out
I give my head a shake, shake, shake
And then I turn around

Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night

I put my ear in
I take my ear out
I give my ear a shake, shake, shake
And then I turn around

Here we go looby loo
Here we go looby light
Here we go looby loo
All on a Saturday night

I put my whole self in
I take my whole self out
I give my whole self a shake, shake, shake
And then I turn around.

​Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow.
Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow.
Nor you or I or anyone knows,
how oats, peas, beans and barley grow.

First, the farmer sows his seed.
Then he stands and takes his ease.
His stamps his foot, and claps his hands,
Then turns around to view the land.

​Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow.
Oats, peas, beans, and barley grow.
Nor you or I or anyone knows,
how oats, peas, beans and barley grow.

From The Mailbox's Songs & Rhymes on Parade, p. 6
To the tune of "Are You Sleeping?"

Leaves are falling,
Leaves are falling.

All around,
All around.

I can see a red leaf,
I can see a red leaf.

On the ground,
On the ground.

From the Mailbox's Songs & Rhymes on Parade, p. 13

On the hill where the corn grows tall,

I see a scarecrow that is made of straw.

When the wind blows, his arms will wiggle.

And then his little legs start to jiggle.

He scares away all the crows on the hill,

And when the wind stops, he holds very still.

performed by Laurie Berkner Band from their The Best of The Laurie Berkner Band album

performed by We Kids Rock! from their Everybody Clap Your Hands album

To introduce the letter of the week, I had a star finger puppet that I greeted all of the kiddos with when they came into the room.  I asked the kids if there was a song that we could sing about the star.  We sang "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."  After we finished singing, I mentioned that the word twinkle begins with the letter T.  Then we talked about different animals and items that start with the letter T (I have pictures that I put up on the flannel board for this part).