What's New III - A Storytime Outline

This post is kinda old, peeps, but it's a good one!

BOOKS
Orangutangled written by Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen and illus. by Aaron Zenz 
The world "organutangled" is quite a tongue-twister for me, but it worked out. The children were great in trying to explain why all the animals got tangled together. 

Ding Dong! Gorilla! written by Michelle Robinson and illus. by Leonie Lord
Quite a silly book. 

How to Wash a Woolly Mammoth written by Michelle Robinson and illus. by Kate Hindley
This was a must read because it inspired my craft. 

Ninja, Ninja, Never Stop written by Todd Tuell and illus. by Tad Carpenter
The children insisted on reading this one. They LOVE ninjas! 

SONGS & RHYMES
Open, Shut Them
follow actions
Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Give a little clap
Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Lay them in your lap
Creep them, creep them up to your chin
Open your mouth wide, but don't put your fingers in!
Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Give a big clap
Open, shut them
Open, shut them
Lay them in your lap.

Bananas Unite
Watch the video linked before for the actions! 
Banana Unite!
Peel, bananas, peel, peel, bananas,
Peel, bananas, peel, peel, bananas

Chop, bananas, chop, chop, bananas,
Chop, bananas, chop, chop, bananas,

Mash, bananas, mash, mash, bananas,
Mash, bananas, mash, mash, bananas,

Eat, bananas, eat, eat, bananas,
Eat, bananas, eat, eat, bananas,

Go, bananas, go, go, bananas,
Go, bananas, go, go, bananas,
Source: Jbrary 
Note: For this group, I went over the actions, and made sure they knew what to do with going bananas. We did three time, each time a little faster. The group LOVES going extremely fast!

Ninja, Ninja 
Ninja, ninja turn around.
Ninja, ninja touch the ground.
Ninja, ninja roll on the ground. 
Ninja, ninja sneak around.
Ninja, ninja touch the sky.
Ninja, ninja jump own low (strike your ninja pose!)
Ninja, ninja touch your toes.
Inspired by source: Preschool Express via What Happens in Storytime

Little Ninja, Little Ninja 
Little nnja, little ninja,
Are you behind the [color] house?
Source: Me... a piggyback of "Little Mouse, Little Mouse" 
 
Touch Your Nose

follow actions

Touch your nose

Touch your chin

That's the way this game begins

Touch your eyes

Touch your knees

Now pretend you're going to sneeze!

Aaachooooo!

Touch your hair

Touch one ear

Touch your two red lips right here

Touch your elbow where it bends

And that's the way this touch game ends. 

FLANNEL BOARD

Little Ninja, Little Ninja
We did this little rhyme after everyone had finished their craft. They love it!

CRAFT
Woolly Mammoth 
I saw this craft online and really wanted to do it. Even though it cost $1.70 to get a small pouch of wool roving at the local craft store, I could not figure out what to do with the leftovers (especially since I tend to have such a small attendance). Even though I still wished I had bought it, I am really happy with the idea of using brown yarn instead. To make the mammoths extra fuzzy feeling I had the children pull the strands of yarn apart and glue them to our mammoth image, which I found here. The children loved it. Plus, it ended up being a very good practice in fine motor skills and provided texture for the children to play with it!

PICTURE

Source of the book images found here, here, here, and here.