Eat it up, Yum!

OPENING STRETCH
Hello toes. Goodbye toes.
My toes are feeling shy today.
And now they're feeling better!

Repeat with elbows and hands. This is a fun rhyme for getting up on the right side of the bed. Try saying hello to your tongue or your eyebrows.

OPENING RHYMES
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Hey diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle.
Open them, shut them.

Who ate all the cookie dough? By Karen Beaumont

Patty cake, patty cake baker's man.
Bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Roll it. Pat it. Mark it with a "B".
And put it in the oven for baby and me.

LITERACY TIP: This is a fun rhyme to practice letter knowledge. Use the first letter in your child's name or people in your family. In storytime today, we made a cake for rabbit and marked it with an "R". What is rabbit's favorite kind of cake? Carrot cake, of course!

Letter of the Day: B-I-G

The world is full of big and small.
The world is full of up and down.
The world is full of dark and light.
The world, it keeps a-going round.

The frog with the big mouth By Teresa Bateman
Literacy Tip: Read books with a variety of words and animals. Children need to know what words mean before they are able to read them.

SONG
Mmm, mmm went the little green frog one day.
See Week 1 for the rest of the lyrics.

STORYTELLING Enormous Potato
Based on a book like "The Enormous Potato" By Aubrey Davis or "The Gigantic Turnip" by Aleksei Tolstoy. Retelling favorite stories helps build your child's narrative skills. It's also a lot of fun!

MOVEMENT RHYMES
See week one for lyrics.
Hickory Dickory Dock
I have a little pony, her name is Dappley Grey.
The grand old Duke of York

QUIETING RHYMES
Tall as a tree. Wide as a house.
This as a pin. And small as a mouse.

Hands up high. Hands down low.
Hide your hands. Where did they go?
Out comes one. Out comes two.
Clap them. Fold them.
Now we're through.

Up, down, and around By Katherine Ayres

GOODBYE SONGS
See you later, alligator. After awhile, crocodile.
See you soon, little baboon.
Bye, bye butterfly. I'm out the door, dinosaur.

Make new friends, and keep the old.
One is silver, and the other's gold.
A circle is round. It has no end.
That's how long I want to be your friend.