Terrific Twos Storytime- Wiggling Worms

If You’re Ready For a Story

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story wave hello

If you’re ready for a story wave hello

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story wave hello

This Is Big Big Big

This is big big big, this is small small small

This is short short short, this is tall tall tall

This is fast fast fast, this is slow slow slow

This is yes yes yes, this is no no no

ABCs

Open/Shut Them

Open shut them, open shut them

Give a little clap clap clap

Open shut them, open shut them

Put them in your lap lap lap

Creep them crawl them, creep them crawl them

Right up to your chinny chin chin

Open wide your little mouth—but do not let them in!

Ned's New Home by Kevin Tseng

Itsy Bitsy Spider

The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout

Down came the rain and washed the spider out

Out came the sun and dried up all the rain

And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again

The very quiet spider went up the water spout

Down came the rain and washed the spider out

Out came the sun and dried up all the rain

And the very quiet spider went up the spout again

The great big spider went up the water spout

Down came the rain and washed the spider out

Out came the sun and dried up all the rain

And the great big spider went up the spout again

One Little, Two Little, Three Little Earthworms

One little, twoo little, three little earthworms

Four little, five little, six little earthworms

Seven little, eight little, nine little earthworms

Digging in the dirt

Worms for Lunch? by Leonid Gore

Did You Ever See an Earthworm?

Did you ever see an earthworm, an earthworm, and earthworm

Did you ever see an earthworm who wiggles like this?

Wiggle this way and that way and this way and that way

Did you ever see an earthworm who wiggles like this?

Walter the Waltzing Worm

from Hap Palmer's CD Walter the Waltzing Worm

Bubbles in the Air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles in the air, there are bubbles in the air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way up high, way up high in the sky

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

There are bubbles way down low, and they tickle on your toes

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

Bubbles

Goodbye Song

Storytime is over now, over now, over now

Storytime is over now—see you next time!

Big Kids Storytime- Wiggling Worms

Hello Friends

Hello friends, hello friends

Hello friends- it's time to say hello!

Letter of the Week: W

The letter of the week is w w w, w w w, w w w

The letter of the week is w w w and it makes the sound wuh

Words we thought of: worm, week, with

ABCs

Diary of a Worm by Doreen Croin

Itsy Bitsy Spider

The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout

Down came the rain and washed the spider out

Out came the sun and dried up all the rain

And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again

The very quiet spider went up the water spout

Down came the rain and washed the spider out

Out came the sun and dried up all the rain

And the very quiet spider went up the spout again

The great big spider went up the water spout

Down came the rain and washed the spider out

Out came the sun and dried up all the rain

And the great big spider went up the spout again

One Little, Two Little, Three Little Earthworms

One little, two little, three little earthworms

Four little, five little, six little earthworms

Seven little, eight little, nine little earthworms

Digging in the dirt

Ned's New Home by Kevin Tseng

Did You Ever See an Earthworm?

Did you ever see an earthworm, an earthworm, and earthworm

Did you ever see an earthworm who wiggles like this?

Wiggle this way and that way and this way and that way

Did you ever see an earthworm who wiggles like this?

Walter the Waltzing Worm

from Hap Palmer's CD Walter the Waltzing Worm

Worm Race

I had a whole grand plan to go outside and look for worms in our reading garden, but it turns out that there are no rocks in our garden! We would have had to dig up all the mulch to search for worms, and something made me think that would be frowned upon. So instead, we had an indoor worm race which ended up being a ton of fun anyway- everyone got down on their bellies and raced across the room like worms. The fastest wiggler won a box of gummy worms!

Goodbye Friends

Goodbye friends, goodbye friends

Goodbye friends- it's time to say goodbye!

Lap Sit Week of 4/24/2017

If You’re Ready For a Story

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story wave hello

If you’re ready for a story wave hello

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story wave hello

This Is Big Big Big

This is big big big, this is small small small

This is short short short, this is tall tall tall

This is fast fast fast, this is slow slow slow

This is yes yes yes, this is no no no

ABCs

Open/Shut Them

Open shut them, open shut them

Give a little clap clap clap

Open shut them, open shut them

Put them in your lap lap lap

Creep them crawl them, creep them crawl them

Right up to your chinny chin chin

Open wide your little mouth—but do not let them in!

Peek-a Who? by Nina Laden

Our Little Baby

*Found as "Mama's Little Baby" on Jbrary's youtube channel. I switched it because I have a pretty diverse storytime group and the adults who come have many different relationships to their baby attendees. I found that any word (grandpa, auntie, etc.) works just as well.

Our little baby loves dancing, dancing

Our little baby loves to turn around

Our little baby loves dancing, dancing

Our little baby loves to boogy down

Lean to the left, lean to the right

Hug that baby nice and tight

Itsy Bitsy Spider

The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout

Down came the rain and washed the spider out

Out came the sun and dried up all the rain

And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again

Hippopotamus on a City Bus

A hip, a hip, a hippopotamus

Got on, got on, got on a city bus

And all, and all, and all the people said

You're squishing us!

A cow, a cow, a cow got on the bus

And all, and all, and all the people said

Mooove over!

A sheep, a sheep, a sheep got on the bus

And all, and all, and all the people said

Move baaaack!

Toast Is In the Toaster

The toast is in the toaster, it’s getting very hot

Tick tock, tick tock—pop, pop, pop!

Lift One Foot

Lift one foot and then the other

Lift one foot and then the other

Lift one foot and then the other

Lift them both together

Lift one arm and then the other

Lift one arm and then the other

Lift one arm and then the other

Lift them both together

Bounce Our Babies

We bounce and bounce and bounce and stop

We bounce and bounce and bounce and stop

We bounce and bounce and bounce and stop

We bounce our babies to the top!

We rock and rock and rock and stop

We rock and rock and rock and stop

We rock and rock and rock and stop

We rock our babies to the top

We tickle and tickle and tickle and stop

We tickle and tickle and tickle and stop

We tickle and tickle and tickle and stop

We tickle our babies to the top

Bubbles in the Air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles in the air, there are bubbles in the air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way up high, way up high in the sky

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

There are bubbles way down low, and they tickle on your toes

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

Bubbles

Goodbye Song

Storytime is over now, over now, over now

Storytime is over now—see you next time!

Terrific Twos Storytime- Wild Animals

If You’re Ready For a Story

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story wave hello

If you’re ready for a story wave hello

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story wave hello

This Is Big Big Big

This is big big big, this is small small small

This is short short short, this is tall tall tall

This is fast fast fast, this is slow slow slow

This is yes yes yes, this is no no no

ABCs

Open/Shut Them

Open shut them, open shut them

Give a little clap clap clap

Open shut them, open shut them

Put them in your lap lap lap

Creep them crawl them, creep them crawl them

Right up to your chinny chin chin

Open wide your little mouth—but do not let them in!

I Dream of an Elephant by Ami Rubinger

Hippopotamus on a City Bus

(from Jbrary)

A hip, a hip, a hippopotamus

Got on, got on, got on a city bus

And all, and all, and all the people said

You're squishing us!

A cow, a cow, a cow got on the bus

And all, and all, and all the people said

Mooooove over!

A sheep, a sheep, a sheep got on the bus

And all, and all, and all the people said move baaaaack!

Seals on the Bus

The seals on the bus go arp arp arp, arp arp arp, arp arp arp

The seals on the bus go arp arp arp, all day long

The snakes on the bus go hiss hiss hiss, hiss hiss hiss, hiss hiss hiss

The snakes on the bus go hiss hiss hiss, all day long

The lion on the bus goes roar roar roar, roar roar roar, roar roar roar

The lion on the bus goes roar roar roar, all day long

Hands Up High

Put your hands up high, put your hands down low

Put your hands in the middle and wave them just so

Put y our elbows in the front, put your elbows in the back

Put your elbows to the side and quack quack quack!

Bark, George! by Jules Feiffer

Frogs, Frogs, Where are You Going?

Frogs, frogs where are you going?

We're going to town, to town

If they catch you what will they do?

They'll turn us all into [insert animal]!

(repeat with as many animals as you'd like)

My Little Rowboat

My little rowboat rowing round and round

Rowed past a little duck and it made this silly sound- quack quack!

(Repeat with as many other animals as you'd like.)

Bubbles 

Goodbye Song

Storytime is over now, over now, over now

Storytime is over now- see you next time!

Big Kids Storytime- Wild Animals

Hello Friends

Hello friends, hello friends

Hello friends- it's time to say hello!

Letter of the Week: E

The letter of the week is e e e, e e e, e e e

The letter of the week is e e e and it makes the sound ehhh

Words we thought of: Easter, egg, elephant, empty (and a whole bunch of made up phrases that started with egg like "egg robot")

ABCs

That's Not a Hippopotamus! by Juliette MacIver

*This was a huge hit. This Big Kids group is super observant and noticed the hiding hippo right away!

Hippopotamus on a City Bus

(from Jbrary)

A hip, a hip, a hippopotamus

Got on, got on, got on a city bus

And all, and all, and all the people said

You're squishing us!

A cow, a cow, a cow got on the bus

And all, and all, and all the people said

Mooooove over!

A sheep, a sheep, a sheep got on the bus

And all, and all, and all the people said move baaaaack!

Seals on the Bus

The seals on the bus go arp arp arp, arp arp arp, arp arp arp

The seals on the bus go arp arp arp, all day long

The snakes on the bus go hiss hiss hiss, hiss hiss hiss, hiss hiss hiss

The snakes on the bus go hiss hiss hiss, all day long

The lion on the bus goes roar roar roar, roar roar roar, roar roar roar

The lion on the bus goes roar roar roar, all day long

*we were going to end here but we ended up adding the wolves on the bus and the foxes on the bus...this was a common theme throughout storytime

I Dream of an Elephant by Ami Rubinger

Frogs, Frogs, Where are You Going?

Frogs, frogs where are you going?

We're going to town, to town

If they catch you what will they do?

They'll turn us all into [insert animal]!

*It felt like we did this chant ten times- kids kept coming up with animals! We also still had rhyming on the brain from reading I Dream of an Elephant, so we also talked about turning into stew. We decided that wasn't possible and turned back into people at the end.

My Little Rowboat

My little rowboat rowing round and round

Rowed past a little duck and it made this silly sound- quack quack!

(Repeat with as many other animals as you'd like. We added lions, foxes, and wolves.)

Is Your Mama a Llama? by Deborah Guarino

Goodbye Friends

Goodbye friends, goodbye friends

Goodbye friends- it's time to say goodbye!

Lap Sit Storytime Week of 4/17/2017

If You’re Ready For a Story

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story wave hello

If you’re ready for a story wave hello

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story wave hello

This Is Big Big Big

This is big big big, this is small small small

This is short short short, this is tall tall tall

This is fast fast fast, this is slow slow slow

This is yes yes yes, this is no no no

ABCs

Open/Shut Them

Open shut them, open shut them

Give a little clap clap clap

Open shut them, open shut them

Put them in your lap lap lap

Creep them crawl them, creep them crawl them

Right up to your chinny chin chin

Open wide your little mouth—but do not let them in!

I Kissed the Baby by Mary Murphy

Three Little Monkeys

Three little monkeys jumping on the bed

One fell off and bumped his head

Momma called the doctor and the doctor said

No more monkeys jumping on the bed!

Two little monkeys jumping on the bed

One fell off and bumped his head

Momma called the doctor and the doctor said

No more monkeys jumping on the bed!

One little monkey jumping on the bed

One fell off and bumped his head

Momma called the doctor and the doctor said

No more monkeys jumping on the bed!

Bouncing, Bouncing

Bouncing, bouncing, baby on my knee

Bouncing, bouncing 1 2 3

Rocking, rocking baby on my knee

Rocking, rocking 1 2 3

Clapping, clapping, baby on my knee

Clapping, clapping 1 2 3

Ride, Baby Ride

Ride, baby, ride ch ch ch ch ch ch

Ride that horsey ride ch ch ch ch ch ch

Ride, baby, ride ch ch ch ch ch ch

Ride that horsey ride ch ch ch ch ch ch

(repeat quietly, loudly, quickly, etc.)

Slowly, Slowly

Slowly, slowly very slowly creeps the garden snail

Slowly, slowly very slowly up the garden rail

Quickly, quickly very quickly runs the little mouse

Quickly, quickly very quickly to his little house

Popcorn Kernels + Scarves

Popcorn kernels, popcorn kernels

In the pot, in the pot

Shake them shake them shake them, shake them shake them, shake them

‘Til they pop! “Til they pop!

I Have a Little Ladybug + Scarves

I have a little ladybug, ladybug, ladybug

I have a little ladybug—its wings are black and red

See the little ladybug, ladybug, ladybug

See the little ladybug, flying here and there

Now it’s landing on the ground, on the ground, on the ground

Now it’s landing on the ground—and crawling everywhere!

Bubbles in the Air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles in the air, there are bubbles in the air

There are bubbles in the air, in the air

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way up high, way up high in the sky

There are bubbles way up high, way up high

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

There are bubbles way down low, and they tickle on your toes

There are bubbles way down low, way down low

Bubbles

Goodbye Song

Storytime is over now, over now, over now

Storytime is over now—see you next time!

Terrific Twos Storytime- Community Helpers

If You’re Ready For a Story

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story clap your hands (clap clap)

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story stomp your feet (stomp stomp)

If you’re ready for a story wave hello

If you’re ready for a story wave hello

If you’re ready for a story, if you’re ready for a story

If you’re ready for a story wave hello

This Is Big Big Big

This is big big big, this is small small small

This is short short short, this is tall tall tall

This is fast fast fast, this is slow slow slow

This is yes yes yes, this is no no no

ABCs

Open/Shut Them

Open shut them, open shut them

Give a little clap clap clap

Open shut them, open shut them

Put them in your lap lap lap

Creep them crawl them, creep them crawl them

Right up to your chinny chin chin

Open wide your little mouth—but do not let them in!

Kitty Cat, Kitty Cat felt game

*I don't have a photo of this game, but a coworker of mine made several felt hats (cowboy, police, chef, fire fighter, etc.) and I hid a small felt cat under one. We then tried to find which hat the cat was wearing/which job she was doing à la "Little Mouse, Little Mouse"

Kitty cat, kitty cat

Are you under the [cowboy] hat?

Stop Says the Red Light

Stop says the red light

Go says the green

Wait just a minute now says yellow in between

(learned from Jbrary's YouTube page)

Red Light/Green Light

*I made a paper traffic light and we played "red light, green light". It was too muddy to play outside, so we ran in place and froze for red lights and ran in slow motion for yellow. It was still lots of fun.

Clothesline Clues to Jobs People Do by Kathryn Heling and Deborah Hembrook

Police Officer, Police Officer, Who Do You See?

*Also no picture for this one, but I used some clipart of different community helpers I found online and one by one we guessed who each one was.

Police officer, police officer, who do you see?

I see a firefighter looking at me!

Firefighter, firefighter, who do you see?

I see a chef looking at me!

And so on until the helpers were gone

Have You Ever Seen a Firetruck?

*each child got a differently colored firetruck and brought it up when their color was called

Have you ever seen a firetruck, a firetruck, a firetruck?

Have you ever seen a firetruck with colors like these?

Kitten Red Yellow Blue by Peter Catalanotto

Bubbles

Goodbye Song

Storytime is over now, over now, over now

Storytime is over now—see you next time!

*We didn't quite make it to every book and activity this week, but in case they're helpful, I've included everything that was planned