September 2nd: Chickens at Baby Time
September is National Chicken Month, so this week our Baby Time theme was Chickens!
Here are the songs and rhymes we used:
Chicken Songs and Rhymes:
This is the Way We Flap Our Wings
Tune: Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
This is the way we flap our wings
Flap our wings, flap our wings
This is the way we flap our wings
So early in the morning.
Hop around … shake our feathers …
Snuggle with mom/dad/nana
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Ten Fluffy Chicks
http://www.kididdles.com/lyrics/t057.html
Five eggs and five eggs
That makes ten.
Sitting on top
is the mother hen.
Crackle, crackle, crackle,
What do I see?
Ten fluffy chicks
as yellow as can be.
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Did You Ever See a Chickie?
Tune: Did You Ever See A Lassie
Did you ever see a chickie, a chickie, a chickie
Did you ever see a chickie hop this way and that?
Hop this way and that way
And this way and that way
Did you ever see a chickie
fly this way and that?
Scratch (tickle) – Peck (kiss)
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Hug Your Little Chickie
Tune: Skip to my Lou
Hug your little chickie and
give ‘em a peck
Hug your little chickie and
give ‘em a peck
Hug your little chickie and
give ‘em a peck
Kiss on the cheek
and head and neck.
Kiss your little chickie and
give ‘em a squeeze
Kiss your little chickie and
give ‘em a squeeze
Kiss your little chickie and
give ‘em a squeeze
Kiss on the hands
and toes and knees.
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Beginning songs:
We Clap and Sing Hello
We clap and sing hello,
We clap and sing hello,
With our friends
at story time,
We clap and sing hello!
*Hug *Kiss *Tickle
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Hello Hello
Hello hello
Can you clap your hands?
Hello hello
Can you clap your hands?
Can you stretch up high?
Can you touch your toes?
Can you give a kiss?
Can you say hello?
Hello hello
Can you stamp your feet?
Hello hello
Can you stamp your feet?
Can you stretch up high?
Can you touch your toes?
Can give a kiss?
Can you say hello?
Hello hello
Can you clap your hands?
Hello hello
Can you stamp your feet?
Can you stretch up high?
Can you touch your toes?
Can you give a kiss?
Can you say hello?
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Up and Down in My Little Red Wagon
Adapted from: http://www.ala.org/alsc/issuesadv/borntoread/babyrhymesgames
Up and down in my little red wagon
Up and down in my little red wagon
Up and down in my little red wagon… Going to Storytime
Lost my wheel and the axel’s draggin’
Lost my wheel and the axel’s draggin’
Lost my wheel and the axel’s draggin’… Going to Storytime
Hammer the wheel back on the wagon
Hammer the wheel back on the wagon
Hammer the wheel back on the wagon… Going to Storytime
Up and down in my little red wagon
Up and down in my little red wagon
Up and down in my little red wagon… Going to Storytime
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Ending Songs:
Elevator Song
Tune: Do Your Ears Hang Low?
Oh, the city is great and the city is grand
There are lots of tall buildings
On a little piece of land
We live way up on the fifty-seventh floor
And this is what we do
When we go out the door!
Take the elevator up, take the elevator down (3 x)
Then we turn around!
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Where is Baby?
Where is Baby? …. Peekaboo
Where is Baby? …. Peekaboo
Peek-a-boo peek-a-boo I see you!
Peek-a-boo peek-a-boo I see you!
Peek-a-boo peek-a-boo
toodle-loo coochie coo
Peek-a-boo peek-a-boo
I see you!
Peek-a-boo!
Where is Baby? …. Peekaboo
Where is Baby? …. Peekaboo
Peek-a-boo peek-a-boo I love you!
Peek-a-boo peek-a-boo I love you!
Peek-a-boo peek-a-boo
toodle-loo coochie coo
Peek-a-boo peek-a-boo
I love you!
Peek-a-boo!
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Goodbye Song
Oh it’s time to say goodbye to our friends (clapclap)
It’s time to say goodbye to our friends (clapclap)
Storytime is done today (wave goodbye)
So come again another day
It’s time to say goodbye to our friends (clapclap)
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The books we read today were Good Egg and Chick.