Toddler or Preschool Plans
TALK:
Show them the
cloud cut out and ask what it is? ask them when do we wear are raincoats and
boots what is happening outside when we have them on?
We are going to
read all about clouds and rain today!
***Alternate books and songs**
READ:
Rain By Carol Thompson
Worm Weather By Jean Taft
Rain By Carol Thompson
Worm Weather By Jean Taft
Cloudette By Tom Litchenheld
Little Cloud By Eric Carle
Rain By Linda Ashman
Clouds By Marion Dane Bauer
Tap Tap Boom Boom By Elizabeth Bluemie
Rain By Manyna Stojic
Rabbits and Raindrops By Jim Arnosky
Rain By Linda Ashman
Clouds By Marion Dane Bauer
Tap Tap Boom Boom By Elizabeth Bluemie
Rain By Manyna Stojic
Rabbits and Raindrops By Jim Arnosky
Raindrop Plop By Wendy Lewison
Move Over, Rover! By Karen BeaumontLet it Rain By Maryann Cocoa Leffler
Rain By Marion Dane Bauer
Singing in the Rain By Tim Hopgood
Boom Boom By Sarvinder Nauberhaus
Who Likes Rain By Herbert Wong Yee
Who Likes the Rain By Etta Kaner
Peep and Ducky Rainy Day By David Martin
May I Come In? By Marsha Diane Arnold (2018)
SING: or MUSIC:
(Toddler and
Preschool Group) If your happy and you know it – (clap hands, stomp feet, shout
hooray)
Action Rhyme: “The Rain Is Falling Down”
The rain is falling down (flutter fingers down)
SPLASH! (clap once loudly)
Pitter patter pitter patter (tap legs softly)
The rain is falling down (flutter fingers down)
SPLASH! (clap once loudly)
Pitter patter pitter patter (tap legs softly)
[Repeat until kids are worn out.]
Credit: King County Library System and Storytime Katie
Action Rhyme: “The Rain Is Falling Down”
The rain is falling down (flutter fingers down)
SPLASH! (clap once loudly)
Pitter patter pitter patter (tap legs softly)
The rain is falling down (flutter fingers down)
SPLASH! (clap once loudly)
Pitter patter pitter patter (tap legs softly)
[Repeat until kids are worn out.]
Credit: King County Library System and Storytime Katie
(Toddler and
Preschool Group)# 2 Can’t wait to Celebrate –Blue Jim Gill (irrational anthem
disc)-
- clap our hands,
- stamp feet,
- wave hello,
- bounce up and down,
- clap hands along with the song
(Preschool )# 5 Toe, Leg Knee Song -Green Jim Gill CD
(Toddler Group)
Alphabet Song with the egg shakers
(Toddler Group)
Itsy Bitsy Spider or Twinkle Twinkle little star with egg shakers
(Toddler or
Preschool)#2 Hands are clapping Yellow Jim Gill CD ( Hands are clapping, toes
are tapping, fingers are snaping/wiggling, knees are for slapping, teeth are
brushing, hands are for clapping
( Preschool or
Toddler) #8 Silly Dance Contest Jim Gill Yellow CD use with colorful scarves
(Preschool) NEW
#11 Tickle Toe Song –Toe, knee, nose, jaw, shoe, my hair, arm, neck, stomach
ticking hips, my forehead, tickling my
lips, tickled ankle, knuckles, chin finally heel-- Jim Orange Gill CD
Another Movement activity:use cardstock or laminated clouds if you want to put
them around the room you can taped to the walls for them to find and then count
(only use 10) and they can count on their fingers with you once they
attached them with the tape to the
white a- frame board.
If you want to
sing a song –( tune of ten little Indians)
1 little 2 little
3 little clouds
4 little, 5
little, 6 little clouds
7 little 8 little
9 little clouds
10 little clouds
are floating in the sky! (raise hands
high above head and sway)
TODDLER PLAY:
After about 15-20
minutes of stories and songs then get Parachute & Balls-- again if you do not have a parachute you can use a large flat sheet or tablecloth!
* lift up,
*go under it
*walk in a circle
holding handles
*kids can lay down under it to see if it
touches belly
*have kids help
throw balls on the parachute and shake them up like popcorn.
*Sing:
Ring Around the
Rosie (everyone hold handles and walk in
a circle)
Pocket Full of
Posies
Ashes Ashes we
all Fall down! (pretend to go “down“ kids
and parachute can go down to the ground)
Come under my umbrella (song)
Umbrella, Umbrella
Come under my umbrella
Its starting to rain
With thunder and lighting and wind and rain! Come under my umbrella its starting to rain! (shake and flap parachute over their kids heads and all gather under the parachute together)
Come under my umbrella (song)
Umbrella, Umbrella
Come under my umbrella
Its starting to rain
With thunder and lighting and wind and rain! Come under my umbrella its starting to rain! (shake and flap parachute over their kids heads and all gather under the parachute together)
CRAFT: White cloud template - copy onto card stock to use with whole puncher and yarn for lacing activity.
Use (white clouds
that are hole punched) with the yarn to lace or
Use white paint with blue paper and
the rubber little porcupine rings to make clouds- just rinse the rings in the
sink to get paint off.
Porcupine rings are here
Other great ideas- like using shaving cream on table to make clouds and a printable cloud page template to go with it looked like split milk available through this chalk talk blog site link
