Little Mouse
Action Rhyme: "Bubbly, Bubbly Bubble Bath"
Bubbly, bubbly bubble bath
[wiggle fingers]
Filled to the top
[raise fingers overhead, still wiggling]
Listen to the bubbly bubbles [cup hand to ear]
Pop! Pop! Pop!
[clap loudly three times]
Book: A Scrub in the Tub [if audience skews older] by Jan Thomas
--"I wonder what those green lines and miasma coming off pig represent?" (stench)
--Let's all say ab-so-lute-ly together every time (give weasel a high voice)
Stretch: I'm Very Very Tall
Stretch: I'm Very Very Tall
Song: Dance, Freeze, Melt
Action Rhyme: Two little Blackbirds, or Three Little Pigs Rolled in the Mud
Book: Grumpy Pants OR (if longer than GP would work)
Time for a Bath (Yun Feng)--narrative about a pig that demonstrates how different animals bathe--clip some pages
Scarves: Soap Soap, then Hap Palmer's "Slow and Fast"
Book (if time): Splish! Splash! Animal Baths by April Pulley Sayre (nonfiction)
[Segue: "Do animals really take baths in the bathtub?" Plug nonfiction as vocab-rich to caregivers. "You can choose to read just a few pages--as I will today--or even just talk about the pictures together." Read horse, bear, chimpanzee, shrimp and moray eel pages--ask on shrimp page: "What do you think is about to happen?"]
Book: King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Rosemary Wood
[In addition to chanting refrain together, print out HELP! HELP! in large letters. Let group know that when I point to those words, I need them to help me read them. Sound the word out together and ask if anyone knows what the exclamation point is and means ("Is this a letter in the alphabet? What is it?" On the first page, which shows the page struggling to carry a barrel, ask kids what might be in the barrel, given the title of the book.]
Closing Song: Laurie Berkner's "These Are My Glasses" a cappella. "Today, everything we find in our book will begin with "B". Possibles before opening to kids for suggestions: Buffalo! Baby! ("Let’s close it quietly. Baby’s napping"). Butterfly.
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Alternatives to Swap In:
Action Song "We’re Rocking in the Tub"
Book (if time): Splish! Splash! Animal Baths by April Pulley Sayre (nonfiction)
[Segue: "Do animals really take baths in the bathtub?" Plug nonfiction as vocab-rich to caregivers. "You can choose to read just a few pages--as I will today--or even just talk about the pictures together." Read horse, bear, chimpanzee, shrimp and moray eel pages--ask on shrimp page: "What do you think is about to happen?"]
Book: King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Rosemary Wood
[In addition to chanting refrain together, print out HELP! HELP! in large letters. Let group know that when I point to those words, I need them to help me read them. Sound the word out together and ask if anyone knows what the exclamation point is and means ("Is this a letter in the alphabet? What is it?" On the first page, which shows the page struggling to carry a barrel, ask kids what might be in the barrel, given the title of the book.]
Closing Song: Laurie Berkner's "These Are My Glasses" a cappella. "Today, everything we find in our book will begin with "B". Possibles before opening to kids for suggestions: Buffalo! Baby! ("Let’s close it quietly. Baby’s napping"). Butterfly.
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Alternatives to Swap In:
Action Song "We’re Rocking in the Tub"
We’re rocking in the tub!
We’re rocking in the tub!
Oh, have you seen
how we get clean?
We’re rocking in the tub!
We’re bouncing in the tub…
We’re wiggling in the tub…
We’re stretching in the tub…
We’re clean as we can be,
We’re clean as we can be,
Let’s wave goodbye
and go get dry--
We’re clean as we can be.
