Book: Duck Soup by Jackie Urbanovic
Now,
pretend you have a big SOUP pot in front of you. Let’s SLOWLY
STIR the SOUP…then SPEEDILY STIR the
SOUP!
Let’s SEASON the SOUP
with SPICES and maybe a little SALT. After the SOUP SIMMERS for a while,
let’s SLURP the SOUP.
Song: “Dance, Freeze, Melt” by the Learning Groove or “I Feel Crazy So I
Jump in the Soup” by Laurie Berkner
Book: Is That WISE, Pig? by Jan Thomas
Activity: “S Soup” (bring in soup pot and possible
ingredients—strawberry, snake, salt, sandwich, as well as some that don’t begin
with S--say "This is S soup, so we can only put things in our soup that begin with S," ask for each item)
Book: Soup for One by
Ethan Long
Song with Scarves: ("Scarf starts with S!")
Pretend scarves are
washcloths and sing “Soap” by Bob McGrath—then do “Soup, Soup, don’t want to
wash my nose with soup, soup”
Song with Scarves: "Freeze Dance" by Hap Palmer
Closing Song: Laurie Berkner's "These Are My Glasses" a cappella. "Today, everything we find in our book will begin with "S. Possibles before opening to kids for suggestions: Superhero! Snake! Sasquatch!