K is for Kisses: Storytime Plan

Opening Song: "If You're Happy and You Know It" [standing up] with whispered added verse "If it's storytime and you know it, say Shhhh..."

Letter of the Day

Action Rhyme: "Kinds of Kisses"
Fish kisses [purse lips]
Movie-star kisses [blow a big mwah!]
Rabbit kisses [wiggle nose]
Puppy kisses [lick lick lick]

Book: Good Night, Good Knight by Shelley Moore Thomas

Action Rhyme, standing: "Can You Kiss?"
Can you kiss your knee? 
Can you kiss your toes?
Can you kiss your shoulder?
Can you kiss your nose? [make goofy face trying to kiss your own nose]
Blow a kiss to your grown-up.
Blow a kiss to all our friends [blow an extra dramatic kiss that encompasses whole room]
Blow a kiss to the sky,
and that's how this rhyme ends.

Song: Dance, Freeze, Melt by The Learning Groove from their album Rockin' Red

Song a cappella: "The Itsy Bitsy Monkey"
The Itsy Bitsy Monkey
climbed up the coconut tree.
Down came a coconut
that bopped him on the knee [OUCH!--bop fist on knee]
Along came his grownup to kiss away the pain [SMOOCH! --kissing your knee]
and the Itsy Bitsy Monkey 
climbed up the tree again.

Book [standing] : Kiss Kiss! by Margaret Wild and Bridget Strevens-Marzo 
[NOTE: ask kids to repeat "Kiss" after I say it--I'll be the grown animal, they'll be the child animal. Ask kids to name animals as we go]

Song: "A Little Bit Up" by Michael and Jello ["I have two lips and I can blow a kiss..."]

Book: Dinosaur Kisses by David Ezra Stein

Closing Song: Laurie Berkner's "These Are My Glasses" a cappella. "Today, everything we find in our book will begin with "K". Possibles before opening to kids for suggestions: Kangaroo! [bounce, bounce, bounce] King Kong! Kitten! [ohh! Let's pet it!]-------------------------------------------------------------

Alternates to swap in:

Book: Bark, George! by Jules Feiffer [for second book, instead of Kiss, Kiss]

Book: Snog the Frog by Tony Bonning

The Elephants at the Zoo (tune: "Farmer in the Dell")

From Kendra:

The elephants at the zoo
The elephants at the zoo
They stomp and stomp and stomp and stomp,
the elephants at the zoo

Giraffes...stretch
Monkeys...jump
Lions...roar

(Possibly end with "People...look" wearing glasses formed with hands)


Other ideas:
The cement mixers on the road (site?)
the cement mixers on the road
They mix and mix and mix and mix
the cement mixers on the road

At the Zoo

(to the tune of "She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain")

You can hear lions roaring at the zoo (ROAR! ROAR!);

You can hear lions roaring at the zoo (ROAR! ROAR!);

You can hear lions roaring, you can hear lions roaring,

You can hear lions roaring at the zoo! (ROAR! ROAR!)

You can hear snakes hissing at the zoo, SSSS! SSSS!

You can hear bears growling at the zoo (GROWL! GROWL!)

You can hear monkeys chattering at the zoo, (hoo-hoo-ha-ha)

Others: ask kids for possibilities

Option: Have adults sing melody, kids make animal noises, and vice versa