Letter G

Letter G –Geese, Gorilla, Grasshopper, Goat and Giraffe

2’s and 3’s, 4’s and 5’s

Music: Smithsonian Folkways Children's Collection

1.   Storytime – Welcome Song

Storytime is starting, starting, starting.

Storytime is starting, come and listen to me.

2.   Read first story Gumption, Rescue Bunnies, Tall, Let's Count Goats, or Go-Go Gorillas

3.   Action Poem: Grandma's Glasses Fingerplay
These are Grandma's Glasses (make glasses with fingers over eyes)
Here is Grandma's cap (make triangle with hands and put on head)
This is the way she folds her hands (fold hands together)
And puts them in her lap (put hands in lap)
These are Grandma's glasses (make glases with fingers over eyes)
These are grandpa's hat (pretend to pull down a big hat over head)
And this is the way he folds his arms (fold arms over in front of body)
Just like that! (Shake head) 

4.   Nursery Rhymes: Georgy Porgy

Georgy Porgy, pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry.
When the boys came out to play,
Georgy Porgy ran away.

Old Mother Goose

Old Mother Goose, when
She wanted to wander,
Would ride through the air
On a very fine gander.

5.             Read second story Oh, Look!, Silly Little Goose!, That's Not Funny!, or The Goose that Almost Got Cooked

6.          Rhyme: Giraffe
The spotted giraffe is tall as can be, (raise one arm as high as you can),

His lunch is a bunch of leaves off a tree,(nibble with fingers of hand of outstetched arm)

He has a very long neck and his legs are long too,(point to raised arm and legs)

And he can run faster than his friends at the zoo!

7.     Crafts:  Paper Plate Goose

Materials: small paper plate with piece cut out, construction paper beak, feathers, glue, markers.

Glue triangle beak on neck, glue on feathers draw on eye.

Mother Goose idea from www.Librarystorytimeandcrafts.wordpress.com