Letter S

Letter S- Sharks, soup, snakes, space, spiders, sheep, sun, starfish

2’s and 3’s, 4’s and 5’s

Music: Animal Crackers

1.                   Storytime – Welcome Song

Storytime is starting, starting, starting.

Storytime is starting, come and listen to me.

2.                   Read first story Chicken Soup, Harry and Horsie or Shark vs Train

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3.       Nursery Rhyme  Flannelboards  “There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly”

4.                   Read second story Don't Eat the Teacher!, Hide and Snake or Boy Soup

5.                   Fingerplay – Five Little Fishes

Five little fishes (hold up five fingers)

swimming in the sea (one hand to be fish swimming side to side)

teasing Mr. sharkie (hands by head, thumbs in ears, wiggle back and forth)

"can't catch me" (shake index finger)

 along came Mr. sharkie (two hands together prayer style swimming back and forth)

quiet as can be, (hold index finger to lips)  

and  snapped that fishie right out of the sea (clap hands together like a shark's mouth)

 now there's four little fishes swimming in the sea (hold up four fingers)
count down one fish at a time and then at the end of one little fishie swimming in the sea, instead of no more fishes you sing...

"now Mr. shark said I'm full" (rubbing tummy)

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6.                   Read third story Frog in Space or Mouse Count

7.                   Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (Touch parts of body as indicated. Repeat and increase tempo with each verse)

Head, shoulders, knees and toes,

Knees and toes.Knees and toes.

Head, shoulders, knees and toes,

Knees and toes.Knees and toes.

And eyes, and ears, and mouth, And nose.

Fingerplay: I am the Sun

I am sun, shining hot and bright. (arms over head)

When I go to sleep, day turns into night. (rest hands on head)

When I wake up, I stretch and yawn, (stretch and yawn)

And turn the darkness into dawn. (arms over head)

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8.                   Craft- Shark

Materials: Blue construction paper shark shape, small paper plate, scissors, googly eyes, glue markers

Cut zigzag teeth shape around the plate, fold in half, glue to shark shape. Glue on eyes. Colour inside of mouth.

http://almostunschoolers.blogspot.com/2011/03/paper-plate-shark-craft.html