Letter S

Letter S- Sharks, soup, snakes, space, spiders, sheep, sun, starfish, snails, skunks, squirrels, squid, sea
2’s and 3’s, 4’s and 5’s

Storytime – Welcome Song with shakers and Storytime is Starting song.

Read first story Five Little Fishes Swimming in the Sea,

The itsy bitsy spider or Three little fish and the big bad shark

Song: There's a Shark 
Oh there’s a shark do do, do do do (Baby shark fingers)
A baby shark do do, do do do (Repeat baby shark fingers)
They live in the ocean do do, do do (Wave like hands)

They eat fish, chomp chomp, chomp, chomp (Chomping hands)
They got a fin, do do, do do do (Fin on forehead)
A dorsal fin, do do, do do do (Repeat fin on forehead)
And that’s the end (clap) do do, do do do

Repeat with MAMA SHARK, DADDY SHARK, GRANDMA SHARK,

 GIANT SHARK. All hand motions are the same except the 

specific ones for baby, mama, daddy, grandma and giant shark. 

The hand motions for them will change.

Nursery Rhyme Flannel boards “There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly” and Itsy Bitsy Spider

Read second story Hide and Sheep, One sheep, blue sheep or Barnyard fun

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 is lonely can’t you see.

Read third story I'm the biggest thing in the ocean or Sneaky sheep

Song: 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: Fish in the Sea (to the Wheels on the Bus)

The fish in the sea go swim, swim, swim, swim, swim, swim, swim, swim, swim

The fish in the sea go swim, swim, swim. All through the Day
The lobsters in the sea go pinch, pinch, pinch, pinch, pinch, pinch, pinch, pinch, pinch
The lobsters in the sea go pinch, pinch, pinch. All through the Day
The octopus in the sea go wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle, wiggle
The octopus in the sea go wiggle, wiggle, wiggle. All through the Day
The crabs in the sea go click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click
The crabs in the sea go click, click, click. All through the Day

Craft- Shark

Materials: paper plate folded in half with the edge cut into jagged teeth, blue construction paper shark shape, googly eyes, markers, glue.

Glue paper plate teeth onto construction paper shark. Glue on googly eyes. Decorate as wanted with markers.

Idea from babble.com