Letter G

Letter G –Geese, gorillas, grasshoppers, goats, grandmas, giants, gardens, grapes, gum, glasses, guitars, grass and giraffes

Storytime – Welcome Song and Storytime is Starting song.

Read first story Ghost in the House, We're going on a ghost hunt or There's no such thing as ghosts!

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) 

Song: Grand Old Duke of York

Oh, the Grand Old Duke of York, (march in place) He had ten thousand men.
He marched them up to the top of the hill, ( reach arms up high) And he marched them down again. (lower arms)
And when they were up, they were up. (reach arms up high) And when they were down, they were down. (lower arms)
And when they were only half way up, (hold arms at waist height) They were neither up nor down. (reach up and down again)

Additional Verse:
Oh he marched them to the left.  And he marched them to the right.
Then he marched them round and round
And marched them out of sight.

 

Fingerplay: Five Big Giants

Five big giants stomping on the ground

Five grouchy giants pushing trees down.

One got hungry and went to find food.

How many giants were in a bad mood?        (count down to five)

One big giant stomping on the ground

One grouchy giant pushing trees down.

He got hungry and went to find food.

How many giants were in a bad mood?

 

Read second story Oh dear, Geoffrey, Little Beauty

Fingerplay: ONE LITTLE GHOST

One little ghost flew down the street. (Wave hand through the air.)

"I wonder," he said, "what I will meet-- (Place finger to temple, thinking.)

One hairy spider, (Hold up one finger, then move hand like spider.)

Two black cats, (Hold up two fingers, then put two fingers from each hand on head for cat ears.)

Three wild witches with pointy hats, (Hold up three fingers, then place fingertips of hands together to form hat.)

Four old owls in a hollow tree, (Hold up four fingers, then form an oval with both hands for eyes to look through.)

And five brother bats to fly with me! (Hold up five fingers, then hook thumbs of both hands together and flap fingers for bat wings.)

Read third book Let's count goats, Little Goblins ten

Song: The Haunted House (Tune of "Wheels on the Bus")

The ghost in the house goes "Boo! Boo! Boo!"

"Boo! Boo! Boo!, Boo! Boo! Boo!"

The ghost in the house goes "Boo! Boo! Boo!"

On Halloween.

The steps in the house goes "Creek, creek, creek..."

The cats in the house go "Meow, meow, meow..."

The mice in the house go "Squeak, squeak, squeak.."

The people in the house go "Eek, eek, eek..."

Crafts:  Paper Plate Ghost

Materials: paper plates, markers, scissors, hole punch, ribbon.

Draw spiral from outside of plate going in to the center, leave small blank circle in the center. Have children cut on the line. Draw face in the middle. Hole punch and string ribbon.

Idea from happenstanced.com