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The following four programs are a few that I have used. They are rough outlines only, meant to give a general sense of the kinds of organization that worked well for the
audience. I have not completely annotated the resources I used, but I believe these will be useful to first-time babies' lap time programmers to give a sense of structure, including the order of elements and the
variety of activities that are available. Program One: Counting and Food Open them, shut them (hand gestures) Five little monkeys (with monkey mitt and flannelboard)
This old man (tape--get tape recorder) One, two, buckle my shoe (with clapping) Ten Rosy Roses (read from book) Five plump peas (hand gestures) Pease Porridge Hot (clapping Chicken Lips (tape)
I eat my peas with honey (eating gestures) Here is a doughnut (hand gestures) Where is thumbkins (hand gestures) If you're happy and you know it (do what the song says) Zip-a-dee-doo-dah (optional, on tape,
clap through first part then turn down for exit music)
Program Two: Colors and RainBook: Puddles by Jonathan London (as people get settled) Open them, Shut them (hand play)
Itsy Bitsy Spider (first singing with group, then with tape) Here is the Beehive (finger play) Book: Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Where is Thumbkins? (hand play and song)
Noble Duke of York (hand play and song) Book: Color Dance by Ann Jonas (show a few pictures of kids dancing with scarves) Pretty and Shiny-o (by Woody Guthrie, on tape--used scarves to do cleaning
motions) Hush Little Baby (tape) Pat-a-cake (tape) Sleepy Fingers (finger play) Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (sung by Louis Armstrong, on tape)
Program Three: Animals and Weather
Mushroom in the Rain (read as people are getting settled) Open Them, Shut Them There was a little turtle (do 2X and teach people motions. Point out handouts.) Pat-A-Cake (first with group, then with TAPE)
It's Raining, It's Pouring (do gestures of rain, snoring, bump, not getting up w/TAPE) Rain on the Rooftops (say with gestures: rooftop, tree, green grass, not on me) Over In the Meadow (read book)
I had a Rooster (TAPE--flannel animals? Or just make noises?) Here is the Beehive (hand game) Flight of the Bumblebee (TAPE) Itsy Bitsy Spider (first with group, then with TAPE) 5 Little Ducks (start
with 5 flannelboard ducks, take down/put up with TAPE and don't forget gestures: number, hill, faraway, quack with hand) Ducks Like Rain (tape)
"Paddle" said the swan (read book, if time and attention) Zip a Dee Doo Dah (tape 2x)
Program Four: Transportation and the Alphabet
Howdy Doo (TAPE--hand shaking motions as people come in) Open them, shut them Where is Thumbkins (Thumbkins, Pointer, Tall man, Ring man, pinky) Pickles in the Pickle Pot (print big words)
Book: The Guinea Pig ABC Book by Kate Duke (read) Wheels on the Bus (singing) Five Little Ducks (with flannel and big words) Little Red Caboose (train flannels and TAPE)
Book: I Love Trucks! By Philemon Sturges Over in the Meadow (TAPE with flannels) Itsy Bitsy Spider (play and then For Our Children TAPE) If you're happy and you know it (sing together: clap hands, stomp
feet, hooray, all 3) Zip-a-dee-doo-dah (x2) |