Baby Animals

Hello Song

Magnet Board

I Like Baby Animals

(tune: Mary had a little lamb)

I like baby animals, animals, animals

I like baby animals I'll name a few for you.

Kittens, puppies, chicks and cubs

Chicks and cubs, chicks and cubs

Kittens, puppies, chicks and cubs

I'll name some more for you.

Joeys, ducklings, lambs and calves

Lambs and calves, lambs and calves

Joeys, ducklings, lambs and calves

I like baby animals!

Book

Play in the Wild: How Baby Animals Like to Have Fun

by Litta Judge

OR

Hello, Baby Animals

by Lorinda Bryan Cauley

Song

Are You Sleeping?

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping?

Little Colt?  Little Colt?

Wake-up little colt, wake-up little colt

Gallop, gallop, gallop

Gallop, gallop, gallop!

Additional/optional verses:

Owlet

Hatchling (alligator)--snap, snap, snap

Bunny--hop, hop, hop

Snakelet

Book

Joey: A Baby Koala and His Mother

by Nic Bishop

OR

Wee Little Lamb

by Lauren Thompson; illustrated by John Butler

Fingerplay

Kitty Cat

(tune: I'm a Little Teapot)

I'm a little kitty cat

Soft and sweet

Here are my whiskers

Here are my feet

When I go out hunting

Mice beware

Or you might just get a...

SCARE!

Book

Eggs 1, 2, 3:  Who will the babies be?

by Janet Halfmann; illustrated by Betsy Thompson

OR

Homes in the Wild: Where Baby Animals and Their Parents Live

by Lita Judge

Magnet Board

Baby Owls

5 baby owls learning to say "Who?'

They flapped their wings and then said, "___________"

(words that rhyme with who--two, blue, shoe, glue, zoo)

Mama Owl cried, "No, no, not __________."

"Please, oh please, say 'Who, who, who?'"

Play and Learn

First play time in over two years!  All toys had to be easy to sanitize (no wood or fabric)

Balls, cars, and tubes

Art Cart--open ended art (construction paper, scrap colored paper, scissors, glue, crayons, stickers)

Counting cars

Dino bowling

Seal ring toss