Q is for Quiet and Loud...and other opposites!

This ended up being such a fun storytime!  too bad we had a "snow day" on Wednesday so we only had storytime on Thursday.  Here's what we did!

Books

Quiet Bunny and Noisy Puppy  by Lisa McCue

Animal Opposites: A pop-up book   by Petr Horacek

Songs/Rhymes/Fingerplays

Sing a Song of Opposites  (from The complete Daily curriculum for Early Childhood, Revised (2011), Pam Schiller and Pat Phipps, p. 292.)

(tune:  Mary had a little lamb)
Actions to suit words

This is big and this is small
This is big, this is small
This is big and this is small
Sing along with me!

Tall and short
Happy and sad
Fast and slow
Loud and quiet

Parachute Opposites (words by Tammy Henry)
(tune: Farmer in the Dell)

The parachute goes up, the parachute comes down
Up, down, up, down
The parachute goes up and down.

Fast/slow
Moves left/right
In/out
Up/down...then under!

Hickory Dickory Dock

Hickory dickory dock
The mouse ran up the clock
The clock struck one
The mouse ran down
Hickory dickory dock.


Enrichment Activities

Short and Long cut and glue activity from here

Opposite Matching Game from Playdough to Plato

Water "Table"--float and sink

The Game of UP and DOWN--Balloons