Tuesday, March 11, 2014

U is for Upside Down...and other silliness!

 What's more fun than being upside down and silly?!

Books

Batty by Susan Dyer
This is a cute story and it is a lot of fun with some of the pictures and words upside down...but sometimes I think the wrong pictures are upside down.  So when I read it aloud to the children I showed those pictures both directions.

Silly Sally by Audrey Wood

Songs/Rhymes/Fingerplays

Bats Are Sleeping
(Tune: Are You Sleeping)
Bats are sleeping, bats are sleeping
Upside down, upside down
Waiting for the night to come
Waiting for the night to come
Then they fly, all around!

Parachute Fun
This was not really a song, more of an activity.  We put a teddy bear in the center of the parachute and tired to flip him high into the air so he could turn upside down.  The kids had a lot of fun with this activity!

Little Boy Blue

Little Boy Blue come blow your horn
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn
Where is the boy who looks after the sheep?
He's under a haystack, fast asleep.

What other animal was in the corn?  Answers included: horse, alligator, dog, giraffe

Enrichment Activities

Playdough



Rice Discovery Bottles

Magnetic Letters



Big Legos


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