Because I’m busier than a cat in a room full of rocking chairs, I’m going to do a few quick-and-dirty posts of the virtual storytimes I’ve done. This one is all about the sloths!
Books I chose: Super Sloth by Robert Starling and Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth by Eric Carle.
Outline:
If You Want to Hear a Story Clap Your Hands
Sloth info while showing my sloth puppet, then singing Sammy the Sloth.
Book: Super Sloth
Song/Flannel: S-L-O-T-H (Tune: Bingo)
The rainforest has many friends
My favorite is the sloth.
S-L-O-T-H
S-L-O-T-H
S-L-O-T-H
I really love the sloth!
(Count down just as in BINGO, clapping for each letter as it’s replaced)
Credit: Cockburn Libraries
Fingerplay: Sloth is Hanging
(Hold one forearm horizontally in front of chest for the vine, cupping the other hand into a C shape for the sloth, positioning fingertips on arm as though sloth is hanging from the vine.)
Sloth is hanging from a vine
Gently swinging all the time (sway sloth back and forth)
Slowly climbing up the tree (Open and close fingers and thumb, slowly climbing up to shoulder)
Fast asleep, my sloth and me. (Palms together below head as if sleeping)
Credit: Awnali Mills
Flannel: 5 Lazy Sloths
Five lazy sloths in a tree by the door
One fell asleep and then there were four
Four lazy sloths climbing on a tree
One fell down and then there were three
Three lazy sloths wondering what to do
One got lost and then there were two
Two lazy sloths not having any fun
One lazed away and then there was one
One lazy sloth couldn’t wait ‘til day was done
He went to bed and now there are none.
Credit: Modified from Hey There Library
Book: Slowly, Slowly Said the Sloth
Finished with bubbles.
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