This storytime was so much fun. The kids (and I!) especially enjoyed the book, Z-Z-ZOINK! It’s about a pig who snores so loudly that no one wants to sleep in the same room as her. Fun to be dramatic with and giggle at 🙂
OPENING:
Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story
PROGRAM:
Read-aloud #1: The Long-Nosed Pig by Keith Faulkner (pop-up book)
*Fingerplay: I Wiggle
Song (sung with a puppet on my head): Pig on Her Head (from Laurie Berkner: Buzz Buzz)
Read-aloud #2: Can You Make a Piggy Giggle? by Linda Ashman OR Ten Dirty Pigs/Ten Clean Pigs By Carol Roth
Action Song: Head Shoulders Knees and Toes
Nursery Rhyme/Flannel: This Little Piggy
Read-aloud #3: Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore! by David McPhail OR Cornelius P. Mud, Are You Ready for Bed? by Barney Saltzberg
**Fingerplay: Two Mother Pigs
(Song/Fingerplay/Finger puppets: Ten in the Bed)
Read-aloud #4: Z-Z-ZOINK! by Bernard Most
Flannel/Storytelling: The Three Little Pigs
(“Dancing” Song–with bean bags: “The Bean Bag” from Hap Palmer: Can a Jumbo Jet Sing the Alphabet?)
CLOSING:
Closing Song: We Wave Good-bye Like This
*I Wiggle My Fingers
I wiggle my fingers,
I wiggle my toes,
I wiggle my shoulders,
I wiggle my nose.
Now all the wiggles are out of me
And I’m just as quiet
As I can be.
**Two Mother Pigs
Two mother pigs lived in a pen, (two thumbs up) Each had four babies and that made ten. (Wiggle four fingers on each hand)
These four babies were black and white. (Wiggle four fingers on one hand)
These four babies were black as night. (Wiggle four fingers on the other hand)
All eight babies loved to play. (Wiggle eight fingers)
And the rolled and they rolled in the mud all day. (Roll hands)
At night, with their mother,
They curled up in a heap, (Make fists, palms up)
And squealed and squealed
‘Til they went to sleep. (Tuck thumbs under fingers)
Other Piggy Books to consider: Little Oink by Amy Krouse Rosenthal; Piggies by Audrey Wood