{"id":702,"date":"2013-03-21T13:14:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T18:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2013-03-26T14:27:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T19:27:45","slug":"egg-cellent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=702","title":{"rendered":"Egg-cellent!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OPENING:<br \/>\nOpening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story<\/p>\n<p>PROGRAM:<br \/>\nRead-aloud #1: The Most Wonderful Egg in the World by Helme Heine OR Big Fat Hen by Keith Baker OR Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss (I cut out most of the fingerplays and flannels for the older group that I read Green Eggs and Ham to&#8230;)<br \/>\n*Fingerplay: Ten Fluffy Chicks<br \/>\nRead-aloud #2: Roly-Poly Egg by Kali Stileman OR Whose Chick are You? by Nancy Tafuri<br \/>\nSong (with motions and giant prop egg and bird): The Green Grass Grew All Around<br \/>\nFingerplay: Blackbirds<br \/>\n(Fingerplay: Where is Thumbkin?)<br \/>\nRead-aloud #3: Eggs 1-2-3 by Janet Halfman OR That&#8217;s Mine! by Michel Van Zeveren<br \/>\nFlannel: Whose Baby am I? by John Butler (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kizclub.com\/storypatterns\/whosebaby(C).pdf\">Template<\/a>)<br \/>\nFlannel: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dltk-teach.com\/rhymes\/littlechick\/mpoem.htm\">This Little Chick<\/a><br \/>\nFingerplay: Open, Shut Them<br \/>\n(Fingerplay: If You&#8217;re Wearing Red Today)<br \/>\nRead-aloud #4: The Easter Bunny&#8217;s Assistant by Jan Thomas<br \/>\n(\u201cDancing\u201d Song (with shakers!): \u201cI Know a Chicken\u201d from Laurie Berkner\u2019s Whaddaya Think of That?)<\/p>\n<p>CLOSING:<br \/>\nClosing Song: We Wave Good-bye Like This<\/p>\n<p>*<em>Ten Fluffy Chicks <\/em><br \/>\nFive eggs (hold up 5 fingers)<br \/>\nAnd five eggs (hold up 5 more fingers)<br \/>\nThat makes ten<br \/>\nSitting on top is the mother hen (lock fingers, knuckles up)<br \/>\nCrack, crack, crack, what do I see? (wiggle fingers apart)<br \/>\nTen baby chicks as yellow as can be (hold up 10 fingers)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPENING: Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story PROGRAM: Read-aloud #1: The Most Wonderful Egg in the World by Helme Heine OR Big Fat Hen by Keith Baker OR Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss (I cut out most of the fingerplays and flannels for the older group that I read Green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[192,5],"tags":[54,55,146],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":705,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}