{"id":797,"date":"2013-12-04T16:55:02","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T22:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=797"},"modified":"2013-12-04T16:55:02","modified_gmt":"2013-12-04T22:55:02","slug":"penguins-and-polar-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"Penguins and Polar Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They may be polar opposites&#8230; but both are a lot of fun!<\/p>\n<p>OPENING:<br \/>\nOpening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story<\/p>\n<p>PROGRAM:<br \/>\nRead-aloud #1: The Puzzled Penguin by Keith Faulkner (pop-up book)<br \/>\nFingerplay: <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.kcls.org\/tellmeastory\/index.php\/Two_little_penguins\">Two Little Penguins<\/a><br \/>\nRead-aloud #2: Baby Penguins Everywhere! by Melissa Guion OR Penguins by Liz Pichon<br \/>\nSong\/Fingerplay: Tommy Thumb OR Where is Thumbkin?<br \/>\nRead-aloud #3: Arctic Waters by Laura Crawford OR My Little Polar Bear by Claudia Rueda<br \/>\n*Flannel: Five Little Polar Bears<br \/>\n**Fingerplay: Sometimes<br \/>\nRead-aloud #4: Santa Claus and the Three Bears by Maria Modugno OR\/AND Polar Opposites by Erik Brooks<br \/>\n(Story Props: Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin (Templates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kizclub.com\/storypatterns\/polarbear(C).pdf\">here<\/a>))<br \/>\n(Dancing Song: \u201cDoing the Penguin\u201d from Sesame Street Hot! Hot! Hot! Dance Songs)<\/p>\n<p>CLOSING:<br \/>\nClosing Song: We Wave Good-bye Like This<\/p>\n<p>OTHER BOOKS TO CONSIDER: Sergio Makes a Splash! by Edel Rodriguez; If You Were a Penguin by Wendell and Florence Minor<\/p>\n<p>*<a href=\"http:\/\/artfelt.net\/warehouse\/VIEW%20and%20PRINT%20Polar%20Bear%20rhymes.pdf\">Five Little Polar Bears<\/a><\/p>\n<p>**<em>Sometimes<\/em><br \/>\nSometimes my hands are at my side (Hold hands at side)<br \/>\nThen behind my back they hide (Put hands behind back)<br \/>\nSometimes I wiggle my fingers so (Wiggle your fingers)<br \/>\nShake them fast, shake them slow (Shake fingers fast and slow)<br \/>\nSometimes my hands go clap, clap, clap (Clap hands)<br \/>\nThen I rest them in my lap (Rest hands in lap)<br \/>\nNow they&#8217;re quiet as can be.<br \/>\nBecause it\u2019s listening time, you see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They may be polar opposites&#8230; but both are a lot of fun! OPENING: Opening Song: If You Want to Hear a Story PROGRAM: Read-aloud #1: The Puzzled Penguin by Keith Faulkner (pop-up book) Fingerplay: Two Little Penguins Read-aloud #2: Baby Penguins Everywhere! by Melissa Guion OR Penguins by Liz Pichon Song\/Fingerplay: Tommy Thumb OR Where [&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":[113,121,146,166],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797"}],"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=797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}