XYZ Storytime

There is no common storytime theme harder than XYZ.  How limited can you get?  I decided to nix the whole idea and just go with "Zoo" and animal alphabet books.

 

The books I used were Z is for Moose by Kelly Bingham, A is for Musk Ox by Erin Cabatingan, Psst! by Adam Rex, My Heart is a Zoo by Michael Hall, Hippo, No, Rhino! by Jeff Newman, ABC Zooborns by Andrew Bleiman and Astonishing Animal ABC by Charles Fuge.  

For "One little, two little, three little...", I had cutouts of various zoo animal and we replaced Indians with zoo animals.  We also had two additional rhymes:

We're Going to the Zoo (a repeating rhyme)

We're going to the zoo today (we're going to the zoo today)

We're going to the zoo (we're going to the zoo)

To see lots of animals (to see lots of animals)

That's what we're gonna do (that's what we're gonna do). 

If You Want to Be a Monkey (to the tune of If You're Happy and You Know It)

If you want to be a monkey, jump up high!

If you want to be a monkey, jump up high!

If you want to be a monkey, if you want to be a monkey, 

If you want to be a monkey, jump up high!

Parrot- flap your wings

Elephant- swing your trunk

Lion- roar out loud

 

Our craft was creating animal masks.  I had templates for Lion, Bear and Monkey masks from www.craftjr.com.  They turned out rather well, as you can see below.

Roar!

Happy Reading!