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Fingerplays
1. The Three Billy Goats Gruff - Finger puppets (Briggs.101 Fingerplays, Stories, etc. p. 98)

2. Grayson. Let's do fingerplays. Eensy, Weensy Spider, p. 31; There was a little turtle, p. 33; Sing a Song of Sixpence, p. 55; Jonathan Bing, p. 56; Grasshoppers, p. 65; This old man, p. 68.

3. We're going on a bear hunt with motions-tall wavy grass (Swishy swashy); deep, cold river (Splosh, Splosh) swampy mud (Squelch squelch); big, dark forest (Stumble trip); whirling snowstorm (Hoooo woooo); narrow gloomy cave (Escape from big, furry bear).

4. Story books: 4-year olds	3-year olds
Bearymore - long	Golden Bear
Possum Come a-Knocking (repetition	This is the bear & the picnic lunch
Possum come a-knocking at the door.)	Too much noise
(Repetition-animal sounds)	Too much noise (Repetition-animal sounds)
The patchwork quilt -a little long	Caps for Sale - repetition
(Connie can tell about her quilt)	Curious George
Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner	Squawk to the moon, little goose
Chicka chicka boom boom -alphabet book	Is your mama a llama? (Guess
Millions of cats (Repetition-Hundreds of cats...) animals)
Frog went a-courtin' (Song at the end that	How, Hippo!
can be sung)
Amelia Bedelia -funny, takes things literally
5. Big Books: 4-year olds	3-year olds
Starring First Grade (See Fingerplay,	Farmer Schnuck (Name the animals)
Three Billy Goats Gruff, the first grade play)	A rhinoceros wakes me up in the morning (Name the animals)
Mud Soup (Sing the music and lyrics.)	Splishy-Sploshy (Some repetition
May I bring a friend? (I have a friend I want	–floor, door)
to bring, Any friend of our friend is welcome...)	Moo Moo, Brown Cow (Naming
An extraordinary egg	animal babies and counting to ten)
Dragon's song	I can't get my turtle to move
The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash (A little	(Counting book, repetition -"I can't
advanced)	get my turtle to move.")