January 2020 Baby Storytime Outline

1. BABY STORYTIME
Ages 0-24 months

2. Wake up feet, wake up feet
Wake up feet and
wiggle, wiggle, wiggle
Wake up feet, wake up feet,
Wake and wiggle in the morning.
Continue with:
Legs, Arms, Hands
Wake Up Feet

3. Clap and Sing Hello
We clap and sing hello,
We clap and sing hello,
With all our friends at storytime,
We clap and sing hello!
Kick and sing hello
Wave and sing hello

4. What is Early Literacy?
What your child knows about reading and writing
before they learn how to read and write.

5. Early Literacy Tip: Play
The shape of the human
face is the first thing a
baby learns to
recognize.
Young babies focus best
on faces and objects
held 8-10 inches away.

6. Book: Toes, Ears, & Nose!

7. Music Time: Row, Row, Row Your Boat
Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream.
Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,
Life is but a dream.
Twist
Bounce
Sway
Wiggle
Tickle

8. 1 Little, 2 Little, 3 Little Fingers
1 little, 2 little, 3 little fingers
4 little, 5 little, 6 little fingers
7 little, 8 little, 9 little fingers
10 little fingers on my hand.
They wiggle and they wiggle and they wiggle all together
They wiggle and they wiggle and they wiggle all together
They wiggle and they wiggle and they wiggle all together
10 little fingers on my hand.
They clap
They tickle

9. If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.
If you’re happy and you know it,
then your face will surely show it
If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands.
Stomp your feet.
Shout hooray!
If You’re Happy and You Know It

10. Slowly, slowly, very slowly
Creeps the garden snail.
Slowly, slowly, very slowly
Up the wooden rail.
Quickly, quickly, very quickly
Runs the little mouse.
Quickly, quickly, very quickly
Round about the house
Slowly, Slowly

11. Music Time: What Shall We Do With the Sleeping Baby
What shall we do with a sleeping baby (bounce)
What shall we do with a sleeping baby
What shall we do with a sleeping baby
Early in the morning
Hey, ho and up she rises (lift)
Hey, ho and up she rises
Hey, ho and up she rises
Early in the morning
Put ‘em in the bed and tickle them all over. (tickle)
Put ‘em in the bed and tickle them all over.
Put ‘em in the bed and tickle them all over.
Put ‘em in the bed and tickle them all over.
What shall we do with a sleeping baby…. (bounce)
(repeat after music break)

12. Tick-tock, tick-tock,
I’m a little cuckoo clock.
Tick-tock, tick-tock,
Now it’s almost one o’clock.
Cuckoo!
Tick-Tock

13. Five little riders on a nice fall day
Jumped on their ponies and rode far away
They galloped in the meadow
They galloped up a hill (lift)
They galloped so fast (fast)
that they all took a spill. (tip over)
Five Little Riders

14. (Tilt forward and backward)
Two little boats went out to sea
All is calm as calm can be
(Tilt side to side)
Gently the wind begins to blow
Two little boats rock to and fro
(Bounce up and down)
Loudly the wind begins to shout
Two little boats they bounce about
STOP! Goes the storm, the wind, and rain (freeze)
Two little boats sail on again (rock forward and backward)
.
Two Little Boats

15. An oink, a moo
A cockle-doodle-doo
Who's in the barnyard
playing peekaboo?
Who’s in the Barnyard?

16. Hello Shakers!

17. Shake them up high!
Shake them down low!
Shake them in the middle!
Shake them fast!
Shake them slow.
Shake Your Shakers

18. We shake and shake and shake and stop.
We shake and shake and shake and stop.
We shake and shake and shake and shake
and shake and shake and shake
STOP!
Tap, Bounce
We Shake and Stop

19. Music Time: Shake It Baby, Shake It
I was going to Toronto,
I was going to the fair.
I met a Senorita with flowers in her hair.
Shake it baby, shake it.
Shake it all you can.
Shake it like a milkshake, and drink it from a can.
Shake it to the bottom, shake it from the top.
Shake it round and round until you have to stop!

20. Skinnarmarink
Skinnamarinky dinky dink
Skinnamarinky do,
I love you!
Skinnamarinky dinky dink
Skinnamarinky do,
I love you!
I love you in the morning,
And in the afternoon
I love you in the evening,
Underneath the moon…
Skinnamarinky dinky dink
Skinnamarinky do,
I love you!
Music Time: Skinnamarink

21. Discovery Time
• Watch where your child’s
eyes go
• Narrate what they are doing
(use big words!)
• Give them time to respond
(5-12 seconds)