Polar Bears, Penguins, and Puffins, Oh My!
The theme for our first week back in the Winter/Spring Session of storytimes, we are talking about Arctic Animals. It just so happens that most of these Arctic Animals begin with the letter "P"!
Books:
Toddler Books:
I Am Small - Emma Dodd
Baby Penguins Everywhere - Melissa Guion
Polar Bear Night - Lauren Thompson
Mama, Why? - Karma Wilson
Preschool Books:
Baby Penguins Everywhere - Melissa Guion
Lost and Found - Oliver Jeffers
Nothing Like a Puffin - Sue Soltis
Polar Bear Night - Lauren Thompson
Rhymes/Fingerplays/Songs:
If You're a Polar Bear and You Know It:
If you're a polar bear and you know it, clap your paws,
If you're a polar bear and you know it, clap your paws,
If you're a polar bear and you know it, and you really want to show it,
If you're a polar bear and you know it, clap your paws.
Other verses:
If you're a polar bear and you know it, show your teeth.
If you're a polar bear and you know it, growl real loud.
Source: Storytime Katie
*I changed it from different types of bears to being about just polar bears.
North Pole and South Pole:
North Pole is UP (raise hands up)
South Pole is DOWN (point down)
Snow and ice cover the ground.
North Pole is where you'll see polar bears.
At the South Pole there are penguins everywhere.
North Pole is UP (raise hands up again)
South Pole is DOWN (point down again)
That is where our polar friends are found.
Source: My flannel drawer (and more accurately, one of my Library Assistant's who is an amazing storytime resource). She made a flannel of the Earth (with the North and South Pole's labeled), a flannel of a polar bear (you place on the flannel board at the North Pole), and a flannel of a penguin (you place on the flannel board at the South Pole).
Two Little Puffins (Tune: Two Little Blackbirds):
Two little puffins, sitting on a cliff,
One named Becky and the other named Biff.
Fly away Becky, Fly away Biff.
Come back Becky, Come back Biff.
Two little puffins, sitting on a cliff,
One named Becky and the other named Biff.
Source: My flannel drawer (same amazing LA - she's the best!)
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