Brown Squirrel, Brown Squirrel
Brown squirrel, brown squirrel.
Shake your bushy tail.
Brown squirrel, brown squirrel
shake your bushy tail.
Wrinkle up your nose.
Hold a nut between your toes.
Brown squirrel, Brown squirrel,
Shake your bushy tail!
(Repeat with each color.)
Credit: Jbrary – visit them to see hand movements in their video!
Flannel Game:
I found a popsicle flannel set here, template and all. I’ll use it as a matching game to go with What Can You Do With A Paleta by #OwnVoices Carmen Tafolla. I’ll change out the colors of the tongue and ask the kids which popsicle he must have eaten.
For Hispanic Heritage month I’ll be reading La Princesa and The Pea by Susan Middle Elya and illustrations by #OwnVoices Juana Martinez-Neal. I had made this flannel board a year or two back when I did a fairy tale story time and all of a sudden remembered it today! Yay!
I use this as a hide and seek game. It’s fun and different because when we play hide and seek we usually just do it by color, but in this case we can also identify by pattern.
Flannel Activity:
In this activity I hand each of the kids a leaf and then take turns coming up to the board and putting it on the tree while naming the color. We also count the leaves at the end.
Shape Family
I am momma circle, round like a pie.
I’m baby triangle, three sides have I.
I’m papa square, my sides are four.
I’m cool cousin rectangle, shaped like door.
I am sister oval, shaped like a zero.
We are the shapes that you all know.
Look for us wherever you go.
Cut geometric shapes out of construction paper and give one to each child to hold. Ask the children to hold up their shapes as they are mentioned in the chant.
Credit: Transition Tips and Tricks for Teachers by Jean Feldman
Alien, alien,
Munch, munch, munch,
Would you like a (shape color) for lunch?
Crunch, crunch, crunch.
You can either hand out shapes and have the kids bring them up as you say them, or hold the shape up while you do the rhyme and have the kids identify it.
I used a different rhyme, but found the alien design here.
In August my story times will be focused on math. We’ll be doing counting, shapes, sorting, patterns, weight and measurement, etc. We’ll be able to use this felt set for both counting and sorting.
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Hide the cheese behind a mouse and let the kids guess which color. This is a good opportunity to practice self regulation by having the children raise hands and take turns.
This one is actually a printable, not flannel. Kiz Club was kind enough to put up these printables to use and they were so perfect I didn’t see any point in transforming them into felt. I just cut them out and put some sticky felt on the back so they’d stick.
Start out with the three white mice on the white paper hiding from the cat.
The mice find the paint.
They come out of the paint in their new colors.
They make paint splashes.
The red one splashes in the yellow.
It makes orange.
The yellow one splashes in the blue.
It makes green.
The blue one splashes in the red.
It makes purple.
They clean up in the cat’s water bowl.
White again!
They paint the paper but leave a white area to hide from the cat.