Benjamin the Librarian

SONG: Oh, Mister Sun

DISCUSSION: Summer

BOOK: Mama, is it Summer Yet? by Nikki McClure

SONG: Down by the Bay

FINGERPLAY: Itsey-Bitsy Spider

SONG: In the Swimming Pool
sing to “Sailing Sailing”

                                    Swimming, swimming, in the swimming pool
                                    When it’s hot, when it’s cool
                                    In the swimming pool
                                    Front stroke, side stroke
                                    Fancy diving too
                                    Wouldn’t it be nice, yes wouldn’t it be nice?
                                    If we had nothing else to do!

BOOK: Summer is Summer, by Phillis and David Gershator

BOOK: Kitten’s First Full Moon, by Kevin Henkes

MOVEMENT: Bitty-Bitty Bum

SONG: If all the little raindrops

If all the raindrops
Were lemon drops and gumdrops
So what a rain that would be

Standing outside with my mouth open wide
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah

If all the raindrops
Were lemon drops and gumdrops
Oh, what a rain that would be

BOOK: Ladybug Girl at the Beach, by David Soman and Jacky Davis

SONG: Great Big Star

Books:

The Great Texas Hamster Drive, Eric A Kimmel

Cowboy Bunnies, Christine Loomis

Cowboy and Octopus, Jon Scieszka

There Once Was a Cowpoke Who Swallowed an Ant, Helen Ketteman

Songs:

I’ve Been Working on the Rail Road

I've been working on the railroad

All the live-long day.

I've been working on the railroad

Just to pass the time away.

Can't you hear the whistle blowing,

Rise up so early in the morn;

Can't you hear the captain shouting,

"Dinah, blow your horn!"

Dinah, won't you blow,

Dinah, won't you blow your horn?

Dinah, won't you blow,

Dinah, won't you blow your horn?

Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah

Someone's in the kitchen I know

Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah

Strummin' on the old banjo!

Singin' fee, fie, fiddly-i-o

Fee, fie, fiddly-i-o-o-o-o

Fee, fie, fiddly-i-o

Strummin' on the old banjo.

Home on the Range

Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam,

Where the deer and the antelope play,

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word

And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Chorus

Home, home on the range,

Where the deer and the antelope play;

Where seldom is heard a discouraging word

And the skies are not cloudy all day.

Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free,

The breezes so balmy and light,

That I would not exchange my home on the range

For all of the cities so bright.

Merry-Go-Round

Merry-go-round,