Seek and Count

 Opening: If You Want to Hear a Story

If you want to hear a story, clap your hands.

If you want to hear a story, clap your hands.

If you want to hear a story, if you want to hear a story.

If you want to hear a story, clap your hands.

Book: Count the Monkeys

Scarf: Little Bo Peep

Little Bo Peep (wave scarf up and down)

Has lost her sheelp (hide scarf)

And doesn't know where to find them.

Leave them alone, and they'll come home. (bring scarf back out)

Wagging their tails behind them (wave scarf up and down)

Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=w_4iGsv_hwc

Fingerplay: Five Little Kitty Cats

Five little kitty cats, sleeping on the floor.

(Ball up scarf and throw in the air on word "pounce")

One pounced away and now there are four.

Four little kitty cats, cute as can be.

One pounced away and now there are three.

Three little kitty cats, wondering what to do.

One pounced away and now there are two.

Two little kitty cats, laying in the sun.

One pounced away and now there are one.

One little kitty cat got up to stretch and yawn.

I looked away and now he's gone!

Book: Five Little Monkeys Play Hide-and-Seek

Fingerplay: 3 Little Bugs

3 little bugs were flying through the air.

Buzzing around without a care.

Along came a frog with a hippity-hop.

GULP! GULP! GULP! (Snap hands)

One bug was caught.

*For this I've made very large bugs that attach to rulers, to help hold them better.  I'm trying to make all of my flannel pieces bigger so that the preschoolers can see them better.

Book: Counting Crows