The two books in this story time are "The Great Santa Stakeout" by Betsy Bird and "Bear Stays Up For Christmas" by Karma Wilson
Action Song: Up On The Housetop
Upon on the housetop, reindeer pause (point up to ceiling)
Out jumps good old Santa Clause (jump)
Down through the chimney with lots of toys ( point down)
All for the little ones, Christmas joys (point to each other)
Ho, ho, ho! Who wouldn't go? (Make Santa belly and shrug shoulders)
Ho, ho, ho! Who wouldn't go? (Make Santa belly and shrug shoulders)
Up one the housetop, click, click, click (clap hands)
Down through the chimeny with good St. Nick (touch ground)
credit: Storytime Katie
Book: The Great Santa Stakeout by Betsy Bird
This was an adaption of the "Down At The Corner Bakery Shop" poem. I don't recall where I originally stumbled across the poem, but here it is on My Montessori Journey blog.
Mine goes like this:
Over by the Christmas tree, it was getting pretty late.
There were (#) colored cookies sitting on a plate.
Along came (name), hungry for a treat,
And s/he picked the (color) one to take home and eat.
Then, there were no more cookies to leave for Santa so the kids can bring them back up.
Poem: A Chubby Little Snowman
A chubby little snowman
Had a carrot nose.
Along came a bunny,
And what do you suppose?
That hungry little bunny
looking for his lunch
ate the snowman's nose
with a munch, munch, munch.
Actions for this one include: pointing to your nose, making a bunny with 2 fingers and having it jump, pretending to eat a carrot.
This one led into the next story well since there was a bunny in it.
Book: Bear Stays Up For Christmas
Song: Jingle Bells
For this one, we played the song over a bluetooth speaker and rang our bells and danced to the music. Our jingle bells are attached to fabric and can be velcro-ed to your wrist.
Another option for Jingle Bells is this . . .
Song: Jingle Bells
(As you sing, clap your hands. We did this with bells around our wrists so we clapped but jingled too..)
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh, hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh.
Then we stopped clapping and started ringing our bells, keeping the tune.
Jingle bells real fast, jingle bells real slow, jingle bells real high, jingle bells real low.
Jingle bells to the left, jingle bells to the right, jingle bells behind your back, jingle bells in plain sight.
Stop ringing and resume clapping.
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh, hey!
Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle all the way.
Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh.
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