Written / Contributed By: Betsy Diamant-Cohen
Sample Program from 25.5.1990 :
Welcoming Comments
Rhymes and Reads
- Old Mother Goose (Show illustration from Allen Atkinson’s Mother Goose’s Nursery Rhymes)
- Two Little Dickey Birds (with puppets)
- Laura Richard’s poem: “Eletelephony” (with toy telephone and illustration from Random House Book of Poetry)
- Song: This is the way we wash our clothes, comb hair, brush teeth, put on shirt, put on hat, close the door, wave by-bye
- Book: Pretend You’re a Cat (by Jean Marzollo, Jerry Pinkney)
- Fingerplay: Wee Willie Winkie (illustration from Brian Wildsmith’s Mother Goose)
- Puppet & puppet kisses: I Had a Little Turtle (p. 20 Read Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young by Jack Prelutsky, Marc Brown, and Jim Trelease)
- Couple rowing: Row, Row, Row Your Boat – fast and slow (flannel board piece)
Body Rhymes with Food Theme
- Clapping – Hot Cross Buns (flannel board piece)
- Fingerplay – Little Jack Horner (illustration from The Mother Goose Songbook, arranged for the piano by Carol Barrat, illustrated by Jacqueline Sinclair)
- Tongue Twister – Peter Piper Picked a Peck of Pickled Peppers (illustration, p. 51, Richard Scarry’s Best Mother Goose Ever )
- Knee Bounces – Yankee Doodle
Rum Pum Pum Drum Sequence
- Rum, Pum, Pum, This is My Drum
Standing-up Rhymes
- We’re Marching to the Drum (tune of The Farmer in the Dell)
- Here We Go Looby Loo
- Handy Spandy
Animals
- I Went to Visit the Farm One Day (singing the animal sounds while showing Eric Carle’s illustrations for The Very Busy Spider)
- When the Cow Gets Up in the Morning (with puppets)
- Old MacDonald (Old MacDonald Had a Farm illustrated by Tracey Campbell Pearson)
Musical Instruments and Colored Scarves
- Bells – We Ring Our Bells Together Because It’s Fun to Do
- Bells – Hickory Dickory Dock (illustration from James Marshall’s Mother Goose)
- Bells – Bells Away
Movement
- Jack be Nimble – children “jump” over the candlestick (candlestick prop and illustration p. 21 Mother Goose: A Collection of Classic Nursery Rhymes, selected and illustrated by Michael Hague)
Colored Scarves
- Scarves – Wind, oh Wind
- Scarves – Five Little Ducks Went Out to Play
- Scarves – Scarves Away
Lullaby
- Mary Had a Little Lamb (illustration by Tomie dePaola in Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Buell)
Interactive Rhyme
- Humpty Dumpty
Closing Sequence
- We Hit the Floor Together
- It’s Time to Say Good-bye, but…. We’re So Happy Everyone is Here.