Blogging A to Z: Vegetables

During the month of April, I’ll be participating in the Blogging From A to Z Challenge.  My theme for the month is Storytime Plans From A to Z.  Each plan will have eight stories as well as four songs, fingerplays or rhymes to match the theme!  As you can see, I’ll try and attribute where I found all of this fun (and often you can find it in multiple places).  My goal is to make storytime planning a little easier on myself in the future and to make storytime planning for other librarians easy as well!

Booklist:

1. Rah, Rah, Radishes: A Vegetable Chant by April Pulley Sayre
2. The Ugly Vegetables by Grace Lin
3. Creepy Carrots by Aaron Reynolds
4. Vegetables in Underwear by Jared Chapman
5. Carrot Soup by John Segal
6. Growing Vegetable Soup by Lois Ehlert
7. Eating the Alphabet: Fruits & Vegetables From A to Z by Lois Ehlert
8. Lunch by Denise Fleming

Songs & Rhymes:

“Vegetables“
(To the Tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb
We are pumpkins, big and round
Big and round, big and round
We are pumpkins, big and round
Seated on the ground.
We are string beans, green and fine…..
Growing on a vine.
We are onions, round and white….
We make soup taste right.
We are carrots, orange and long…
Help us sing our song.
We are cabbage, green or red….
See our funny head.
We are corn stalks, tall and straight….
Don’t we just taste great.

“When the Pod Went Pop!“
Five little peas in a pea-pod pressed,
One grew , two grew, and so did all the rest;
They grew…and grew…and did not stop,
Until one day the pod went…POP!

“Making a Fruit Salad“
(To the tune of Ten Little Indians)
For our last activity, I like to encourage color skills in tandem with the vocabulary from the theme. I had printed out lots of yellow bananas, purple grapes, green pears, blue blueberries, and red strawberries, and I laminated them and attached little Velcro dots to the backs. Each kiddo got three pieces of fruit, and together we put them on the felt board one type at a time. Again as per Abby the Librarian, we sang a little song as we put our fruits up on the board:
Add the strawberries to our fruit salad
Add the strawberries to our fruit salad
Add the strawberries to our fruit salad
Mmm, Mmm! It tastes so good

“Fruit Salad“
Watermelon, Watermelon, (big circle with hands)
Pa-pay-a, pap-ay-a, (chop air in front of body on each syllable)
Ba-a-a-a-nana, Ba-a-a-a-nana, (swing arms down like rocking a baby)
Fruuuuit Salad, fruuuuit salad! (dance it out!)
Pomegranate, Pomegranate, Pomegranate
Tomato, tomato, tomato,
Pineapple, pineapple, pineapple
Fruit salad, fruit salad, fruit salad