Fish Storytime

 Opening Song: The More We Get Together
*We sing and clap to our opening song.  All Stillwater Public Library story times start with this song and the children learn that song means story time is starting.

The more we get together
Together, together
The more we get together
The happier we'll be
Cause your friends are my friends
And my friends are your friends
The more we get together
The happier we'll be.

Book: Ten Little Fish by Audrey Wood

Song: I'm a Little Fish (sung to I'm a Little Teapot)
I'm a little fishy, I can swim.
Here is my tail, here is my fin.
When I want to have fun with my friends,
I wiggle my tail and dive right in!

Book: The Pout-Pout Fish by Deborah Diesen

Song: Fishy Pokey (Hokey Pokey)
Put your left fin in, take your left fin out
Put your left fin in and you shake it all about
You do the fishy pokey and you turn yourself around,
that's what its all about
Put your right gill in, take your right gill out (etc)

Book: The Little Fish That Got Away by Bernadine Cook

Song: Catch a Fish (Row Row Row Your Boat)
Catch, catch, catch a fish,
Hook it on your line.
Reel it, reel it, reel it,
This one will be mine.

 

Craft: Make your own rainbow fish
http://www.dltk-teach.com/books/rainbowfish/rainbow_fish_craft.htm

One more fun take on the craft using water guns and paints!  http://www.toddlerapproved.com/2013/07/water-gun-painted-fish-craft-water-week.html

Beyond Storytime: Discover more about life in the oceans, streams, and ponds at the Oklahoma Aquarium  http://www.okaquarium.org/

If you can't travel you can still explore the underwater world through your computer. You can take a virtual dive at http://catlinseaviewsurvey.com/surveys/great-barrier-reef-and-coral-sea/lady-elliot-island or a Google Earth version of the ocean http://www.google.com/earth/explore/showcase/ocean.html

Other books to checkout: 
A Good Day's Fishing by James Prosek
The Little Red Fish by Taeeun Yoo
Clara and Asha by Eric Rohmann
A Place for Fish by Melissa Stewart (EASY 597.17 STE)