Fish Storytime

Did you miss storytime this week? Well, don't worry- you can do it at home!

Open Shut Them

Open shut them, Open shut them,

Give a little clap clap clap!

Open shut them, Open shut them,

Put them in your lap, lap, lap!

Creep them, crawl them,

Creep them, crawl them,

Right up to your chin, chin, chin!

Open wide your little mouth,

But do not let them in!

Critters in the Sea

(tune: The Wheels on the Bus)

The fish in the sea swim back and forth, back and forth, back and forth

The fish in the sea swim back and forth

All day long.

…shark, chomp

…lobsters, pinch

…octopus, wiggle

…clam, open and shut

Three Little Fish

(tune: Three Blind Mice)

Three little fish, three little fish

See how they swim, see how they swim

Back and forth, how fast they go

Now they are going very slow

Three little fish, three little fish

Swimming in the Water

All the fish are swimming in the water

Swimming in the water,

Swimming in the water

All the fish are swimming in the water

Bubble, bubble, bubble, bubble…. SPLASH!

(repeat with a little fish that has a tiny, little voice and then a big fish who has a BIG, HUGE voice)

Teasing Mr. Shark

Five little fish swimming in the sea

Teasing Mr. Shark, “You can’t catch me”

Along comes Mr. Shark,

Quiet as can be and…SNAPS that fish right out of the sea

…4,3,2,1

Five Little Fishies

One little fish swimming in the ocean blue, here comes another one

Then there were two

…two, sea

…three, near the shore

…four, swim around and dive

Here comes another one and now there are five

Here comes a shark, looking for some fun

Look out little fishies!... and away they run

Blue Fish

A blue fish went swimming by

He swam down low, he swam up high

He wriggled his fins and shook his scales

and swishes his graceful fishy tail.

(red, green, pink)

Fishy Pokey

(version of Hokey Pokey!)

Put your left fin in

Put your left fin out

Put your left fin in

You shake it all about

You do the fishy pokey

And you turn yourself around

That's what its all about

…head, tail, whole body

Two Little Blue Fish

Two little blue fish swimming in a lake

One named Jack and one named Jake

Swim away, Jack, Swim away, Jake

Come back, Jack, Come back, Jake

Two little blue fish swimming in a lake

One named Jack and one named Jake

Row your Boat

(sing)

Row row row your boat,

Gently down the stream,

Merrily merrily merrily merrily,

Life is but a dream.

(say)

Cast out your fishing line

Wait for a fish

We're waiting, we're waiting, we're waiting

This spot is NO GOOD! Let's keep going....

repeat song and conversation until you catch a fish and have to row back to shore really fast because you're so hungry!

Books:

Barner, B. Fish Wish

Berkes, M. Over in the Ocean

Clements, A. Big Al

Dahl, M. One Giant Splash

Diesen, D. The Pout-pout Fish

Ehlert, L. Fish Eyes

Jonas, A. Splash!

Kalan, R. Blue Sea

Wood, A. Ten Little Fish