Resources: Books + Music
Hello and Goodbye Songs
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Hickelty Pickelty Bumblebee
Teacher: Hickelty Pickelty Bumblebee, Will you say your name for me? What’s your name?
Child: Aurelia
Teacher: Let’s say it
Everyone says: Aurelia
Teacher: Let’s whisper it
Everyone whispers: Aurelia
Teacher: Let’s sing it
Everyone sings: Aurelia
Teacher: We’re so glad you’re here, yes, we’re so glad you’re here.
Repeat with the next child. -
See You Later Alligator
See you later alligator
In a while crocodile
Give a hug ladybug
Blow a kiss jellyfish
See you soon big baboon
Out the door dinosaur
Take care polar bear
Wave goodbye butterfly.
A List of Books about Going to School
Llama Llama Misses Mama by Anna Dewdney
Daniel Tiger Goes to School by Becky Friedman
If You Take a Mouse to School by Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn and Ruth Harper
Pete the Kitty’s First Day of Preschool by James and Kimberly Dean
Maisy Goes to Preschool by Lucy Cousins
Rex Wrecks It by Ben Clanton
My Preschool by Anne Rockwell
Books by Themes:
Fall (leaves, squirrels, acorns, forest animals):
December Holidays: Christmas & Hanukkah
Thanksgiving
Winter/Snow/Arctic Animals
Hello World - Arctic Animals
Colors in the Cold
Animals in Winter
Snowballs by Lois Ehlert
The Snowman by Raymond Briggs
The Biggest Snowman Ever by Steven Kroll
Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner
The Mitten by Jan Brett
The Jacket I Wear in the Snow
Do I Have to Wear a Coat?
The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What do you hear? by Eric Carle
Bear Snores On
Bear Can’t Sleep
Baby Bear’s Not Hibernating!
Good Night, Bears
Weather/Rainbows/St Patrick’s:
What Will the Weather Be?
Hello World! Weather
Weather Words and What They Mean
On The Same Day In March - A Tour of the World’s Weather
Come on, Rain!
My Rainbow Surprise
Hello Rainbow
Little Owl’s Colors
What A Wonderful World
Pop-Up Peekaboo! Unicorn
All About Weather
Elmo’s Lucky Day
The Itsy Bitsy Leprechaun