Here’s what we did for Fun Friday on Aug 19th.

The Stories

Turtle Splash by Cathryn Falwell

Scoot by Cathryn Falwell

and I Can’t Get My Turtle to Move by Elizabeth Lee O’Donnell

The Songs and Fingerplays

MY LITTLE TURTLE

This is my little turtle.

He lives alone in a shell.

He likes his little home.

He thinks it’s really swell.
He pokes out his head 

When he wants to eat. 

Then he pulls it back in.

TURTLES EVERYWHERE

Tune: “On Top of Old Smokey”
Some turtles swim over the ocean.

Some turtles swim over the sea.

Some turtles grow very big

As big as you and me.
Turtles, turtles, swimming here and there.

Turtles, turtles, turtles everywhere.

Tiny Tim the Turtle
I had a little turtle, his name was Tiny Tim

I put him in the bathtub, to see if he could swim

He drank up all the water, he ate up all the soap

and now he’s sick in bed with a bubble in his throat hiccup

A Little Turtle
There was a little turtle
He lived in a box
He swam in a puddle
He climbed on the rocks 
He snapped at a mosquito 
He snapped at a flea 
He snapped at a minnow
He snapped at me
He caught the mosquito
He caught the flea 
He caught the minnow
But he didn’t catch me

The Craft: Turtle

What you’ll need:

• Turtle templates (found at Scholastic pintables)
• Scissors
• Crayons or markers

To Make: Print template, color and cut out. Insert head through slits in the shell to make the head go in and out.

Tags: des moines, fun friday, story time, Valley Junction Store

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