Reason theme
was chosen
Focus
on seasons and colors
Overview & Purpose
Discuss seasonal fruits, colors, cooking, measuring, rhyming and counting
Books / stories used as songs
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear By Don
Wood – BIG BOOK
More Blueberries By Susan Musgraves
Strawberries are Red by Petr Horacek
Pete the Cat: I Love My White Shoes By James Dean
The Very Berry Counting Book By Jerry Pallotta
Strawberries are Red By Petr Horacek
Jamberry By Bruce Degen
Jam and Honey By Melita Morales
The Berry Book by Gail Gibbons
One Little Blueberry by Tammi Salzano
Blueberry Mouse By Alice Low
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Bear Sees Colors By Karma Wilson
Blackberry Booties By Tricia Gardella
Blueberries for Sal By Robert McCloskey (pre-read this if you are reading
to a group. There are areas where you can shorten it for preschoolers)
Songs
Fruit Salad Song By the Wiggles
Fruit Salad Salsa Song By Laurie
Berkner
Fingerplays / rhymes
Picked a Berry
Pick Berries High
Flannelboard: Five Ripe Berries
New words introduced
Ripe
Activity
Free
“paint” with raspberries and blueberries
Materials needed
Cardstock, raspberries and blueberries
Cardstock, raspberries and blueberries
Rhyme: Pick Berries High
Pick berries high (reach up high)
Pick berries low (reach down low)
Pick berries on the bush, nine in a row (clap 9x)
Some like them red (palm up)
Some like them blue (other palm up)
Here’s one for me - yum! (eat)
And here’s one for you. (give)
Hand Rhyme: 5 Berries
Hand Rhyme: 5 Berries
Five ripe
berries sitting in a bowl.
(hold
up five fingers)
The _____ fell out and started to roll.
(Hold up finger, and roll hands)
The _____ fell out and started to roll.
(Hold up finger, and roll hands)
It bumped
the table and hit my toe
(clap
once, and touch toes)
How many berries in the bowl?
1-2-3-4 (Count berries)
Flannel board:
“Five Strawberries”
Five red strawberries, sweet to the core.
Bear came and ate one and then there were four.
Four red strawberries, growing near a tree.
Bear came and ate one and then there were three.
Three red strawberries, for you and you and you.
Bear came and ate one and then there were two.
Two red strawberries, sitting in the sun.
Bear came and ate one and then there was one.
One red strawberry, left all alone.
Bear came and ate it and then there were none.
Other ideas:
Picked a Berry
(Tune: Clementine)
Picked a blueberry, picked a blueberry (picking motion)
That was growing in the sun (circle arms above head)
Then I washed it and I ate it (pretend to eat)
And I picked another one.
Jamberry Flannel
Rhyme
Under the bridge and over the dam
Looking for berries, berries for jam
One berry, two berries, pick me a blueberry.
Under the bridge and over the dam
Looking for berries, berries for jam
Three berries, four berries, pick me a strawberry.
Under the bridge and over the dam
Looking for berries, berries for jam
Five berries, six berries, pick me a blackberry.
Under the bridge and over the dam
Looking for berries, berries for jam
Seven berries, eight berries, pick me a gooseberry.
Under the bridge and over the dam
Looking for berries, berries for jam
Nine berries, ten berries, pick me a raspberry.
