Everybody Has a Body!
Celebrate your head, shoulders, knees and toes in these stories, songs and rhymes.
Babies
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Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes
by Mem Fox; illustrations by Helen Oxenbury
ISBN: 9780547366203
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| Rhyme: "The Baby Grows" | |
| Five fingers on this hand | (Hold up one of baby’s hands) |
| Five fingers on that. | (Hold up the other hand) |
| A dear little nose. | (Point to nose) |
| A mouth like a rose. | (Point to mouth) |
| Two cheeks, so tiny and fat | (Point to each cheek) |
| Two eyes, two ears, | (Point to each) |
| And ten little toes-- | (Point to toes) |
| That's the way the baby grows! | (Gently raise baby’s arms over head.) |
Toddlers
All of Baby Nose to Toes
by Victoria Adler; pictures by Hiroe Nakata
ISBN: 9780803732179
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| Song: "If You're Happy and You Know It!" | |
| (For more verses, come up with your own body movements! hear the tune at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrsM9WggCdo&feature=player_embedded ) | |
| If you're happy and you know it, clap you hands | (Clap twice) |
| If you're happy and you know it, clap you hands | (Clap twice) |
| If you're happy and you know it, | |
| Then your face will surely show it | |
| If you're happy and you know it, clap you hands | (Clap twice) |
| (Additional verses:) | |
| If you're happy and you know it, stomp your feet... | (Stomp each foot) |
| If you're happy and you know it, nod your head... | (Nod twice) |
| If you're happy and you know it, wave your arms... | (Wave arms overhead) |
| If you're happy and you know it, blink your eyes... | (Blink twice) |
| If you're happy and you know it, bend your knees... | (Bend knees) |
| If you're happy and you know it, jump up and down... | (Jump twice) |
| If you're happy and you know it, turn around... | (Spin around) |
Preschoolers
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| Song: "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" | |
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(For an additional challenge, speed up the tempo of song each time you sing! For more verses, come up with your own body movements! hear the tune at http://wiki.kcls.org/tellmeastory/index.php/Head_Shoulders_Knees_and_Toes ) |
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| Head, shoulders, knees and toes, | (Point to each body part, |
| Knees and toes | as it is named in the song) |
| Head, shoulders, knees and toes, | |
| Knees and toes | |
| And eyes and ears and mouth and nose | |
| Head, shoulders, knees and toes! | |
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