Bugs! Bugs! Bugs!

Storytime Books:

Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! by Bob Barner

Summary:  Pretty ladybugs, fluttering butterflies, creepy daddy longlegs, and roly-poly bugs are some of the familiar creatures featured in this whimsically illustrated insect album.  Bugs! Bugs! Bugs! will inform and entertain curious little bug lovers everywhere.  

...oh and don't forget to count the ants!

Counting In The Garden by Kim Parker

Summary:  This book invites the reader to count the inhabitants of a garden, from one to ten, such as four bunnies and nine inchworms.

We planted flowers in our storytime garden as we sang this song:

 Out In The Garden
by Jean Warren

Out in the garden

Early in the morning

See the yellow flowers

All in a row

See the happy gardener

Coming out to pick them

Pick, pick, pick, pick

Off she goes

We repeated this song two times, each time changing the color of the flowers.

            
Butterfly Butterfly: A Book of Colors by Petr Horacek

Summary:  A little girl spies a colorful butterfly and plays with it in the garden.  The following day, she finds only a pink worm, a brown spider, a green beetle, a family of red ladybugs, an orange snail, three purple caterpillars, a blue dragonfly, and a yellow bee. She lies down in the grass to wait and suddenly, the butterfly flies into view.

Storytime Songs:

Roly Poly by Juice Music from album If Your Happy And You Know It

Lily The Ladybug by Music with Marnie from album Groovin' Through the Neighbourhood

The Caterpillar Song  by Piccolo Music from album Shake Rattle and Sing

More Bug Books:

I Love Bugs! by Emma Dodd
The Very Greedy Bee by Steve Smallman
In the Tall, Tall Grass by Denise Fleming
The Very Lazy Ladybug by Isobel Finn
Bugs Galore by Peter Stein
Big Bug, Little Bug by Paul Stickland

...and all the bug books by Eric Carle

The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The Very Busy Spider
The Very Quiet Cricket
The Very Lonely Firefly
The Grouchy Ladybug
The Very Clumsy Click Beetle