Wee Read - Woof Woof!

Early Literacy Tip of the Week:

Count everything! Counting helps develop the concept of one-to-one correspondence.

Good Morning

Hello, How are You?

Jump, Jump

--Babies in the Library by Jane Marino. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2003.

Open Shut Them

Book One

How Do Dinosaurs Love Their Dogs? by Jane Yolen and Mark Teague

If You’re a Doggie and You Know It

If you’re a doggie and you know it,

Say, “Woof, woof”.

If you’re a doggie and you know it,

Say, “Woof, woof”.

If you’re a doggie and you know it,

And you really want to show it,

If you’re a doggie and you know it,

Say, “Woof, woof”.

Repeat with give a lick, scratch your ears.

--Miss Mollie

Roly Poly

--from Babies in the Library by Jane Marino. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2003.

Five Little Doggies

Five little doggies in the doggie pet store.

Looking so lonely, they want a child to adore.

When along comes a child with a dollar to pay

She buys a doggie and takes him away.

--Miss Mollie

I Wiggle My Fingers

Book Two

Big Dog and Little Dog by Dav Pilkey

How Much is that Doggie in the Window?

How much is that doggie in the window?

The one with the waggly tail?

How much is that doggie in the window?

I do hope that doggie’s for sale.

--Traditional

Pease Porridge Hot

Clap each syllable.

--Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsy Diamant-Cohen. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006.

Read Together

Puppy Love by Patti Jennings

The More We Get Together

Storytime - Read Across America: A Celebration of Dr. Seuss and Libraries

Toddler

Books: Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss.

Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, “Open, Shut Them”, “The Cat in the Hat”, “Five Little Cats” on the felt board, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: One Fish, Two Fish pictures. Materials: die cut white construction paper fish bowl, die cut construction paper fish (yellow, green, blue, red), crayons, glue, and tape. The toddlers glued and taped their fish to the fish bowls.

Preschool

Books: I Took My Frog to the Library by Eric Kimmel and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss.

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Hi There, So Glad You Came”, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, “Open, Shut Them”, “At the Library”, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: One Fish, Two Fish pictures. See above.

Special Activity: I spelled book on the magnet board and the preschoolers helped me come up with rhyme with it.

Songs

Cat in the Hat

Sung to: The Addams Family

The cat in the hat

The cat in the hat

The cat in the hat

The cat in the hat!

--Sing a New Song

Five Little Cats with Hats

One little cat on a sunny day
Put on his hat and went out to play
Two little cats when the sky turned dark
Put on their hats and went to the park
Three little cats when the sky turned blue
Put on their hats and went to the zoo
Four little cats by the kitchen door
Put on their hats and went to the store
Five little cats on a sunny day
Put on their hats and they all ran away.

--Hummingbird Educational Resources

At the Library

Sung to: “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”

At the library the Garland library

We read a lot of books.

At the library the Garland library

We read a lot of books.

Reeeeeeeeeeaaaaad

Read a book when?

TODAY!

Reeeeeeeeeeaaaaad

Read a book when?

TODAY!

We read a lot, we read a lot,

We read a lot, we read a lot,

We read a lot, we read a lot,

We read a lot!

We read a lot, we read a lot,

We read a lot, we read a lot,

We read a lot, we read a lot,

We read a lot!

--Miss Lucy

Wee Read - Baby and Me

Early Literacy Tip of the Week:

Pick one sound that your baby says frequently. Use that sound when playing and singing during the day.

Good Morning

Hello, How are You?

Animals Wake Up

-- Children’s Programming Monthly v. 1 no. 5 pg. 5 by Kathy MacMillan and Christine Kirker

Open Shut Them

Book One

Hello, Lulu by Caroline Uff

The Great Big Spider

Change Itsy-Bitsy to Great Big. The gross motor movements are easier for babies and younger toddlers.

--from Lapsit Services for the Very Young II by Linda L. Ernst. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc, 2001.

Can You Kick with Two Feet?

--Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsy Diamant-Cohen. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006.

I Went to the Farm One Day

--Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsy Diamant-Cohen. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006.

I Wiggle My Fingers

Book Two

I Like It When by Mary Murphy

Rooster Crows

--from Babies in the Library by Jane Marino. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2003.

Row, Row, Row Your Boat

Row, row, row your boat,

Gently down the stream.

Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily,

Life is but a dream!

--Traditional

Read Together

Touch and Feel Farm by Julie Aigner-Clark

The More We Get Together

Storytime - The Year of the Snake: A Chinese/Lunar New Year Party

Toddler

Books: My First Chinese New Year by Karen Katz and Hide and Snake by Keith Baker.

Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Head and Shoulders”, “Hello Sammy Snake” with snake puppet, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: Sssssnakes. Materials: green construction paper strips, red construction paper tongues, crayons, glue, and tape. The toddlers glued their strips together to make a chain. When they were done, they glued on the tongues and drew on eyes. The idea came from DLTK's Crafts for Kids.

Preschool

Books: Max Celebrates Chinese New Year by Adria F. Klein and Ten Mice for Tet by Peti Deitz Shea.

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “A Tooty Tah”, “Hello Sammy Snake” with the snake puppet, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: Sssssnakes. These ones were made with red, yellow, and black strips. Some preschoolers glued their strips together to make a chain, while others taped them together to make one long strip. See above.

A retired coworker let me borrow some of her Lunar New Year decorations to add to our festivities.

Songs

Hello, Sammy Snake (with snake puppet)

Sung to: "If You're Happy and You Know It"

Hello, Sammy Snake,

How are you?

Hello, Sammy Snake,

How are you?

With a slither, slither, slither,

And a hiss, hiss, hiss,

Hello, Sammy Snake,

How are you?

--Miss Mollie

Wee Read - Valentine's Day

Early Literacy Tip of the Week: Make sure you get plenty of face-to-face time! Babies prefer to focus on human faces over anything else.

Good Morning

Hello, How are You?

If You Love Me and You Know It

Sung to: "If You’re Happy and You Know It"

If you love me and you know it, clap your hands. x2
If you love me and you know it,
Then your face will surely show it.
If you love me and you know it, Clap your hands.

Other Verses:
Say "I Love you", Blow a kiss, Give a hug

--PreschoolEducation

Open Shut Them

Book One

What Do You Love? by Jonathan London

Will You Be My Valentine

Sung to: "Do You Know the Muffin Man?”

Will you be my Valentine, my Valentine, my Valentine?
Will you be my Valentine, be a friend of mine?

--PreschoolEducation

Acka Backa

--from Lapsit Services for the Very Young II by Linda L. Ernst. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc, 2001.

Little Red Valentine Game

Little Red Valentine, I love you.

Little Red Valentine, I love you.

Little Red Valentine, I love you.

Yellow one says, "I love you, too!"

Use green and blue.

--Storytime ABC’s

I Wiggle My Fingers

Book Two

Where is Baby’s Valentine? by Karen Katz

Roll Roll Sugarbabies

Roll, roll sugarbabies (arms roll)
Roll, roll sugarbabies.
Push, pull,
Clap, clap, clap!

--Rain Makes Applesauce

Clap Hands, Clap Hands

Use signs for Daddy, Mommy, Grandpa, Grandma

--from Babies in the Library by Jane Marino. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2003.

Read Together

Clap Hands by Helen Oxenbury

The More We Get Together