Wee Read - Rainy Day

Early Literacy Tip: Always talk to your baby. Talk about your day, narrate as you’re completing a task, or discuss future plans.

Books

Baby, I Love You by Karma Wilson

Baby Giggles by Rachel Hale

Duckie's Splash by Frances Barry

Read-Together Book

Songs/Rhymes

The Great Big Spider

This song is the same as the "Itsy Bitsy Spider", just replace "itsy bitsy" with "great big" and make the motions bigger. This makes it easier for the babies to participate, since they don't yet have the fine motor skills necessary for the itsy bitsy version.

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

Rain on the Rooftops

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

Five Little Ducks (felt board)

Five little ducks went out one day,

Over the hills and far away.

Mother duck said, “Quack, quack, quack, quack!”

But only four little ducks came back.

--Traditional

I Hear Thunder

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

The Rain is Falling Down

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