Wee Read - Hop Hop Hop

Early Literacy Tip: Let your baby hold the book and turn the pages on his or her own.

Books

• Two Little Monkeys by Mem Fox
• Are You a Cow? by Sandra Boynton
• Clap Hands by Helen Oxenbury
• Read Together book

Songs/Rhymes

Two Little Hands

Sung to: “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”

Two little hands go clap clap clap

Two little feet go tap tap tap

Two little hands go thump thump thump (on the ground)

Two little feet go jump jump jump

One little body turns around

One little child sits right down.

--District 196

Little Frog (with frog puppet)

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

Little Green Frog (with frog puppet)

Mmm-ahh! Went the little green frog one day.

Mmm-ahh! Went the little green frog.

Mmm-ahh! Went the little green frog one day.

And the frog went mmm-mmm-ahh!

-- PreschoolEducation.com

I Clap My Hands

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

Jump, Jump

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

Here’s a Little Bunny (with bunny puppet)

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