Wee Read - Fly Away

Early Literacy Tip: Help your baby feel understood by imitating a sound that he is making.

Books
Jamberry by Bruce Degen
Across the Stream by Mirra Ginsburg

There was no read together book today.

Songs/Rhymes

They’re a Part of Me

Sung to: “The Wheels on the Bus”

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

We Hit the Floor Together

Sung to: “The Bear Went Over the Mountain”

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

Tony Chestnut

(Point to each body part as it is said. Your "nut" is your head.)
Toe, knee, chest, nut
nose eye love you.
Toe knee nose.
Toe knee nose.
Toe, knee, chest, nut
nose eye love you.
That's what toe knee nose.

--Katie at Sharing Soda

Two Little Blue Birds

Two little blue birds sitting on a hill.

One named Jack, the other named Jill.

Fly away Jack, fly away Jill.

Come back Jack, come back Jill.

--Perpetual Preschool

Roly Poly

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

Red Bird

Use red, blue, green, and yellow birds.

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

*I hand out stick puppets of birds for this song. I show the families how to make the sign for bird, as well as for each color.