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