Wee Read

Early Literacy Tip of the Week: Pick stories that can be sung, too. If your baby wanders away, you can still sing along.

Good Morning

Hello, How are You?

Bend and Stretch

Bend and stretch

And reach for the stars.

There goes Jupiter,

Here comes Mars.

Bend and stretch

And reach for the sky.

Stand on your tippy toes

Oh, so high!

Open Shut Them

Book One

What Do I Do? by Hui Hui Su-Kennedy

I Clap My Hands

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

Humpty Dumpty Up

Humpty Dumpty up,

And Humpty Dumpty down.

Humpty Dumpty left,

Humpty Dumpty right,

Humpty Dumpty all around.

Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall;

Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.

Poor Humpty Dumpty (smiling).

--Jim Thomas

Two Little Blue Birds

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

Book Two

I See by Rachel Isadora

All the Little Babies

Sung to: “Short’nin’ Bread”

All the little babies love bouncing, bouncing

All the little babies just to love bounce!

All the little babies love bouncing, bouncing

All the little babies just to love bounce!

Lean to the left, lean to the right

Hug that baby nice and tight!

--Katie at Sharing Soda

Little Cheek

Little cheek, little chin,

This is where the food comes in.

Little eyes, little nose,

Now I’ll kiss your little toes.

--Manly Library

Read Together

What Do You Say? by Mandy Stanley

The More We Get Together

Storytime - It's Time!

Toddler

Books

Time to Get Dressed by Elivia Savadier

Time for a Hug by Phillis Gershator

Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Hickory Dickory Dock” on the felt board, “I’m a Little Cuckoo Clock” on the felt board, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”. 

Craft: Watches. Materials: cardboard roll sections, clock face on paper, crayons, glue, and tape. The toddlers glued their clock faces to the middle of the cardboard roll. When they were finished, they had watches to wear and check the time on. The idea came from Red Ted Art. The clock faces came from SuperKids.

Preschool

Books: 

Time to Get Up, Time to Go by David Milgrim 

It’s About Time by Stuart J. Murphy

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

Special Activity: The preschoolers helped me tell the time using a clock on the felt board. They learned that the little hand tells the hour and the big hand tells the minutes.

Craft: Build-a-Clock. Materials: printouts of a blank clock face, clock hands, and numbers, metal brads, crayons, glue, scissors, and tape. The preschoolers cut out the numbers and glued them to the correct spots on their clocks. They cut out the clock hands, poked holes into them and the clock face, and made movable hands to practice telling time. The idea came from MrsWilliamsonKinders.

Songs

Hickory Dickory Dock

Hickory, dickory, dock

(clasp hands together and swing gently back and forth)

The mouse ran up the clock.

(run fingers up so hands end up above head)

The clock struck one,

          (clap hands once)

The mouse ran down,

          (bring arms back down in front)

Hickory, dickory, dock.

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

I’m a Little Cuckoo Clock!

Tick tock, tick tock

I’m a little cuckoo clock

Tick tock, tick tock

It’s one o’clock!

CUCKOO!

Tick tock, tick tock

I’m a little cuckoo clock

Tick tock, tick tock

It’s two o’clock!

CUCKOO! CUCKOO!

--Mel’s Desk