Wee Read - Moving Right Along

Early Literacy Tip of the Week:

Ask your baby questions about what's happening on the page, such as, "Where is the duck?" Pause, point and answer for baby, "Oh, look, there's the duck!"

Good Morning

Hello, How are You?

Clap, Clap, Clap Your Hands

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

Open Shut Them

Book One

Maisy Drives the Bus by Lucy Cousins

The Wheels on the Bus

The wheels on the bus go round and round,

Round and round, round and round.

The wheels on the bus go round and round,

All through the town.

Continue with:

Doors go open and shut

Horn goes beep, beep, beep

Wipers go swish, swish, swish

--Traditional

The Little Train

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

Going for a Ride in My Train

Sung to: Ten Little Indians

Going for a ride in my little ______ train

Going for a ride in my little ______ train

Going for a ride in my little ______ train
Chugga, chugga, chugga, chugga

Choo, choo!

Insert color of train

--Recipe for Reading

I Wiggle My Fingers

Book Two

Beep Beep by Petr Horacek

Did You Ever See an Airplane?  
Sung to: "Did You Ever See a Lassie?"
Did you ever see an airplane,
An airplane, and airplane?
Did you ever see an airplane
Way up in the sky?
There are big ones and small ones
And short ones and tall ones.
Did you ever see an airplane
Way up in the sky?

--PreschoolEducation

We’re Going Down a Smooth Road

Sung to: “Short’nin’ Bread”

We’re going down a smooth road, a smooth road, a smooth road.

We’re going down a smooth road, a smooth road now.

We’re going down a bumpy road, a bumpy road, a bumpy road.

We’re going down a bumpy road, a bumpy road now.

We’re going down a rough road, a rough road, a rough road.

We’re going down a rough road, UH OH! POTHOLE!

--ALSC

Read Together

Where are Maisy's Friends? by Lucy Cousins

The More We Get Together