Early Literacy Tip of the Week:
Clapping to rhymes and singing allows children to hear that words are made up of smaller parts. This will help them sound out words when they learn to read. --Library Bonanza
Good Morning
Hello, How are You?
Rooster Crows
--from Babies in the Library by Jane Marino. Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2003.
Open Shut Them
Book One
Chicky Chicky Chook Chook by Cathy MacLennan
I Went to the Farm One Day
I went to the farm one day.
I saw a hen across the way.
And what do you think the hen did say?
Cluck, cluck, cluck!
I went to the farm one day.
I saw a chick across the way.
And what do you think the chick did say?
Cheep, cheep, cheep!
I went to the farm one day.
I saw a rooster across the way.
And what do you think the rooster did say?
Cockadoodledoo!
--modified from Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsy Diamant-Cohen. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006.
Cluck Cluck, Red Hen
Use a chicken puppet and two plastic eggs
Sung to: "Baa Baa, Black Sheep”
Cluck, cluck, red hen, have you any eggs?
Yes, sir, yes, sir, as many as my legs: 1,2
I Wiggle My Fingers
Book Two
Hurry! Hurry! by Eve Bunting
Shake Your Egg With Me
Sung to: “London Bridge”
use shaker eggs
Can you shake your egg with me,
Shake your egg along with me
It’s as easy as can be
Now put it on your knee!
Repeat with head, tummy, etc.
We Shake Our Shakers Together
-- Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsy Diamant-Cohen. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006.
An Egg is On My Nose
Sung to: “The Farmer in the Dell”
Use egg shakers
An egg is on my nose,
an egg is on my nose,
Heigh-ho, the derry-o,
an egg is on my nose.
(Repeat using other body parts)
Read Together
Five Little Chicks by Nancy Tafuri
The More We Get Together
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