Wee Read - Summer Birds

Early Literacy Tip of the Week:

Using sign language with your baby helps children to think and express themselves symbolically, long before they can talk. --TheBump.com

Good Morning

Hello, How are You?

Good Morning, Mrs. Perky Bird (with crow puppet)

Sung to: “Short’nin’ Bread”

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

Open Shut Them

Book One

The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

Flutter, Flutter, Butterfly

Sung to: "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star”

Flutter, flutter, butterfly,

Floating in the summer sky.

Floating by for all to see,

floating by so merrily.

Flutter, flutter, butterfly,

floating in the summer sky.

--PreschoolEducation

Two Little Blue Birds

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

Cocoon

You spin a cocoon

(Spin in a circle)

Then you wait inside

(Crouch down low and cover face)

And when you come out

(Link thumbs, still covering face)

You’re a butterfly!

(Lift hands fluttering into the atmosphere!)

--HCPL

I Wiggle My Fingers

Book Two

I See Summer by Charles Ghingna

The Ducks on the Pond

Sung to: “The Wheels on the Bus”

The ducks on the pond go quack quack quack,

Quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, quack.

The ducks on the pond go quack, quack, quack,

All day long.

--Children’s Programming Monthly v. 1 no. 10 pg. 5 by Kathy MacMillan

Blue Bird, Blue Bird

Blue bird, blue bird,

On my window.

Blue bird, blue bird,

On my window.

Blue bird, blue bird,

On my window.

Oh, Mommy, I’m tired.

--Jim Thomas

Read Together

There was no read together book today.

The More We Get Together