Wee Read - My Body

Early Literacy Tip of the Week:

Babies who are responded to quickly learn to trust their caregivers and environment. A way to respond is to “say back” a noise your baby makes. --KT Paxton

Good Morning

Hello, How are You?

Jump, Jump

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

Open Shut Them

Book One

Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault

Roll Your Scarf

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

Wave Your Scarf

Use scarves

Wave your scarf, one, two, three

Wave your scarf, just like me!

(repeat with roll and throw)

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

Peek-a-Boo

(can be used with scarves)

Tune: Are You Sleeping?

Peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo

I see you, I see you

I see your button nose,

I see your tiny toes.

Peek-a-boo, I see you!

--Jim Thomas

Wind, Oh Wind

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

I Wiggle My Fingers

Book Two

A Kiss Means I Love You by Kathryn Madeline Allen

Clap Hands, Clap Hands

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

Rickety, Rickety Rocking Horse

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

Read Together

Where is Baby’s Belly Button? by Karen Katz

The More We Get Together