Wee Read - A Morning on the Farm

Early Literacy Tip of the Week:

Speaking to your baby up close will help her see the movements your mouth makes in order to produce sounds. -- Kt Paxton “Enhancing Language Development in Childhood”

Good Morning

Hello, How are You?

Old MacDonald Had a Farm

Old MacDonald Had a Farm

E-I-E-I-O

And on his farm he had a cow

E-I-E-I-O

With a moo-moo here

And a moo-moo there

Here a moo

There a moo

Everywhere a moo-moo

Old MacDonald had a farm

E-I-E-I-O

(repeat using pig, chicken, and horse)

--Traditional

Open Shut Them

Book One

Hush, Little Horsie by Jane Yolen

The Shaker Hop

You put your shakers in,

You take your shakers out.

You put your shakers in,

And you shake them all about.

You do the shaker hop and you turn yourself around.

That's what it's all about!

--Miss Mollie

Egg Shaker Song

A-Shake shake shake, A-Shake shake shake,

A-Shake shake shake shake - STOP!

If you have a pink egg,

shake your egg, shake your egg

If you have a pink egg shake your egg

(repeat with different colors)

--Nancy Stewart

Scales

start with the shakers low and move them up higher...

Do Re Me Fa Sol La Ti Do

--Library Meow

I Wiggle My Fingers

Book Two

That’s Not My Pony by Fiona Watt

This Little Cow

This little cow eats grass

This little cow eats hay

This little cow drinks water

This little cow runs away

This little cow lies in the grass all day

Let's tickle, tickle, tickle her until she wants to play.

--Storytime with Miss Tara and Friends

Rickety, Rickety Rocking Horse

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

Read Together

Touch and Feel Farm by Julie Aigner-Clark

The More We Get Together