Wee Read - Birds

Early Literacy Tip: Teach your baby your native language first, and encourage him or her to speak it with you. This will help your baby learn other languages in the future.

Books

Wow! Said the Owl by Tim Hopgood

Look at the Baby by Kelly Johnson

 

Five Little Ducks by Juliet Williams

Read-Together

Special Songs/Rhymes

Clap Hands, Clap Hands

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

Owl in the Tree (with owl puppet)Sung to: “Skip to My Lou”

Owl in the tree goes, “Hoo, hoo hoo,”
Owl in the tree goes, “Hoo, hoo hoo,”
Owl in the tree goes, “Hoo, hoo hoo,”
Hoo, hoo, hoo, my darling.

--Sunflower Storytime

Five Little Owls

Five little owls sitting in a tree
One flew away!

How many do you see?
One, two, three, four.

Four little owls sitting in a tree
One flew away!

How many do you see?
One, two, three.

Three little owls… etc.

--Sunflower Storytime

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

Storytime - Owls

Books

Wow! Said the Owl by Tim Hopgood

Toddler

Little Owl's Night by Divya Srinivasan

Toddler

I'm Not Sleepy! by Jonathan Allen

Preschool

Good Night, Owl! by Pat Hutchins

Preschool

Songs/Rhymes

Owl in the Tree
Sung to: “Skip to My Lou”

Owl in the tree goes, “Hoo, hoo hoo,”
Owl in the tree goes, “Hoo, hoo hoo,”
Owl in the tree goes, “Hoo, hoo hoo,”
Hoo, hoo, hoo, my darling.

--Sunflower Storytime

Activities

Five Little Owls

Five little owls sitting in a tree
One flew away!

How many do you see?
One, two, three, four.

Four little owls sitting in a tree
One flew away!

How many do you see?
One, two, three.

Three little owls… etc.

--Sunflower Storytime

O-W-L

We spelled out the word OWL using letters I printed and laminated, then stuck onto the dry erase board with double-sided tape. Once we went over the letters used, I added an S and explained how that made the word plural. We then added other letters to the beginning of the word to find rhymes.

Craft

I printed out this owl craft from First School and the children pasted them onto a piece of brown construction paper then colored them in. Volunteers cut out the pieces ahead of time for the toddlers, while the preschoolers cut their own out.

Inspired By Flannel Friday

It's Friday! This week I have two inspired bys to share: Five Hoot Owls and Five Dirty Pigs.

Five Hoot Owls

Five hoot owls sitting in a tree
One flew away! How many do you see?
One, two, three, four.

Four hoot owls sitting in a tree
One flew away! How many do you see?
One, two, three.

Three hoot owls… etc.

 --Leah from Sunflower Storytime

Leah has a nice printable template available for this song, too. Thanks Leah!!

Five Dirty Pigs

Five pigs so squeaky clean
Cleanest you’ve ever seen
Wanted to go outside and play
Oink! Oink!
One jumped into the mud
Landed with a big THUD
Then there were four clean squeaky pigs.

--Melissa from Mel's Desk

Alternately, you could use this song:

Five Little Piggies

Five little piggies rolling in the mud.

Squishy, squashy, felt so good!

Then along came the farmer,

who took one for a bath.

Continue to one little piggy

-- PreschoolEducation.com

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