Wee Read - Ribbit Ribbit!

Early Literacy Tip of the Week:

Remember to not ask too many questions. Try to keep your comment to question ratio between 2:1 to 4:1 (2-4 comments/statements for every question you ask your child). --Playing with Words 365

Good Morning

Hello, How are You?

With Our Hands

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

Open Shut Them

Book One

Hop Jump by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Little Green Frog

Mmm-ahh! Went the little green frog one day.

Mmm-ahh! Went the little green frog.

Mmm-ahh! Went the little green frog one day.

And the frog went mmm-mmm-ahh!

--PreschoolEducation.com

Little Frog

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

Little Froggy

--I’m a Little Teapot!: Presenting Preschool Storytime by Jane Cobb. Vancouver, BC: Black Sheep Press, 1996.

I Wiggle My Fingers

Book Two

That’s Not My Frog by Fiona Watt

Frogs

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

Two Little Hands

Sung to: “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”

Two little hands go clap, clap, clap,

Two little feet go tap, tap, tap.

Two little hands go thump, thump, thump (on the ground),

Two little feet go jump, jump, jump.

One little body turns around,

One little child sits right down.

--District 196

Read Together

Mirror Me by Julie Aigner-Clark

The More We Get Together

Storytime - Frogs

Toddler

Books: Leap Back Home to Me by Lauren Thompson and Hop Jump by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Little Green Frog” with frog puppet, “Five Green and Speckled Frogs” on the felt board, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”. 

Craft: Frog Puppets. Materials: green sheets of construction paper, red construction paper tongues, googly eyes, crayons, glue, and tape. The toddlers glued the eyes to the tops of their puppets and then glued the tongue inside its mouth. When they were done, we sang “Little Green Frog” with the puppets.

Preschool

Books: Frog by Louise Spilsbury and Froggy Goes to Camp by Jonathan London. 

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Little Green Frog” with frog puppet, “Five Green and Speckled Frogs” on the felt board, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”. 

Craft: Frog Puppets. Materials: green sheets of construction paper, red construction paper tongues, googly eyes, crayons, glue, and tape. The preschoolers glued the eyes to the tops of their puppets and then glued the tongue inside its mouth. When they were done, we sang “Little Green Frog” with the puppets.

Songs/Rhymes

Little Green Frog

Mmm-ahh! Went the little green frog one day.

Mmm-ahh! Went the little green frog.

Mmm-ahh! Went the little green frog one day.

And the frog went mmm-mmm-ahh!

-- PreschoolEducation.com

Five Green and Speckled Frogs

Five green and speckled frogs

Sitting on a speckled log

Eating some most delicious bugs.

Yum yum!

One jumped into the pool

Where it was nice and cool.

Now there are four green speckled frogs.

--Traditional

Wee Read - Hop Hop Hop

Early Literacy Tip: Let your baby hold the book and turn the pages on his or her own.

Books

• Two Little Monkeys by Mem Fox
• Are You a Cow? by Sandra Boynton
• Clap Hands by Helen Oxenbury
• Read Together book

Songs/Rhymes

Two Little Hands

Sung to: “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star”

Two little hands go clap clap clap

Two little feet go tap tap tap

Two little hands go thump thump thump (on the ground)

Two little feet go jump jump jump

One little body turns around

One little child sits right down.

--District 196

Little Frog (with frog puppet)

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

Little Green Frog (with frog puppet)

Mmm-ahh! Went the little green frog one day.

Mmm-ahh! Went the little green frog.

Mmm-ahh! Went the little green frog one day.

And the frog went mmm-mmm-ahh!

-- PreschoolEducation.com

I Clap My Hands

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

Jump, Jump

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

Here’s a Little Bunny (with bunny puppet)

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

Flannel Friday - Move Like the Animals

After a brief Flannel Friday hiatus, I'm back!

Today's post features a collection of animal movements we used for storytime this week. Each picture is from Open Clip Art Library. They were added to a word document, printed out, and laminated.

I put double sided tape on the back of each, and hung them on the dry erase board side of my flannel board. The children were invited to shout out the name of the animal and imitate their movements.

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