Wee Read - Birds

Early Literacy Tip: Choose books with one image to a page. Tap the image while saying the name of the object.


Books

• Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes by Mem Fox
• Baby Says by John Steptoe
• Duckie's Splash by Frances Barry
• Read Together book

Songs/Rhymes

See My Fingers Dance and Play

Sung to: “Mary Had a Little Lamb”

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

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.

The Owl Goes Hoo! (with owl puppet)

Sung to “The Farmer in the Dell”
The owl goes hoo. The owl goes hoo,
Hi ho the derrio the owl goes hoo.

--Librarian Lisa’s Storytimes

One Little Duck Went Out One Day (on the felt board)

One little duck went out one day

Over the hill and far away

Mother Duck said, “Quack, quack, quack, quack!”

And two little ducks came waddling back.

Continue to five little ducks.

--Traditional

Red Bird

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

*The idea for the bird props came from Dr. Jim Thomas at Itsy Bitsy Babies.