Wee Read - Colors

Early Literacy Tip: Choose books with familiar items (shoes, toys, pets) and familiar routines (bedtime, bath time, meals).

Books

Baby Colors by Rachael Hale

How Do You Make a Baby Smile? by Philemon Sturges

I Love Colors by Margaret Miller (read together book)

Songs/Rhymes

Roll Roll Sugarbabies

Roll, roll sugarbabies (arms roll)
Roll, roll sugarbabies.
Push, pull,
Clap, clap, clap!

--Rain Makes Applesauce

Wave Your Scarf (with scarves)

Wave your scarf, one, two, three

Wave your scarf, just like me!

(repeat with roll and throw)

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

Wind, Oh Wind (with scarves)

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

Mix a Pancake (with scarves)

Mix a pancake, stir a pancake

Pop it in a pan.

Fry a pancake, toss a pancake,

Catch it if you can!

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

Peek-a-Boo (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

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.

This is the Way

This is the way we

Bounce, bounce, bounce.

Bounce, bounce, bounce.

Bounce, bounce, bounce.

This is the way we bounce, bounce, bounce

Early in the morning. Wheeee!

--Manly Library