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School Visit: Dr. Seuss' Birthday

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This week, we had a special daycare group visit us to celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday. Instead of reading books by the Dr. himself, I chose to read past winners of the Geisel Award.

Books: You Are (Not) Small by Anna Kang and The Watermelon Seed by Greg Pizzoli

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Bread and Butter”, “Open, Shut Them”, “Zoom, Zoom, Zoom”, “The Banana Song”, and “I Wiggle My Fingers”.

Songs/Rhymes

Bread and Butter

Bread and butter

Marmalade and jam

Let's say hello as high as we can

(whisper: hello)

Repeat with:

...low as we can

...fast as we can

...slow as we can

...loud as we can

...quiet as we can

--Jbrary

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom

Zoom, zoom, zoom

We're going to the moon.

Zoom, zoom, zoom

We're going to the moon.

If you want to take a trip

climb aboard my rocket ship.

Zoom, zoom, zoom

We're going to the moon.

In 5, 4, 3, 2, 1: Blast off!

--Jbrary 

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Storytime - Read Across America: A Celebration of Dr. Seuss and Libraries

Toddler

Books: Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss.

Songs / Rhymes: “Good Morning”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, “Open, Shut Them”, “The Cat in the Hat”, “Five Little Cats” on the felt board, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: One Fish, Two Fish pictures. Materials: die cut white construction paper fish bowl, die cut construction paper fish (yellow, green, blue, red), crayons, glue, and tape. The toddlers glued and taped their fish to the fish bowls.

Preschool

Books: I Took My Frog to the Library by Eric Kimmel and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss.

Songs / Rhymes: “Welcome to the Library”, “Hello, How Are You?”, “Hi There, So Glad You Came”, “If You’re Happy and You Know It”, “Open, Shut Them”, “At the Library”, “I Wiggle My Fingers”, and “The More We Get Together”.

Craft: One Fish, Two Fish pictures. See above.

Special Activity: I spelled book on the magnet board and the preschoolers helped me come up with rhyme with it.

Songs

Cat in the Hat

Sung to: The Addams Family

The cat in the hat

The cat in the hat

The cat in the hat

The cat in the hat!

--Sing a New Song

Five Little Cats with Hats

One little cat on a sunny day
Put on his hat and went out to play
Two little cats when the sky turned dark
Put on their hats and went to the park
Three little cats when the sky turned blue
Put on their hats and went to the zoo
Four little cats by the kitchen door
Put on their hats and went to the store
Five little cats on a sunny day
Put on their hats and they all ran away.

--Hummingbird Educational Resources

At the Library

Sung to: “The Lion Sleeps Tonight”

At the library the Garland library

We read a lot of books.

At the library the Garland library

We read a lot of books.

Reeeeeeeeeeaaaaad

Read a book when?

TODAY!

Reeeeeeeeeeaaaaad

Read a book when?

TODAY!

We read a lot, we read a lot,

We read a lot, we read a lot,

We read a lot, we read a lot,

We read a lot!

We read a lot, we read a lot,

We read a lot, we read a lot,

We read a lot, we read a lot,

We read a lot!

--Miss Lucy