Wee Read - Down on the Farm

Early Literacy Tip of the Week:

By the time your baby reaches six months, he realizes that some objects have purposes. He now realizes that books have fun pictures and include time spent with his caregiver. –-KT Paxton

Good Morning

Hello, How are You?

To Market, to Market

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

Open Shut Them

Book One

Barnyard Banter by Denise Fleming

I Went to the Farm One Day

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

Cluck Cluck, Red Hen

Use a chicken puppet and two plastic eggs

Sung to: "Baa Baa, Black Sheep”

Cluck, cluck, red hen, have you any eggs?

Yes, sir, yes, sir, as many as my legs: 1,2

--Storytime Source Page

This Little Cow

This little cow eats grass

This little cow eats hay

This little cow drinks water

This little cow runs away

This little cow lies in the grass all day

Let's tickle, tickle, tickle her until she wants to play.

--Storytime with Miss Tara and Friends

I Wiggle My Fingers

Book Two

Wee Little Lamb by Lauren Thompson

Three Dirty Piggies

Three dirty 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

Three Pigs So Squeaky Clean

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 great big THUD

Then there were two clean squeaky pigs.

--Mel’s Desk

Read Together

Touch and Feel Farm Animals by Julie Aigner-Clark

The More We Get Together

Wee Read - Just Us Chickens

Early Literacy Tip of the Week:

Clapping to rhymes and singing allows children to hear that words are made up of smaller parts. This will help them sound out words when they learn to read. --Library Bonanza

Good Morning

Hello, How are You?

Rooster Crows

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

Open Shut Them

Book One

Chicky Chicky Chook Chook by Cathy MacLennan

I Went to the Farm One Day

I went to the farm one day.

I saw a hen across the way.

And what do you think the hen did say?

Cluck, cluck, cluck!

I went to the farm one day.

I saw a chick across the way.

And what do you think the chick did say?

Cheep, cheep, cheep!

I went to the farm one day.

I saw a rooster across the way.

And what do you think the rooster did say?

Cockadoodledoo!

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

Cluck Cluck, Red Hen

Use a chicken puppet and two plastic eggs

Sung to: "Baa Baa, Black Sheep”

Cluck, cluck, red hen, have you any eggs?

Yes, sir, yes, sir, as many as my legs: 1,2

--Storytime Source Page

I Wiggle My Fingers

Book Two

Hurry! Hurry! by Eve Bunting

Shake Your Egg With Me

Sung to: “London Bridge”

use shaker eggs

Can you shake your egg with me,

Shake your egg along with me

It’s as easy as can be

Now put it on your knee!

Repeat with head, tummy, etc.

--Nancy Stewart

We Shake Our Shakers Together

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

An Egg is On My Nose

Sung to: “The Farmer in the Dell”

Use egg shakers

An egg is on my nose,

an egg is on my nose,

Heigh-ho, the derry-o,

an egg is on my nose.

(Repeat using other body parts)

--Storytime Source Page

Read Together

Five Little Chicks by Nancy Tafuri

The More We Get Together

Storytime - Pigs!

Books

• Ten Dirty Pigs, Ten Clean Pigs: An Upside-Down, Turn-Around Bathtime Counting Book by Carol Roth
• Toddler
• This book is double-sided. I only read the Ten Dirty Pigs portion.
• Z-Z-Zoink! by Bernard Most
• Toddler
• I'm a Pig by Sarah Weeks
• Preschool
• One of my favorite read-alouds!
• Huff & Puff
• Claudia Rueda
• Great book for class participation.

Songs/Rhymes

*These two rhymes are great to do together. The pigs get dirty then get a bath or vice-versa.

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





Five Pigs So Squeaky Clean

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 great big THUD
Then there were four clean squeaky pigs.

--Mel’s Desk

Crafts

Toddler - Piggy Face 

Materials: Construction paper pig heads, googly eyes, pink pompoms, crayons, glue, and tape. The toddlers glued the eyes and pompom nose to their pig faces then colored them in.

Preschool - Pink Pigs

Materials: Pig outline on cardstock, pink paint, and paint brushes. The preschoolers painted their pigs with the pink paint.

Wee Read - At the Farm

Early Literacy Tip: Sing the same song or recite the same rhyme multiple times.

Books

This Little Chick by John Lawrence
Farmyard Beat by Lindsey Craig
Touch and Feel Farm by Dawn Sirett (read-together)

Songs/Rhymes

Head and Shoulders

Head and shoulders, knees and toes,

Knees and toes

Head and shoulders, knees and toes,

Knees and toes

Eyes and ears and mouth and nose

Head and shoulders, knees and toes

Knees and toes!

-- Traditional

I Went to the Farm One Day - With Puppets
-- Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsy Diamant-Cohen. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2006.

Trot, Trot to Dover

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

Old MacDonald Had a Farm - With Puppets

Old MacDonald Had a Farm

E-I-E-I-O

And on his farm he had a cow

E-I-E-I-O

With a moo-moo here

And a moo-moo there

Here a moo, there a moo

Everywhere a moo-moo

Old MacDonald had a farm

E-I-E-I-O

(repeat using pig, chicken, and horse)

--Traditional

Five Little Piggies - Feltboard

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

Rooster Crows

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