Next week- Music and Motion Ages 2-5 with an adult

Music and Motion - Thursday 10:30

Let's get our bodies moving to the music! Whohoo!

We will dance and sing and have fun!

Next week- Rhyming to Read Ages 2-5 with an adult

 Rhyming to Read - Thursday at 9:30

We will learn Jack and Jill and Hickory Dickory Dock during this program. We will engage in fun activities for you and your child to practice these rhymes.

There will be take-home activities, too!

Next week- Preschool Pretend and Play Ages 3-5

We are going to camp out in the library! Next week- Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 10:30 am. We are going to read camp stories in our tent, make smores, sing camp songs and watch out for bears! Oh, my!

Bring your bug spray and a sunblock!

New Preschool Programming Begins Next Week!

This is what is happening next week:


Waddlers & Walkers Ages 23 months and younger Thurs. 1st at 9:00am

These will be the same at each session this fall:

Choo Choo Train (Hand rhyme)
Here is My Book (Hand rhyme)

Open and Shut Them (Hand rhyme)

1 Potato 2 Potato (Song/activity)

Do You Know the Muffin Man? (Song/activity)

These will change:

Hickory Dickory Dock

Handy Spandy

A Walking We Will Go

I Bounce You Here

Bumping Up and Down

Baby Shark

Extended activities to take-home.

New Session of Preschool Program Begins!

This is what is happening next week:

 

Tales for Twos Ages 2 with adult M-T-W at 10:30

 

Black & White

• Opening song will be 5 Little Ducks. We will sing this song each week and practice our counting! You will get 5 little ducks to take home so you can sing the song with your little one.
• We will practice our vocabulary and our understanding of opposites as we use our whole body to say our "This is Big" rhyme.
• We will read Black Meets White by Justine Fontes and play a game of What Can This Be? with black and white die-cuts.
• We will practice letter recognition with our song Do You See the Letter?
• Each week we will have fun with the silly Slippery Fish song. This will get our bodies in motion!
• We will end with two nursery rhymes- Baa Baa Black Sheep and Two Little Blackbirds.
• Yummy Oreos for a treat! Take-home extended activities for families!

Videos of Rhymes, Fingerplays, Chants and Songs

Well, in the library world, we use a lot of rhymes, fingerplays and songs to help develop literacy skills. Thanks to the Internet, videos abound that show you motions to go along with the song or rhymes. I use them all the time! Check them out below!

http://www.storyblocks.org/
http://wiki.kcls.org/tellmeastory/index.php/Category:Rhymes_&_Songs
http://www.jocolibrary.org/templates/JCL_InfoPage.aspx?id=14515
http://www.hclib.org/Birthto6/EarlyLit_Fingerplays.cfm

And, of course, YouTube has tons of videos. You can search by fingerplay or song title, but to get you started check out some of these- Cullens ABC, Pamela Sunshine, King County Library (Tell Me A Story) and Musser Library.

Lots of New Books!

Lots of new books are in the library! I just want to highlight these new easy readers:

I really like the Tadpoles from Crabtree. The print is large and easy to read. The vocabulary and sentence sturcture is appropriate for beginner readers. A bunch of new Tadpoles came in recently!

I also like the Stone Arch Readers by Capstone. There is a new set that recently came in all about tools.

For non-fiction easy readers, I really like the DK Readers and the National Geographic Kids titles.



New Song for Fall Storytime! Go Bananas!

Each session of storytime, I search for a silly, activity song- one which gets my LLFs up and moving and being silly! We've done Tooty Ta, Singing in the Rain, My Aunt Came Back, etc. I like using camp songs. I was a Girl Scout and a Girl Scout Leader and I always thought camp songs were so much fun!
Well, I found a great new one! Go Bananas! Check-out The Learning Station video and get ready to Go Bananas at storytime very soon!

6 Early Literacy Skills become 5 Best Practices

These 6 Early Literacy Skills were defined in the early literacy project, Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library. I have earlier posts describing the 6 skills and suggestions on how to develop the skills in you child.
Vocabulary
Knowing the names of things.

Print Motivation
A child's interest in and enjoyment of books.

Print Awareness
Noticing print everywhere; knowing how to handle a book; knowing how we follow the words on a page.

Narrative Skills
The ability to describe things and events and tell stories.

Letter Knowledge
Knowing that letters have names and are different from each other, and that specific sounds go with specific letters.

Phonological Awareness
The ability to hear and play with the smaller sounds in words.

Now, the 2nd edition of Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library has been released and these 6 skills have incorporated into these 5 best practices to get your child ready to read:

Talking, singing, reading, writing and playing.

It's that simple. All of our preschool programming will revolve around these best practices!

Letter Muncher

Now that summer is over, I am working on preparing for fall programs. As I do, I am going to post some very inexpensive ideas for my BLFs to do at home with their little ones.

These small garbage cans were purchased at the Dollar Tree and decorated by one of our wonderful college workers, Christina. She did an amazing job!

Now, these can be letter munchers, shape munchers, sound munchers, number munchers, rhyming word munchers, color munchers, etc...

You make cards or use 3-D objects and have your little one choose from a pile and feed the Muncher- yum, yum, yum. For example, I would have letters- foam, magnetic, printed on cards, etc. available and I would say this rhyme:

Letter Muncher, Letter Muncher
Munch, munch, munch!

Would you like to munch

The letter _____ for lunch?

Letter Muncher, Letter Muncher
Munch, munch, munch

The letter _____ is yummy
To munch for lunch!