Thank you to everyone who attended storytime this week! Here’s a recap of the stories and songs shared in storytime.
This week’s theme is springtime!
Books
Part of our Storytime Collection – not available for check out
We watched this on a downloadable video!
If you enjoyed these stories, you might also like:
- Spring is Here by Will Hillenbrand
- Have You Seen My Duckling by Nancy Tafuri
- Over and Under the Pond by Kate Messner
- On Duck Pond by Jane Yolen
- Abracadabra, it’s Spring! by Anne Sibley O’Brien
The links include all material types, including digital resources.
Rhymes and Songs
Opening Song
Opening Song: When ____________ Wake up in the Morning…
When (birds, dragonflies, frogs, ducks, snakes) wake up in the morning
They always say hello!
When (birds, dragonflies, frogs, ducks, snakes) wake up in the morning
They always say hello!
And what do they say? (tweet, bzzz, ribbit, quack, hisssss)
And that is what they say.
Song: The Ducks on the Bus
Tune: The Wheels on the Bus
The ducks on the bus go quack, quack, quack!
Quack, quack, quack! Quack, quack, quack!
The ducks on the bus go quack, quack, quack!
All through the town!
The ducks on the bus go flap, flap, flap!…
The ducks on the bus go waddle, waddle, waddle!…
The ducks on the bus go quack, quack, quack!…
Rhyme: I Have a Little Frog
I have a little frog.
His name is Tiny Tim.
I put him in the bathtub,
To see if he could swim.
He drank up all the water,
And gobbled up the soap!
And when he tried to talk
He had a BUBBLE in his throat!
Rhyme: Five Green and Speckled Frogs
Five green and speckled frogs,
Sitting on a speckled log,
Eating the most delicious bugs!
Yum, Yum
Then one fell in the pool,
Where it was nice and cool.
Then there were
Remember that all the stories read in our storytimes count toward your 1000 Books Before Kindergarten.
NEW: The Myrna Chelko Early Literacy Initiative
ABC Song
Closing Song (with American Sign Language): Goodbye Friends
(to the tune of Goodnight Ladies)
Goodbye friends,
Goodbye friends,
Goodbye friends,
It’s time to say goodbye.
Literacy Tip
Picture Walking – primary technique in reading to infants and young toddlers. You do not have to read every word. Point to things in the pictures and talk about what you see. This will help develop your child’s visual literacy – “read the pictures” and is an important preliteracy skill.
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