OPENING FINGERPLAY: Open Them Shut Them*<\/strong><\/p>\n BOOK: Little Robin Redbreast<\/strong> by HALPERN PUPPET SONG: Pussycat Pussycat<\/strong> Pussycat pussycat where have you been? FLANNEL SONG: I Had a Little Nut Tree<\/strong> I had a little nut tree The King of Spain’s daughter LITERACY TIP: Singing<\/strong> FLANNEL SONG: A Hunting We Will Go*<\/strong> BOOK: Rain<\/strong> by ROZANNE WILLIAMS BOUNCE: One Misty Moisty Morning<\/strong> One misty moisty morning Clothed all in leather ACTION SONG: The Itsy Bitsy Spider<\/strong><\/p>\n ACTION RHYME: This is Big Big Big*<\/strong> <\/p>\n CLOSING SONG: Sneeze Game*<\/strong> <\/p>\n *Check out the My Baby Storytime<\/a> page for the words and\/or citations for these weekly activities!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" You can not have too many Mother Goose storytimes. I told my storytime parents last week that Mother Goose rhymes are like kale smoothies for baby brains! OPENING SONG: Hello Song* OPENING FINGERPLAY: Open Them Shut Them* BOOK: Little Robin … Continue reading
\nThis an older title, but I love the cut-paper illustrations, and the little ones like finding the cat and the bird on every page.<\/em>
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\nI sang this song with a cat stuffed animal and a mouse puppet.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI’ve been to London to visit the Queen
\nPussycat pussycat what did you there?
\nI frightened a little mouse under her chair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nOne of my favorite tunes. (I think I say that a lot, don’t I? Well, it’s true. I have many favorites!) This is a very simple flannel that I put together very quickly. I started with the tree on the board, then just added the nutmeg and the pear as we sang.<\/em>
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\nNothing would it bear
\nExcept a silver nutmeg
\nAnd a golden pear.<\/p>\n
\nCame to visit me
\nAnd all for the sake
\nOf my little nut tree.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nRhyming songs allow your baby to start to learn to hear that some words have similar sounds. This is a first step to understanding that words are made up of separate sounds. Being able to hear the separate sounds in words is a skill that children will need to have when they begin to sound out words on the page when they read.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nToday we used cat\/mat, mouse\/house, bear\/chair, crab\/cab<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThis is a big book from Creative Teaching Press that I found in our outreach collection. I’m not sure it is still available, though. It’s the little rhyme that goes, “Rain on the green grass, rain on the tree…” It has simple cut-paper illustrations and is great for baby storytime.<\/em>
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\nThis is a lesser-known nursery rhyme that was one of my favorites growing up, I think because “misty moisty” is so much fun to say. I had the grownups bounce their babies on their laps, then gently grab their babies’ chins when we said “strap beneath his chin.”<\/em><\/p>\n
\nWhen cloudy was the weather
\nI chanced to meet an old man
\nClothed all in leather<\/p>\n
\nWith a strap beneath his chin
\nHow do you do and how do you do
\nAnd how do you do again?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n