OPENING FINGERPLAY: Open Them Shut Them*<\/strong><\/p>\n BOOK: It Looked Like Spilt Milk<\/strong> by CHARLES SHAW GUESSING GAME: Where Is Little Cloud?<\/strong> FINGERPLAY: Big Round Sun<\/strong> Big round sun in the summer sky SONG: Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star<\/strong> <\/p>\n BOOK: Round is a Mooncake<\/strong> by ROSEANNE THONG LITERACY TIP: Letter Knowledge<\/strong> Learning shapes helps gets kids ready to learn letters! Triangles and circles help them get ready for As and Os. Learning about any differences, or opposites, will help them, too.<\/em><\/p>\n ACTIVITY: Roll, Roll, Sugar Babies<\/strong> Roll roll sugar babies <\/em> You can also do other opposites together, like “Up” and “Down” and “Right” and “Left”.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n FLANNEL SONG: A Hunting We Will Go*<\/strong> We talked about the round dish and the square windows and the straight lines of the hen’s pen.<\/em><\/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":" I’m trying a Shapes storytime for the first time with the babies today! I try not to focus too much on “preschool skills” in baby storytime, but our literacy skill of the month is Letter Knowledge. I like to remind … Continue reading
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\nI chose this title because we have a big book copy of it, but Little Cloud<\/strong> by Eric Carle would work as well.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n“Little Cloud, are you behind the green rectangle? Are you behind the blue triangle?”<\/em>
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\nSome days we are smarter than we think…I made all those shapes and then only afterwards realized that I made the circle yellow and that it could be the sun for this rhyme!<\/em><\/p>\n
\nHold arms in circle over head<\/em>
\nWaved to a cloud that was passing by
\nWave!<\/em>
\nThe little cloud laughed as it started to rain
\nWiggle fingers downward for rain<\/em>
\nAnd out came the big round sun again.
\nHold up arms in circle above head again<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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\nI chose just a few pages to read from this book.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nThanks to Reading Chick<\/a> for teaching me this one!<\/em><\/p>\n
\nRoll roll sugar babies
\nRoll babies hands over each other like Wheels on the Bus<\/em>
\nPush
\nGently push baby’s arms…lean forward or back if they are sitting on your lap, or pull on their arms if they are lying on their backs. Remember to make sure the motion is “pushing” from their point of view!<\/em>
\nPull
\nGently pull baby’s arms<\/em>
\nClap clap clap
\nClap!<\/p>\n
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