OPENING FINGERPLAY: Open Them Shut Them*<\/strong><\/p>\n FINGERPLAY: One Little Cat<\/strong> One little cat on a sunny day Here’s the finger puppet hats I made to go with. The second photo shows how they went together.<\/em> BOOK: Green Eggs and Ham<\/strong> by DR SEUSS SONG: Ham and Eggs<\/strong> Ham and eggs, ham and eggs FLANNEL SONG: A Hunting We Will Go*<\/strong> FLANNELBOARD: One Fish Two Fish<\/strong> One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish SONG: Dr Seuss Is On the Loose<\/strong> Dr Seuss is on the loose LITERACY TIP: Phonological Awareness<\/strong> BOOK: Dr Seuss’ ABC<\/strong> by DR SEUSS 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":" It’s Dr. Seuss’s birthday this week! He’s 106! He is a great way to kick off our “Phonological Awareness” month here at storytime, because listening to rhymes and songs builds the skills kids will need to sound words out when … Continue reading
\nThis is from the Seuss page<\/a> on Hummingbird Educational Resources!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
\nPut on his hat and went out to play
\nTwo little cats when the sky turned dark
\nPut on their hats and went to the park
\nThree little cats when the sky turned blue
\nPut on their hats and went to the zoo
\nFour little cats by the kitchen door
\nPut on their hats and went to the store
\nFive little cats on a sunny day
\nPut on their hats and they all ran away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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\nI just read the beginning and the end of this book to these little guys. I go as far as “Would you eat them with a fox?” and then skip to where they are all in the ocean and Sam says, “You do not like them–so you say…” Whenever I skip parts of books I make sure to let the parents know it’s okay to do that when they are reading to babies.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI learned this from Wee Sing In the Car<\/a> by Pam Neall and Susan Nip.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI like mine fried good and brown
\nI like mine fried upside down
\nHam and eggs, ham and eggs
\nFlip ’em flop ’em flip ’em flop ’em
\nHam and eggs!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nSeussian rhyme pairs today: cat\/hat, mouse\/house, fox\/box, fish\/dish.<\/em>
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\nA colleague made this flannel from photocopies of Dr Seuss’ One Fish Two Fish. I put them up one at a time, talking about them (“Hey, this is a new fish! It’s a baby fish!”), then when they are all up on the board, we go back and do it again–the parents always join in and recite it with me.<\/em>
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\nBlack fish, blue fish, old fish, new fish
\nThis one has a little star
\nThis one has a little car
\nSay! What a lot of fish there are!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nALso from the Seuss page<\/a> on Hummingbird Educational Resources!<\/a>. I sing it to B-I-N-G-O instead of Old Macdonald and changed the last line.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAnd this is how we know it
\nCats, hats, eggs and ham
\nCats, hats, eggs and ham
\nCats, hats, eggs and ham
\nAnd this is how we know it!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nReading Dr Seuss books is a great way to introduce lots of rhyming words to your child! Rhyming words are great for kids because they help them learn how to hear if beginning sounds and ending sounds of words are the same or different. They will need to be able to hear the smaller sounds of words when they start sounding words out as they read!<\/em><\/p>\n
\nI read the A, B, and C pages today.<\/em><\/p>\n