April 14^th,   2014 Blog

Spring Session, Week 5

Welcome to the Spring 2014 Session of our Ready, Set Read! Blog, Week 5!  We have lots of things to share from our different programs for you to try with your little ones at home. 

Baby Rhyme Time!

We are having Easter fun with your little one this week!  We read the books Where Are Baby’s Easter Eggs? by Karen Katz and Hoppity Hop Peekaboo! by Dawn Sirett.

Here are some songs that we used in our program for you to use at home… 

Rhyme: Easter Bunny Hippity Hop

(Tune: Pop! Goes the Weasel)

Easter bunny, hippity hop,

Hide ‘til Easter morning.

Easter bunny, hippity hop,

Up pops the bunny!

Rhyme: Furry little Easter Bunny (using bunny as prop)

Furry little Easter bunny,

Hopping low and hopping high,

Landed on my head,

And then hopped into the sky!

(Foot, Hand)

To continue the fun, go on a mini egg hunt with your baby.  Talk about the colors of the eggs found and describe where they are hidden.

Wonderful Ones

This week we are having fun with our little ones!  Some books that we read this week This is my Duck by Sam Tablin and Kipper’s Book of Weather by Mick Inkpen.

Here are some songs that we used in our program for you to use at home… 

Rhyme: Ducks

I see ducks.
Ducks see me.
I like the ducks.
The ducks like me.
Big yellow ducks.
One, two, three.
I like the ducks
and the ducks like me.

 

Rhyme: Raindrops, raindrops

(Tune –Twinkle, Twinkle little star)

Raindrops, raindrops, dance around

Raindrops, raindrops touch the ground

Raindrops landing on my nose

Raindrops landing on my toes

Raindrops, raindrops dance around

Raindrops, raindrops, touch the ground.

 

Continue the fun at home by checking out the song 6 Little Ducks on the cd More Singable Song by Raffi. 

  

Terrific Twos!

This week is all about Bears!  Here are some books to read to with your child that goes along with our theme: Scare a Bear by Kathy-jo Wargin and If You Were a Panda Bear by Wendell and Florence Minor. 

Here are some songs and rhymes we used in our program this week….

Rhyme: Bears (Tune: Mary Had a Little Lamb)

Grizzly bears are big and brown,

big and brown, big and brown.

Grizzly bears are big and brown,

And live in the woods.

Polar bears are soft and white,

soft and white, soft and white.

Polar bears are soft and white,

 And live where it’s cold.

Panda bears are white and black,

white and black, white and black.

Panda bears are white and black,

And live in the forest.

Rhyme:

If you’re a panda and you know it, clap your paws.

If you’re a polar bear and you know it, show your teeth.

If you’re a grizzly bear and you know it, growl real loud.

To extend our theme at home, sing the traditional song, We're Going on a Bear Hunt"!

1, 2, 3, Go!

This week we are talking about Easter! We read the following during our story time: I Need an Easter Egg by Harriet Ziefert and Chester’s Colorful Easter Eggs by Theresa Smythe

Rhyme:  I wish I Were a Bunny

I wish I were a bunny,

A bunny, a bunny.

I wish I were a bunny

‘Cause bunnies can hop.

They hop and hop,

And hop and hop.

I wish I were a bunny,

‘Cause bunnies can hop.

Rhyme: If You’re Hoppy and You Know It

If you’re hoppy and you know it, hop around
If you’re hoppy and you know it, hop around
If you’re hoppy and you know it
And you really want to show it
If you’re hoppy and you know it, hop around.

(shake your tail, stomp your feet, wiggle your nose)

To extend our Easter theme at home, talk more about bunnies and where they are.  What do they do?  Where do they live and what do they eat?

Story Mix for 3-6

We are having Springtime fun this week!  A couple of books we read are: Rabbits and Raindrops by Jim Arnosky and The very Busy Spider by Eric Carle. 

Rhyme: (Prop Rhyme with baby chick puppet)

A  perfect white egg sat on by Mother Hen

To keep it warm and then,

Crack, crack, crack

Peep, peep, peep

A baby chick softly cheeps

Rhyme: 5 Little Bunny Rabbits Went Out To Play  
(5 Little Elephants Went Out To Play)

1 little bunny rabbit went out to play
Out on a spider’s web one day
He had such enormous fun
He called on another bunny rabbit to come

(2, 3, 4, 5…)
All the bunny rabbits went out to play,
Out on a spider’s web one day.
They had such enormous fun,
They didn’t see the web break -
      (clap hands)
And they all fell down!

Continue the Easter fun by taking plastic eggs and writing upper case and lower case letters on each half.  Have your child match the correct letters together and put the egg back together!

Spanish Family Story Time

Actividad con marionetas: “¿Qué dicen los animales?” en Learning in Two Languages/Aprendidiendo en dos idiomas por Hap Palmer 

Rima:

Yo camino en la primavera, yo camino por la vecindad
Yo camino y disfruto del clima,  miro arriba y allí están
luna y estrellas
miro arriba y allí están
luna y estrellas
miro arriba y allí están

Activitad con libro: Counting ovejas (contando ovejas) por Sarah Weeks

Beautiful Moon, Bella Luna por Dawn Jeffers

Stars por Mary Lyn Ray

Seven Stars More por Kathy Mallat

Rimas:

Por la noche yo veo las estrellas

Y una grande luna sonriendo

Mamá me lleva a la cama

Allí es donde me da sueño

Mamá me canta, una cancion

Duérmete, mi niño,
duérmete, mi amor,
duérmete, pedazo de mi corazón. (2)

Yo miro a las estrellas, cuando de noche salen

Y pregunto: ¿Cómo es qué brillan?

Brillan, brillan, tan bonitas.

Yo no pienso que se van a caer

Por eso yo las alcanzo y me las llevo en mis manos.                                                                                                                 

Música con instrumentos: Raffi “De Colores”