1. HAVE FUN WITH BOOKS Can you and your child retell what happened in one of these stories:
April Foolishness by Teresa Bateman ©2004 [EP Picture Bateman]
Waking Beauty by Leah Wilcox ©2008 [E Fiction Wilcox]
Are You a Horse by Andy Rash ©2009 [E Fiction Rash]
Sailor Moo: Cow at Sea by Lisa Wheeler ©2002 [E Fiction Wheeler]
Recommended Books:
JoCoLibrary - Kids - Foolishness
2. NOTICE PRINT ALL AROUND YOU
Check out our Staff Picks for Notice Print All Around You.
3. TALK, TALK, TALK
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4. TELL STORIES ABOUT EVERYTHING
Have you tried TumbleBooks, an online library of read-along stories, videos and language games for use on computer, Ipad and mobile devices?
5. LOOK FOR LETTERS EVERYWHERE
Try some fun alphabet activities from the Johnson County Library's Youth Services Pinterest page.
6. TAKE TIME TO RHYME, SING AND PLAY WORD GAMES
Here are the rhymes and songs from today:
Welcome to Storytime! [tune: Twinkle, Twinkle]
Welcome, welcome everyone,
Now we’re here, let’s have some fun.
First we’ll sing the ABC’s,
hen we’ll read and sing with me.
Welcome, welcome, everyone
Now we’re here, let’s have some fun.
Take Me Out to the Barnyard [tune:"Take Me Out to the Ball Game"]
Take me out to the barnyard, Take me out there right now!
how me the cows, pigs and horses too,
I hear an oink and a neigh and a moo.
There are chickens laying their eggs now, If they don't lay, it's a shame.
Oh, it's one, two, three eggs today, And I'm glad I came.
Foolish Fairies [tune: 10 Little Indians]
One little, two little, three little fairies,
four little, five little, six little fairies,
seven little, eight little, nine little fairies,
Ten foolish fairies dance all around.
Eleven little, twelve little, thirteen little fairies
fourteen little, fifteen little, sixteen little fairies
seventeen little, eighteen little, nineteen little fairies
Twenty foolish fairies dance all around.
Cows Just Want to Have Fun [tune:"Princesses Want to Have Fun" ]
My cow bell rings, in the middle of the night.
My farmer yells, what you gonna do with your life
Oh, farmer dear, you know you're still number one;
but, cows they wanna have fun!
Oh, cows just want to have fun!
That's all they really want.... some fun....
When the milking day is done,
Oh, cows... they want to have fun...
Oh cows just want to have fun!
The More We Read Together [Tune: The More We Get Together]
The more we read together, together, together,
The more we read together the better it is!
'Cause reading adn singing and talking together,
is how you learn the six skills for reading by six.