Can you and your child retell what happened in one of these stories:
Bear Wants More by Karma Wilson © 2003
Dancing in the Kitchen by Wendy Gelsanliter © 1998
Wild Boars Cook by Meg Rosoff ©2008
Beastly Feast by Bruce Goldstone © 1998
2. NOTICE PRINT ALL AROUND YOU
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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,
then we'll read and sing with me.
Welcome, welcome, everyone,
Now we're here let's have some fun.
Before I Eat My Food [tune: "If You're Happy and You Know it" ]
Oh, before I eat my food I wash my hands. [scrub, scrub]
Oh, before I eat my food I wash my hands. [scrub, scrub]
Oh, it's very smart I think, Sending germs right down the sink.
Oh, before I eat my food I wash my hands. [scrub, scrub]
Five Fat Sausages [see video below]
Good Food Song [tune: "Old MacDonald Had a Farm" ]
Vegetables are good for me, EE I EE I O
And so I eat them everyday, EE I EE I O
Eat a carrot here, eat a carrot there
Here a carrot, there a carrot everywhere a carrot, carrot
Oh, vegetables are good for me, EE I EE I O.
Turkey Dinner [Tune: "Are You Sleeping?" ]
Turkey dinner, turkey dinner, gather round, gather round.
Who will get the drumstick? Yummy, yummy drumstick,
All sit down, all sit down.
Cornbread, muffins, chestnuts, stuffing, pumpkin pie, ten feet high.
We were all much thinner, before we sat for dinner!
Me, oh, my, me, oh, my
Thanksgiving Song [tune: "Twinkle, Twinkle" ]
Thank you, thank you, very much
For everything that I can touch.
Thanks a lot for nature's food.
And for when I'm feeling good.
Thank you, thank you very much
for moms and dads and friends and such.
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 and singing and talking together,
Is how you learn the six skills for reading by six.