Learning Goal for Have You Seen My New Blue Socks
Toddler storytime is full of little ones these days. The caregivers are hungry for tips and are so enthusiastic. The kiddos are moving to the rhythm, clapping, signing, pointing to the book illustrations, touching the felt pieces and just generally getting into storytime. What a blast!
Weekly Early Literacy Tip: Singing nursery rhymes or other songs is fun and fosters early literacy! We usually sing slower than we speak and as we sing kids can more easily hear the individual sounds in words. This is called phonological awareness and will eventually help your child sound out words when they are ready to read. often the ending sounds are the easiest to hear, so we're focusing on rhymes today.
Welcome Song: The More We Get (Read) Together (with ASL)
I brought along my monkey puppet to sing with us on this next song. This crowd LOVES puppets.
Action Rhyme: Monkey See Monkey Do
Monkey see, monkey do
Little monkey in the zoo
Monkey, monkey, in the tree
Can you jump around like me?
(…clap your hands…climb a tree…nod your head…sit down…)
Have You Seen My New Blue Socks by Eve Bunting and Sergio Ruzzier (Photo source: ruzzier.com)
Book: Have You Seen My New Blue Socks? by Eve Bunting & Sergio Ruzzier (Clarion Books, 2013)
Bunting's book reads well as a story, unlike some rhyming stories that seem forced. The amount of text, story line and word choice create a pacing, when read aloud, that encourages emphasis on the rhyming words and offers opportunities for the youngest storytime kids to interact with the illustrations and make connections with the text. One on one sharing allows for even more conversation, reinforcing the value of this title as a repeat read.
Felt game: Little Fox, Little Fox
This felt game was inspired by erinisinire. Lots of people have versions of this game (and it's cousin Little Mouse, Little Mouse) as Jbrary found out, but I do love this fox the best and it ties nicely with the book we shared this week which includes a fox and some boxes. I used my Folkmanis fox puppet (called Big Fox in this game instead of mom or dad fox) to add another dimension and reinforce the concept of big and small.
Some of the toddlers wanted to hide the fox as well as find it which worked out great because the hiders still let us say the rhyme and were surprised when we found it behind one of the different colored boxes!
Bubbles!
Before we sang this song and popped bubbles together, I mentioned why I count starting with my thumb. We count to three a lot during this storytime to show how easy it is to integrate counting (math) into daily activities and I always start with my thumb. These first three fingers are essential for pinching and grasping small objects and will later be used to hold a paintbrush or writing tool.
Bringing out a box of scarves after I put the bubbles away is a great transition! Before our next song which used different colored scarves, I explained and demonstrated what we were going to do with our scarves and then we sang together. For example we were going to wave the scarves overhead and then rub our hair.
Scarf Song: Scarves in the Air
Put your scarf in the air, in the air
Put your scarf in the air, in the air
Put your scarf in the air, now rub your hair
Put your scarf in the air, in the air
…on your knee, count to three
…on your toe, way to go!
…on your head, who has red? (the families with a red scarf waved it in the air)
Source: Read, Sing, Play
See and hear the tune in action with KCLS
Action Song: If You're Happy and You Know It
If you're happy and you know it, wave your scarf.
If you're happy and you know it, wave your scarf.
If you're happy and you know it and you really want to show it.
If you're happy and you know it, wave your scarf.
If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands.
If you're happy and you know it, shout "hooray!"
If you're happy and you know it, do all three.
(wave, wave, clap, clap, hooray!)
Time to clean up our scarves! I usually have a bag to put the scarves in, but today I brought a box so we could sing this song!
Song: Picking up scarves
Pickin' up scarves and put them in the box
Pickin' up scarves and put them in the box
Pickin' up scarves and put them in the box
Put the scarves in the box
Source: KCLS
Closing Song: Ring Around the Rosie
Activity: Dot painting!
Today I brought out the paint dobbers and some plain white paper for toddlers to try. For some kids, it's their first experience painting. For all of the kids and adults, it offers a great opportunity to experiment with and talk about colors and patterns.
Source: https://nevershushed.com/2015/08/21/toddler-rhyming-words-and-have-you-seen-my-new-blue-socks/
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