MARCH Book Babies + Toddler Time: MY BODY!
MARCH Book Babies + Toddler Time: MY BODY!
Book Babies: Wednesday @ 9:30am in Community Room
Ages 0 – 10 months
Toddler Time: Monday & Tuesday @ 9:30am in Community Room
Ages 11 – 23 months
Welcome Songs
Here We Are Together
Here we are together, together, together! Oh, here we are together in our library. There’s (sing names)… Here we are together in our library!
Hello Everybody
Hello everybody let’s clap our hands*, clap our hands, clap our hands. Hello everybody let’s clap our hands today! *pat our head, stretch up high, wiggle our fingers, tickle our knees, kick our feet, bounce up high!
S, T, R, W, P
(Sing while pointing to each finger on your child’s hand.) Sing, talk, read, write, play! Sing, talk, read write, play! Sing, talk, read, write, play! Sing, talk, read, write, play each day!
Sing, Talk, Read, Write, Play
TIP
Singing helps your child hear the smaller sounds in words, and it helps to build their vocabulary. It slows down the sounds that words make. Being able to hear and recognize the beginning, middle and ending sounds that make up words helps children sound out words when they begin to read. – https://torontopubliclibrary.typepad.com/kids-books/2021/05/5-things-to-know-about-singing-and-early-literacy.html
ACTIVITY
Sing, instead of read, a favorite rhyming book.
Books Presented
Toes, Ears, & Nose! : a lift-the-flap-book by Marion Dane Bauer
From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
Bear Has a Belly by Jane Whittingham
Horns to Toes and In Between by Sandra Boynton
Whose Knees are These? by Jabari Asim
Eyes, Nose, Fingers, and Toes: A First Book All About You by Judy Hindley
Where is Baby's Yummy Tummy? by Karen Katz
My Body by Jill Ackerman
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Gregory Griggs, Gregory Griggs
Gregory Griggs, Greggory Griggs
Had 27 different wigs
He wore them up (lift baby up)
He wore them down (bring baby back down)
To please the people of the town.
He wore them east (tip baby to one side)
He wore them west (tip baby to the other side)
But which one did he love the best?
This one! (hug baby)
Where Is Big Toe?
(Tune: Where is Thumbkin?)
Where is big toe? Where is big toe?
Here I am; here I am!
Touch baby’s toe
Wiggle, wiggle, big toe
Wiggle, wiggle big toe
Wiggle baby’s toe
My big toe, my big toe.
Where is elbow…bendy, bendy elbow
Where is tummy…squishy, squashy tummy
Where are two eyes…winky blinky two eyes
Where are two hands…happy clappy two hands
Oh The City is Great and The City is Grand
Oh the city is great and the city is grand
There’s a whole lot of people
on a little piece of land
And we live way up on the 57th floor
and this is what we do when we go out the door.
We take the elevator up and the elevator down,
take the elevator up, take the elevator down
Take the elevator up and the elevator down
and we turn around.
Lots of Exercise
(Tune: Farmer in the Dell)
We’re jumping up and down,
We’re jumping up and down
We’re getting lots of exercise
We’re jumping up and down
(We twist from side to side)
(We bend and touch our toes)
(We stretch up to the sky)
The Diaper on the Bottom
(Tune: The Wheels on the Bus)
The diaper on the bottom
Comes off, off, off
Off, off, off, Off, off, off
The diaper on the bottom
Comes off, off, off
Nice and clean!
