MARCH Book Babies + Toddler Time: Eric Carle
MARCH Book Babies + Toddler Time: Eric Carle
If you haven’t discovered the bold, colorful world of Eric Carle, you are in for a enchanting experience. “Eric Carle (1929-2021) was the creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar. But that’s not the only reason why he received nearly 10,000 fan letters every year. Carle wrote or illustrated more than 70 other children’s books, including favorites such as Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? and The Very Quiet Cricket. Carle made these friendly insects and animals by painting on tissue paper, cutting out shapes, and pasting them together. The bold, eye-catching collages pop off the page in vibrant colors and rich textures. Even so, it is the “simple, simple feelings,” Carle believed, that have made his books so popular with young children.” ~ReadingRockets.org
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
Active use of arms and legs encourages development of gross motor skill, which contributes to school readiness and learning. Activities like, “This is Bill Anderson. This is Tom Trim,” children will do what is called crossing the midline – that is, crossing the center of the body. It helps develop children’s minds as well as their bodies. -Reading Picture Books With Children by Lambert
Activity
While sitting on the floor, lay your toddler on her back on your outstretched legs. Hold one of your child’s legs in each hand and guide her through the movements of, “This is Bill Anderson. This is Tom Trim.” Then, stand up and repeat the motions with her arms.
Books Presented
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
Children see a variety of animals, each one a different color, and a teacher looking at them.
The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
Encourages the reader to exercise by following the movements of various animals; presented in a question and answer format.
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Can You Guess? Food With the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Use the close-up art to guess which food item will appear on the next page as The Very Hungry Caterpillar eats through this book, giving clues along the way
The Greedy Python by Richard Buckley
Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr.
My First Busy World by Eric Carle
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Cha, Cha, Chobogin
Cha, cha, chobogin
Cha, cha, cha BIN
Watch out little baby
You might fall IN!
Cha, cha, chobogin
Cha, cha, cha BOP
Watch out little baby
You might go UP!
Cha, cha, chobogin
Cha, cha, cha TOWN
Watch out little baby
You might fall DOWN!
Cha, cha, chobogin
Cha, cha, cha CHOO
Watch out little baby
I might kiss YOU!
Source: Jbrary
This is Bill Anderson
This is Bill Anderson. (Hold up one leg.)
And this is Tom Trim. (Hold up other leg.)
Bill over Tom, (Cross legs, one over the other.)
Tom over Bill, (Cross legs the other way.)
Bill over Tom, (Cross legs faster.)
Tom over Bill, (Cross legs faster.)
Bill over Tom, (Cross legs faster.)
Tom over Bill, (Cross legs legs the other way and continue, going faster and faster.)
Additional verse:
Repeat using arms instead of legs.
The Color I See
Red, red is the color I see.
If you’ve got red, then show it to me.
Stand up, take a bow, turn around.
Bring up your red and sit back down.
Yellow…
Blue…
Green…
Purple…
Orange…
Source: Verona Storytime
Red and Green and Yellow and Blue
Red and green and yellow and blue.
These are the colors over you!
Red as an apple and green as a tree.
Yellow as the sun and blue as the sea.
Red and green and yellow and blue.
These are the colors over you!
Source: Storytime in the Stacks
The Duck in the Pond Says…
The duck in the pond says quack, quack, quack!
Quack, quack, quack!
Quack, quack, quack!
The duck in the pond says quack, quack, quack
All day long!
Source: Storytime in the Stacks
The itsy bitsy spider
The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout.
Down came the rain and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain.
And the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.
Source: Twinkle Little Songs – Nursery Rhymes
