OCTOBER Book Babies + Toddlers: Horses & Ponies
OCTOBER Book Babies + Toddlers: Horses & Ponies
This is how the ladies ride… clippity-clop, clippity-clop. This is how the gentlemen ride… giddy-up, giddy-up. This is how the cowboys ride… Yee haw! Ride ‘em cowboy!! There are many rhymes and songs about horses which encourage parent and child communication, relationships, and are just plain fun! So, pull out your “knee” horse and get ready for a rip-roarin’ time with your child.
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
Early experiences help to form the architecture of the brain and lay a strong foundation for both social and emotional development. Playing with children at a young age, experiencing the fun of taking turns and sharing, and discovering that it is fun to pass the ball to someone else and then get it back are great ways to learn important social and emotional skills. ~Reading Picture Books with Children by Lambert
Activity
With family members or friends, sit in a circle on the floor, and roll a ball to one anther while singing, “Roll that Round Ball.” Continue until everyone has had a chance to start rolling the ball.
Books Presented
Clip Clop by Nicola Smee
Noni the Pony by Alison Lester
Hungry Horse by Jane Wolfe
Splish-Splash by Nicola Smee
Mr. Horse invites all the barnyard animals onto his little boat, and soon he, Cat, Dog, Pig, and Duck are riding though big waves, and come crashing down with a big splash.
Do Cows Meow?: A Lift-the-flap Book by Salina Yoon
Ponies by Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.
PSST! I Love You by Marjorie Blain Parker
Celebrates the love between parents and children of every species. In lilting rhyme, the book introduces toddlers to an array of super-adorable animal parents and babies–including cows, horses, sheep, cats, owls, ducks, roosters, and, of course humans. What do they all say to each other? I LOVE YOU! This is the perfect read-aloud and goodnight story.
Good Night Cowboys by Adam Gamble
Good Night Cowboys explores riding horses, roping steer, working on the ranch, rodeos, lassos, cowboy chow, ghost towns, driving cattle, cowboy clothing, square dancing, cowboy songs, and panning for gold. Well, howdy little buckaroos. It’s time saddle up and hit the dusty trail with some of the friendliest cowboys in all of the Wild West. Yeehaw!
Hush Little Horsie by Jane Yolen
Rhyming text assures foals that their mothers are watching over them while they leap on a farm, frolic on a beach, gallop on a plain, and sleep in a stall.
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Roll That Round Ball
(Tune: London Bridge)
Roll that round ball down to town,
Down to town, down to town,
Roll that round ball down to town,
Then roll it back to (name of person who rolled the ball first).
Ponies in a Meadow
10 Little ponies in a meadow green (hold up 10 fingers)
Friskiest ponies I’ve ever seen (wiggle fingers)
They go for a gallop, they go for a trot (“gallop” and “trot” fingers)
They come to a halt in the big feed lot. (hold hands up like “stop”)
10 little ponies fat and well fed
Curl up together in a soft straw bed (interlace fingers and hands into lap)
Source: 1001 Rhymes and Fingerplays by Totline Books
Shoe the Little Horse
Shoe the little horse (Pat the soles of baby’s feet together.)
Shoe the little mare.
But let the little colt run bare, bare, bare!
Source: Mother Goose on the Loose by Betsey Diamant Cohen
Giddy up, Giddy up
Giddy up, giddy up ride to town,
Giddy up, giddy up, UP and DOWN.
Giddy up faaaast, giddy up slow
Giddy up, giddy up, giddy up, WHOA!
Source: Jbrary
Horsie, Horsie, Don’t You Stop
Horsie, horsie, don’t you stop,
Just let your feet go clippety clop,
Your tail goes swish
and the wheels go round,
Giddy up, giddy up we’re homeward bound.
Source: Jbrary
Ten Galloping Horses
Ten galloping horses (hold up 10 fingers)
Came galloping through the town (slap hands on legs)
Five were white (hold up 5 fingers)
Five were brown (hold up 5 fingers on other hand)
They galloped up (slap hands on thighs then move them up)
They galloped down (move hands down)
Ten galloping horses
Came through the town.
Then WHOA!
They all slowed down (place hands in lap).
Source: Jen in the Library
Open Up the Barn Door
Open up the barn door, it’s a sunny day.
There’s a horse in the barn, saying, “Neigh, neigh, neigh.”
That’s not a horse, it’s a ___________.
Adapted from Storytime Katie
