SEPTEMBER Book Babies + Toddlers: ABCs
SEPTEMBER Book Babies + Toddlers: ABCs
Let’s learn the ABCs! Did you know that babies are already learning to read? Through visual exposure to colorful books and alphabet toys, seeing letters repeatedly helps them become familiar with their shapes and forms. Pair that with a familiar song and rhyme, and you’ll see the magic of learning blossom in your baby!
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
Letter recognition is a strong predictor of future reading success, serving as a foundation for reading and writing skills and enhancing cognitive development by developing visual processing skills.
Activity
As part of your daily reading routine, add a letter recognition activity such as the “Alphabet Tree.” Make a cardboard tube tree and put some items in a box or bag that start with the letters of your child’s name. When they pick an item, write the first letter on a sticky note and let your child put it on the “tree” and set the item at the trunk. Sing the “Alphabet Tree” song together.
Books Presented
Animalphabet by Julia Donaldson
Sleepy ABC by Margaret Wise Brown
Kipper's A to Z by Mick Inkpen
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed the ABCs by Lucille Colandro
Dr. Seuss's ABC by Dr. Seuss
Arf! Buzz! Cluck!: A Rather Noisy Alphabet by Eric Seltzer
A You're Adorable by Martha Alexander
I Spy on the Farm by Edward Gibbs
Vehicles ABC by Jannie Ho
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Acka Backa Soda Cracker
Acka backa soda cracker, (bounce to rhythm)
Acka backa boo, (lean forward on ‘boo‘)
Acka backa soda cracker, (bounce to rhythm)
I love you! (kiss baby’s head or hug baby)
Acka backa soda cracker, (bounce to rhythm)
Acka backa boo, (lean backwards on ‘boo‘)
Acka backa soda cracker, (bounce to rhythm)
Up goes you! (lift baby up)
Source: Lit for Life Bouncy Rhymes
Big A, Little a
Big A, Little a, (spread hands wide apart, then bring them close together)
Bouncing B (bounce up and down)
The cat’s in the cupboard
And he can’t see me!
Peek-a-boo! (lift baby up and backwards)
Source: The Loudest Librarian
Alphabet Tree
(Tune: Here We Go ‘Round the Mulberry Bush)
Here we go round the Alphabet Tree,
The Alphabet Tree,
The Alphabet Tree.
Here we go round the
Alphabet Tree,
Singing the sounds of letters.
This is the sound that B can make
‘b’,’b’,’b’,
‘b’,’b’,’b’,
This is the sound that B can make
In words like bell and baby.
This how we spell your name, spell your name, spell your name.
This is how we spell your name, just like this!
G-I-N-A
Yeah!
Source: Kids Press Magazine
Lift One Foot and Then the Other
Lift one foot and then the other,
Lift one foot and then the other
Lift one foot and then the other
Lift them both together.
(Verses: Lift one arm, clap your hands and keep on clapping)
Source: Jbrary
Mama’s Little Baby Loves Bouncin’
(tune: Shortnin’ Bread)
Mama’s little baby loves bouncin’ bouncin’
Mama’s little baby loves bouncin’ round,
Mama’s little baby loves bouncin’ bouncin’
Mama’s little baby loves bouncin’ round.
Lean to the left, lean to the right
Now hug that baby nice and tight!
Lean to the left, lean to the right
Now hug that baby nice and tight
(can alter to Daddy. Grandma, Grandpa, Nanny, etc.)
Source: King County Library System
