Story Time – May 19, 2020
Story Time – May 19, 2020
10:30 am ONLINE on Facebook – ages 2 to 5
In our storytime trip around the world, Cody is lost in the city!
Or is he? Can you help us find him? Make sure you fill out your passport and come along to the city. What will you find in the city? Find out in the following books and activities below.
Parent tip: when watching a read-aloud video with your children, try muting the volume and reading the story with your child.
For the last few weeks in online storytime, we visited four different biomes around the world. Today is the final location we will visit. We have included a link to print off a passport so the children can keep a record of all the places we visited.
Early Literacy Tip and Activity:
Tip
Helping children hear the smaller sounds in words, the syllables, by clapping them out is one way to develop the phonological awareness. Children can hear syllables more easily than each individual sound in words.
Activity
Play this model and mock game with your child’s name or with a word that might be new to them or a challenge to say.
1) Super duper 1, 2, 3. Can you say this word with me?
2) Super duper 1, 2, 3. Can you clap this word with me?
3) Super duper 1, 2, 3. Can you snap this word with me?
4) Super duper 1, 2, 3. Can you tap this word with me?
5) Now let’s say it!
Books Presented
Little Blue Truck Leads the Way
by Alice Schertle
The big city sure is a speedy, noisy place for a country truck like Blue. With everyone pushing to be first, soon there’s a giant traffic jam! But even a wrangle-tangle is no match for Little Blue Truck, who comes to the rescue in true Blue style.
The Wheels on the… Uh-Oh!
by Sue Tarsky
This bus is in trouble―it won’t be going through the town without a good mechanic! Can everyone work together to get the bus moving again?
Subway
by Anastasia Suen
Come along for the ride as a little girl and her mother hop on the subway. From spinning turnstiles and musicians performing on the platforms to people hopping off and on and lights flashing past in the tunnels, the sights and sounds of the subway have an energy all their own.
Little Elliot, Big City
by Mike Curato
Amid the hustle and bustle of the big city, the big crowds, and bigger buildings, Little Elliot, the polka-dotted elephant, leads a quiet life. In spite of the challenges he faces, Elliot finds many wonderful things to enjoy―like his friend Mouse.
Find it in our Catalog
Songs, Rhymes and Fingerplays
Driving ‘Round
Driving round in my little red car
Driving round in my little red car
Driving round in my little red car
Zoom zoom zoom zoom zoom!
-https://storytimekatie.com/2014/04/24/cities/
London Bridge is Falling Down
London Bridge is falling down
Falling down, falling down
London Bridge is falling down
My fair lady
Build it up with silver and gold
Silver and gold, silver and gold
Build it up with silver and gold
My fair lady
– Traditional
Five Little Houses
One little house all alone it stood
Then another was built
There grows the neighborhood.
Two little houses…
Three little houses…
Four little houses…
Five little houses
All together they stood
On a beautiful street in a happy neighborhood.
-Jbrary.com
A Hippopotamus Got on a City Bus
A hip, a hip, a hippopotamus
Got on, got on, got on a city bus
And all, and all, and all the people said,
“You’re squishing us!” (hug baby)
A sheep, a sheep, a sheep got on a city bus
and all, and all, and all the people said,
“Baaaack up!”
A cow, a cow, a cow got on a bus
And all, and all, and all the people said,
“Mooooove over!”
– Jlibrary.com
The Wheels on the Bus in London
– Kiddiestv
The Elevator Song
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.
– Jbrary
Craft Activities
Print out this Times Square coloring page or color online.
Additional Books
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