Monday, December 11, 2017

Toddler Storytime: Blocks!

This Toddler Storytime was presented at Bellevue Public Library on December 6, 2017.

Each Toddler Storytime includes activities that support all or most of the five early literacy practices identified as essential in helping your child develop the skills they need before they can learn to read. The five practices – singing, talking, reading, playing and writing – were developed for Every Child Ready to Read®, an initiative of the Association for Library Services for Children (ALSC) and the Public Library Association (PLA).







Reading:
Blocks by Irene Dickson






Block City by Robert Louis Steven, illustrated by Daniel Kirk




Singing:

Hello, Friends!
(tune: "Goodnight Ladies")

Hello friends.
Hello friends.
Hello friends.
We're glad you came today!



Everybody Say Hello!
(tune: "London Bridge")

Everybody say hello, say hello, say hello,
Everybody say hello, hello Wesley!

(Wesley is my turtle puppet who pops out of my apron pocket whenever we sing this song.  Then he sits quietly on his rock and listens to the stories and sings along with us.  At the end of storytime he says goodbye to the children, gives them high fives, eats pretend food from their hands, blows kisses, and plays hide and seek!)


Goodbye, Friends!
(tune: "Goodnight Ladies")

Goodbye friends.
Goodbye friends.
Goodbye friends.
We're glad you came today!



Rhyme:

Blocks

Blocks make buildings very tall.
(stretch up high)
Blocks make houses big and small.
(show "big" and "small" with hands)
Blocks make churches with steeples and doors.
(hands over head to form steeple)
Blocks make towers that fall to the floor!
(fall down)


What's in the Green Box?
(tune: "Sally Wore a Red Dress")

What's in the green box,

The green box, the green box?
What's in the green box 
For us today?


The Green Box offered two kinds of blocks for the children and adults to use for some building fun after storytime!







 
 










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