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Five Easy Steps for Sharing Books with Your Toddler

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Today, I went over to the Burbank Adult School to talk with parents of two-year-olds. I talked with them about all the wonderful library materials and programs that are available at the library FREE of charge:) I also shared with them Five Easy Steps for Sharing Books with Your Toddler.

Five Easy Steps for Sharing Books With Your Toddler

1. Pick the best time
A time when you and your toddler are in a good mood. Snuggle up and make this a quality time to spend together.

2. Pick a special spot to read
Find a place free from distractions (such as TV, radio or computer) where you and your child can both be comfortable reading together.

3. Show your child the book
Point to the pictures and talk naturally and cheerfully. Talk and have fun. Encourage your child to interact with you and the book.

4. Watch what your child does
Let your toddler play with the book if he wants to and stop for now if he gets upset.

5. Share a book with your toddler everyday
Even just a few minutes a day is important.

Where has my little dog gone? and Birthdays!

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Welcome back to storytime, everyone!!! After a couple of weeks off, Toddler Tales is “back in business”.  It’s so good to see familiar smiling faces again. This week, we did a storytime about birthdays and doggies, too. We also handed out our new Winter Rhyme sheet with new rhymes and songs for this season. I also told everyone about this new website blog where you can find out what happened at storytime every week. This will be a good resource to remember favorite songs and stories. Extra rhyme sheets and coloring sheets can always be picked up at the library. In the future, I would also like to use this website to share some early literacy tips as well as sound recordings of traditional rhymes and stories. Enjoy! I hope to see all my friends soon Friday mornings over at the Burbank Central Library…

Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Where has my little dog gone?
Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone
Oh where, oh where can he be
With his ears cut short and his tail cut long
Oh where, oh where can he be?

Stories Shared:
Spot’s Birthday Party by Eric Hill
Happy Birthday, Lulu by Caroline Uff
Ask Mr. Bear by Marjorie Flack
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Tales Rhymes sheet. Extra copies available at the Library.):
Open Shut Them
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Old MacDonald

Bonus Rhyme:
10 candles on a birthday cake
All lit up for me.
I’ll make a wish and blow them out
Watch and you will see.
Phhhh.

Music:
Disney Mother Goose Songs and Rhymes
Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes (Silly Dance Contest)

Little Jack Horner and Snowmen

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Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Little Jack Horner
Little Jack Horner sat in the corner,
Eating a Christmas pie:
He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum,
And said, “What a good boy am I!”

Books Shared:
Frosty the Snowman by Steve Nelson
All You Need for a Snowman by Alice Schertle
Snowballs by Lois Ehlert
Dream Snow by Eric Carle

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Tales Rhymes sheet. Extra copies available at the Library.):
Apples
Ten Little Fingers
If You’re Wearing Red Today

Flannel Rhymes:
Five little snowmen sitting on a hill

Cute Little Snowman
A cute little snowman,
Had a carrot nose.
Along came a rabbit,
And what do you suppose?
That hungry little rabbit,
Looking for its lunch.
Ate that snowman’s carrot nose,
Nibble, nibble, crunch!!

Music:
Christmas with the Chipmunks
Hap Palmer’s Holiday Magic (Jingle Bells)

Pat-a-Cake…and some Cookies, too!

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Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Pat-a-Cake
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man.
Bake me a cake as fast as you can.
Pat it and roll it and mark it with “B”
And put it in the oven for Baby and me.

Books Shared:
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins
Maisy Bakes Gingerbread by Lucy Cousins
The Gingerbread Man

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Tales Rhymes sheet. Extra copies available at the Library.):
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Ten Little Fingers
The Quiet Mouse
Animals on the Bus
Fun With Hands

Other:
Who Took the cookies from the Cookie Jar?

Music:
The Nutcracker excerpts
Hap Palmer’s Holiday Magic (Jingle Bells)

Hey Diddle Diddle!…Move that body!

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Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Hey Diddle Diddle
Hey diddle diddle,
The cat sat on the fiddle,
The cow jumped over the moon
The little dog laughed to see such a fun
And the dish ran away with spoon.

Books Shared:
Wiggle by Doreen Cronin
Cha Cha Chimps by Julie Durango
Head to Toe by Eric Carle

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Tales Rhymes sheet. Extra copies available at the Library.):
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Tommy Thumb
Tony Chestnut
Ten in a Bed

Music:
Greg and Steve’s Kids in Motion (Animal Action)
Hap Palmer’s Holiday Magic (Jingle Bells)

Runaway Engine…Things that Go!

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Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Runaway Engine
Runaway engine,
Ricketty rack,
Running around the
railway track.
All the way there and
all the way back,
Runaway engine
Ricketty rack.

Books Shared:
Choo Choo Clickety-Clack! by Margaret Mayo
Row Your Boat by Anthony Lishak (pop-up)
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! by Mo Willems
Mr. Gumpy’s Outing by John Burningham

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Tales Rhymes sheet. Extra copies available at the Library.):
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Peanut Song
Ten Little Fingers
Fun with Hands
Animals on the Bus
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Autumn Leaves

Music:
Barney’s Favorites Volume 1 (Hurry, Hurry Drive the Firetruck)

Little Red Riding Hood

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This month, the library introduced a new program: Super Saturday Stories. Last Saturday, I presented a storytime for kids in grades K-3 that highlighted the favorite folktale, Little Red Riding Hood. We had a blast recreating the traditional tale by having the children do a readers theater presentation, reading variant books and poems, storytelling, and watching a video of a Bugs Bunny version. I hope to do another “Super Saturday Stories” program in the future and play with other fairy tales and folktales. Also: be on the lookout! I will be posting a podcast version of Little Red Riding Hood in the near future…and hope to be posting monthly podcasts of favorite traditional stories.

OPENING:
Intro Music: Pete Seeger: American folk, game & activity songs for children
Demonstrate storytelling doll and talk a little about Children’s Book Week.
Opening Song: Let Everyone Clap Hands With Me

PROGRAM:
Readers Theater: Little Red Riding Hood by Moira Butterfield
Read-aloud #1: Lon Po Po: A Red-Riding Hood Story from China by Ed Young
Tandem Poem: “Red Riding Hood” from You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together by Mary Ann Hoberman
Read-aloud #2: Little Red Cowboy Hat by Susan Lowell
Storytelling Activity: The Gunniwolf

MOVIE:
Little Red Riding Rabbit (Looney Tunes)

CRAFT OR HANDOUT:
Basket with goodies (oreos) and CBW bookmark

Pease Porridge Hot! for Thanksgiving

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Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Pease Porridge Hot
Pease porridge hot,
Pease porridge cold,
Pease porridge in the pot,
Nine days old;
Some like it hot,
Some like it cold,
Some like it in the pot,
Nine days old.

Books Shared:
The Turkey Ball by Davis Steinberg
Cows in the Kitchen by June Crebbin
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
Slop Goes the Soup by Pamela D. Edwards

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Tales Rhymes sheet. Extra copies available at the Library.):
If You’re Happy and You Know It
Apples
Autumn Leaves

Music:
Laurie Berkner: Victor Vito (I Feel Crazy So I Jump in the Soup)

Hello Mr. Turkey song (to the tune of If You’re Happy and Yo Know It):
Hello, Mr. Turkey
Hello Mr. Turkey, how are you?
Hello Mr. Turkey, how are you?
With a gobble, gobble, gobble
and a wobble, wobble, wobble
Hello Mr. Turkey how are you?

Stone Soup poem:
Can be found at this website

Mary Had a Little Lamb…Sheep

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Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Mary Had a Little Lamb
Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.

Books Shared:
Sheep on a Jeep by Nancy Shaw
The Seals on the Bus by Lenny Hort
Baby Can’t Sleep by Lisa Schroeder
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin and Eric Carle

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Tales Rhymes sheet. Extra copies available at the Library.):
If You’re Wearing Red Today
Tommy Thumb
Ten in the Bed
Autumn Leaves

Music:
Disney Mother Goose Songs and Rhymes
Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes (Silly Dance Contest)

Hickory Dickory Dock…Mice

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Nursery Rhyme of the Week:
Hickory Dickory Dock
Hickory Dickory Dock,
The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down!
Hickory Dickory Dock.

Books Shared:
Mouse Mess by Linnea Riley
Who Sank the Boat? by Pamela Allen
Hickory Dickory Dock by Keith Baker

Rhymes (Can be found on Toddler Tales Rhymes sheet. Extra copies available at the Library.):
The Quiet Mouse
The Peanut Song
The Animals on the Bus
Ten Little Fingers
If You’re Happy and You Know It

Flannel:
Little Mouse, Little Mouse, Are you in the [insert color] house?

Music:
Sandra Boynton’s Rhinoceros Tap
Jim Gill Sings the Sneezing Song and Other Contagious Tunes (Hands Are For Clapping)