Eggs Storytime - Week of January 25, 2010

This week at Storytime we talked about eggs and the animals who hatch from them!

Our Toddler Storytime Lineup Included:
Song - Finger Popping from Preschool Aerobic Fun
Intro to the Letter E
Rhyme/Props - When Ducks Hatch Out of Their Eggshells
Book - Look Who's Hatching by the World Wildlife Fund
Song - Clap Your Hands from Wiggleworms Love You
Book - Whose Chick Are You? by Nancy Tafuri
Fingerplay - Five Aggs and Five Eggs
Song - Jumping and Counting from Jim Gill's Irrational Anthem
Book - Good Egg by Barney Saltzberg

Our Preschool Storytime Lineup Included:
Song - Can't Wait to Celebrate from Jim Gill's Irrational Anthem
Book - The Cow That Laid an Egg by Andy Cutbill
Fingerplay - Five Eggs and Five Eggs
Book - The Wolf's Chicken Stew by Keiko Kasza
Song - Shake Your Sillies Out from Raffi's Singable Songs
Flannel Story - Five Little Ducks
Book - Chickens to the Rescue by John Himmelman

Ready to Read Skill: Vocabulary (Words)

Vocabulary means knowing the names of things. Knowing many words will help your child recognize written words and understand what he or she reads. Some great ways to work on this skill include talking to your child about what is going on around you, speaking clearly and using short sentences, and pointing out pictures in books when you say certain words. Look Who's Hatching is a great book for building vocabulary because it offers new animal names, like ostrich and robin.

Rhymes:
Five Eggs and Five Eggs
Five eggs and five eggs,
That makes ten.
Sitting on top is the big mother hen.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
What do we see?
Ten little chicks, just as cute as can be!

When Ducks Hatch Out of Their Eggshells
When ducks* hatch out of their eggshells
They always say good day.
When ducks* hatch out of their eggshells
"Quack quack**!" is what they say.

*Use different animals next time around: birds, snakes, chicks, etc.
** Use the corresponding animal sounds: tweet tweet, hiss hiss, peep peep.