Hats Storytime - Week of April 16, 2011

This week at Storytime we talked about hats.

Our Toddler Storytime Lineup included:
Song - Fingerpopping from Preschool Aerobic Fun
Introduction to hats and the letter 'H'
Flannel with Book - Whose Hat by Margaret Miller
Book -Which Hat Is That? by Anna Grossnickle Hines
Action Rhyme - A Tall Hat
Song - If You're Happy and You Know It from Songs for Wiggleworms
Book - Silly Little Goose by Nancy Tafuri
Flannel- Clancy the Clown and His Silly Hats
Song - Jumping and Counting from Jim Gill's Irrational Anthem

Our Preschool Storytime Lineup included:
Song - Walkin' Old Joe from Wiggleworms Love You
Introduction to the letter H for Hat
Book - Silly Little Goose by Nancy Tafuri
Song - Milkshake from Songs for Wiggleworms
Book - A Hat For Minerva Louise by Janet Morgan Stoeke
Flannel Story - Whose Hat?
Song - Row, Row, Row Your Boat from Songs for Wiggleworms
Creative Dramatic - Caps For Sale from the book by Esphyr Slobodkina

Our Ready To Read Skill: Print Motivation (Loving Books)

Print Motivation means being interested in and enjoying books. There are many ways to encourage this skill with your child, but the best way is to make reading fun! Some ways to do this include helping your child choose books to read with you, trying funny voices for the characters in the books, having your child help you read by saying a repeating phrase, or choosing books that have a pop-up, lift-the-flap, or die-cut feature, like Which Hat Is That? Come into the library and ask us for more fun books!