Baby & Toddler Storytimes

Book & Play: Tell Time with The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle. GREAT readaloud. Farm animal noises + telling time + a spider web tell and draw that even I can tell and draw. While the spider spun so busily in the story, I drew the web on my chalkboard using a piece of chalk concealed on the belly of my very large spider so it looked (I hope) as if the spider really was spinning a web. I even had a hapless fly fingerpuppet land in the middle of the web and be eaten. Fingerplay: WHICH I FORGOT TO DO. Eentsy Weentsy Spider. Play: Six Bears in the Bed and the little one said, Roll Over, Roll Over. As much fun as it was in December . Book: ABC3D pop-up by Marion Bataille. We sang the ABC song first and the blank look on these babies' faces -- Savannah looked wary -- should have tipped me off that toddler literacy is a little premature. Fingerplay:   Six Little Ducks That I Once Knew. This was fun because I could get up and wander around the room wibbling and wobbling. I had ...

In case all you wonderful mothers are wondering what to get Ms. Travis for Valentine's Day, I've got a little list:     ❤    to see you at storyhour! I  ❤    to hear you join in at storyhour as I read! I  ❤    it when I read about dinosaurs and you say, "Oh, nice dinosaur!" That echoing is great for focusing your child's attention on the story, and reading should be interactional. (And please don't talk to your friends during storyhour -- there's plenty of time to chat afterwards.) I would  ❤   it if you took off your toddler's shoes before play time. So would the other babies!