Toddler & Pre-School Time

This week's theme: Family Ties

Our word for the day is:

BLUE / blue

Our books for Toddler Time {May 27 @ 10:15 AM}:

This is the House That Was Tidy & Neat /by: Teri Sloat

Te Amo, bebe, Little One /by: Lisa Wheeler

The Family Book /by: Todd Parr

What Daddies Do Best /by: Laura Numeroff

Books used for Pre-School Story Time {may 27 @ 3:30 PM}:

You Can Do Anything, Daddy! /by: Michael Rex

My Granny Went to Market /by: Stella Blackstone and Christopher Corr

Everybody Makes Mistakes /by: Christine Kole MacLean

What! Cried Granny An Almost Bedtime Story /by: Kate Lum

Early Literacy Skill: Phonological Awareness

For toddlers, use silly or homemade rhymes and songs so that they get used to hearing the small vowel sounds and get a taste of rhyming. For pre-school age children, have them help you sing songs and rhymes. Sing books to them so they can hear rhyming written words pronounced in song. For kindergarten children ask them for words that rhyme with other words, or cat minus ccc sound equals at (make-up a game of it).

Toddler Time, Pre-School Story Time, and Baby Time!

This week's theme: More Cheese Please!

Our Word for the Day:

MOUSE / mouse

The books at Toddler Time on 2/25/09 {10:15 AM} are:

You're Too Small / by Shen Roddie; ill. Steve Lavis

Mouse Mess / by Linnea Riley

Whose mouse are you? / by Robert Krau; ill. Jose Aruego

If You Give A Mouse A Cookie / by Laura Joffe Numeroff; ill. Felicia Bond

Books for Pre-School Story Time on 2/25/09 {3:30 PM} are:

A New House for Mouse / by Petr Horacek
Lilly's Big Day / by Kevin Henkes

Black Meets White / by Justine Fontes; ill. Geoff Waring

Mouse Count / by Ellen Stoll Walsh

Mother, Mother, I Want Another / by Maria Polushkin Robbins; ill. Jon Goodell

Baby Time is 10 AM, Friday February 27th

15 minutes of board books, songs, bounces, and bubbles

Our Early Literacy Skill this week is Phonological Awareness.

Basically this skill is an understanding of and pronunciation of the small vowel sounds in words. One way to help develop the skill is to read poetry to your child. Another is to play a word game, where you ask them what is black and rhymes with sat... they can come up with cat or bat or hat. The goal is to help them understand the rhyming aspect.