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Today's Stories
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The Three Bears
by Byron Barton
Ten Rosy Roses
by Eve Merriam
Counting Sheep
by John Archambault
Turtle Splash!
by Cathryn Falwell
Let’s
Go Visiting
by Sue Williams
Over in the Meadow
by Jane Cabrera
Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3
by Bill Martin
Counting in the
Garden
by Kim Parker
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story times are designed to introduce your child to language, literature
and the library. By exposing your toddler to a wide variety of
the best books available and making reading an everyday part of
life, you will lay the foundations for a lifelong love of reading.
Learn more
about Toddler Story Times.
Check
the calendar for Babies & Books and Tales
for Twos story times.
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Counting in rhymes and listening to numbers and their sequence
is vitally important for young children. Count everything! Don’t expect or
push your children to count with you. It is the sound of the number words
and the sequence in which they are spoken that is important and entertaining
for toddlers.
The
strong rhythms in poetry and nursery rhymes help your children
develop a
sense of rhythm which will make it easier for them to learn
to count and to read later on. Recite favorite nursery rhymes, sing
songs, and chant (even nonsense sounds) often to your child.
Identify
the numbers 1 to 9 by name wherever you see them: in stores,
on billboards or street
signs, on price tags, etc. Don’t push
your children to understand the math that makes 2 into 3. Help them
learn the word two means the numeral 2 and both of them represent two
objects on the table. |
|  Ten Fluffy
Chickens
Five eggs
and five eggs
that makes ten
(hold up ten fingers)
Sitting on top is Mother Hen
(place one hand on top of the other)
Cackle, cackle, cackle
(clap three times)
What do I see?
Ten fluffy chickens,
(hold up ten fingers)
As yellow as can be.
Inside the Space Shuttle
Inside the space shuttle (crouch down low)
Just enough room. (pull hands close to body)
Here comes the countdown.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1---
ZOOOOOMMM! (Jump up, hands above head) |
Old Shoes, New Shoes
Old shoes, new shoes,
(Point to child’s shoes; first one, then the other.)
Black and brown and red shoes,
One, two, three, four,
(Show four fingers)
Tapping softly on the floor.
(Tap fingers on the floor)
 Wiggle Song
Oh, my toes are starting to wiggle,
My toes are starting to wiggle,
My toes are starting to wiggle,
Wiggling all day long.
Repeat with knees, tummy,
fingers, & nose. |
