November 4, 2011

READY To Read

El Paso
READY
To Read

Learning to read begins before children start school. Help your children develop early literacy skills now; this makes it easier for children to learn to read once they begin school.
Five of the best ways to help your child get ready to read are:
Learn how to help your child get ready to read with simple activities such as the ones suggested here.

Find more ideas at your library.

Armijo Branch Library
620 E. 7th Avenue
El Paso, TX, 79901
(915) 533-1333
http://www.elpasolibrary.org

See you next week!

Our theme will be
Hodge Podge of Books

In November…..

Week of November 8, 2011Today's stories are about animal sounds. Besides being fun to play with sounds that animals make, it serves an educational purpose by helping your child develop an awareness of the smaller sounds in words. That's called phonological awareness, and it's one of the skills every child needs to learn before being able to read.

The books that we shared today were:

Barnyard Dance! By Sandra BoyntonHere a Chick, Where a Chick? By Suse MacDonald
Barnyard Banter by Denise Fleming

Other books:

Cat Goes Fiddle-I-Fee by Paul GaldoneBarnyard Slam by Dian Curtis Regan

Action Rhyme:

Animals on the Bus
Tune: “The Wheels on the Bus”
The pigs on the bus go oink, oink, oink.
Oink, oink, oink, oink, oink, oink.
The pigs on the bus go oink, oink, oink,
All through the town. (Substitute other animals…)
Chickens…cluck
Sheep…..baa
Ducks…quack
Horse…neigh
Cows…moo

Leaves
The leaves are whirling round and round.
(Wave fingers in air.)
The leaves are falling to the ground.
(Wave fingers down to floor.)
Round and round, round and round.
(Roll one hand over the other.)
Falling softly to the ground.
(Softly wave hands down to the ground.)

OPENING SONG:

The More We Get Together
The more we get together
together, together,
The more we get together
the happier we’ll be!
'Cause your friends
are my friends
And my friends
are your friends.
The more we get together
the happier we’ll be!

CLOSING SONG:

Goodbye Song
Tune: “If Your Happy and You Know It” or She’ll be coming ‘Round the Mountain

Oh, it's time to say good-bye to all my friends.Oh, it's time to say good-bye to all my friends.Oh, it's time to say good-bye.Give a smile and wink my eye.Oh, it's time to say good-bye to all my friends.

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