Library Services for Preschool Teachers |
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Preschool Services Alie Stansbury Youth Services Manager Steffanie Baseley Early Literacy Librarian Skye Kordistos |
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The five early literacy tips are reading, writing, singing, talking, and playing. According to Reading Rockets, music and singing helps promote listening skills, memory, and motor skills. Children learn new words through songs, often ones that have a rhyme or some kind of repetition, making it easier for children to learn. Singing is also one of the many ways to form a bond between an adult and a child. Some ways to make singing part of your daily life include: - Sing to your child every chance you get.
- Encourage them to join in.
- Try to fit songs into your daily routine, whether it's during your drive to daycare or at home during dinner, or even before bedtime.
- Encourage your child to feel the rhythm of the music. Dance, jump, clap and sway to the beat.
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Let's Read About... Shapes |
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Mouse Shapes
by Ellen Stoll Walsh
Offers a celebration of shapes and colors as three clever mice set forth to trick a sneaky cat using one oval, two circles, and eight triangles, in an entertaining concept book by the creator of Mouse Paint and Mouse Count.
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Color Zoo
by Lois Ehlert
Introduces colors and shapes with illustrations of shapes on die-cut pages that form animal faces when placed on top of one another.
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It Looked Like Spilt Milk
by Charles Green Shaw
A mystery book for young children presents a continuously changing white shape silhouetted against a blue background that challenges them to guess what it is.
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The Shape of my Heart
by Mark Sperring
A vibrantly illustrated, rhyming celebration of the myriad shapes that make up the world gently invites very young children to discover the shapes of everything from hands and feet to food and toys.
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Lots of Dots
by Craig Frazier
Circular shapes are spotted in familiar objects and everyday situations.
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Do you need a rhyme/fingerplay? I have a little heart, (place hand over heart)
And it goes thump, thump, thump. (pat chest three times)
It keeps right on beating,
When I jump, jump, jump. (jump three times)
I get a special feeling, when I look at you. (point to child)
It makes me want to give you a hug or two. (hug yourself) |
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