Baby Storytime--Movement

A very fun group of babies today!  We had a lot of fun singing and playing!

Song/Rhymes/Bounces
Words can be found here.

Come Along and Clap With Me
We Say Hello!
Little Bear
Rub-a-dub-dub
Baby Hokey Pokey
Itsy Bitsy Spider
Tick Tock
Humpty Dumpty

Read Aloud

Ten Tiny Toes

by Caroline Jayne Church

Shared Reading

Books about movement including:

Move!

by Liesbet Slegers

Who Can Jump?

by Sebastien Braun

Supercharged
What I did:  We pointed to and touched all the different parts of the body as we read Ten Tiny Toes.

Parent Tip:  Make each book you read to your child interactive.  Point to body parts that are named; make animal sounds; name animals, colors, shapes, letters; if the book invites tickling, jumping, hugging be sure to do those things with your baby!

Play Time

Parachute  We ended our story portion of storytime with the parachute (accompanied by Jim Gill's Alabama, Mississippi)  The babies had so much fun shaking the parachute and going underneath it, the parents continued to do the parachute with most of the babies while I got the toys out for the few that were done.

My First Match-ups (from Lakeshore)