Sweet Treats!


For Parents & Caregivers: Children who enjoy books will want to learn how to read. Make book-sharing time a special time of closeness for you and your child.


Storytime Books

The Gingerbread Man

The Big Block of Chocolate

The Cake That Mack Ate

Where Is the Apple Pie?

Rhymes

Music CDs: "Shortin' Bread" Come and Make a Circle 2 and "No More Pie" Play Your Instruments and Make a Pretty Sound

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Play!

For Parents & Caregivers: Why are you so important? Children learn best by doing and they love doing things with you! Take every opportunity you have to read, talk, and play with your child.
Article: Tips for Holiday Toy Choosing

Storytime Books
Someone Says
The Baby Goes Beep
Chili, Chili, Chin, Chin
I'll Play with You

Rhymes

Music CDs: "Stop and Go" Play Your Instruments and Make a Pretty Sound; "Put Your Hands Up in the Air" Learning Basic Skills Through Music ; "Tingalayo" Wee Sing Around the World.

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Owls & Birds

For Parents & Caregivers: Being able to hear the beginning and ending sounds that make up words will help children sound out words when they begin to read.

Warm-Up: "Body Rock" Kids in Motion

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Fun Furballs!

For Parents & Caregivers: We ask "what" questions and open-ended questions during storytime because it helps develop narrative skills.
Article: Dialogic Reading

Storytime Books
While We Were Out
One Guinea Pig Is Not Enough
10 Minutes till Bedtime
Busy Little Mouse

Rhymes

Music CD: "Little Peter Rabbit", "Round & Round the Garden" and "Hickory Dickory Dock" Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

For Parents & Caregivers: We use music during storytime because it's FUN! Music also encourages creativity, improves coordination, improves concentration, and literally makes brains grow.

Storytime Books


Music CDs: "Turkey (aka: Chicken) Dance" Dance Along and "Over the River" The Green Grass Grew All Around.

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Teddy Bears



For Parents & Caregivers: Reading to children is especially important in building a larger vocabulary because children hear more new words when you read books. Reading + Talking = Vocabulary


Storytime Books

Music CDs: "The Bear Went Over the Mountain" Six Little Ducks and "Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear" Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays
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Opposites

For Parents & Caregivers: Children who enjoy books will want to learn how to read. An enjoyable storytime supports your child's literacy development.
Article: November Kindergarten Skills Development

Storytime Books
What's Opposite?
Too Big, Too Small, Just Right
Don't Laugh, Joe
Where Is the Green Sheep?

Rhymes

Music CDs: "Freeze" Kids in Motion; "Stop and Go" Play Your Instruments and Make a Pretty Sound; "Now Tall, Now Small" and "Clap Your Hands" Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays

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I am Special!

For Parents & Caregivers: Being comfortable with printed language helps children feel comfortable with books and understand that print is useful. Reading to your child everyday develops print awareness.
Article: Print Awareness

Storytime Books
Hands Can
Baghead
Leo the Latebloomer
To Be a Kid

Rhymes

Music CDs: "Clap Your Hands" and "Jim Along Josie" American Folk, Game, and Activity Songs; "Can You Point Your Fingers and Do the Twist" Dance Party and "If You're Happy and You Know It" Kids' Favorite Songs 2.

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Happy Halloween!


For Parents & Caregivers: Learning words begins at birth. Most children start school knowing between 3,000 - 5,000 words. Storytime provides opportunities for hearing and learning more words.



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Music CD: "Creeping, Creeping"; "Orange Pumpkins"; "Old Farmer Dan"; and "Halloween Is Almost Here" Wee Sing for Halloween


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Let's Make Some Noise!

For Parents & Caregivers: Help your pre-reader become aware of the smaller sounds that make up words. Play rhyming games, sing songs, and play word games.

Article: Activities for Parents to Increase Children's Print Awareness and Phonological Awareness

Storytime Books
Dancin' in the Kitchen

Play, Mozart, Play

One Windy Wednesday

Flannelboard Story: Cat Goes Fiddle-I-Fee (We used flannel pieces and sang the noisy story with the CD!)

Rhymes

Music CDs: "All Around the Kitchen" American Folk, Game, and Activity Songs for Children; "Boogie to the Beat" Boogie to the Beat; "Grandpa's Farm" Cathy and Marcy Collection; and "Fiddle-I-Fee" Wiggleworms Love You.

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The Land Down Under


For Parents & Caregivers: Silly songs, rhymes, and chants in storytime help children hear and play with language. They build phonemic awareness and vocabulary.

Storytime Books


Music CD: "Five Little Joeys" Dance Party

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Fire Prevention Week


For Parents & Caregivers: Plan and practice a home fire escape plan with your family. For more family fire safety tips, coloring pages, and fires safety activities, visit Sparky the Fire Dog.
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Fall Fun!


For Parents & Caregivers: School readiness skills, listening and following directions, are developed during storytimes!

Storytelling


Storytime Books


Music CDs: "Farmer Dan" Wee Sing for Halloween; "Anilae, Anilae" (Chipmunk, Chipmunk) Wee Sing Around the World; and "Jimmy Crack Corn" Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays.


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Pigs

For Parents & Caregivers: Children who enjoy books will want to learn how to read. Make book-sharing time a special time for closeness for you and your child!
Article: Simple Things Families Can Do to Help Their Child Become a Reader

Storytime Books
Pigs in the Mud
The Big Trip
Suddenly!
Pigs Aplenty, Pigs Galore!

Rhymes

Music CD: "Pig in the Parlor" American Folk, Game, and Activity Songs for Children.

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Sleepy Nights!


For Parents & Caregivers: Why are you so important?
· You know your child best.
· Children learn by doing things – and they love doing things with you!
Take every opportunity you have to read, talk, and play with your child.
Article: Providing a Literacy-Rich Home Environment

Storytime Books
There’s an Alligator Under My Bed
Star Shapes
Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late
Time for Bed

Rhymes

Music CDs: “Five Little Joeys” Dance Party; “Good Night” , “Sleep, Baby, Sleep” & “Twinkle, Twinkle” Wee Sing Children’s Songs and Fingerplays; and “Wimoweh” Whaddaya Think of That?

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Let's Be Silly!

For Parents & Caregivers: Being able to hear the beginning and ending sounds that make up words will help children sound out words when they begin to read. Most children who can “play with sounds” have an easier time learning to read.

Article: Activities to Increase Print Awareness & Phonological Awareness

Storytime Books
Wiggle
Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus
How Do Dinosaurs Eat Their Food?

Story Action Song: An Austrian Went Yodeling

Rhymes

Music CDs: “Point Your Fingers and Do the Twist” The Wiggles Dance Party; “Chicken Dance” Dance Along; and “We Are the Dinosaurs” Whaddaya Think of That?

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Down on the Farm!


For Parents & Caregivers: We ask "what" questions and open-ended questions during storytime because it helps develop narrative skills. Narrative skills = Comprehension


September's Opening Activity: "Tap Your Toe and Follow Me" Come and Make a Circle

Storytime Books


Music CDs: "All Around the Kitchen" American Folk, Game, and Activity Songs for Children; "Grandpa's Farm" Cathy and Marcy Collection for Kids: and "I Know a Chicken" Whaddaya Think of That?

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ABC Storytime

For Parents & Caregivers: We use music during storytime because it's FUN and:
encourages creativity; improves coordination, improves concentration; and literally makes brains grow!
Article: Singing as a Teaching Tool

Storytime Books
Alphabet Under Construction
A is for Amos
My "B" Sound Box
Cat's Colors

Rhymes

Music CDs: "Alphabet Song" Children's Favorite Songs Vol. 3; "Alphabet Medley" Sharon, Lois, & Bram ABCs; and "Marching Around the Alphabet" One Little Sound
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Swimming!


For Parents & Caregivers: Reading to children is especially important in building a larger vocabulary because children hear more new words when you read books.

Reading + Talking = Vocabulary



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Music CDs: "Beach Ball Baby" Hunk-Ta-Bunk-Ta Funsies 1, "Alle Meine Entlein (All My Little Ducklings)" Wee Sing Around the World, and "Swimming Song" Tony Chestnut and Fun Time Action Songs.
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Active Adventures!

For Parents & Caregivers: Children who enjoy books will want to learn how to read! An enjoyable storytime supports your child's literacy development.
Article: Tips for Reading Aloud with Preschoolers

Storytime Books
Wake Up, Me!
Harry's Box
Once Upon a Time
Dog Breath

Rhymes

Music CD: "Good Morning" , "Days of the Week", and "If You're Happy and You Know It" Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays.

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Fabulous Folktales

For Parents & Caregivers: Being comfortable with printed language helps children feel comfortable with books and understand that print is useful. Reading to your child everyday develops print awareness.

Storytime Books



Music CDs: "Walking, Walking" and "Little Peter Rabbit" Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays; "I Know a Chicken" Whaddaya Think of That?
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Picnics & Parks

For Parents & Caregivers: Learning words begins at birth. Most cildren start school knowing between 3,000 and 5, 000 words. Storytime provides opportunities for hearing and learning more words!
Article: How to Create a Literate Home

Storytime Books
The Picnic
Naughty Parents
It's the Bear
The Stray Dog

Rhymes

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Colors

For Parents & Caregivers: Help your pre-reader become aware of the smaller sounds that make up words. Play rhyming games -- Sing songs: each syllable = a note -- Say words with sounds left out (bat - "buh" = at)
Article: Say It Slow/Say It Fast

July "Warm-Up": Stomp and Clap; Physical Ed

Storytime Books
Red Is a Dragon
White Is for Blueberry
The Red Lemon
My Many Colored Days

Music CDs: "Baby's Clothes" Wee Sing for Baby; "Little Green Frog" Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays; and "Colors" Learning Basic Skills Through Music Vol. 1

Rhymes

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Giddy Up!


For Parents & Caregivers: Silly songs, rhymes, and chants in storytime help children hear and play with language. They build phonemic awareness and vocabulary.


Storytime Books
The Old Chisholm Trail (Ms. Heather's book!)


Music CDs: "Take Me Back to T-E-X-A-S" Happy Trails "; Deep in the Heart of Texas" Best of Children's Favorites ; and "Shoe a Little Horse" "Ride a Little Pony" Wee Sing for Baby

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The Deep Blue Sea


For Parents & Caregivers: Children learn letters in stages:
1. the names of letters
2. recognize the shapes of different letters
3. match the letters with their sounds
Article: Sounds and Letters

Warm Up: "An Austrian Went Yodeling" Stories with a Twist website -- Barb Lawson will be at Ashburn Library on Monday, July 28 @ 7:00pm.

Storytime Books:
Turtle in the Sea
Hello, Ocean
Fish Wish
Swimming with Dolphins

Rhymes

Music CDs: "I Saw Five Fish" Come and Make a Circle 2 and "Over the Deep Blue Sea" Come and Make a Circle

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Meow!

For Parents & Caregivers: School readiness skills -- listening & following directions -- are developed during storytimes.
Article: Kindergarten Skills Development

Warm Up: "An Austrian Went Yodeling" Stories with a Twist website Barb Lawson will be at Ashburn Library, Monday, July 28 @ 7:00pm!

Storytime Books
Cat's Colors
All for Pie, Pie for All
The Cat Barked
I Like Cats

Rhymes

Music CD: "The Cat Came Back" Whaddaya Think of That?

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Dads are Terrific!

For Parents & Caregivers: Children who enjoy books will want to learn how to read! Make book-sharing time a special time of closeness for you and your child.
Article: Fathers' Involvement and Literacy

Storytime Books:
Dad's Dinosaur Day
The Father Who Had 10 Children
My Father the Dog
I Love My Daddy

Rhymes

Music CDs: "Dance to Your Daddy" Wee Sing for Baby; "Jim Along Josie" American Folk, Game & Activity Songs for Children; "John Jacob Jingleheimerschmidt" and "Skidamarink" Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays

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Eric Carle Stories!

For Parents & Caregivers: Why are you so important? You know your child best. Children learn best by doing things and they love doing things with you! Take every opportunity you have to read, talk, and play with your child.
Article: Technology and Young Children: What Parents Should Know

Storytime Books:
The Secret Birthday Message
Little Cloud
1-2-3 to the Zoo
From Head to Toe

Rhymes

Music CDs: "5 Little Joeys" Dance Party & "Bean Bag Boogie" Kids in Motion
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Outdoor Fun

For Parents & Caregivers: Being able to hear the beginning and ending sounds that make up words will help children sound out words when they begin to read. Most children who can "play with sounds" have an easier time learning to read.
Article: Word Pairs I & II: Taking Away and Adding Sound Games

Storytime Warm-Up: "Can You Point Your Fingers & Do the Twist" Dance Party
Storytime Books:
Blueberries for Sal
Bernard's Boring Day
Chicken Chickens
Naughty Parents
Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh

Rhymes

Music CD: "Reach for the Sky"; "Walking, Walking" Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays

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Fine, Feathered Friends

For Parents & Caregivers: We ask "what" questions and open-ended questions during storytime because it helps develop narrative skills. Narrative skills = Comprehension!
Article: Dialogic Reading

Warm Up: "Can You (Point Your Fingers and Do the Twist?)" Dance Party
Storytime Books
Good Night, Owl
Owl Lake
Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!
Mole and the Baby Bird

Rhymes
Music CD: "Good Night;" "Sleep, Baby, Sleep;" "Three Blue Pigeons;" & "Baby Birdie" Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays

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Gardens


For Parents & Caregivers: We use music during storytime because it's FUN; encourages creativity; improves coordination; and improves concentration; ... music literally makes brains grow!
Warm Up: "Can You (Point Your Fingers & Do the Twist?) Dance Party
Storytime Books:
Music CDs: "Oats, Peas, Beans, & Barley Grow" Four Baby Bumblebees; "Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush" & "Ring Around the Rosy" Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays
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We Love Mothers!

For Parents & Caregivers: Reading to children is especially important in building a larger vocabulary because children hear more new words when you read books.
Reading + Talking = Vocabulary!
Article: Nurturing Your Budding Reader: Preschooler

Warm Up Activity: "Can You (Point Your Fingers and Do the Twist?)" Dance Party

Storytime Books
Ask Mr. Bear
I Love My Mommy
Mama Cat Has 3 Kittens
This Quiet Lady

Rhymes

Music CDs: "Gifts for Mommy" Toddlers on Parade; "Three Little Kittens" Favorite ABCs & Counting Songs; "Skidamarink" Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays; and "Shortin' Bread" Come and Make a Circle 2

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It's Raining, It's Pouring!


For Parents & Caregivers: Children who enjoy books will want to learn how to read. An enjoyable storytime supports your child's literacy development!
Warm-Up Song: "Can You Point Your Fingers & Do the Twist" Dance Party
Storytime Books:
Music CDs: "Rain, Rain Go Away", "There Is Thunder" & It's Raining" Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays; "Rain Dance" You Can Dance; "Rain Song Medley" Teach Me Japanese
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Bunnies!

For Parents & Caregivers: Being comfortable with printed language helps children feel comfortable with books and understand that print is useful. Reading to your child everyday develops print awareness.
Article: Print Awareness During Read Alouds
Warm-Up Song: "Clap Your Hands" American Folk, Game and Activity Songs for Children
Storytime Books:
Bunny's Noisy Book
Magic Rabbit
A Boy and His Bunny
We're Rabbits!
Rhymes
Music CDs: "Hop Like a Bunny" Toddlers on Parade; "Little Peter Rabbit" Wee Sing Children's Songs and Fingerplays; and "John the Rabbit" Come and Make a Circle
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National Library Week! Apr 13 - 19


For Parents & Caregivers: Learning words begins at birth. Most children start school knowing between 3,000 and 5, 000 words. Storytime provides opportunities for hearing and learning more words.
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