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.

Article: Sing Your Way to Reading Success

Storytime Books

Giddy Up, Cowgirl

With the Wind

One Horse Waiting for Me

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

Rhymes

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

Giddy Up Booklist

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

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?

Cat Storytime Booklist

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

Fathers Storytime Booklist