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.

Adventure Book List

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.

Article: Kindergarten Skills Development

Storytime Books

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Three Billy Goats Gruff

The Hare and the Tortoise

Little Red Hen

Rhymes

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

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

Storytime Booklist

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

Color Storytime Booklist