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December Lap-sit: Animals

Updated: Nov 30, 2018



Introduction: This Storytime is developed specially for infants to 23 months old and their parent/caregivers. This is an interactive program between you and your baby. Enjoy 30 minutes of books, songs, rhymes, fingerplay, toys and socialization with other young babies.

Date: Every Thursday

Time: 11:00 a.m.

Age Range: 0 to 24 months old.

Skills Supported: Print Conventions, motor skills, visual tracking skills, and socialization.

Frequently: Weekly

Attendance: 20 children and their parent/caregiver

Staff or Volunteer Needed: 1 staff member, 1 volunteer

Format: Drop-in

Budget: $20.00

Supplies:

  • Animal Cubes: $20.00

Books to Share with your baby:

  • Baby Animals by Xavier Deneux

  • The Big Book of Silly! by Natalie Marshall

  • Dear Zoo Animal Shapes by Rod Campbell

  • Fifteen animals! by Sandra Boynton

  • Look, Look Again by Agnese Baruzzi

  • My Animals by Xavier Deneux

  • Roar by Jonathan Litton


 

1. Introduction:

Hello, welcome to lap-sit storytime. My name is Ms. Debbie and with me is Ms. Peggy. We are both so happy to see you are here today. We encourage you all to participate and to do the rhymes and songs with your children. You know your children best, so if they are not in the mood, don't force them, but do encourage them. Sometimes when they see you joining in, they will too. We expect a fair amount of craziness during storytime, but that is okay. If your child becomes disruptive, please take him or her out of the program room, and join us again when your child has settled down. Don't feel bad, it is okay. Let's start with our opening song.



2. Opening Song It is Time to Say Hello


Lyrics:

It is time to say hello to all my friends.

It is time to say hello to all my friends.

It is time to say hello.

Give a smile, wink an eye.

It is time to say hello to all my friends.

(Credit: Jbrary. 2014, April 21).


3. Early Literacy Aside: Explain

Today we are going to look at print conventions and awareness. It's never too early to read to your baby. As soon as your baby is born, he or she starts learning. Just by talking to, playing with, and caring for your baby every day, you help your baby develop language skills necessary to become a reader (Reading Rockets, 2013, December 20).


4. Action Rhyme:

Pat-a-Cake

Hold your baby's hands while reciting the rhyme.

Lyrics:

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker’s man,

Bake me a cake as fast as you can.

Pat it and roll it and mark it with a B,

And put it in the oven for baby and me.

(Childhood)


5. Book:



My Animals by Xavier Deneux

(Goodreads, n.d.)












6. Sign Language:

Facing your child, use the sign for more, together, happy and friends.

Lyrics:

The more we get together

Together, together

The more we get together

The happier we'll be

'Cause your friends are my friends

And my friends are your friends

The more we get together

The happier we'll be

(Credit: Skokie Public Library, 2010, November 23)


7. Action Song:

The Baby Hokey Pokey

You put your right hand in, you put your right hand out, (extend babies right hand in and out)

You put your right hand in, and you shake it all about! (extend babies right hand in and then shake babies right hand)

You do the hokey pokey, and you turn yourself around, (help baby dance in lap)

That’s what it’s all about!


You put your left hand in, you put your left hand out, (extend babies left hand in and out)

You put your left hand in, and you shake it all about! (extend babies left hand in and then shake babies left hand)

You do the hokey pokey, and you turn yourself around, (help baby dance in lap)

That’s what it’s all about!

Adapted idea from (State Library of Iowa. n.d.)


8. Early Literacy Aside: Example

When children are young, they treat books as they would any other toy-they play with them. They might put them in their mouths and explore them by pushing and pulling and sometimes tearing them, they are learning how to handle them. Keep some books in their toy box. You are helping your children develop print awareness because they are learning how books work. This is one of the skills that researchers have shown is an important part of a strong foundation for reading. (Ghoting and Martin-Diaz, 2013, pp. 215-216)


9. Book



Fifteen animals! by Sandra Boynton

(Goodreads, n.d.).












10. Flannel Board:

Star Light, Star Bright

Put a large star on the flannel board

Star light, star bright,

First star I see tonight,

I wish I may, I wish I might

Have the wish I wish tonight.

(childhood)


11. Action Song:

The Wheels on the Bus

Bounce your child gently as you sing the song to him/her.

The wheels on the bus go round and round,

Round and round, round and round. (rotate hands round and round)

The wheels on the bus go round and round,

All through the town!

(childhood)


12. Early Literacy Aside: Empower


Make sure books are as easy to reach, hold, and look at as toys. Remember, a baby will do with a book what he does with everything else — put it in his mouth. And that's exactly what he's supposed to do, so you may only want to put chewable books within reach. (Reading Rockets, 2013)


13. Closing Song:



It is Time to Say Goodbye

Lyrics:

It is time to say goodbye to all my friends.

It is time to say goodbye to all my friends.

It is time to say goodbye.

Give a smile, wink an eye.

It is time to say goodbye to all my friends.

(Credit: Jbrary. 2014, April 21).


14. End of Storytime Activity:

Toy animal cubes and books will be placed on the rug for parents/caregivers to play with their children.


 

References:


Goodreads. (n.d.). My Animals. [Digital Image]. Retrieved from https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3674748-my-animals


Goodreads. (n.d.) Fifteen Animals. [Digital Image]. Retrieved from https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3999244-fifteen-animals


Jbrary (2014, April 21). It is time to say goodbye to all my friends: Storytime goodbye song [Video file]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/ZkL4ugAIk_A


Mel's Desk. (2009, September 12). Baby storytime: Mother goose [Web log post]. Retrieved from http://melissa.depperfamily.net/blog/?p=386


Reading Rockets. (2013, December 20). Reading tips for parents of babies. Retrieved from http://www.readingrockets.org/article/reading-tips-parents-babies


Skokie Public Library. (2010, November 23). The More We Get Together. [Video]. Retrieved from https://youtu.be/VYJS_xckWY0


State Library of Iowa. (n.d.). Sample Lap-sit Programs. Retrieved from https://www.statelibraryofiowa.org/ld/t-z/youthservices/forlibrarians/lapsit/samplelapsits

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