Dear Parents and Caregivers: Our Toddler and Preschool storytimes celebrate the diversity of people, places, and more through books, fingerplays, and other materials. Please continue helping your child develop a love for the world around them and a love for books and reading by sharing these rhymes, books, and other activities with your child. To learn more about our Storytime Values, please see https://read.poudrelibraries.org/kids/storytime.cfm.

Books to Share

If The Dinosaurs Came Back by Bernard Most

Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin Jr.

What Will Hatch by Jennifer Ward

Anything by Dianna Aston

A Seed is Sleepy by Dianna Aston

What Do Wheels Do All Day? by April Prince

Sometimes I Forget You're a Robot by Sam Brown

I Love Tools! by Philemon Sturges

Fix It, Sam by Lori Ries

Three Lost Seeds by Stephie Morton

My Truck Is Stuck! by Kevin Lewis

1, 2, 3 to the Zoo Eric Carle

Go, shapes, go! by Denise Fleming

A Pig is Big by Douglas Florian

Iggy Peck, Architect by Andrea Beatty

The Three Little Pigs by Mei Matsuoka

Oscar and the Cricket by Geoff Waring

I Fall Down by Vicki Cobb

Fun with Fingerplays and Songs

Shadows See my shadow, see my shadow Move this way, move that way. See it do what I do, see it do what I do, It follows me, it follows me.

I see shadows, I see shadows, On the wall, On the wall. Some are short and scary, Some are short and scary, Some are tall, Some are tall.

The Water Cycle (sing 2x) The water cycle – it goes around and round The water cycle – keeps going up and down The water cycle – it goes around and round, It goes around and round and round Water Can Be All Three Three states of matter are surrounding me, As solid, liquid, and gas, you see, And water can be all three (ice, water, air!) Water can be all three. Muscles, Bones and Skin Inside outside upside down. Muscles and bones with skin all around. What keeps our body safe and sound? Muscles and bones with skin all around!

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Updated 9/13

Other Fun Things

Rock Garden Gather one rock from each family outdoor adventures and then keep a journal with a little story attached to that specific rock. Build your own “Family Adventure Rock Garden” and put it in a prominent place in your yard. Include “pet” rocks they have painted.

Wash, Wash, Wash Your Hands

Wash, wash, wash, your hands

Play our handy game

Rub and scrub, scrub and rub

Germs go down the drain HEY!

Wash, wash, wash, your hands

Play our handy game

Rub and scrub, scrub and rub

Germs go down the drain HEY!

Everybody Touch Your Head Everybody touch your head Now touch your toes Everybody touch your legs Now touch your tummy Roll your arms up And roll your arms down Roll your arms up And shake them all around 2) eyes-lips-shoulders-knees 3) hips-back-neck-ears 4) teeth-hands-tongue- elbows 5) cheeks-chest-chin-ankles .

Planet Song - Sung to “Ants Go Marching “ The Planets revolve around the sun...hurrah, hurrah The Planets revolve around the sun...hurrah, hurrah The Planets revolve around the sun, they spin on their axis everyone And they all go spinning...around and around they go Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars...hurrah, hurrah Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars...hurrah, hurrah Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars all whirling and twirling among the stars And they all go spinning, around, and around they go.

Every Child Ready to Read @ Your Library® Learning to read begins before your child starts school. Help your children develop early literacy skills now; this makes it easier for children to learn to read once they begin school. Five of the best ways to help your child get ready to read are:

If you would like more information, please ask the staff in the children’s area.

Every Child Ready to Read® is a project of the Association for Library Service to Children and the Public Library Association, divisions of the Ameri-can Library Association.

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Writing Playing

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Go on a nature hike and gather objects such as sticks, rocks, feathers, seeds, and then fill a small bucket with water. Let your child place the items in the water and do their own science experiment.