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Storytime Plan: Growing Big: Two and Three Year Olds

Growing Big: Two and Three Year Olds storytime plan by Glencoe Public Library

Storytime Handout: Animals All Around Us

Animals All Around Us Handout by Glencoe (IL) Public Library

Roll Your Hands (song) from Toddlers on Parade by Carol Hammett

Words:
Roll, roll, roll your hands
fast as fast can be.

Do it now, let me see

Do it now with me.

Tap, tap, tap your feet
Shake, shake, shake your hips
Roll, roll, roll your hands
[Repeat one or two times all together. Clap together when done.]

Adult Aside: This is a good rhyme to do as you are bathing or diapering your child. Use different parts of the body and words for different actions to help increase your child’s vocabulary. Even though your baby does not understand everything you say, it is important for her to hear you speak. The wider variety of words that your child hears, the larger her vocabulary will be, and the more easily they will later be able to read.
Submitted by Saroj Ghoting

Eensy Weensy Spider (song) from Mainly Mother Goose by Sharon Lois & Bram

Adult Aside: This song does the eensy weensy spider and then next door there is a big, fat spider, and then a teensy weensy spider. Let’s listen to the song first and then we’ll act it out together. Adults, by using the movements can help children understand what the words mean. Here’s an example of opposites.
Submitted by Saroj Ghoting

Blue Sea by Robert Kalan

Read the book. 
Adult Aside: Blue Sea uses the concept of size. You can build your child’s vocabulary by talking about size, like big, bigger, biggest and the same with small, smaller, smallest. You can do the same with other words as well–thin, fat, hard, soft, etc.
Submitted by Saroj Ghoting