Catch that train! Sept. 28 storytime

We'll be doing:

Freight Train Trip! A Lift-the-Flap Adventure, by Susanna Leonard Hill

This book combines two things toddlers love: trains, and rhyme. Rhyming books help develop early literacy skills as kids start to recognize the different parts of words (phonological awareness). Some other rhyming books to try with your toddler:
Sheep in a Jeep, by Nancy Shaw, or
Brown Bear, Brown Bear, by Bill Martin


Meeow and the Little Chairs, by Sebastien Braun

Kids should recognize this character from last week....







That's Not My Train, by Fiona Watt

There are a series of these books, which can be found in the board book section of the library.





In addition to some of the songs from earlier weeks, we'll be adding:

Choo Choo Train
This is a choo choo train
Puffing down the track
Now it's going forward (bend arms and move in forward circular motion)
Now it's going back (reverse  motion)
Now the bell is ringing (ring bell)
Now the whistle blows (pull the whistle)
What a lot of noise it makes (hold ears)
Everywhere it goes!

Up, Up, Up
Here we go up, up, up (reach up)
Here we go down, down, down (reach down)
Here we go forward and backward (swing arms)
And here we go round and round (rotate arms)

See you in storytime!