Poetry & Prose

Episode 11's theme is Birds.Join us as we read a book called "Birds" by Kevin Henkes and sing a song "Little Bird Little Bird", Read two more books, "A Snowy Owl Story" by Melissa Kim and "Owl Babies" by Martin Waddell. Sing along with "A Nursery Rhyme from Jane Dyer's book Animal Crackers and read a poem from Tomie dePaola's "Book of Poems". Sing "In The Spring" from Read-Aloud Rhymes for the very young" by Jack Prelutsky and read a poem from "Sing to the Sun" by Ashley Bryan.

Episode 10's theme is Frogs. In this episode Ronda will read "One Frog Sang' by Shirley Parenteau Illustrated by Cynthia Jabar. Sing along with the song Ack Gunk Went the Little Green Frog One Day. Read "Too Many Frogs!" by Ann and John Hassett. Read and sing "Five Green and Speckled Frogs" Illustrated by Constanza Basaluzzo. We will discuss three books "All About Frogs" by Jim Arnosky, "Critters of Maine by Wildlife Forever and "Nic Bishop Frogs" by Nic Bishop.

Season 2 continues with the theme Hats. in this episode Ronda will read "Jennie's Hats" by Ezra Jack Keats and sing a silly song called "On My Head I Wear My Hat". "The Hat" by Jan Brett and "Animals Should Definitely Not Wear Clothing" by Judi Barrett are the next two books. We will share a short finger play and action rhyme called "My Hat" and a book "Milo's Hat Trick" by Jon Agef. Read a rhyme about a hat from "The Random House Book of Mother Goose".

Season 2 starts with the theme Colors. In this episode Ronda will read "Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes" by James Dean and Eric Litwin. Sing along with the finger play song "Two Little Bluebirds" and read "Harold and the Purple Crayon" by Crockett Johnson. The book called "ART" by Patrick McDonnell and a poem "Crayons" from the book "Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young" by Jack Prelutsky and Marc Brown are next.

This episode is devoted to Toys. We will read two books "Corduroy" by Don Freeman and "Me...jane by Patrick McDonnell. Sing "The Marvelous Toy" by Tom Paxton and read "Yellow Ball" by Molly Bang. We will also exercise to the rhyme "Here is a Beach Ball", read "Rub-a-Dub-Sub" by Linda Ashman, and sing "Octopus's Garden" by the Beatles written by Ringo Starr.