Showing posts with label baby book club. Show all posts
Showing posts with label baby book club. Show all posts

Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Five Little Puppies Jumping on the Bed was a great read at our Baby Basics Program!


It was Tail Wagging Fun at Books For Babes with – Five Little Puppies Jumping On The Bed by Lily Karr


Our momstown Milton Babies had fun with puppies and their pals at Books for Babes this month at Sharkey’s Cuts for Kids.  Scholastic generously provided our program with a book to explore the love of reading to help encourage early literacy right from infancy. Five Little Puppies Jumping on the Bed is a board book written by Lily Karr and is based on the popular Children’s Song Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed.Each page has simple bright images beautifully illustrated by Aaron Zenz that attract the eyes of our little ones and include a tactile sensory component (fluffy dog, shiny elements etc.)


We began our Baby Book Club by singing different songs about dogs people have as pets.  Here is a list of some of the songs we sang incase you too would like to sing with your little one…

 

My Dog Rags

I have a dog.
His name is Rags.
He eats so much that his tummy sags,
His ears flip flop
and his tail wig wags.
And when he walks, he goes zig zag.

He goes flip flop, wig wag, zig zag.
He goes flip flop, wig wag, zig zag.
He goes flip flop, wig wag, zig zag.
I love Rags and he loves me.

My dog Rags, he loves to play.
He rolls around in the mud all day.
I whistle. 
[whistle] 
He won't obey.
He always runs the other way.

He goes flip flop, wig wag, zig zag.
He goes flip flop, wig wag, zig zag.
He goes flip flop, wig wag, zig zag.
I love Rags and he loves me.


B-I-N-G-O
http://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/bingo.html

There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
B-I-N-G-O
B-I-N-G-O
B-I-N-G-O
And Bingo was his name-o.

There was a farmer who had a dog,
And Bingo was his name-o.
(clap)-I-N-G-O
(clap)-I-N-G-O
(clap)-I-N-G-O
And Bingo was his name-o.

(Continue repeating the song clapping for each letter)

Where, Oh Where Has My Little Dog Gone?

Oh where, Oh Where has my little dog gone?
Oh where, Oh where can he be?
With his ears cut short and his tail cut long.
Oh where, Oh where can he be?

Then as Miss Jen read the story aloud to the group, the Mom’s were able to sing along.  Everyone enjoyed the surprise ending. 

 
 
After the story was read, each Baby took a turn reading the book with their Mom.





  
 
The Babes enjoyed playing with some puppy toys provided by Miss Sam. 


 
 

Congrats to this month's lucky little one who won the draw to add today’s book to their own personal library!  
 
 
 

Thank you very much Scholastic for giving our little ones the chance to explore and sing with Five Little Puppies Jumping on the Bed – It was a tail wagging good time! Looking forward to seeing what adventure we will take next month at our Scholastic Books for Babes Program.  We hope you can join us!

 

Tuesday, July 3, 2012

momstown Milton: Tales for Tots - Finger Play with Scholastic's Old MacDonald Had a Farm Puppet Book

Today was a great day to be on the farm! Well, actually, we weren't at the farm, but we pretended we were at our momstown Milton Tales for Tots program at Chapters Indigo. It was a real 'hoe-down' with some children bringing farm animal toys from home, and most just excited to be doing things that have to do with their favourite subject in the whole world: Old MacDonald Had a Farm!



We started off looking after the little children by organizing a bit of colouring of different animals you would see on the farm that was found and printed from the Internet.


The older children got into the groove, the farm groove that is, by prepping themselves for the craft that day which was construction paper pigs.


             
              Craft items included:

              -pink & black construction paper
              -glue
              -Google eyes
              -pink pipe cleaner

               Voila! A pink pig!












Afterwards we of course sang Old MacDonald Had a Farm and many other farm animal songs (there are SO many!) And when it came to reading, the little ones were very excited because today's book donated by Scholastic Canada was Old MacDonald Had a Farm, the finger puppet version! Their little eyes smiled with enthusiasm.




Our grand prize winner for this book was Zachary! Perfect: he is 18 months and looooves animals!


Thanks everyone for coming out! Our Early Literacy Program - Tales for Tots is just one of many educational based programs that momstown Milton offers on a monthly basis!
 
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

All that Glitters - Baby Book Club Dec 2010







The theme for our year end momstown Milton baby book club was glitter and glam. The little ones started off with free play which of course included a bubble station. The craft was all about the glitter glue and shiny sequences as they decorated their snowflakes and christmas trees. The infants had a fun time painting using christmas cookie cutters, brushes and whatever body parts they could sneak in when mommy wasn't looking. We then gathered to hear the story "Snow Friends" by Christina Butler and ended off the program with instruments and carolling to celebrate the holiday season. Thank you Scribble n' Splatter for hosting our momstown event!

Sunday, November 28, 2010

November Baby Book Club





This month's baby book club theme was My house, Your House. We started off the event playing in our forts and building tall towers. The book selected was the "three little pigs" and the craft was designed to showcase each of the three pigs houses - straw, sticks and brick. We used shreddies for straw, chinese noodles for sticks and garlic croutons for bricks. The little ones had fun sampling the materials as they constructed their houses. Thanx Scribble n' Splatter for hosting such a wonderful event!

Thursday, October 28, 2010

Spiders and Bats- Baby Book club




It's been a spooktacular week for momstown Milton! On Wednesday, children of all ages enjoyed October's Baby book club with a theme of spiders and bats! The children looked great in their Halloween costumes, as did the moms who also dressed for the occasion! During our time together, we read books about bats and spiders, sang songs, read poems, played games and danced.

The toddlers especially enjoyed jumping up and down to '10 Little Spiders Jumping on the Web'! The fun didn't stop there, after circle time, every child got to create at least 1 Halloween art activity. The young babies used their handprints to paint the wings of a bat, while the toddlers got to decorate a bat puppet and make a spider puppet. A fantastic time was had by all!







Sunday, July 18, 2010

There's a Rumble in the Jungle

momstown Milton moms, tots and babies recently explored the sights and sounds of the jungle. Well, ok the sights and sounds of Lowville Park.
We added the jungle part.



Our adventure began with circle time songs
and a read-aloud.

Puppets enhanced our fingerplay


And the coloring... well, that's just plain fun!!



Soon it was time to get crafty. We filled paper towel rolls with seeds and then painted them with interesting designs to create rainsticks.



In the end, we meandered through the creek and scampered across the brush while impersonating the animals in the jungle.
momstown Milton hosts a themed event once a month, as well as several weekly events. Join us for a free two week trial, click here.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

In the Jungle


momstown Milton is heading to the Jungle. Join us for songs, fingerplay, circle time, and crafts. We're making rainsticks and binoculars.

Our jungle theme continues at our Baby/Tot Book Club! Snuggle up with your child and build their natural sense of rhythm while listening to Over in the Jungle: A Rainforest Rhyme, by Marianne Berkes.












Jan Brett's The Umbrella will further engage your child's imagination as they discover the wonderful world under a rainforest canopy.



Crafts, songs, chants and role-playing will bring these books to life and extend each child's literary experience.


Interested in learning more about momstown Milton's monthly activities, check out our website at milton.momstown.ca or contact us at info@momstown.ca

Friday, April 30, 2010

First Baby Book Club is off to a great start with yummy carrots!




We kicked off our first baby book club of the summer with some songs and fingerplays. Our focus for the event was carrots.






Babies, toddlers and their mommies listened as Kristi read a The Carrot Seed (fiction) followed by The Lifecycle of a Carrot (nonfiction).





After more songs and fingerplays, the little ones took off their onesies and put their bodies into the art.

The toddlers enjoyed gluing tissue paper and painting with CARROTS.

That's correct no brushes at this event.