{"id":15499,"date":"2020-01-22T14:01:11","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T22:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/?p=15499"},"modified":"2020-01-22T17:51:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-23T01:51:47","slug":"big-fish-infant-storytime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/2020\/big-fish-infant-storytime\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Fish! ~ Infant Storytime"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a wonderful time reading books about fish during Infant Storytime this week.\u00a0 We met Fred the Fish,\u00a0sang songs, shared nursery rhymes and had fun with some bounces.<\/p>\n

We also learned that the word Fish begins with the letter F and we discovered a few other things that begin with the letter F:\u00a0 Frog<\/em> and Flower<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Books We Shared<\/h2>\n

Fun FACT:\u00a0 <\/strong>Did you know it is good to read early and often to your infant?\u00a0 You might think that your baby isn’t able to benefit from books when they are just a few months old, but that is not true.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Beginning early is important because the roots of language are developing in a baby\u2019s brain even before they can talk! The more words your baby hears over time, the more words they learn.\u00a0 Zero to Three<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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We read another book by Lucy Cousins titled:\u00a0 Hooray for Fish!<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/a> If you read the blog post about our storytime on Birds, you’ll know that she has a similar book titled:\u00a0 Hooray for Birds!<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/a> Both are colorful, bold, bright and full of concepts like up and down, round and round, upside down and many more.\u00a0 Although both books are too long to keep an infant’s attention, they can easily be shortened to work for babies.\u00a0 They even work well for very young infants because the illustrations are large, clearly defined and brightly colored.\u00a0 Babies whose eyesight is still in the early stages of development (0-5 months) are able to make out most of the shapes\/images while babies 5 months and up are able to distinguish between different colors.\u00a0 \u00a0Watch the video clip below to get an idea of how your baby’s vision develops.<\/p>\n