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Singing is one of the five early literacy activities that you should do every day with your child because they are important, research-proven ways to help get your child ready to read and learn in school. \u00a0The five early literacy activities are: Talking, Singing, Playing, Reading and Writing.<\/p>\n
Today we read books that you can sing to! \u00a0First we read Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush<\/em><\/a> by Sophie Fatus. \u00a0I love this book because it shows children from all around the world getting ready for school in their various places and cultures. \u00a0It’s also a great song to sing ANYTIME. \u00a0You can make up any verse you want–the possibilities with this song are limitless:<\/p>\n We also read a wonderful version of Wheels on the Bus called The Babies on the Bu<\/em>s<\/a> by Karen Katz, all about babies!<\/p>\n The infant group sang There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly with the help of some visuals. \u00a0Funny personal fact: this was one of the songs that helped my Polish great-grandmother to learn English! \u00a0It’s a very silly song. \u00a0The words are below.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There was an old lady who swallowed a fly<\/em> There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,<\/em> There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;<\/em> That wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her;<\/em> There was an old lady who swallowed a cat;<\/em> That wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her;<\/em> There was an old lady that swallowed a dog;<\/em> That wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her;<\/em> There was an old lady who swallowed a cow,<\/em> That wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her;<\/em> There was an old lady who swallowed a horse…<\/em> When you come to the library, you can also find a lot of these books based on children’s songs in a special section of our children’s nonfiction: 782.42<\/strong><\/a>. \u00a0Here are some additional titles you might like!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our letter of the day today was S, and we sang all kinds of songs! \u00a0First we talked about things that begin with S that also have songs about them, such as: Spiders (Itsy Bitsy Spider) Stars (Twinkle Twinkle) Sun (You Are My Sunshine) Shoes (One, Two, Buckle My Shoe) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[16,26,27],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-storytimes","tag-early-literacy","tag-infant","tag-toddler"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p71KT0-kH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"herewegoround\"](\"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/10\/files\/sites\/10\/2014\/04\/herewegoround-300x291.jpg\")
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\n I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – I think she’ll die!<\/em><\/p>\n
\n That wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her;<\/em>
\n She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;<\/em>
\n I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – I think she’ll die!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
\n How absurd to swallow a bird.<\/em>
\n She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,<\/em><\/p>\n
\n She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;<\/em>
\n I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – I think she’ll die!<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Imagine that\u00a0\u2013 she swallowed a cat!<\/em>
\n She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,<\/em>
\n She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,<\/em><\/p>\n
\n She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;<\/em>
\n I don’t know why\u00a0 she swallowed a fly – I think she’ll die!<\/em><\/p>\n
\n What a hog, to swallow a dog;<\/em>
\n She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,<\/em>
\n She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,<\/em>
\n She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,<\/em><\/p>\n
\n She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;<\/em>
\n I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – I think she’ll die!<\/em><\/p>\n
\n I don’t know how she swallowed a cow;<\/em>
\n She swallowed the cow to catch the dog,<\/em>
\n She swallowed the dog to catch the cat,<\/em>
\n She swallowed the cat to catch the bird,<\/em>
\n She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,<\/em><\/p>\n
\n She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;<\/em>
\n I don’t know why she swallowed a fly \u2013 I think she’ll die!<\/em><\/p>\n
\n She died, of course!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n![\"therewasanoldladytaback\"](\"http:\/\/pasadena-library.net\/kids\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/10\/files\/sites\/10\/2014\/04\/therewasanoldladytaback-300x237.jpg\")
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