NOVEMBER Book Babies + Toddlers: Pigs
NOVEMBER Book Babies + Toddlers: Pigs
“This little piggy went to market… stayed home… had roast beef… had none… and this little piggy cried ‘wee wee’ all the way home!” Let’s add some piggy fun to your adventures! Sing, talk, read, write, and play with these delightful books and rhymes as you fill your home with oinks and giggles in a pig-tastic adventure with your little one.
Book Babies: Wednesday @ 9:30am in Community Room
Babies not yet walking (Ages 0 – 12 months)
Toddler Time: Monday & Tuesday @ 9:30am in Community Room
Toddlers who are walking (Ages 1 – 2 years)
Welcome Songs
Here We Are Together
Here we are together, together, together! Oh, here we are together in our library. There’s (sing names)… Here we are together in our library!
Hello Everybody
Hello everybody let’s clap our hands*, clap our hands, clap our hands. Hello everybody let’s clap our hands today! *pat our head, stretch up high, wiggle our fingers, tickle our knees, kick our feet, bounce up high!
S, T, R, W, P
(Sing while pointing to each finger on your child’s hand.) Sing, talk, read, write, play! Sing, talk, read write, play! Sing, talk, read, write, play! Sing, talk, read, write, play each day!
Sing, Talk, Read, Write, Play
TIP
Learning through play is relaxed, fun and creative. Through a single enjoyable activity, your child can learn about following directions, taking turns, and showing appreciation for others, all skills that are necessary for healthy development.
Activity
While using the terms, “my turn” and “your turn,” play Hickory, Dickory Dare. Take turns tossing a pillow, bean bag, or plush pig up in the air and catching it. Don’t forget to clap for your child’s efforts!
Books Presented
Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Farm by Joy Cowley
Piggies by Audrey Wood
Pig-a-Boo!: A Farmyard Peekaboo Book by Dorothea DePrisco
Moo-a-boo!
A back and white cow, looking at me!
Farm animals play a game of peek-a-boo in this ilarious book with flaps and touch-and-feel elements! Each spread introduces readers to a different farm animal who is ready to play! Children will love playing “pig-a-boo,” “cluck-a-boo,” and even “baa-a-boo” in this interactive title that’s perfect for read-aloud fun!
Piggies in the Pumpkin Patch by Mary Peterson
Fall into reading and learning to read with this trip to the pumpkin patch, perfect for fall read-alouds for preschoolers and prereaders.
Piggies plot a peculiar path. Two little piggies run amok on the farm, as they travel from the pumpkin patch, through the garden, into the black bull’s pen, and back to mama pig in time for a nap. The piggies’ antics introduce young readers to prepositions of direction. Alliteration, assonance, and rhyme in each of the three stanzas make for a great read-aloud.
What This Story Needs is a Pig in a Wig by Emma J. Virján
When Pigs Fly!: A Song for Dreamers by Sandra Boynton
Little Pookie by Sandra Boynton
The Three Little Pigs by Emily Bolam
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
A Farmer Went Trotting
A farmer went trotting (Bounce baby on lap, facing you)
Upon his gray mare
With his daughter behind him
So rosy and fair
Then a pig cried out, “Oink!” (Lift baby up)
And they all tumbled down (Slide baby down your shins)
Off of the horse
And upside down! (Tip baby gently backwards!)
Source: King County Library System
Five Pigs So Squeaky Clean
(tune: Peter Cottontail)
Five pigs so squeaky clean
Cleanest you’ve ever seen.
Wanted to go outside and play. Oink! Oink!
One jumped into the mud.
Landed with a great big THUD
Now there are four clean squeaky pigs.Oink! Oink!
Source: Storytime Katie
The Tail of a Pig
(Tune: “The Wheels on the Bus”)
The tail of a pig curls round and round, round and round, round and round.(circle finger round and round)
The tail of a pig curls round and round
All through the mud.
Additional verses:
The mouth of a pig goes oink, oink, oink…
The snout of a pig goes root, root, root…
The hooves of a pig go run, run, run…
The ears of a pig go twitch, twitch, twitch…
Source: Verona Story Time
Hickory Dickory Dare
Hickory, dickory dare.
The pig flew up in the air.
Farmer Brown* soon brought him down.
Hickory, dickory dare.
*your child’s name
Source: Jbrary
My Pig is Rooting on My Head!
(tune “Here We Go ‘Round the Mulberry Bush”)
My pig is rooting on my toes, on my toes, on my toes
My pig is rooting on my toes –
Oink! Oink! Oink! (move bean bag to knee)
My pig is rooting on my knee…
My pig is rooting on my tummy…
My pig is rooting on my shoulder…
My pig is rooting on my head, on my head, on my head (balance bean bag on head)
My pig is trotting on my head –
He leaped away! Oink!
One To Five
One little nose, two little feet
Three little tickles on your tummy sweet!
Four little kisses on five little toes
Then one more kiss for your sweet little nose!
Source: The Youth Desk
The Bean Bag
Chorus:
Throw the bean bag and catch
Turn around, turn around, stamp, stamp, stamp
Throw the bean bag and catch
Turn around, turn around, stamp, stamp, stamp
Put it on your head and walk around the room
Put it on your head and walk around the room
Repeat Chorus
Put it on your head and walk around the room
Put it on your head and walk around the room
Put it on your shoulder… elbow… knee… back now… stomach… finger… foot… arm now
Put it on your head and walk around the room
Put it on your head and walk around the room
Repeat Chorus
Source: Hap Palmer
