Book Babies: Green is Great!
Book Babies: Green is Great!
Green is great! We celebrated everything green for St. Patrick’s Day today. There were green frogs, green peas and of course… green shamrocks. For more books about the color green, check out some of the additional titles listed below.
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Ages 2-5
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
“I wonder what would happen if…” seems to be the constant unspoken question in toddlers’ minds. They have discovered that they can make things happen. This is actually the beginning of logical thought: action A causes response B.
Activity
Secure a cardboard mailing tube to a stair railing and place a box or basket at the bottom. Give your toddler a ball to feed through the top of the tube. They will love watching the ball go in one end and come out of the other. Talk about why this happens with your toddler. Don’t be afraid to use “large” terms like gravity. It might help to clap out the syllables as you say the word. Then have fun with the tube and balls!
Books Presented
Baby's First St. Patrick's Day by Dawn Sirett
Featuring a soft padded cover and rounded edges, a board book celebration of the Irish holiday depicts the bright and colorful objects associated with its traditions, from costumes and rainbows to four-leaf clovers and pots of gold.
Green by Laura Vaccaro Seeger
Illustrations and simple, rhyming text explore the many shades of the color green.
The Wide-Mouthed Frog by Keith Faulkner
From the Okefenokee Swamp comes a frog with a wide mouth that he just loves to use. Until one day, he meets a big green animal with lots of teeth who finds wide-mouthed frogs simply delicious.
Songs, Rhymes, and Fingerplays
Five Green and Speckled Frogs
Five Green and Speckled Frogs
sat on a speckled log
Eating some most delicious bugs.
Yuuuuuuuuummmmmmmmm…yuuummm!
One jumped into the pool,
where it was nice and cool.
Then there were four green speckled frogs,
Glub glub.
Four green and speckled frogs…
Three green and speckled frogs…
Two green and speckled frogs…
One green and speckled frog…
…Then there were no green speckled frogs!
Glub glub, glub, glub
-Songsforteaching.com
Bounce: Bumping Up and Down in My Little “Green” Wagon
Bumping up and down in my little green wagon,
Bumping up and down in my little green wagon,
Bumping up and down in my little green wagon,
Won’t you be my darling!
– adapted from Pewaukeelibrary.org
Flannel Board: Over on the Hill
Over on the hill in the grass so green
Were the five biggest shamrocks than I’ve ever seen
Along came someone on St Patrick’s Day
And they picked a shamrock and took it away.
– Melissa.depperfamily.net
Fingerplay: Five Fat Peas
Five fat peas in a pea pod pressed,
(have your child hold their hand in a fist)
One grew, two grew, so did all the rest.
(have your child release their fingers one at a time)
They grew and grew,
(have your child wiggle their open hand)
And did not stop,
(have your child wiggle their open hand)
Until one day,
(have your child wiggle their open hand)
The pod went POP!
(have your child clap their hands for the POP)
– Grandmasnurseryrhymes.com
Little Green Frog
All-a-gump! Went the little green frog one day.
All-a-gump! Went the little green frog one day.
All-a-gump! Went the little green frog one day.
And the little green frog went All-a-gump! All-a-gump! All-a-gump!
– Traditional
Additional Books
Little Green Peas by Keith Baker
The Tiny Tadpole by Judith Nicholls
Follows the life of a tadpole from spawn to frog.
Nighty Night, Little Green Monster by Ed Emberley
