This document provides a summary of the activities for a story time event called "Gotta Move! Story Time" for 2-5 year olds. Over two Thursdays in November and December (excluding Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve), the event will include letter knowledge, rhymes, phonological awareness exercises, a listening story, a participation story, print motivation, and an opportunity for children and parents to read to each other using kits provided. The document lists specific songs, rhymes, and activities to be included under each skill area.

1. Gotta Move! Story Time: My Body
For 2-5 year olds
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2 & 4 Thursdays at 11:00 a.m.
(Library Closed Dec 24, 25, & 31)
“THE MORE WE GET TOGETHER” (see poster)
LETTERCISE1 skill: letter knowledge/discovering letters
B (hands in the air) /b/ (hands on waist) body (touch ground)
(Sing to: “Skip to My Lou”)
Pull straight down, one … two humps on the right (x3)
To make the letter B /b/
RHYME TIME (Nursery and Action Rhymes) skill: vocabulary/discovering words
Carol Hammett’s Preschool Action Time
“Jack Be Nimble”
Jack, be nimble … Jack, be quick
Jack, jump over the candlestick
“Where Is Thumbkin?”
Where is thumbkin … where is thumbkin
Here I am … here I am
How are you today sir … very well I thank you
Run away … run away
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http://www.universalpreschool.com/how-to/active_alphabet.asp
Feldman, Jean and Holly Karapetkova. I Love Letters!

2. SOUNDS AND SYLLABLES skill: phonological awareness/discovering sounds
Older children can say their own names and parents of younger children say their names for them. Say name,
"Kendra.” Then say it while clapping the syllables, "Ken-dra." Then whisper it. Then “hooray” it, “Kendra!! YAY!!.”
“Heckedy, peckedy bumblebee, won't you say your name for me?"
LISTENING STORY Hands Can by Cheryl Willis Hudson
PARTICIPATION OR MOVEMENT STORY skill: narrative/discovering stories
Adapted from Jim Gill’s Moving Rhymes for Modern Times “Sliding, Rolling, and Jumping”
CIRCLE TIME skill: print motivation/discovering books
Georgiana Stewart’s Choo Choo to the Zoo: Creative Movement and Play
“Toes Up, Toes Down”
Jim Gills’ Irrational Anthem and More Salutes to Nonsense
“Shakin’ Everywhere”
“Ring Around the Rosy”
Ring around the rosy
A pocketful of posies
Ashes, Ashes
We all fall down!
“IF YOU’RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT”
YOU READ TO ME, I’LL READ TO YOU skill: print awareness/discovering print
Using our ”Ready to Read To-Go” Kits