Attendance: 20-40 toddlers
Time: 25-30 minutes
Age group: 18 months to 3 years
During Toddler Move & Groove, we focus on shorter stories requiring less comprehension, active rhymes and songs, and teaching a basic understanding of books and reading. Children are not required to sit in their caregiver's lap or even sit down at all, as we are focusing on a love of books and a beginning interaction with them.
General outline:
- Welcome song
- Introduce theme by singing Charlie the dog's "What's that something in my doghouse?" song
- Book read by storytime presenter
- Flannelboard rhyme or story
- Choral reader-each toddler and caregiver get a board book that we all read aloud together
- Wiggly rhyme or song
- Recorded music with maracas for each child
- Grand Old Duke of York
- Goodbye song
I love this program because it goes against a lot of old library programming ideas, in that children must sit still all the time to listen to stories. One great early literacy skill is having fun with books, which is a huge emphasis of this program.
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