Finger Plays And Action Rhymes

Offers information on incorporating finger plays into a library's storytime, including guidance on selecting appropriate materials, organizing storytime events, and marketing storytime to patrons.

A collection of easy-to-learn activities helps children improve memory, build motor skills, enhance hand-eye coordination, and learn new words.

Learn while you rhyme, clap, tap, shake, stomp, jump, giggle, and wiggle.

This sturdy board book includes more than 25 favorite fingerplays and action songs guaranteed to get giggles and have babies and toddlers playing along, including: Pat-a-Cake Open, Shut Them! This Little Piggy Ride a Horse to Boston Ring Around the Rosie The Eentsy Weentsy Spider I'm a Little Teapot If You're Happy and You Know It! Where Is Thumbkin? Five Little Monkeys The Wheels on the Bus and many more!

In this toe-tapping jazz tribute, the traditional "This Old Man" gets a swinging makeover, and some of the era's best musicians take center stage. The tuneful text and vibrant illustrations bop, slide, and shimmy across the page as Satchmo plays one, Bojangles plays two . . . right on down the line to Charles Mingus, who plays nine, plucking strings that sound "divine." Easy on the ear and the eye, this playful introduction to nine jazz giants will teach children to count--and will give them every reason to get up and dance! Includes a brief biography of each musician.

These delightfully illustrated finger rhymes are great fun to do with babies and toddlers and include simple instructions for the actions.

The Complete Book of Rhymes, Songs, Poems, Fingerplays, and Chants gives children a variety of ways to fall in love with rhythm, rhyme, repetition, and structural sequence -- important building blocks for future readers. The 700 selections will help children ages 3 to 6 build a strong foundation in skills such as listening, imagination, coordination, and spatial and body awareness. In this giant book of rhythm and rhyme, you are sure to find your own childhood favorites! Book jacket.

"This versatile volume provides you with an A to Z resource to traditional children's rhymes, songs, and fingerplays that are based on animals, from alligators to zebras. In addition to words, you'll find musical scores for "Old MacDonald," "The Eentsy, Weentsy Spider," "Pop! Goes the Weasel," and many more; as well as instructions for action rhymes and fingerplays This is a handy, one-stop resource that you will turn to again and again" - - Back Cover.