Web sites for song and ideas for storytelling : (as at 4/09)
Craft, colouring pages and other ideas.
http://coloringbookfun.com/
Songs and rhymes
http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/alpha.html
* An excellent site for ideas for song, art and games
www.perpetualpreschool.com/
Search by theme –lists web sites relevant to the theme
http://www.ecewebguide.com/themes.htm
Nursery rhymes and colouring activities:
www.enchantedlearning.com/rhymes/coloring
Books, songs and learning centres on specific themes:
www.angelfire.com/ga/prespecial
Free colouring pages/ graphics
www.coloring.ws
IDEAS FOR GAMES WITH RHYMES AND NOISE
Changing your voice pitch
Sing in a high voice, low voice, whisper, soft, loud
The more words children hear the more fluent they become by three years of age.
Sing Old MacDonald had a farm - shaking shaker and make animals noises - babies are ready to learn music immediately
Noisy peekaboo (by Jackie Silberg)
Play pick aboo - say one two three, on three move the towel away and make a silly sound (goo, goo, goo, tongue clicks, pops)
Bill and Jill by Jackie Silberg
(sit your baby in your lap, hold one ankle in each hand as you say)
This is Bill and this is Jill
They went out to play
Over and over (move legs over each other)
Over and over (move legs in other direction)
This is fun said Bill and Jill
And they said 'Hooray' (give your baby a big hug)
Sounds
Sing any song using one sound instead of words, pick a sound your baby is making ma or ba
Eg. ba ba bab a ba baby, ba ba bab a O (the more you repeat the sounds your baby makes the more sounds they will make ) Jackie Silberg)
Moving
To the tune: here we go round the mulberry bush
This is the way I like to jump (creep, dance, march)
Making faces
(make funny faces and encourage baby to imitate wiggle your tongue, stick it out, puff up your cheeks, blow a kiss - imitate baby's funny faces (Sheila Ellison)
