Sing through the winter

Winter in San Antonio: the temperature climbs and plummets much like a very lively melody. Little Read Wagon is planning to do lots of singing at Play & Learn this winter. Singing together is a great way to have fun together and build phonological awareness by drawing attention to similar sounds in language. This week we will introduce some new songs with words like coat, boots, and scarf. We will also be reading books about getting dressed!

Please join us on Tuesday at 9:30am at the South San Community Center or Friday at 10:00am at the Claude W. Black Community Center.

Farm animal fun at Yates Community Center

This week at Play & Learn we read and sang a board book version of the classic Old MacDonald Had a Farm. Singing the song after reading the book gave children the opportunity to direct the group by naming the next animal and the sound it makes.

Those farm animals got hungry after playing for a while. So, we pretended to feed them a bit of deer corn.

The playground adjoining the community center made it easy to add some large motor development to our activities.

There are many variations of Old MacDonald available at the library! You might enjoy this book by Jane Cabrera.

Meet us at the Yates Community Center this Tuesday at 9:30AM, if you would like to join in the rhyming, singing, reading, playing fun!

Do you feel like singing?

On Saturday, March 28, we had a fantastic teacher workshop. A fun part of the day was when the teachers shared songs they like to use in their classrooms. Here is a sample of the phonological awareness-building tunes. Check the link list on the right periodically for more songs after each teacher workshop.