Inspiring Bookworms

Let's Do Fingerplays by Marion F. Grayson (Ages 2-6) 1962 According the Forward of the book, as written... "Books of fingerplays have been few and fart between, and teachers and mothers, particularly, have been forced to tax their memories for fingerplays where a ready guide would be most acceptable." These days we are fortunate to have vast resources available to us and I guess, back when this was written - it makes sense that a collection of this "theme" wasn't readily available. Very well laid out, the fingerplays are organized by category.  For example, fingerplays describing the child from head to toe is all together.  Here you'll find " Where is Thumbkin " or " This is the Circle that is my Head " - among others.  You'll find all or most counting fingerplays like " This Old Man " or " One, Two, Buckle My Shoe " together with others of the same. Not only that, the index is split into two sections.  One s...

It's that time for the Children's Classics carnival over at 5 Minutes for Books .  This month's theme is about Christmas or the December Holiday you celebrate with your family and the books you share with your children.  Follow along or join in, either way it's tons of fun! As a child, we didn't read many books at home.  Actually, I don't remember any until I was old enough to check them out myself at the school library.  Instead, over Christmas, we watched the much loved programs like Frosty the Snowman , Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer , Santa Claus is Coming to Town and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. I still love to watch these programs and am sharing them with my children although they don't seem to be very interested. Unfortunately at the time of this posting How the Grinch Stole Christmas still hasn't been made available, so hopefully we'll get it before Christmas for me to share with the little ones .  If not, we'll get next year.  Until t...