Story Mix for Three to Six: Trains and Games

It's our last week of Story Mix until the new year, and we want to share some fun holiday themed, as well as more toy themed, stories and rhymes.  Remember over the winter break you and your child can engage in many activities to help bring early literacy skills home.

• Read together!  Shared reading is valuable because your child has your full attention, and you are enjoying the experience together. 
• Sing and Rhyme together! Stories and songs in rhyme encourage new vocabulary, listening and oral language skills. 
• Talk and Play together! Talk and ask questions about what you and your child do during the day such as baking cookies or shopping for presents. 
• Write or Draw a picture together! Help your child draw a picture and write captions of your favorite snow activity to do together, such as making a snowman.  This helps connect the spoken words to the ideas, and creates a visual representation of your child's imagination to share.

Baby Mice Counting Rhyme
Where are the baby mice?
“Squeak, squeak, squeak”
I cannot see them
Peek, peek, peek
Here they come
Out of their hole in the wall
1,2,3,4,5 – that’s all!

This Little Train Christmas Rhyme
This little train – on the tree
Santa put it there for me
With a chug-chug, choo-choo
Rummy-tummy-tum
Christmas Day is so much fun.
Drum – boom-boom, rat-a-tat…
Doll – Ma-ma, Ma-ma…

We read these books at Story Mix this week:

Two Little Trains by Margaret Wise Brown
Two little trains, one streamlined, the other old-fashioned, puff, puff, puff, and chug, chug, chug, on their way West. 
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Ten Play Hide-and-Seek by Penny Dale
A little boy and nine stuffed animals play hide and seek before going to bed.
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What Am I? Christmas by Anne Margaret Lewis
Lift the flap to find a Christmas surprise on every page of this book. 
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