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Key Activities for Song and Story time
1. Start your song and story time with common children’s finger play songs, such as Where is Thumbkin? The Itsy Bitsy Spider and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.
2. Follow these songs with a story that includes a lot of repetition. If possible, use a storybook that has peek-a-boo windows that you can slowly open. This builds anticipation and excitement for the toddlers, and they stay quite focused. I usually use the Brown Bear, Brown Bear story (Brown bear, brown and bear. What do you see? I see a (yellow duck) looking at me.) It repeats the phrase ‘What do you see?’ on each two-page spread. The children love this and after several weeks of hearing the story, they begin to say the lines as you read. (This supports teaching colors in Let’s Begin Unit 2, Let’s Learn and Let’s Learn More)
3. Now bring in the element of surprise! Children, especially toddlers, love surprises. If it’s a regular section of your lesson, they eagerly anticipate what is coming. I use a raccoon puppet that is housed in a garbage can. Before I reveal the puppet, I peek into the can and close it. Then I say something like this:
“Someone is waiting to see you! Do you remember who she is?”
(Now open the can.)
“It’s Ruby! She’s happy to see all of you!”
“Ruby, say hi to the boys and girls.”
(Ruby waves and says ‘hi’ to the boys and girls.)
“Boys and girls, can you say ‘Hi’ to Ruby?”
(The children wave and some say ‘hi’).
4. Ruby, the raccoon puppet, helps the children sing the Alphabet Song (A,B,C,D,E,F,G,etc) (Let’s Begin Unit 1 Let’s Learn to Read) and then reveals the letter of the week.
ELLASongStorytime RUBY puppet 02232015ELLA Ruby and the alphabet
5. Show realia and picture cards of objects and animals that begin with that letter.
If the letter is ‘T’, show and identify pictures of the following items:
LB LG Teddy Bear pic cardELLA LG LB Train pic cardELLA LG LB Tiger pic cardLB LG triangle pic card
a teddy bear
a train (make the sound of a train whistle)
a tiger (roar like a tiger)
a triangle (make a triangle with your hands)
Do a gesture or make a sound with each word. Have the children do it with you and say the word.
(Practice ‘What is it? from Let’s Begin Unit 1 Let’s Learn More)
Use a song and/or an activity that features the letter of the week. For the letter T:
*Show the children how to turn around as you say ‘turn around’.
*Repeat ‘turn around and have the children do it with you.
Do this several times.
*Now, do the same with ‘touch the ground’
(Let’s Begin Unit 7 Let’s Learn)
Then sing Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
Read another short story, like Trains.
Finish up the song and story time with other songs like:
Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (Let’s Begin Unit 7 Let’s Learn More) and
I’m a Little Teapot (Let’s Begin Unit 6 Let’s Learn to Read).
Now is the Time to Say Goodbye is a great song for closing your Song and StoryTime.
Questions:

1. 
   How much better will be your lesson if you use visual aids?
   
2. 
   Speak about the aim of realia.
   
3. 
   What is realia ?
   
4. 
   Explain the core of using visual aid.