Today's Mother Goose story time at the library was about print awareness. It was interesting, but not anything earth shattering. Miss Ellen talked about ordinary things that have words on them: shirts, cups, wall hangings. She'd brought in some of her own things with words on them, and showed them to us. Had the kids look at their shirts to decide if there are any words on them. She passed out words to the songs we were singing and had us point to certain words any time they appeared in the text. It was pretty basic stuff. On the one hand, I kinda feel like, "I got up early for THIS?" On the other hand, it's kinda nice to know that we're already doing things right. We read to the Monkey, and when he gets a little older we'll notice words around and about. I think that the group would be better advertised for 12-36 months, rather than 0-36 months. Monkey would get a whole lot more out of it if he were quite a bit older. I was very interested to see a number of kids there with their Daddies (well, I presume the men were their Daddies). And a few lucky kids had both parents there. It's too bad that Monkey's Daddy has a conference call at that time. There's no way that Monkey-boy is going to have both his parents there.
In any case, we got some more books to look at. Several are in Spanish, which should help both my vocabulary and help keep the "teach Monkey Spanish" project alive.
The Real Mother Goose
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