Don't Miss our July 29 Summer Storytime Reading
Welcome to Summer Storytime in Promise Heights!
Please join our community friends reading their favorite stories that we’ll release every Friday starting in early July through September 2022. Click here to see the July 29, 2022 video. And please do click our YouTube "subscribe" button so you won’t miss each week’s video!)
The stories we share are appropriate for kids ages 0-6, yet all ages can enjoy them! (Scroll down to see the text from today's story.)
After each story, we share ideas to talk about the book to enrich your child’s experience with simple DIY craft projects that you and your kids can do together.
TODAY’S READING:
Welcome to this reading of "Good Morning, Farm Friends" a book by Annie Bach.
Starting on July 29, 2022, whenever you like you can hear this story.
As always, after this reading, Ms. Linda leads a family DIY craft project to enrich your experience of the story. Why not prepare now?
You'll need the following craft supplies:
A small brown paper bag
A pair of scissors
A glue stick
A pencil, plus colored markers and/or crayons
Construction paper (if there isn't any handy, you can also cut up magazine photos
ABOUT “GOOD MORNING FARM FRIENDS”:
This reading is given by Ms. Samya, who's currently a Summer 2022 YouthWorks participant with Community Builders at Pedestal Gardens (a Baltimore City residential community adjacent to the Eutaw Marshburn Elementary School and near Druid Hill Park.)
Ms. Samya is a rising 2022-23 junior at Arlington Baptist School. She also works as a lifeguard and manages a business with her family.
Yet Ms. Samya's ambitions don't stop there: during the summer of 2022, she enrolled in the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) to proactively add credits for her major in Information Technology.
(We can't wait to see what she'll be doing in the future!)
Click here to see the video. We hope you’ll enjoy seeing and discussing this video with your child, as well as making the craft project with Ms. Linda.
FIND MORE IDEAS TO ENRICH YOUR CHILD’S READING EXPERIENCE by clicking here:
Simple Reading Engagement Hints
If you want to read along with Ms. Samya, here's the story.
(If older children are enjoying this video, you might want to print out this text so they can read along.)
"Hello my name is Samya and I'll be reading “Good Morning, Farm Friends” by Annie Bach.
The morning sun is on the rise. It’s time to open weary eyes
The farm is full of sleepyheads Let's help our friends get out of bed
Good morning ducklings--rise and shine, It's time for breakfast--get in line!
Who's that dozing in the hay Wake up pups--let's start the day
The llamas have been up for hours Nibbling on the wildflowers
Let's go sheep--open the gate The pasture is waiting--don't be late!
Hello pigs, are you awake? get up you have a bath to take
The cows don't need a wake-up call they're waiting at the milking stall
It's early still --not too hot it's a great time for a morning trot
The hens don't want to leave the nest morning snuggles are the best
But Rooster has a job to do “Cock-a-Doodle-Doodle-Do!”
Everyone's awake—hooray! There's a lot to see and do today.
And when the morning work is done our farm friends will have so much fun!"
...and that's the end."
Thank you Ms. Samaya for that fun story about our friends on a farm!