Notes from Storytime

Fingerplays for Fine Motor Skills

Digital literacy is the ability to understand, evaluate, and use information when it is presented by a computer, tablet, or other digital media. With so much technology present in the world, It is important to navigate technology alongside your child. Learning to write or navigate a tablet takes practice and fine motor skills. Fingers need to learn how to hold a pencil and tap the right image on the screen during interactive apps. By using his or her hands to act out this rhyme, your child is practicing coordination and fine motor skills.
 

Dance Your Fingers

Dance your fingers up

Dance your fingers down

Dance your fingers to the side

And dance them all around.

Dance them on your shoulders

Dance them on your head

Dance them on your tummy

And put them put them all to bed.

Staff Picks 4 Kids

Noodleheads See the Future by Tedd Arnold

When you ask someone to give you a hand, you don’t mean for them to cut their hand off and give it you, right? What about when someone tells you to listen up? Does that mean that you tilt your head so that your ear is listening to the sky? No, these are just sayings people use, but for Mac and Mac, Noodlehead brothers, they take these sayings literally. After all, there is nothing in their noodle heads. So, when their mom talks about dreaming of a garden, they decide they are going to make it happen. This way they can get cake too. How do they know that? Can they see the future or is it because their mom always makes cake for them when they help her. Now, they just have to figure out how to make a garden.

Book reviewed by Laura B., Youth Technology Librarian