For over 20 years the children of San Antonio have been calling in to Dial-A-Story to hear a children's story. The children's librarians record new stories every Tuesday and Friday, one in English and one in Spanish.
Just call 210.207.4466 to listen!
Hello Song: “Hello Hello Can You Clap Your Hands?”
Read Aloud: Hands Up by Breanna McDaniel
Catalog location of book: https://mysapl.bibliocommons.com/item/show/542788172
Movement Song: Itsy Bitsy Spider with Desmond Dennis
Goodbye Song: Skidamarink
Extension Activity: Ask your children to think of all the things they do during the day that involve raising up their hands. Go on a field trip around the house and let them demonstrate. Larger motor movements like raising arms are important for your child’s physical and brain development.
CALL NUMBER: JUVENILE EASY EHRHARDT
Opening Song: The More We Get Together
Singable Story: This singable story counts to 10. You can stop the video at any number you like - This Jazz Man by Karen Ehrhardt
Song: The Itsy Bitsy Spider
Song: Hickory Dickory Dock
Activity: Making and responding to music allows your baby or toddler to explore creative ways to express feelings. They have fun creating their own music with their body e.g. clapping, stomping, humming, vocal noises or “musical instruments” they make from objects around the house e.g. banging on pots and pans as drums. Give your child pots and pans and wooden spoons and watch him make music.
Early Childhood Development Tip: Go to Music
Opening Song: Wake up Feet
Read Aloud: Leo Gets a Checkup by Anna McQuinn
Movement song: Up & Down
Song: Cha Cha Chobogin
Extension Activity: Getting ready for your little one’s checkup by playing doctor with their stuffed animals. Showing them first what the doctor will do and then letting them try.
Opening Song: The More We Get Together
Read Aloud: Shades of Black: A Celebration of Our Children by Sandra L. Pinkney
Song: If You’re Happy and You Know It
Song: This Little Light of Mine
Activity: PEEKABOO Materials needed: Small toys or books, blanket
What to do: Place a toy or book under a blanket leaving part of the object showing. Then ask your baby or toddler, "Where is it?" and encourage him to look for it. Children will usually grab it and dig under the blanket. After your baby or toddler has mastered finding a partly hidden object, move on to hiding it completely under the blanket.
Skills learned: Fine motor skill development, object permanence (a child's ability to know that objects continue to exist even though they can no longer be seen).
Early Childhood Development Tip: Go to Relationship with Others
Welcome: Hello Song
Read Aloud: Uh-oh! by Rachel Isadora
Fingerplay: "Jelly in the Bowl"
Song: "I Love Little Kitty"
Action Song: "Five Little Ice Cream Cones"
Activity for Toddler: Learning to get dressed is an important skill for children, but it can be difficult. To help, break it up into small steps, gradually adding tasks as the child is able to accomplish them. Learning to get dressed helps your child to develop fine motor skills (learning to fasten zippers and buttons), gross motor skills (standing to put on a pair of pants), cognitive skills (remembering which items of clothing go on first), and language skills (the names, colors and styles of clothing). It also builds your child’s awareness of time and space (learning what to wear for different weather conditions and occasions).
Introduction: H.E.L.L.O.
Read Aloud: Read It, Don't Eat It! by Ian Schoenherr
Action Song: "These Are My Glasses"
Video: Sesame Street: Cookie Monster In the Library
Activity for toddler: Help your toddler to become a lifelong reader. Use the free services of the public library to explore the world of books with your child. While Read It, Don’t Eat It uses humor to teach the correct handling of books, children also learn through hands-on experience and observation. The more experience they get with books and the more they see you reading the better.
CALL NUMBER: JUVENILE EASY McQUINN
Opening Song: Hello!
Read Aloud: Lola at the Library by Anna McQuinn
Fingerplay: Two Little Eyes
Song: Going to the Library
Extension Activity: create a shape book worm with your little one, each time you read a book together let them decorate it and add to it.
Opening Song: Open Shut Them
Read Aloud: Dinosaur vs the Library
Song: Ten Little Dinosaurs
Movement Song: Shake your Sillies Out
Early Childhood Development Tip: Gross Motor Development
Opening Song: Follow Me
Read Aloud: Maisy Goes to the Library by Lucy Cousins
Fingerplay: Six in the Bed
Song: Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes
Extension Activity: Think of one of your favorite books to read and see if you can act it out for others to guess what it is. Take turns.
Opening Song: Well Hello Everybody, Can You Touch Your Nose?
Read Aloud: Astro Girl by Ken Wilson-Max
Song: Zoom Zoom Space Song
Song: Sun, Moon, and Stars
Closing Song: Goodbye to You!
Activity: Moon Dough
CALL NUMBER: JUVENILE EASY COLBY
Opening Song: Hello to You!
Read Aloud: Crocodiles Need Kisses Too by Rebecca Colby
Fingerplay: Caterpillar Crawled
Song: Bananas Unite
Extension Activity: Using stuffed animals ask your child how they would kiss/hug each animal. Share with them how you would kiss/hug each animal as well if it is different.
Opening Song: If You Love Me and You Know It
Read Aloud: Happy Valentine’s Day Mouse by Laura Numeroff
Song: Valentine’s, Valentine’s, What Colors do you see?
Song: Five Little Hearts
Extension Activity: Paper hearts scavenger hunt 
Cut out hearts from various color paper or you can use old magazine pages. Hide them all around your home and let the hunt begin! Have your child search and find the paper hearts.
Opening Song: Can You Say Hi?
Read aloud: Bedtime Bonnet by Nancy Redd
Song: This is the Way We Go To Bed
Song: Sesame Street: I Love My Hair
Goodbye song: Can You Say Bye?
Activity: Make a special bedtime fort with blankets and flashlights and read our favorite bedtime stories in the fort.
Opening Song: “Hello Everybody”
Bouncy Rhyme/Song: “Polar Bear Song”
Read Aloud: Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? By Bill Martin Jr.
Ending Rhyme: “Polar Bear, Polar Bear” (point to child’s body parts or stand up and mime movements).
Polar bear, polar bear turn around, Polar bear, polar bear touch the ground,
Polar bear, polar bear bend down low, Polar bear, polar bear touch your toe.
Polar bear, polar bear slide on the ice, Polar bear, polar bear spin around twice,
Polar bear, polar bear reach up high, Polar bear, polar bear wave goodbye.
Family Activity: What animals did you see in the story? What sounds did you hear the animals make in the story? Can you or your grown-up make some of the sounds very quietly? How about very loudly?
Opening Song: Hello Around the World
Read Aloud: Under my Hood, I Have a Hat by Karla Kuskin
Song: This is the Way We Get Dressed
Song: The Mittens On My Hands ( Sung To: Wheels on the Bus")
The mittens on my hands, keep me warm, keep me warm , keep me warm
The mittens on my hands, keep me warm
All Winter long!
Extension Activities: Dress up play
Gather up some items of clothing and play dress up with your child. Playing dress – up allows children to improve their vocabulary. They get a chance to use words they heard in the story.
Opening Song: Hello, Hello, How Are You?
Read Aloud: Baby Penguins Everywhere! By Melissa Guion
Song: Penguin Dance
Song: Five Little Friends
Goodbye Song: So Long Now
Activity: Make Pretend Snow
Welcome Song: H. E. L. L. O.
Read Aloud: Sleepy Me by Marni McGee
Action Song: Five in the Bed
Action Rhyme: Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear
Closing Song: Good Night by The Beatles
Bedtime tips: Routine is very important for children, especially when it comes to getting ready to go to sleep. Doing the same things every night (brushing teeth, reading a story, putting on PJs,) will help children associate the bedroom with good feelings and give them a sense of security and control. Also, since bedtime means separation, a personal object, such as a teddy bear, doll, or blanket can further your child's sense of security and comfort and reassure her before she falls asleep.
Welcome song: If You’re Ready for a Story
Read Aloud: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by Jane Cabrera
Song: Skidamarink
Song: Ten Little Fingers
Activity: Hidden stars
Cut out stars from any paper you have around the house - magazines, wrapping paper, paper bags. Hide the cut out stars around the room: under toys, on a chair, in a toy bin. Deposit a basket or any container in the middle of the room. Invite your child to find the stars and deposit the stars they find in the basket.
Opening Song: Hello Everybody
Movement Song: The Wheels on the Bus
Story: My Bus by Byron Barton
Goodbye Song: This Little Piggy. Have kids put their hand up and each finger will be a little piggy.
Family Activity: Look and see how many other types of transportation are in this book. What are they? How many riders are on the bus driver’s bus? How many cats get on at his second stop? How many dogs get on at his last stop?
Opening song: When Cows Wake Up in the Morning
Read aloud: From Head to Toe by Eric Carle
ABC Time: ABC song
Song: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
Activity: Baby Pokey (Tune: Traditional Hokey Pokey)
Try singing to baby in front of a mirror!
You put your legs in (hold babies legs out straight)
You put your legs out (turn your body, swing babies legs to the side)
You put your legs in
And you dance them all about!
You do the baby pokey, and you turn yourself around
'Cuz that's what it's all about!
(Repeat with "hands", and "whole bod"y)
Toddlers can sing and dance to Hokey Pokey 
Opening Song: Hello to You!
Read Aloud: Pom Pom Panda Gets the Grumps by Sophy Henn
Fingerplay: Open Shut Them
Song: 10 in the Bed/Roll Over
Extension Activity: To help deal with the grumps find the technique that works best for you and your little one. One you can try is showing them how to take calming breaths as many as they may need. Another is having them sit with you and hug them quietly until they are ready to talk about it or till they feel better.
Two little hands, ten little fingers,
Two little hands, ten little fingers,
Two little hands, ten little fingers,
Count them all with me.
One, two, three little fingers,
Four, five, six little fingers,
Seven, eight, nine little fingers,
And one more makes ten.
Dos manitas, diez deditos,
dos manitas, diez deditos,
dos manitas, diez deditos,
cuéntalos conmigo.
Uno, dos, tres deditos,
cuatro, cinco, seis deditos,
siete, ocho, nueve deditos,
y uno más son diez.
Antiracist Baby Picture Book by 
Black Is a Rainbow Color by 
Jazz Baby by 
Lullaby (for a Black Mother) by 
Please, Baby, Please by 
The Book Hog by 
How Do Dinosaurs Learn to Read? by 
Lola at the Library by 
Read and Rise by 
Read It, Don't Eat It! by 
