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Repetition is the key to learning, however, no two episodes are the same!

*Why a podcast for babies?

Get your baby cooing, babbling and talking - micro-steps to language. A mix of songs, rhymes and simple stories, is a joyful, educational tool to use every day for 12 minutes of intentional read, rhyme and singing - early literacy and numeracy skill building.

REPERTOIRE gives you and your baby a shared repertoire of songs, stories, rhymes and more.Once your child is familiar with a few episodes use it to ease those fussy moments or to get a 12 minute break! :)*SEASONS 1 to 3 are geared to newborn to age 4. *SEASON 4 is geared to ages to 2- 4+ years. *Find Themed Playlists On SpotifyAll seasons are fun for all ages! +Please *Rate and *Review!* THANKS Questions or problems? Send me an email [email protected] 🌺 Warmly, Miss Pam

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💐Today I turn 65.

Because I am a children’s librarian and I produce a podcast for babies and toddlers I was thinking about what children’s book is the the theme, the soundtrack for my life over the past year.

And I found one!

It is A Good Day by *Kevin Henkes

It’s really aimed at 2-4 year olds

But it has a lot to teach this 65-year-old about how a bad day can become a good day

I had a lot of those days this year

I am Jamaican and this year I lost my home and most of my old books, hundreds of them, and photographs in hurricane Beryl.

But this was also a year of luck and hope and joy for me

Luck because all I lost was a house, and it can be rebuilt.

Hope because my 42-year-old son, who is on the spectrum, learned to drive this year

I never dreamed I would see that.

And it was a year of joy - joy in my friends, children, grandchildren, my work.

And in my own beautiful self.

We are rolling into the New Year with lots of hope and excitement.

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BOOK: Car, Car, Truck Jeep by Katrina Charman and Nick Sharrott.

Hello Chicken! Did you hear? It's a New Year!

Hello Dog! Did you hear? It's a New Year!

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CHAPTERS

Opening

00:04 Engaging Babies through Songs and Gestures

02:00 Interactive rhymes

04:26 Dance

06:10 Imagine a Train Ride

07:11 Space Journey

09:22 Light and Love

11:19 Gratitude and Goodbye

12:11 Closing - Why subscribe?

Songs|Rhymes

Closing:

Baby Wordplay's what we are

We have come from near and far

Reading learning words at play

We have had such fun today

Lift your hands up to the sky

Raise them raise them way up high

Bring them down to your sides

Now it's time to say good bye.

Hasta luego, ciao!

COMING DECEMBER 2024

The Funny Phonics season is where I take every letter of our alphabet and have a little fun with them* - that is, focusing on the sounds they make and words that need them.

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A Tribute to Ella Jenkins August 6, 1924 – November 9, 2024 ❣️

As a children's librarian, I was massively influenced by Ms Jenkins.

Percussion provided by rhythm speaker Ms Jan Jeffries and shekere mama Ms Marcy Francis live in Baby Wordplay theater, Philadelphia 2017

Ella Jenkins laid the groundwork for the field of children’s music and inspired generations of children’s music leaders who have followed in her footsteps.

Ms Jenkins was born to an African-American working class family in St. Louis, Missouri, on August 6, 1924. Her family moved to Chicago and Ms Jenkins grew up on the city’s South Side, moving frequently to get to a more “uptown” neighborhood.

Her family and neighborhood life provided the basis of her musical education—each move allowed Jenkins to experience the rhythms, rhymes, and games which could be different even if only a few blocks apart.

She was fascinated by her Uncle Flood, who played the harmonica, and alongside him she would tease out rhythms on oatmeal boxes, wastebaskets, and cooking pots.

“I was naturally rhythmic,” she stated, “and would try to copy my uncle’s sounds by whistling. But my mother did not like it, saying good women and young girls did not whistle.”

Yet it was her mother who took her to the music store to purchase her first harmonica. Her brother taught her songs he learned at summer camps.

Jenkins’ work draws on African-American call and response singing—she cites Cab Calloway as an early influence.

Her re-popularization of game songs from her youth like “Miss Mary Mack” and “One Potato, Two Potato” couples basic chants and movement rescued from the folklore of American play, game songs, and ring chants.

Her original songs, like “Stop and Go” and “Play Your Instruments,” are direct results of her absorption of those traditions.

Jenkins is one of only 12 persons to be recognized as a Legacy Honoree of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage.

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🚼 BOOKS:

+The Babies and Doggies Book by John and Molly

+Please, Baby, Please by Spike and Tonya Lewis Lee

+Tic Toc Dog by Emma Dodd

++Vocabulary words:

Loopy, goofy, sniff, sags, zig-zag, paws, and soo many more!

RESEARCH:

People use similar facial expressions when communicating with babies and dogs.

Researchers identified six specific expressions that participants used when interacting with babies and dogs, but not when interacting with another adult.

The ‘special happy’ expression was particularly common in interactions with both babies and dogs, the team reports. It is thought to express genuine, intense happiness and to signal a strong desire to interact. With a pre-verbal infant, it functions as a clear expression of engaged, positive feeling towards that child. Clearly, adults – or at least adults with both a baby and a dog – use it to try to signal the same thing to their non-verbal dog.

(The British Psychological Society 2023)

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