NEW OPENING:

Huevos, plátano, tomate y pan (Eggs, banana, tomato and bread)

Me gusta desayunar (I like to have breakfast)

Me gusta almorzar ( I like to have lunch)

Me gusta cenar (I like to have dinner)

Excerpt from:

Quiero mi mamá/papá, porque by Laurel Porter-Gaylord, pictures by Ashley Wolff.

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 Welcome!

"A Little Soap, "Little Blue Whale".

Tiny Tim the Turtle

BOOK: "Splash, Splash" by Jeff Sheppard. Illustrated by Dennis Panek. Publisher MacMillan

🌼 * *Rate and *Review!* It means SO MUCH.

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🌼 Questions? Send me an email - [email protected]

🌺 Warmly, Miss Pam

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(Previously Episode 96)

Baby STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Math

This episode focuses on the triangle:

Sing: Look at the shape that things are in:🔺▶

Exposing your baby to shapes from an early age is important!

"Children develop math concepts and skills very early in life. From the moment they are born, babies begin to form ideas about math through everyday experiences and, most important, through interactions with trusted adults. Language—how we talk with infants and toddlers about math ideas like more, empty, and full—matters." NAEYC

🐉 Chinese New Year! - 2024 Year of the Dragon

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We are delighted to share the audio stage with

Maria Adcock https://biculturalmama.com/

author of It's Chinese New Year, Curious George!

Maria reads a short excerpt and teaches us how to count to 15 in Mandarin. (Listen to the end)

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Also, Miss Pam celebrates babies born in Zodiac years: 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

Miss Pam wrote some short poems inspired by the book TIGER DAYS - a book of feelings by M.H. Clark and illustrated by Anna Hurley

Dragon Dance by Joan Holub and illustrated by Benrei Huang. Miss Pam added a tune to a few of the pages.

Thanks Amber for your New Years' greetings straight from China!

BONUS

Great rap song for learning how to count to 10 in ⁠Mandarin!

RE-RELEASE!

This episode is perfect for babies, toddlers up to age 4. Maya Angelou for little ones? Ohh yes we can!
We bring together the dramatic poetry of 💐⁠Maya Angelou read by educator 💐⁠Ashley Causey-Golden, the creator of Afrocentric Montessori and co-founder of Gather Forest School.

⁠Ashley⁠ has been teaching children since she was 18 years old and has appeared on Janet Lansbury's podcast UNRUFFLED. We are delighted to have her join us to read and rhyme along.

Ashley then shares a beautiful song, Who Am I? sung to the tune of Twinkle, Twinkle. :)
💐Get on board, Little Children (SPIRITUAL) Join Miss Pam's train!
- Spirituals function as more than religious songs, they have been used by many people for different purposes. "Get on Board" has become a traditional song in folk music. The train could refer to a gospel train, a train of freedom from slavery. It is a train that anyone can ride. 

💐⁠Ella Jenkins⁠ has been called the First Lady of Children’s Music -she’s been performing and writing music for children for more than 50 years. She turned 99 in 2023 and lives in Chicago. She still plays her harmonica and her kazoo.
💐What do you hear?
-CLAVE: Miss Pam is playing the clave rhythm (with 2 of my grandson's wooden blocks) developed in Cuba from the African bell pattern brought to the Americas via the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
"The rhythm is used to lock in the many rhythms of Afro-Cuban music, as well as other Latin music like the bossa nova of Brazil."
💐Light of Mine - TRADITIONAL/GOSPEL Miss Pam gets to singing out loud, singing out proud!
 
This song contains inspirational lyrics and was a favorite song of civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) who used the song to inspire Black sharecroppers to register to vote in the 1960s.
ALSO RECOMMENDED:
🎼 Sweet Honey in the Rock, Chico Freeman (Jazz)
📚 Whose Toes are Those by Jabari Asim
Peekaboo Morning - Rachel Isadora
Please Puppy Please - Spike and Tonya Lee
Baby Dance - Ann Taylor

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It's Curmudgeons Day!

a curmudgeon is known to be deeply grumpy and usually in a sour mood.]

Confessions of a Grumpy Grandma

For the past few weeks, this grandma's life has been stresssssful. My daughter and family, who live in the UK, are spending 7 weeks with me in Jamaica. We’re in #6.

I was so excited for my 2 grandsons, ages 1 and 3, to visit. I live near the ocean in a rural community and I couldn’t wait to share it with them. And then they came! It was wonderful - a sweet, warm and enthusiastic reunion.

For a week.

Carefully planned child care assistance collapsed almost immediately and I felt compelled to fill in the large gaps.

I became Grumpy Grandma.

What helped? Well, Small Talk Baby Podcast!

They already listened regularly and knew many of the songs, rhymes and stories - some familiarity is the key!

My podcast has been a life saver for ME!

I started turning it on ... like, many times each day. I have appreciated it so much, needed and relied on it over the past few weeks.

Once your baby knows some of the songs and rhymes - Boom! You can slip away for a little break and know they are learning and enjoying a screen-free activity. Give thanks!

PS: Grandson #1 knows his favorite episodes by number. If you listen to #21 there is a special voice near the end that he has us playing on repeat :) Can you guess who it is?

Warmly,Miss Pam

Research: U. of Cambridge, neuroscientist Professor Usha Goswami. Dec 6, 2023

"Parents should speak to their babies using sing-song speech, like nursery rhymes, as soon as possible, say researchers. That’s because babies learn languages from rhythmic information, not phonetic information, in their first months."

Greetings from Miss Pam in Jamaica.. I'd say..

This baby podcast is simply the best tool to get parents singing and talking to their baby every single day.

Here's a seasonal Jamaican song for you:

Holiday a come me wan me lama!

Lama is an old Jamaican term that means "presents" as in gifts.

This song comes from slavery days and was sung at Christmas time when people would dress up as characters and parade on the streets.

They would sing this song as they asked onlookers sometimes for money to get themselves or their family, gifts for the holidays.

RESEARCH ON WHY NURSERY RHYMING AND SINGING IS SO IMPORTANT FROM BIRTH.

As a gift to listeners, here is a bilingual episode that is free to listen to for the next few days.