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Reminder: Storytime! Get cozy with your little one as Librarian Miss Pam takes you on a 15 minute music and language adventure for Black History Month.⁠ Remember research shows that young children don’t learn language through video or audio alone - so join in the fun and learning!

THIS EPISODE:

Rhyme, sing, gesture and move along to:

- 🎵 A familiar rhyme with a new twist : 👀

Eyes can do so many things. Get ready to open your eyes and shut your eyes!

Open, shut them. Open, shut them. Give a little blink, blink, blink. Open, shut them. Open, shut them. Give a little blink, blink, blink

Open, shut them. Open, shut them. Now let's try to wink. Wink with one eye, then wink with the other.

📚 Please, Puppy, Please! by Spike Lee and Tonya Lewis Lee - practice those /p/ sounds!

🎵 Sweet Honey In The Rock - I Love to Laugh!

I love to laugh. I love to giggle from my head to my toes. It makes me feel so good. A real feel good song that you makes you want to giggle!

...second verse.... aaah, you'll have to listen to the episode!

🎵Ashley Causey-Golden creator of Afrocentric Montessori sings for us!! A sweet, sweet song.

📚 I Got the Rhythm Connie Schofield Morrison

📚The Idea in You. A picture book by Questlove.

"Are you with me? Reach up into the sky and unhook a star. Did you get that star?"

- "Books" a poem by Eloise Greenfield

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Nurture your baby's language through guided interactive play.

• "Let's wave hello!"
• "Tickle, tickle, tickle time!"

• "I can make them jump high!"

  Model how much fun - and how important - it is to read, sing and play with words.

  Why a podcast for babies?

  1. This screen-free mix of songs, rhymes, fingerplays and simple stories, are designed to boost your baby's brain, interspersed with important tips and valuable information about how to encourage language and vocabulary development from birth.
  2. It is a tool to use every day for 15 minutes of intentional early literacy skill building and helps during tummy time, fussy moments in the high chair and in the car; your little one will become quiet and intent on listening.
  3. It is trilingual - English, Spanish and American Sign Language, to expose them to the diversity of language. Every episode reinforces the rhythm and structure of language and exposes your little one to lots of new vocabulary.
  • Round and Round The Garden,
  • Two Little Hands,
  • Book (We All Sing With The Same Voice), Can You.....?
  • I Have 10 Little Fingers,
  • It Was Under The Coconut Tree,
  • Sign Language (Thank You),
  • Closing (Baby Wordplay's What We Are), Goodbye In Spanish

  Hosted by award-winning librarian, early literacy expert, Miss Pam.

  * Seasons 1 to 3 are geared to newborn to age 4.* Season 4 is geared to ages 3 to 4 years and older.

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  Questions? Send me an email info@babywordplay.com 🌺 Warmly, Miss Pam

  +TESTIMONIAL: "I love the podcast. My daughter got excited as soon as she heard the first song. Thank you so much for all the things you do."

  Thank you - wherever you are listening in the world!

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I am delighted to share the audio stage with

Grace Lin

NY Times Bestseller and Caldecott Award winning author of "When the Mountain Meets the Moon"and "A Mooncake for Little Star" and

⁠⁠Maria Adcock ⁠⁠https://biculturalmama.com/

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

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INSIDE THE EPISODE

1: Xīn Nián Kuài Lè (新年快乐)

Pronounced: shin (like above your ankle) nian (knee-yen). kuai (like the bridge over the river kuai). le (luh ).

2: Chopsticks, noodles, tea and tofu.

3: The lyrics and the music of the song "Gung Hay Fat Choy" was written by Nancy Stewart from Sing With Your Kids:

Gung Hay Fat Choy – Chinese New Year Song (wishing you good fortune and happiness)

CHORUS: (Keep a rhythm patting hands together one hand up, then the other)

Gung Hay Fat Choy, Gung Hay Fat Choy
Sing Happy New Year, Gung Hay Fat Choy

The new moon tells us, exactly when

(hold up hand in C shape for crescent moon)

To celebrate with family and friends
(clap hands in rhythm)

Clean up the house and get out the broom

Sweep out the old year, bring in the new

(pretend to sweep)

Bring out the apples, the oranges too

(hold out one fist, then the other)

Their colors bring us joy and good luck too

The dragon dances, the lanterns light

(place hands together, and snake around )

The firecrackers light up the night

(alternate right and left fist with fingers opening quickly to mimic shooting fireworks).

4: I added a tune to a few of the pages of the book Dragon Dance by Joan Holub, illustrated by Benrei Huang to make the song about the awesome color 'red'.

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

and MASSIVE THANKS to

🐍 Grace Lin and to

🐍 Maria Wen Adcock

2025 Year of the Snake

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Inside the episode:

-Dancing In My Bones - S. Andrews

-Bend and Streeetch!

-Clap Your Hands

-Say, Say Oh Baby!

-Baby Pokey

-Mama's Little Baby Loves Dancing

-If You're Happy and You Know It

-Zoom to the Moon

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From Miss Pam, Children's Librarian and Early Literacy Expert with over 35 years of experience.

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.

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All seasons are fun for all ages!

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🌺 Warmly, Miss Pam Formerly of Princeton Public Library, Princeton, NJ, USA

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