Hi, this is Ms .Pam, children's librarian and early literacy expert.
Welcome to Baby Wordplay.
Note that I will be alternating pronouns between he, she, and they.
No differences implied by this.
Let's sing and rhyme together!
Let's say hello. Peanut butter, marmalade and jam.
Let's say hello as low as we can.
Hello, hello. Peanut butter, marmalade and jam.
Let's say hello as high as we can.
Hello, hello. Peanut, butter, marmalade and jam.
Let's say hello as slowly as we can.
One arm on top of the other arm like the arms of a clock.
Peanut, butter, marmalade and jam.
Let's say hello as fast as we can.
Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello!
Wiggle your fingers as fast as you can.
Beanut, butter, Marmalade, and jam.
Let's say hello as softly as we can.
Shh, hello, hola, bonjour.
Hello, hello, hello, and how are you?
You say I'm fine, I'm fine.
And I hope that you are too.
Now everybody clap your hands, clap your hands, clap your hands.
Everybody clap your hands, come on and clap your hands.
Hola, hola, hola y como estas, estoy bien, muy bien y espero que tu tambien.
Now everybody stomp your feet, stomp your feet, stomp your feet, everybody stomp your feet, come on and stomp your feet.
Last time, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello and how are you?
You say I'm fine, I'm fine and I hope that you are too.
Now everybody wave hello, wave hello, wave hello, everybody wave hello, come on and wave hello hello baby so nice to see you hello baby so nice to see you and remember substitute baby's name any time I say baby show me some twinkling fingers open and shut them twinkle twinkle little star how I wonder what are.
Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky.
Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you are.
And remember to point up when you say up and make that shape, the diamond shape with your thumbs and your pointer fingers.
Diamond in the sky.
Let's sing it one more time.
Twinkle your fingers.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky, Twinkle, twinkle little star How I wonder what you are Yay!
Let's warm up our brains Let's warm up our hands Show me your hands!
Open them, now shut!
Open and shut Sing with me!
Open, shut them, open, shut them, give a little clap clap clap.
Open, shut them, open, shut them, put them in your lap lap lap.
Here we go. Creep them, crawl them, creep them, crawl them, right up to your chin chin chin.
Open up your little mouth but do not let them in.
Creep them, crawl them, creep them, crawl them right down to your toes, toes, toes.
Quickly bring them way up high and land them on your nose.
Touch that little one's nose.
Let's catch our rhyme.
Nose and toes. Toes and nose.
Nose and toes. That's called a rhyme.
And rhyming leads to reading.
Yay. Okay. Don't put your fingers away.
Cross your hands at your wrist. We're going to make sign language for Spider.
Cross your hands at your wrist and wiggle those spider legs.
Sing with me. The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout.
Down came the rain and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun and dried up all the rain and the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.
You can also make it a sensory one.
Just crawling your fingers up the little one's body and down the little one's body.
Let's do that one again.
Ready? The itsy bitsy spider went up the water spout.
Down came the rain and washed the spider out.
Out came the sun and dried up the rain and the itsy bitsy spider went up the spout again.
Mama's little baby loves dancing.
You can hold your baby while you dance and sing this song.
If your little one is older, you can hold their hands while you dance and sing and you can substitute daddy's little baby, grandpa's little baby or grandma's little baby.
Mama's little baby loves dancing dancing mama's little baby loves getting down mama's little baby loves dancing dancing mama's little baby loves to turn around Lean to the left, lean to the right, Hug that baby nice and tight.
Lean to the left, lean to the right, Hug that baby nice and tight.
Cause Mama's little baby loves dancing, dancing, Mama's little baby loves getting down.
Momma's little baby loves dancing dancing.
Momma's little baby loves to turn around.
Here's a favorite one that little ones love.
It's called Skidamarink.
I'm gonna teach you sign language for I love you.
Point to yourself. I love...
make your hands into fists cross them at the wrist and put them across your chest love and you point to your little one you let's do that again I point to yourself love make fists with your hands and cross your hands make an x in front of your chest on your chest that's love and then you point to your little one we're also going to say we love you in the morning and in the afternoon and in the evening and when we do that we're gonna start with our hands low to show the Sun being low in the sky in the morning then we get higher for the afternoon Sun and then we go up high for the nighttime moon all
right we're going to do this a couple times and for skitamarink your right arm bends at the elbow and rests on your left hand and your left hand is horizontal so you're making like a backwards l and that's your skidamarink hand motion you're gonna shake that right arm when it's up then you go alternate the left goes up the right goes horizontal and then shake the left yeah we're gonna practice it a couple times this is a fun one ready skidamarink a dink a dink skidamarink I love you.
Show me the skidamarink arms again.
skidamarink a dink a dink, skidamarink a do.
I love you. I love you in the morning.
Make your hands flat and going low down.
I I love you in the morning and in the afternoon.
A little bit higher.
I love you in the evening and underneath the moon.
Oh Skidamarink -a -dink -a -dink, Skidamarink -a -doo.
I love you. Let's try that again.
The Skidamarink arms. Right arm up and shake your palm.
Shake your hand. Yeah!
Skidamarinka dinka dink Skidamarinka do I love you Skidamarinka dinka dink Skidamarinka do I love you I love you in the morning and in the afternoon.
I love you in the evening and underneath the moon.
Oh skid -a -ma -ring -ka -dink -a -dink, skid -a -ma -ring -ka -doo.
I love you! Yeah, good job!
My hands say thank you with a clap, clap, clap.
My feet say thank you with a tap, tap, tap.
Clap, clap, clap and a tap, tap, tap.
And now it's time to sing goodbye.
Baby word plays 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 right to your sides.
Now it's time to say good bye.
Until the next time, Hasta luego ciao Follow us on Instagram at baby wordplay and thank you for tuning into me and to your baby
