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Welcome to Baby Wordplay.
This is Miss Pam.
I am so happy you are here.
I want you to sing along with me, rhyme along with me, talk along with me, Clap along with me.
Move along with me.
Listen very closely.
Let's make a heart with our hands.
Two hands out front.
Put your two hands out in front of you.
Then stick out your thumbs to touch.
Make your thumbs touch.
Now curve your fingers down into a heart.
Let's do that again.
You put your two hands front.
You put your two thumbs out.
You curve your fingers down and you make a heart. that heart in front of your heart.
Yay!
Yay!
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 cómo estás?
Estoy bien.
Muy bien.
Y espero que tú también.
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, and how are you?
You say, I'm fine, I'm fine, and I hope that you are too.
Let's wave.
Now everybody wave hello.
Wave hello, wave hello.
Everybody wave hello.
Come on and wave hello.
Here's a fun playtime rhyme.
Touch your nose.
Touch your chin.
Go ahead.
Touch your nose.
Touch your chin.
That's the way this game begins.
Touch your eyes.
Touch your knees.
Now pretend you're going to sneeze.
Touch your hair.
Touch one ear.
Touch your two lips right here.
Touch your elbows where they bend.
That's the way this touch game ends.
Let's do that again.
Suit the actions to the words.
Touch your nose.
Touch your chin.
That's the way this game begins.
Touch your eyes.
Touch your knees.
Now pretend you're going to sneeze.
Touch your hair.
Touch one ear.
Touch your two lips right here.
Touch your elbows where they bend.
That's the way this touch game ends.
This book is called Mommy Loves Her Baby by Tara J. Morrow, published by HarperCollins.
Mommy loves her baby like the fishes love the seas, like the monkeys love bananas and the squirrels love the trees.
Mommy loves her baby like the owls love to moo, like the turkeys love to gobble and the cows just love to moo.
Mommy loves her baby, like the froggies love to leap, like the kitties love to cuddle and the chickies love to beep.
Mommy loves her baby, and you know why this is true?
Because her baby is the sweetest little, cutest little you.
Here's a favorite one that little ones love.
It's called Skidamarink.
For Skidamarink, Your right arm bends at the elbow and rests on your left hand.
So you're making like a backwards L. That's your skidamarink hand motion.
Shake that right arm when it's up.
Alternate.
The left goes up.
The right goes horizontal.
And then shake the left.
Sign language for I love you.
Point to yourself.
I love you.
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 on your chest.
That's love.
And then you, point to your little one.
Ready?
Ready?
Skidamarink-a-dink-a-dink, skidamarink-a-doo, I love you.
Show me the skidamarink arms again.
Skidamarink-a-dink-a-dink, skidamarink-a-doo, I love you.
I love you in the morning.
Make your hands flat and going low down.
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.
Yeah, let's try that again.
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 skidamarink-a-dink-a-dink skidamarink-a-doo, I love you.
A reading tip.
Choose your time.
Story time doesn't have to be right before bed.
Choose another time of day if that works better.
What do you hear?
What do you hear?
What do you hear?
The more we love each other, Each other, each other, the more we love each other, the happier we'll be.
Cause your friends are my friends and my friends are your friends.
The more we love each other, the happier we'll be.
Listening is fundamental to attempting first words.
Listening is different from hearing.
A child may have normal hearing but might find it difficult to listen.
So we have to teach her to listen.
Let's listen to the rain stick.
Love grows one by one, two by two, and four by four.
Love grows round like a circle and comes back knocking at your front door.
We're going to learn sign language for grows.
One hand makes a circle, the other hand The other hand through that circle and open your fingers up wide.
Grows.
Yeah.
Put your hands on your heart to start.
Love grows one by one, two by two, and four by four.
Love grows round like a circle.
Make a circle with your fingers.
And comes back a... knocking at your front door.
Let's sing that again.
Love grows one by one, two by two, and four by four.
Love grows round like a circle and comes back a-knockin' at your front door.
This book is called Daddy Loves His Baby by Tara J. Morrow, published by HarperCollins.
Daddy loves his baby.
Like the leopards love to pounce.
Like the bumblebees love buzzing and the bunnies love to bounce.
Daddy loves his baby like the puppies love to yap, like giraffes just love to stretch.
And the gators love to snap.
Daddy loves his baby like the pandas love to chew.
Like the roosters love to wake us with a cock-a-doodle-doo.
Daddy loves his baby.
And you know why this is true?
Because his baby is the sweetest little, cutest little you.
Remember to incorporate sign language for thank you in our closing.
Put your fingers on your chin and move your hand away from your face.
Thank you.
Let's do that again.
Fingers on your chin.
Move your hand away.
Thank you.
My hands say thank you with a clap, clap, clap.
My feet say thank you with a tap, tap, tap.
And you can just tap your little one's feet for that.
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 goodbye.
Until the next time.
Hasta luego.
Ciao.
You put your two hands front, you put your two thumbs out.
You curve your fingers and you make a heart.
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I'm Miss Pam and this is Baby Wordplay.
