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"Remember to live well, laugh often and love much". |
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| Here are some of the songs and rhymes suggested throughout this site. Feel free to be playful with these and make up your own.To listen to a song click on "Wave File" or "MP3 File" depending on the audio player you have installed on your computer. |
| "Peek a Boo" | ||
| Parents hands cover eyes, then moves them apart to smile broadly and repeat "peek a boo" | ||
| "This Little Piggy" | ||
| (Child's toes are the little pigs) | ||
| "this little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home, this little piggy had roast beef, and this little piggy had none, and this little piggy cried wee, wee, wee, wee all the way home!" | ||
| "Pat-a-Cake" | ||
| "Pat a cake, pat a cake baker’s man, bake me a cake as fast as you can, Roll it, pat it and marked it with a "what ever the letter of your child’s name" and put it in the oven for baby and me" | ||
| "So big" | MP3 File |
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| Parent says to the child "How much do I love you?" Exaggerate, spread your hands far a part a respond, "Sooooo big!" | ||
| "Head and Shoulders" | ||
| "Head, and shoulders knees and toes, knees and toes, knees and toes, Head and shoulders knees and toes, eyes, ears, mouth and nose." | ||
| "Round and Round the Garden" | ||
| "Round and round the garden, goes the teddy bear"-- (drawing circles in child’s palm), "One foot, two foot, tickle him under there" -- have your fingers "walk" up child’s arm and gentle tickle. | ||
| "Bear’s Gonna Get You or I’m gonna get you" | Wave File |
MP3 File |
| This is a game you can play with your child either with or without a teddy bear. Have the teddy bear act as a puppet, and as you use your voice to build anticipation, "walk" the teddy bear to give your baby a "kiss", or you playfully say "I’, gonna get you, then give you child a kiss or hug. | ||
| "Ring a Round a Rosie" | Wave File |
MP3 File |
| "Ring a round a rosie, pocket full of posies, hush-a, hush-a, we all fall down." | ||
| "Row, Row, Row the Boat" | ||
| "Row, row, row the boat gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream." | ||
| "Itsy, Bitsy Spider" | ||
| (use fingers to show spider, and rain) "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, so the itsy bitsy spider came up the spout again" | ||
| Version with exaggerated arm movements to show "big" Charlie |
| "Big Charlie spider came up the water spout Down came the rain and washed Big Charlie out Out came the sun and dried up all the rain, So Big Charlie spider came up the spout again." |
| "Where is Thumbkin" | ||
| (finger song, where parent use their thumbs as little puppets) | ||
| "Where is Thumbkin? Where is thumbkin? Here I am! Here I am! How are you today sir? Very well I thank you. Run a way, run away." Can sing the song, with "pointer", "ring man", "baby" using different fingers of the adults hand as different "finger puppets" | ||
| "Down by the Bay" | ||
| "Down by the Bay, Down by the Bay Where the watermelons grow, Where the watermelons grow, Back to my home, back to my home I dare not go, I dare not go For if I did, my mother would say Have you every seen a bear in green underwear? Down by the Bay" (Continue by changing the finish with other rhyming words, for example Have you every seen a pig doing a jig?, or every seen a fish cleaning a dish? The rhyming is endless and can be as ridiculous as you can be creative! | ||
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Durham Preschool Speech and Language Program | |
| 600 Townline Road South Oshawa, Ontario L1H 7K6 |
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