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SALE NOW! 30 DAYS FREE Check episode notes for link! 🌺 A parent said "It's like having a preschool teacher in my pocket"! WHO *Pamela Groves, aka Miss Pam Children's librarian, with 30 years experience as a children's librarian and early literacy expert. WHAT A tool to help you connect with your baby-to foster literacy + numeracy * Get them babbling, talking & gesturing - the micro-steps to speech HOW * I model how to read, rhyme, sing + use gestures + touch to engage your baby
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A Tribute to Ella Jenkins August 6, 1924 – November 9, 2024 ❣️
As a children's librarian, I was massively influenced by Ms Jenkins.
Ella Jenkins laid the groundwork for the field of children’s music and inspired generations of children’s music leaders who have followed in her footsteps.
Ms Jenkins was born to an African-American working class family in St. Louis, Missouri, on August 6, 1924. Her family moved to Chicago and Ms Jenkins grew up on the city’s South Side, moving frequently to get to a more “uptown” neighborhood.
Her family and neighborhood life provided the basis of her musical education—each move allowed Jenkins to experience the rhythms, rhymes, and games which could be different even if only a few blocks apart.
She was fascinated by her Uncle Flood, who played the harmonica, and alongside him she would tease out rhythms on oatmeal boxes, wastebaskets, and cooking pots.
“I was naturally rhythmic,” she stated, “and would try to copy my uncle’s sounds by whistling. But my mother did not like it, saying good women and young girls did not whistle.”
Yet it was her mother who took her to the music store to purchase her first harmonica. Her brother taught her songs he learned at summer camps.
Jenkins’ work draws on African-American call and response singing—she cites Cab Calloway as an early influence.
Her re-popularization of game songs from her youth like “Miss Mary Mack” and “One Potato, Two Potato” couples basic chants and movement rescued from the folklore of American play, game songs, and ring chants.
Her original songs, like “Stop and Go” and “Play Your Instruments,” are direct results of her absorption of those traditions.
Jenkins is one of only 12 persons to be recognized as a Legacy Honoree of the Smithsonian Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage.
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🚼 BOOKS:
+The Babies and Doggies Book by John and Molly
+Please, Baby, Please by Spike and Tonya Lewis Lee
+Tic Toc Dog by Emma Dodd
++Vocabulary words:
Loopy, goofy, sniff, sags, zig-zag, paws, and soo many more!
RESEARCH:
People use similar facial expressions when communicating with babies and dogs.
Researchers identified six specific expressions that participants used when interacting with babies and dogs, but not when interacting with another adult.
The ‘special happy’ expression was particularly common in interactions with both babies and dogs, the team reports. It is thought to express genuine, intense happiness and to signal a strong desire to interact. With a pre-verbal infant, it functions as a clear expression of engaged, positive feeling towards that child. Clearly, adults – or at least adults with both a baby and a dog – use it to try to signal the same thing to their non-verbal dog.
(The British Psychological Society 2023)
Watch YOUTUBE channel @babywordplay - Miss Pam's Babies and Doggies accompanying videos - screens for older toddlers please.
What's in the toy box? An episode to accompany playtime!
Do you have a #Lovevery or #GrowWithMe or #Lalo toy subscription?
Does your toy box have a book with pages that make a crinkly sound? Or a book with animal pictures? Or a silky scarf? Or a rattle or shaker? Or baby mittens?
Bring them out for this episode! Put it on for a special playtime with your child or play it while your child plays independently.
A poem, a book, a song.
I love a lot of things, a whole lot of things and I love me!
Miss Pam, reading two books with LOVE in the title. :)
(Feb. 14, 2024)
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Autumn is here. 🍂
All for Autumn and Autumn for All.
Songs and rhymes for the season and more.
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Amanda is a wife. A mother. A blogger. A Christian.
A charming, beautiful, bubbly, young woman who lives life to the fullest.
But Amanda is dying, with a secret she doesn’t want anyone to know.
She starts a blog detailing her cancer journey, and becomes an inspiration, touching and
captivating her local community as well as followers all over the world.
Until one day investigative producer Nancy gets an anonymous tip telling her to look at Amanda’s
blog, setting Nancy on an unimaginable road to uncover Amanda’s secret.
Award winning journalist Charlie Webster explores this unbelievable and bizarre, but
all-too-real tale, of a woman from San Jose, California whose secret ripped a family apart and
left a community in shock.
Scamanda is the true story of a woman whose own words held the key to her secret.
New episodes every Monday.
Follow Scamanda on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen.
Amanda’s blog posts are read by actor Kendall Horn.
