Monday, October 10, 2011

Wonderful Ones: Babies in Motion

This week at Wonderful Ones, it's Babies in Motion!  Have some fun with these interactive rhymes that will help your little one learn eye-hand coordination, flexibility and even critical thinking skills.  The beginnings of communication are often through hand motions and movements.  Language represents the foundational basis for literacy learning in the early stages of development.  Children involved in construction activity such as these games, tend to generate more language than just playing with toys alone.  So bend and stretch and go up, up, up with your baby!
 
I Have a Little Body Rhyme
I have a little body
That belongs to me.
I have two ears to hear with
And two eyes to see.
I have a nose for smelling
I have a mouth to eat.
I have two hands to wave
At everyone I meet!


Up, Up, Up Rhyme
Up, Up, Up (Use arms)
Here we go up, up, up!
Here we go forward and backward, forward and backward
And here we go round and round and round.

Up, Up, Up (Use arms)
Here we go up, up, up!
Here we go forward and backward, forward and backward
And here we go round and round and round.

Bend and Stretch Rhyme
Bend and stretch way up high
Stand on tiptoe, touch the sky.
Bend and stretch way down low,
Reach way down and touch your toes.


Check out these books we read at class today that will get your baby moving!

Baby Baby Baby! by Marilyn Janovitz
A baby participates in various activities with each member of the family.
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Here Are My Hands by Bill Martin, Jr. and John Archambault
The owner of a human body celebrates it by pointing out various parts and mentioning their functions, from "hands for catching and throwing" to the "skin that bundles me in."
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