There’s more than just one alphabet song! Everyone knows the one that sounds like “Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star" and "Baa Baa Black Sheep", both variations of an old French tune. For variety, though, check out the other songs that you can sing with your child. The ABC Bunny introduced us to a wonderful, foot stamping, tralalalala ABC song. A 1933 book by Newberry Honor Book … [Read more...]

We took the bus and went around town last week. Care to take a peek at our adventures as we followed our friends in The Big Green Pocketbook?Here’s the bus that Little T put together and that we eventually rode. While waiting, we listened to some Bus Sounds from our Kindermusik Away We Go CD then sang The Wheels of the Bus when it finally got going. Little T dropped some coins … [Read more...]

I am so grateful to Before Five in a Row (BFIAR) for introducing our family to really great children's literature.The Carrot Seed, a part of the  BFIAR book list, is about a boy who patiently waited for his carrot seed to grow and steadfastly believed that it would, regardless of what the grownups were telling him: "It won't come up." But it did, "just as the little boy had … [Read more...]