Pancake Day!

In the Our Time class "Milk and Cookies" we are talking about pancakes right now. You may ask yourself "what can pancakes teach my child?" Not only is it always a great idea to use familiar and enjoyable activities to teach your child anything, the song we song teaches so much more... here are just a few:

*The start of the song says "Great A Little a" and as a former Private Kindergarten teacher this sticks right out to me! I was always telling the kids about the "mommy A and baby a etc" to help them learn capitalization from day one. Raising our arms up on Great A and crouching down on little a reinforces that idea in a way easy for your 2-3 year old kids to understand. PLUS any time you can add a body movement to an academic thought, you cement the thought into your child's brain on two platforms!

*"Flip them HIGH flip them low" labeling our movements is not only a great way to foster language development but also a pre-reading skill!

*"PANcake Day!" the end of the song leads your voice on a little slide down that we call a glissando! Your kids at 2 and 3 may not know or care what a glissando is, but hearing it and mimicking it is not only a great vocal exercise, it will make it that much easier for them to learn musical vocabulary once they are a little older!

Now that you know how educational that ONE poem in class is... Have a little fun with it!

Here is a fun song to go along with our Pancake rhyme!