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45 Nursery Rhyme Song Recommendations for Infants through Kindergarten

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[Image Description: There are 4 bright pink footprint crafts on light pink construction paper with "this little piggy" in cursive writing in pink marker stapled onto a bulletin board. Each toe print has a pig drawn on it in black and pink markers. The toes are labeled in black marker in the following order: "went to the market", "stayed at home", "had roast beef", "had none", and "went wee wee wee wee all the way home." ] 1. Ba, Ba, Black SheepπŸƒ 2. Baby Bumble Bee🐝 3. Baby Shark🦈 4. BingoπŸ•πŸΆ 5. Daddy FingerπŸ‘πŸ‘†πŸ‘‰πŸ‘ˆπŸ‘‡✋πŸ‘Œ 6. Dem Bones🦴 7. Down by the Bay πŸŒ…πŸ‰ 8. Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe πŸ‘‰πŸ…πŸ¦ΆπŸ€ 9.  Frere Jacques (Where is...? version that I made up) 🦜 10. Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes πŸ‘€πŸ€·‍♀️🦡🦢 11. Here We Go Loop de Loop➰πŸ“…✨ 12. Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush 🌳🫐 13. Hey Diddle, DiddleπŸˆπŸŽ»πŸ„πŸŒ™πŸΆπŸ₯„ 14. Hickory Dickory Dock 🐭 πŸ•°️ 15. Hot Cross Buns 🍞 16. Humpty DumptyπŸ₯šπŸ§± 🐣 πŸ³πŸ΄πŸ‘‘ 17. If You're H...

18 Picture Book Recommendations for Infants and Toddlers

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[Image Description: There is a 6 photo collage of the following books: Good Night Bath Time  written by Adam Gamble and illustrated by Mark Jasper, If I were a reindeer...  written and illustrated by Anne Wilkinson, Runaway Bunny written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd, The Very Hungry Caterpillar written and illustrated by Eric Carle, I Can, Can You? written and photographed by Marjorie W. Pitzer, and The Little Engine That Could written by Watty Piper and illustrated by Cristina Ong. "18 Book Recommendations for Infants and Toddlers" is in center-aligned teal text with 1 and 8 in "18" as keycap digit emojis. ] As many of you know, I love to collect children's books and teachers read several books to their students every year.  In this week's blog post, the below featured picture books are developmentally appropriate and fun for any child ages 0-3. These are some my most absolute favorite infant and toddler books of all time. Short b...

Infant/Toddler Teachers Need to be Valued More As Teachers

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                     [Image Description: There is an image of a colorful infant classroom taken from the front left corner of the room with light yellow and light green walls with bulletin boards and handprint and dinosaur decals and decorations hanging from the ceiling. There are 10 light tan cribs with bars on both sides and clear glass on the front and back of each set up on the left, middle, and right walls in back of the classrooom. The floor in the back of the classroom is a dark gray carpet with the cribs, a beige rocking chair, low and high level shelves bolted into the floor filled with toys, a colorful soft mat with a blue obstacle course on it, and an exersaucer. The floor in the front of the classroom has a light gray tile floor with a white and light blue diaper changing table, 2 gray highchairs with gray tables attached to them and a gray highchair with a red table attached to it, a small round blue table with 2 big re...