When my sisters and I were little, my mom had this tape she would play over and over whenever we were in the car. It had all these different songs on it like counting, rhyming, nursery rhymes, etc. It seemed pretty lame back then, but it did teach us a lot.
When I found out I was pregnant, I vowed I would teach my daughter whenever and wherever possible. Every opportunity would become a learning experience! We sing things, we dance around, I ask her to get the "red ball" to practice our colors...I don't know if it's the preschool teacher in me or the fear that she won't be prepared when she goes to school but I want to teach her things as young as I can.
Which takes me back to that "lame" tape. Well I found it on iTunes. And I bought it. And guess what? It's still a little lame, but it's so educational! Barbara Milne is one smart lady. She's got this song, "Letter Sounds (Apple, Apple, aaa)" where she goes through all the letters of the alphabet. She says a word the letter starts with followed by the sound the letter makes. It's seriously amazing.
It's a song we've been singing to our daughter since she was born whenever she's taking a bath and for some reason it became a very comforting song for her. For the first year of her life if she became cranky, you could sing that song and she'd be out by "k". Now that's she's older, she can sing all the words through "g"! The whole album is pretty great, she counts by 10's, counts sheep, does math. We play it all the time, just like my mom did for me and my sisters. After hearing my daughter sing along, I am a true believer in this album and will continue to play it for her and any other kids I have :)
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