By the end of Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau, everyone is dancing and celebrating Madame Chapeau's birthday. Let's use today's Sing it Saturday to do some dancing of our own!

I've made Folk Dancing playlist, so we can try to learn some moves from around the world. There is also a Singing Games playlist to try some of the basics of combining specific motions with certain music. However, if the tots are just in the move for some freestyle dancing, I've created a Dance Party playlist too. If you want a more in-depth explanation of teaching your tot folk dancing, hop over to Early Childhood News for a more information! It's time to play some music and let our tots get their groove on!

Tags: gross motor skills, music

The word for today is Mime. A great activity while working with a book is to have your child dramatize the story with you. This encourages creativity, recall, and sequencing. Of course to work with the word "mime," we will look up some famous mimes on Tot 1's newfound favorite, YouTube. However, we will expand the challenge and try to mime the story of Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau. While both my kids have a decent sign language vocabulary, miming will be a big challenge trying to communicate only with their bodies. I'm certain that Tot 1 will want include the customary mime face paint in our production as well! Maybe we will discover that these tots have a natural charades talent, or maybe not. But it will be a great brain and gross motor exercise and fun either way!
Share in the comments with us how your little actors communicate the story of Happy Birthday, Madame Chapeau

Tags: gross motor skills, vocabulary