Izzy can kind of dance now. Whenever she hears the theme song to "Elmo's World" or "Sesame Street" (I know, I know, it's all from television), she stands up, shuffles her feet from side to side, sways her body, and sometimes does squats. It's all extremely cute. (I am also told by her day care teacher that she knows how to do the hokey-pokey.)
Izzy is also familiar, of course, with a good number of nursery rhymes; she automatically starts weaving her fingers together whenever she hears "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider," and she waves her arms to "ABC" or "Baa Baa Black Sheep." (After all, she can say "baa" when asked what sound a sheep makes.)
Otherwise, any melodic, "peppy" music will do, and it is certainly the music for choice during feeding time. Alas, those CDs with kids singing nursery rhymes -- one can buy these bricks of CDs with 100 kids' tunes -- I find rather insufferable, so "The Best of Elmo" or Dan Zanes's "Rocket Ship Beach" are excellent alternatives. (I also discovered last year that Izzy also likes house music, but I'm not sure the thump-thump-thump can aid her digestion any.)
Posted by the wily filipino at February 21, 2003 02:00 PMI would like to know if you could help me find some nursery rhymes in tagalog. I would like to buy them so that i could teach my son. Thank you
Posted by: Diwa Brown on December 27, 2003 02:22 PMDo you know where I can find Filipino rhymes?
Thanks
Hi,
You might want to check out www.tatak.com and you can do a search for "rhymes". They have a couple of VCD's and CD's.
If you run into a Children's program in VHS/DVD format (i.e. Batibot) please let me know.
Thanks!
Posted by: Che on April 13, 2004 08:23 AM