Baby Wordplay
Baby Wordplay

Baby Wordplay

Miss Pam🌺Librarian

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🌺 A parent said "It's like having a preschool teacher in my pocket" | A Curriculum for Your Baby's First Years 100+ episodes - 400+ 5-STAR reviews on Spotify & Apple Podcasts +WHAT Helps you connect with your baby | Help them babble, talk & gesture - the micro-steps to speech | build emotional regulation https://open.spotify.com/show/18JVSlByKE0tVPR +WHO *Pamela Groves, aka Miss Pam Children's librarian +HOW I model how to read, rhyme, sing + use gestures + touch to engage and bond with your baby

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Toddler Phonics Getting to Know /b/
DEC 1, 2025
Toddler Phonics Getting to Know /b/

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Welcome to Toddler phonics. I'm so happy you're here.


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Hi, I'm Miss Pam, children's librarian, trained teacher, and founder of Baby Wordplay,


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Let's say hello.


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Let's say hello to our guest.

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Hello, b, so nice to hear you. Hello, b, so nice to hear you.

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Put your lips together and push out the air.

Let me hear you say.

Yes, b as in butterfly.

Butterfly. Your turn.

Let's clap it.

Butterfly. One, two, three.

Butterfly. ⁓ Listen. Butterfly.

butter.

Butterfly.


The

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A mama butterfly lays all her eggs. Out pops a caterpillar crawling on its legs. The caterpillar first is rather thin, but then it eats and eats till it bursts its skin. It grows nice and big. The caterpillar climbs on a leaf or


twig. It makes a shell where it hangs inside. The shell then cracks and the parts divide.


When the shell opens, what comes out? A beautiful butterfly.


Fluttering about.


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This poem is as easy as one, two, three. Let's try it. We say, one, two, three, cha. One, two, three, ko. One, two, three, la. One, two, three,


Have you ever had a cup of hot cocoa or hot chocolate?


Cocoa started in Mexico. And since this poem is originally from Mexico,

Say uno, dos, tres, cho.

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Your turn.

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Uno, dos, tres, co.

Uno, dos, tres, la.

Uno, dos, tres, te.


We are breaking down the word chocolate. Yes, chocolate in Spanish. Let's do that again.


uno, dos, tres, cho.

Uno, dos, tres, co.

Uno, dos, tres, la.

Uno, dos, tres, te.


Let's stir our chocolate drink.

Chocolate bate bate


Let's say some words that begin with the B sound.

as in ball. Your turn.

Big.

Your turn.

Let's clap.

Ball. Pig.

us.

as in banana, banana. Beautiful. One, two, three. Beautiful. Beautiful. Bubble. Bubble.


Baby. Baby. One, two.



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We rely on listeners to support this production.

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an enormous thank you to all our monthly subscribers who help to sustain this labor of love.

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Thank you for listening to Toddler Phonics.



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bye Bye bye

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Give a gift of literacy. Baby Word Play podcast helps parents support their baby's development in the most important and effective ways. Rest assured that you are giving a gift for a lifetime. www.babywordplay.com.

Affordable gift subscriptions available through Supercast, the premium subscription.

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I hear a baby babbling.

B as in babble.

brown bear.

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🌄Wings of a Dove & The World in Our Hands - To Jamaica, With Love & Hope 🇯🇲
NOV 26, 2025
🌄Wings of a Dove & The World in Our Hands - To Jamaica, With Love & Hope 🇯🇲

We’re so glad you’re here. Warmly, Miss Pam

🇯🇲 🇯🇲JAMAICA ON MY MIND 🇯🇲 🇯🇲

Since Hurricane Melissa landed on Oct. 28, 2025, I have no words.

Here is my gift, a little balm for our broken hearts. Share it with the children in your life.

Some of the songs are from Jamaica or the Caribbean. This is the first of 3 special episodes devoted to the Caribbean.


Subscribe to Miss Pam's Podcast for Babies and Toddlers: Baby Wordplay. *Over 1.3 million downloads & over 400 positive reviews.

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Miss Pam

Children's Librarian, Trained Teacher

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"We help families engage with their babies and toddlers in ways that support cognitive and social development.  And we have fun!"


Episode Content:

Peanut butter marmalade and jam. Let's say hello! Hola, Konichiwa, Ciao! Jambo!

Flutter Flutter Butterfly

10 Little Candles

Tingalayo

Color Song

*Wings of a Dove and

*Whole World

*Go Down Emanuel Road

*with Mama Marcy Francis and Ms Jan Jeffries - percussionists extraordinaire!

And more.

Enjoy and share.

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#130. A Baby's Guide to Food & Love - featuring Atinuke
NOV 15, 2025
#130. A Baby's Guide to Food & Love - featuring Atinuke

Knife! Fork! Spoon! Spa-tu-la! Cha - cha - cha!

WATCH Maya and the children do it in their kitchen! You'll be doing this one before every meal, trust me! 🔉Listen to author Atinuke read an excerpt of “L is for Love”


My grandchildren - and their parents - especially my son-in-law, who is British-Nigerian!) love Atinuke’s books.

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“L is for Love” is about a family travelling into Lagos to sell lemons at the market. There is a lizard 🦎 lurking on each page, which Arinze was excited to bash.


We love this book. Your little one will too! Thank you Atinuke!

INSIDE THIS EPISODE:

📚The Rice In the Pot Goes Round and Round at the table where my family gathers round! by Wendy Wan-Long Shang

📚Whole World - Barefoot Books - an excerpt.

🎵 Shake, shake that mango tree!

🎵 It was under the coconut tree!

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