Nancy Stewart

This simple counting song also has some great vocabulary words to discuss with children before or as you sing. Don't be afraid to use 'big' words with young children! They love learning new words that are fun to say, and these words are wrapped in a simple song in which most of the words are familiar. Early literacy research tells us that the more words children know when entering kindergarten, the more successful they are likely to be as readers. Of course this doesn't mean stuffing them full of random words, but introducing them to a variety of words that make sense in context is a great way to build their vocabulary.