‍♀ Calling all Jiggle Jammers to the construction site! Grab your hard hat and vest and help us build a house! Join Ms Catherine and Susie as they drive a dump truck, build a big tower... watch it crash down, move like construction vehicles and build a house!

This episode teaches:
Early words “stop” and “go” in a fast paced listening game
Verbs (action words) as we spin like a mixer and tip like a dump truck
Tapping with claves to build a house
Colours and tempo as we build with blocks
Interactive, language promoting book reading through song
And so much more!!

Jiggle Jam creator Ms Catherine has a Bachelor in Classical Music and runs an awardwinning toddler music program in Australia. Our new Toddler Learning series has been created with our resident speech pathologist, Ms Hannah! Hannah has experience in early intervention and paediatric speech and language. She brings her clinical experience in coaching families on how to promote language skills and provide enriched environments right to your living room!

Want to dive deeper into the play based language strategies?

Ms Catherine is using expectant pause to prompt a response without creating the demand of asking a question. Instead of “what does green mean?” She offers sentence completion “green means…” she pairs this with an expectant facial expression and offers time for the response. In real play and certainly in speech therapy we would leave a lot longer for a child to respond and scaffold with first letter or repetition or just provide the word! Remember, in adding language focus to play we are teaching not testing! Give your child an opportunity to know the word but see it as a time to teach! Green means go! Woo! Show the excitement with your answer and reinforce in play. A stop and go game like this can not only teach the early words and concepts of stopping (helpful for parents outside play too!) But it also listening skills and waiting as in this game!

Jiggle Jam does not own the rights to Dump Truck Disco (written by Skye Silver and illustrated by Christiane Engel).
Buy Dump Truck Disco: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1646864395

We know that the evidence recommends limiting screen time for toddlers and infants and at Jiggle Jam we agree nothing is better for language development than adult interactions with their favorite people throughout the day! You are always your child’s best teacher, their favorite rockstar and VIP teaparty guest. But play doesn’t come naturally to many adults and we want to give you some tools to support your child’s language development and enhance their love of music and we want to give you high quality educational videos to put on when their favourite people need a break!

If you are choosing screen time for your family, we want to be able to offer high quality programming that you can (and want to!) engage with! As with all screen time this won’t replace speech therapy if your child needs professional support. But it will provide a fun, musical adventure for you and your child. Our videos follow a slow pace, lower stimulation animations, real life images and toys to help create these connections. We want children to be engaging with our videos, so you will see invitations for action at home, gestures, turntaking, expectant pause and a lot of silliness!

Jiggle Jam offers online and inperson music lessons. toddler learning and songs for kids! Learn, sing & play with Ms Catherine. Find us at:
Website: https://www.jigglejam.com.au/
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