Patty cake nursery rhyme

"Pat a cake- pat a cake"

Large group activity for preschool: have students replace "bake me a cake" with other things the baker could bake (lasagna, cookies, chicken, muffin, etc...). Make a rhythm by patting your knee and clapping your hands.

Why patty cake? Patty cake is a great brain break when children are restless. When you patty cake you cross the midline which activates both sides of the brain. It's good for eye-hand coordination. It's TPR - Total Physical Response - motor skills and oral language. Patty cake encourages self-regulation and the executive function. It nurtures 21st century skills - cooperation, collaboration, and communication. You've got purposeful practice for automaticity (aka repetition) because children…

Bought this at a book sale for next to nothing -isn't it gorgeous? This copy was published in 1958. I like the 'Little Girl with a Curl' poem - reminds me of my daughters. :) And the picture from 'Pease Porridge Hot' reminds me of the 2 of them playing together. The pictures by the iconic Eloise Wilkin, who illustrated 47 Golden Books and was called 'the soul of Little Golden Books'. She often used her children and grandchildren and their friends as models for her pictures. Wilkin was a…

The best part of about a song is the dance. That is the case with the traditional nursery rhyme, "Patty-Cake, Patty-Cake, Baker's Man."

Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake......

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