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6/22/20 BABY MUSIC JAM EPISODE 14: UNDER THE SEA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKcOwza3J9M

6/15/20 BABY MUSIC JAM EPISODE 13: THE SOUND OF NATURE
https://youtu.be/SgdvnaqpDKQ

6/8/20 BABY MUSIC JAM EPISODE 12: HOP ON THE FRUIT BUS 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM7IdUkeMcc

6/1/20 BABY MUSIC JAM EPISODE 11: Down by the Bay  
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5/25/20 BABY MUSIC JAM EPISODE 10: Journey to Birthday Planet
https://www.facebook.com/babyporcupine/videos/261415381580481/

5/18/20 BABY MUSIC JAM EPISODE 9
https://www.facebook.com/babyporcupine/videos/4419235168102597/

5/11/20 BABY MUSIC JAM EPISODE 8
Part 1: https://www.facebook.com/babyporcupine/videos/3711521852251858/
Part 2: https://www.facebook.com/babyporcupine/videos/697745380798353/

5/4/20 BABY MUSIC JAM EPISODE 7 via Facebook Live for our 7th virtual Baby Music Jam. In the Hawaiian language, "E Komo Mai" means "Welcome" and "Come In" and that's the greeting we gave each other. I had a flower lei, sea shell necklace and kukui nut lei for everyone and we sang "Aloha Aloha Aloha", took a deep breath, and visited Hawaii for the morning! When we arrived in Hawaii, we had breakfast of papaya with calamansi and gave a great congratulations to Aiza, Kevin, Kelsey and Nana on their new baby in the family. We looked at some homemade stamps and cards with positive messages. Then we clapped and sang "Hello Friends" and then a light shower rained on us as we sang "Itsy Bitsy Spider" in our three voices. After the rain, the sun came out and we saw a rainbow and learned our colors of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple. We decided to take the bus to the beach and sang "Wheels on the Bus" with some animal friends and then arrived at the beach and hopped into the ocean to swim. There was an elevator going to the bottom of the sea, which we all fit in and sang "Let's Go Riding in an Elevator" and then we were at the very bottom of the ocean. What did we see there? Fish! Many beautiful, different colored fish and then we danced the hula and sang "Hukilau". We practiced some French and sang "Petit Poisson", danced "Hokey Pokey" and then created our pizza at the depths of the sea. Toppings today were octopus (thanks, Tioma!), papaya and duck!

4/27/20 BABY MUSIC JAM EPISODE 6 via Facebook Live for our 6th virtual Baby Music Jam! We learned about a new instrument, the den-den daiko, a Japanese drum, tuned our ukuleles, and shook our shakers. Each day we have the opportunity to make music and we can start with the instruments on our bodies, our hands, by clapping and singing "Hello Friends". Our three spider voices came out with "Itsy Bitsy Spider" in normal, big and hairy, and itty bitty high voices. Then we made some percussion music with our shakers and sang, "We Shake Our Shakers Together" and then started to pack for our big trip to Birthday Island! Since today was baking day, we packed our chef's hat, apron, baking cake ingredients (dates, water, almond butter, baking soda) and utensils (bowl, measuring cups, whisk, pan) and our ukulele instrument. Then we took a deep breath on the count of three 1...2...3... and we all fit in our canoe and started to row to Birthday Island with "Row Row Your Boat". We strummed and paddled quickly passed the rapids and slowed down when we approached the Island. There, we put all our ingredients for date cake in the bowl, preheated our oven to 350 degrees and while our cake baked, we practiced our Spanish and sang "Dos Parajitos Verdes", who flew in from Cuba, and "Buenos Dias". Ding, the timer for the cake went off and we took it out of the oven and set it out to cool. While we waited for the cake to cool off, we sang, "Patty Cake" and practiced our letters with B for Baby, M for Mommy, D for Daddy and G for Grandma and Grandpa. Then we sang "If I Knew You Were Coming, I'd Have Baked a Cake" and we were ready to sing "Happy Birthday" and light the candles. The cake turned out beautifully and we first sang "Happy Birthday" to Mason who celebrated his birthday today and then we sang "Happy Birthday" to all our friends who recently celebrated a birthday or who will celebrate this week (Caleb, Luna, Kamron!). Then we sang "Wheels on the Bus" with Animals and taught them the colors so now the tiger knows orange, the rooster knows brown, the hippo knows purple, the kangaroo knows red, the porcupine knows pink, the sheep knows green, and the chick knows yellow. "Thanks, kids!" say our animal friends! We sang "If You're Happy and You Know It With a Twist" by clapping, being a train and shouting out "Today Is Great!" We then made a pizza with toppings of chips (Clayton), strawberries fraises (Kira), cheese (Kip), noodles (Mika), mango (Panchita), Red, the firetruck (Preston). Can we all say Yu-Mmy!

HEALTHY DATE CAKE RECIPE
1. Grease 8 inch pan and preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. In the blender, mix up 1 cup pitted Medjool dates, 1/2 cup water, 1 cup almond butter, 1 teaspoon vanilla and 3/4 teaspoon baking soda. 
3. Put the batter in the pan and pop in the oven for 25 minutes. Cool and eat!

4/20/20 BABY MUSIC JAM EPISODE 5 via Facebook Live for our 5th virtual Baby Music Jam!  https://www.facebook.com/babyporcupine/videos/592897717986622/

We played the instruments on our bodies, our hands, and clapped & sang "Hello Friends" and then Itsy Bitsy Spider in our three voices. Then onto our space ship for our voyage across the universe as we sang "Zoom zoom zoom". All the stars surrounded us as we sang "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" and then we looked down at Earth and saw Argentina and sang "Dos Parajitos", then saw Italy and sang "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" in italiano "Testa, Spalle, Genochi, Piedi, Ochi, Nazo, Bocha". We peered down at France from our space ship and sang "Frere Jacques" and then saw Israel down below and sang one to ten "achad, schtime, shalosh, arba, chamesh, shesh, sheva, shmonay, tesha, eser".  We sang "Wheels on the Bus with Animals" and then made a pizza that is out of this world with kale (Aryav), pepperoni (Elodie and Lulu), frosting (Mei), pineapple (Aanik), and lollypop (Ailis and Elena)!  


4/13/20 BABY MUSIC JAM EPISODE 4 via Facebook Live for our 4th virtual Baby Music Jam! We played the instruments on our bodies, our hands, and clapped & sang "Hello Friends" and then "Good Morning" and "Buenos Dias". Puppy visited us and we sang "When Animals Wake Up" and sang good morning to dogs, cats, sheep and cows. We practiced washing our faces, brushing our teeth and eating our breakfast with the song, "This is the Way" and then built our vocabulary with "Roly Poly" (up/down, close/far, fast/slow) and "Peas Porridge Hot". We counted with "10 Little Raindrops" and then learned French with "Wheels on the Bus" with fruit. Today we learned banane, peche, melon, fraise, poire, and pomme. Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Argentina and we spoke Spanish with them and then the spiders came out and we sang "Itsy Bitsy Spider" in our regular, big & hairy and high itty bitty voices and then were sure to close our mouths so that the spiders didn't crawl in when we sang "Open Shut Them". We learned our body parts and practiced right from left with "Hokey Pokey" (this week our funny extra body part was our elbow!), we sang in Japanese with "Attama, Katta, Hiza, Po" and then made a beautiful pizza pie with toppings of ice cream (danke, Yuna), pineapple (thanks, Hudson), pepperoni (thank you, Caleb) and socks in Bulgarian, "chorapee", thank you, David!  

4/6/20 BABY MUSIC JAM EPISODE 3 via Facebook Live for our 3rd virtual Baby Music Jam! More kiddos are playing their ukuleles at our Baby Music Jams! Yay!! All instruments are welcome. We clapped & sang "Hello Friends" and then got our spiders out for "Itsy Bitsy Spider" in our normal, big and hairy, and little itty bitty voices. We learned a new song from 1950, sung by Eileen Barton, "If I Knew You Were Coming' Id've Baked A Cake". Here are the words for you to learn (good with clapping):

If I Knew You Were Coming' Id've Baked A Cake, 
Baked A Cake, Baked A Cake, 
If I Knew You Were Coming' Id've Baked A Cake, 

Baked A Cake, Baked A Cake, 
How-Ja Do, How-Ja Do, How-Ja Do

Since I knew we were getting together, I baked a cake, took it out of the oven, lit the candles and we sung "Happy Birthday" to our friend, Ailis, who was celebrating her birthday. She blew out all the candles! Then we sang "Happy Birthday" to all our friends who have had birthdays during this time when we've all been at home. To Cosi, David, Amy, Vicente, Hazel, Sachi, and all our Friends, Happy Birthday! Dos Parajitos Verdes came flying in from Spain and we sang their song and "Buenos Dias". We sang "Wheels on the Bus" with unicorn (rainbow), lion (roar), mermaid (splish splish splash), duck (quack), porcupine ("I Love You"), banana ("Moz, moz, moz", which is banana if Farsi), and turtle (blub blub blub). Onto practicing Japanese with "Attama, Katta, Hiza, Po" and "Oide Oide Panda" (panda = "panda", rabbit = "usagi", koala = "koara"). Then Zahari, our zebra buddy, sang 1-10 in French and 1-10 in Italian with us and we danced Hokey Pokey and this week, the funny body part we included was our ears! We made a Pizza with cheese, cheese, and more cheese, and some salami. Thanks, Tate, Ailis, Luna, and River for the toppings! We learned about Opa Kasse from River, which means grandpa cheese in Dutch, and we added some gouda too. 

3/30/20 BABY MUSIC JAM EPISODE 2 via Facebook Live for our second virtual Baby Music Jam! We used the instrument on our body, our hands, and clapped & sang "Hello Friends" and then belted out "Itsy Bitsy Spiders" in our three voices. We played the ukulele and brought out the sun by singing "You Are My Sunshine" and then practiced Spanish by singing "Buenos Dias". We were surprised with the animals who joined us on the bus with "Wheels on the Bus" and then we sang in Japanese "Oide Oide Panda". I tested out my pizza phone to make sure it worked for "Five Little Penguins" and then we learned counting. Next, Zebra Zahari joined us and we counted 1-10 in French. We all counted 1-2-3 and jumped into the same boat for "Row Row Your Boat" and played with tempo as we rowed faster and faster and then s-l-o-w. We jumped out of the boat into the sea and met the underwater animals for "Wheels on the Bus Underwater". It was amazing; we were able to breathe and swim under the waves and danced "Hokey Pokey" and made our communal pizza with toppings of blue cheese (Iyansa's pick), lasagna (Emi & Will's choice), and bell pepper (Preston's idea)!

3/23/20 BABY MUSIC JAM EPISODE 1 via Facebook Live for first virtual Baby Music Jam!  We used the instrument on our body, our hands, and clapped & sang "Hello Friends", "Itsy Bitsy Spiders" in our three voices, Dos Parajitos flew in from Costa Rica and sang "Dos Parajitos Verdes" and "Buenos Dias". Then we hopped on the bus, singing "Wheels on the Bus with Animals" as we picked out the animals from the magic basket. We practiced our Japanese with "Attama, Kata, Hiza, Po" and "Oide oide Panda" and then we all took a big jump and fit in one boat for "Row, Row Your Boat". We took in two deep breathes and then landed in Hawai'i and hula'd the "Hukilau" and then returned to San Francisco to learn from zebra Zahari how to count 1 to 10 in French. Then some dancing and learning our body parts and left from right with "Hokey Pokey" and onto "Making a Pizza" with toppings of tacos, spumoni ice cream, frozen peaches, frozen cherries, and avocado...and then pizza numero due toppings of healthy soup, mushrooms, banana and brownies!

3/2/20 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. What awesome vibes today! We clapped our hands and sang, "Hello Friends" and jumped right into singing in Japanese with "Atama, Katta, Hiza, Po" and "Oide Oide Panda". It is amazing to see the children learning nihongo! I ask them, "How do you say 'head' in Japanese? Nihongo de?" and the kiddos respond, "Atama!" "How do you say 'shoulders' in Japanese? Nihongo de?" and the children call out, "Katta!" and we continue with the knees, eyes, nose and mouth, which our community now know how to say in Japanese. Repetition and singing are remarkable ways to learn a foreign language.  We practiced Spanish with "Dos Parajitos Verdes" who flew in from Costa Rica and then "Buenos Dias". The creepy crawly spiders came out as we sang "Itsy Bitsy Spider" in our three voices. Then we played with tempo with "Row Row Your Boat" speeding up and then slowing down. The kids shared their favorite animals on "Wheels on the Bus", we learned our right from our left and our body parts with "Hokey Pokey" and created a community pizza with pepperoni, mushrooms, strawberries and a pizza on top of a pizza! 

2/24/20 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. Arigato, Ryoko, for teaching us about the violin, what the instrument parts are called and playing for us! We welcomed each other with our "Hello Friends" song, practiced Spanish with "Dos Parajitos Verdes" who flew in from Colombia and then "Buenos Dias". The creepy crawly spiders came out and were hungry as we sang "Itsy Bitsy Spider" in our three voices. Then we all on the count of three took a big jump and landed in one humungous boat where we "Row Row Your Boat"ed to Molokai'i and we all experimented with tempo as we sped up the instruments and singing and then slowwwwed down. The little ones joined me in the front as Ryoko played the violin and Reiko played the ukulele and we all hula'd "Hukilau" and animals and fruit joined us for "Wheels on the Bus" as the children suggested the sounds to make and sing. We danced "Hokey Pokey" and created a community pizza with cereal, mango and seaweed. Yu-mmy!  

1/27/20 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. Thank you, Angela, for joining us! We used the musical instruments on our bodies, our hands, and clapped as we sang our "Hello Friends Welcome" song and then practiced our Japanese and sang "Oide, Oide Panda" and "Atama, Kata, Hiza, Po" and then our Italian with "Testa, Spale, Genochi, Piedi". We sang "Wheels on the Bus" with our favorite foods, drinks, and animals and then we all had popcorn stuck in our teeth and sang the "Brush Your Teeth" song. We then all fit in one boat and took two deep breaths and found ourselves in Hawai'i. Mahalo to Angela and Jasmine who hula'd with us. We sang and danced "Hokey Pokey" and made a pizza with apples, strawberries, and chocolate!  

1/13/20 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. We had special guests, Grammy June and Papa Bob, join us today for a wonderful music extravaganza. We sang our "Hello Friends Welcome" song, "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star", "ABCs", "This Land Is Your Land", and "This Little Light Of Mine". We took two deep breaths and found ourselves in Aiea, O'ahu, and danced the "Hukilau" with native Hawaiian, Grammy June, and Mahalo to Natasha and Wawi for dancing the hula with us. We sang "Edelweiss" from "The Sound of Music" and practiced our Japanese with "Oide, Oide Panda" (arigato, Emelia, for the request) and "Atama, Kata, Hiza, Po", "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes", and then created a community pizza with cheese, extra cheese, pineapple, and banana!  

We'll have a celebration with festive Holiday songs! Get ready to feel the joy and spirit of this special time of year!

12/16/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. We celebrated the Holidays with festive songs of "Santa Claus is Coming to Town", "Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel" and "Feliz Navidad". Good times!!! We clapped our hands to "Hello Friends Welcome", sang our three "Itsy Bitsy Spiders", "Wheels on the Bus" with fruits, vegetables and animals, "Oide Oide Panda" and "Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes" in Japanese, "Hokey Pokey" and created two Holiday pizzas, one with onions, olives and marshmallows and another with tomatoes, carrots, and strawberries.

12/9/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. We learned Farsi and sang "The Wheels on the Bus" with the banana, apple and berry that spoke Farsi. See below for the lyrics. Thank you, Farshad, for leading us in the song! We clapped and sang our "Hello Friends Welcome" song and as the rain continued, we sang "Rain Is Falling Down, Splash!" and "One Little, Two Little, Three Little Raindrops". We sang Itsy Bitsy Spider in our three voices and the kiddos brought their favorite food and drink on "Wheels on the Bus". Merci beaucoup, Jasmine, for helping us sing in French with "Frere Jacques". We sang "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" and "Oide, Oide Panda" in Japanese, learned our body parts and left from right with Hokey Pokey and created a pizza with apple, pepperoni, cheese, and broccoli.

In Farsi, banana is "moz", apple is "sib", and berry is "tut". We sang to the melody of "Wheels on the Bus" the following lyrics:

The banana on the bus says, "Moz, Moz, Moz"...
The apple on the bus says, "Sib, Sib, Sib"...
The berry on the bus says, "Tut, Tut, Tut"...

12/2/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. What incredible energy today! We clapped and sang our "Hello Friends Welcome" song and sang "Rain Is Falling Down, Splash!" and "One Little, Two Little, Three Little Raindrops" in homage to the rain. The kiddos can have fun changing the end of the song from "Ten Little Raindrops on My Head" to "Ten Little Raindrops on ... Mommy's Head...Daddy's Head...". We belted out Itsy Bitsy Spider in our three voices and the children shared their favorite food and drink to share on Wheels on the Bus. Grazie molto alle famiglie italiane who helped sing "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" in Italian. Here are the words in case you'd like to practice:

Testa (Head), Spalle (Shoulders), Ginocchia (Knees), Occhi (Eyes), Naso (Nose), Bocca (Mouth).

Testa, Spalle, Ginocchia E Piedi

Testa, spalle, ginocchia e piedi,
Ginocchia e piedi,
Ginocchia e piedi,
Testa spalle, ginocchia e piedi,
Occhi, naso, bocca.

We got warm with "If You're Happy and You Know It" and sang "Oide Oide Panda" and "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" in Japanese, Hokey Pokey'd and made a pizza with toppings of pepperoni, pineapple, bell pepper, cheese, and apple!

11/18/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. We came together and learned Papiamentu and about the country of Curaçao, which is located in the Caribbean and has four official languages of Papiamentu, Spanish, Dutch and English. Danke, Natasha, for singing and teaching us "Ata' ki mi boka"! Here's the link if you'd like to practice: https://youtu.be/frqsulQk2UI and the words translate in English to "Here is my mouth, the nose on top, two eyes for me to see, ears for me to hear, eh eh!" 

Boka, nanishi, dos wowo, orea
Mouth, nose, two eyes, ears

Giant Panda Bear Balloon joined us as well (Arigato, Lindsey), and he joined us in the "Oide, oide Panda" Japanese song. We sang the Hello Friends Welcome song, Itsy Bitsy Spider in our three voices, and our little ones shared their favorite food and drinks on Wheels on the Bus. We danced the Hokey Pokey and made a pizza with watermelon, salami, pineapple, and lobster!

11/4/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. We gathered for a surprise language today of Thai! Thank you to Jang and Nam for singing and teaching us the Elephant Song: "Chang, Chang, Chang", (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HZDJoPbEJ0). We sang the Hello Friends Welcome song, Itsy Bitsy Spider in our three voices, and there were many animals on Wheels on the Bus and we sang their voices. We brushed our teeth together and sang Oide Oide Panda and Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in Japanese (Arigato Reiko San!), breathed deep and visited Moloka'i where we hula'd the Hukilau and then jumped into two boats and rowed back to the Mainland with rounds of Row, Row Your Boat. We danced the Hokey Pokey and made a pizza with pineapple, mango and french fries.

10/21/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. #todayisgreat vibes continue. We played with the instruments on our bodies, our hands, and clapped and sang our Hello Welcome Song and then filled the sky with Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and belted out our ABCs. We sang Itsy Bitsy Spider in our three voices, Oide Oide Panda in Japanese and Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in Italian and Japanese. Our babies and toddlers brought their favorite foods and drinks on Wheels on the Bus and the most popular foods that our little ones are eating these days are bananas and blueberries! We sang and played ukulele to This Land is Your Land and This Little Light of Mine and danced Hokey Pokey and created a pizza with cheese, bananas, strawberries, and milk! 

10/14/19 BABY MUSIC JAM outoor concert at The Fish at Joe DiMaggio Playground. The sun was shining and we were singing. What a beautiful day with you all! We had special guests, Grammy June and Papa Bob join us! Thank you to fellow ukuleleists, Papa Bob, Reiko, and Farshad. We sang our Hello Welcome Song and Wheels on the Bus with Animals & Fruit & Veggies, sang with our three voices of Itsy Bitsy Spider, and then hopped into two boats for rounds of Row, Row Your Boat and landed in Hawaii. Then we danced the Hukilau hula. Mahalo to Grammy June, Pati and Mila for leading us in the hula with their necklaces of flowers, seashells and kukui nuts! We sang our two Japanese songs: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes and Oide Oide Panda, practiced counting with 5 Little Penguins (thank you Ayra for helping with the penguin puppet!), and danced and sang Hokey Pokey and then created a pizza with cheese and pepperoni. Today was a great day!

10/7/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. What a gorgeous, sunny day! We clapped and sang our Hello Welcome Song and Dos Parajitos flew in from Spain to sing Buenos Dias and Dos Parajitos Verdes with us. We sang with our three voices of Itsy Bitsy Spider, brushed our teeth, hopped onto a boat to sing Row, Row Your Boat, and sang Wheels on the Bus with our favorite food and drinks to share with each other.  We sang Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in Italian and Oide Oide Panda and Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in Japanese and then counted 5 Little Penguins. We danced and sang Hokey Pokey and created a pizza with raccoon, cheese, tomatoes, pepperoni, and mushrooms toppings. 

9/30/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. We came together to celebrate that Today is Great!, which has been our motto for the month of September. We sang the Hello Welcome Song and Dos Parajitos flew in from Colombia to sing Buenos Dias and Dos Parajitos Verdes with us. We sang with our three voices of Itsy Bitsy Spider, and hopped onto a humungous bus and brought along some animals with us to sing Wheels on the Bus. Then we sang one to ten in Farsi (Thank you, Farshad!), Oide Oide Panda and Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in Japanese and then went riding in an elevator and practiced our counting with first floor, second floor, third floor, fourth floor, fifth floor...and all the way down and Five Little Unicorns Jumping on the Bed. We learned our right and left and body parts with Hokey Pokey and created a delicious ostrich, cream cheese and cheese pizza!

9/23/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. We gathered for the Hello Welcome Song and Dos Parajitos flew in from Costa Rica to help us sing Buenos Dias and Dos Parajitos Verdes. We sang with our three voices of Itsy Bitsy Spider, and hopped into two boats to sing rounds of Row Row Your Boat (thanks, Shirin, for heading the other boat!). Then we brushed our teeth and danced to the ukulele song of Moana's How Far I'll Go. We sang Oide Oide Panda and Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in Japanese and learned what our kids like to eat and drink with Wheels on the Bus. Grazie molto to Monica, Alessio, Giuliana, Olivia, and Jackson for teaching us Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in Italian. Molto bene! We danced Hokey Pokey and created our community pizza with pomodori (tomatoes in italiano), pineapple and broccoli. Today was definitely great (our motto we're carrying over from our last class) as we sang three Happy Birthday songs to Henry who turned 1, Lana who turned 2, and Kelsey who turned 2. Congrats Little Ones!!!

9/9/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. Our motto for the day is "Today is Great!" We snapped together and sang our Hello Welcome Song and then we got our Itsy Bitsy Spider in three voices on! Pablito y Paloma flew in from Ecuador and we sang Buenos Dias and Dos Parajitos Verdes. We sang 1-10 in Italian, Oide Oide Panda and Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes in Japanese and sang Wheels on the Bus with Food! We danced Hokey Pokey and created our community pizza with peach, cheese, and carrots. We're teaching our kids about eating healthy!

8/26/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. We gathered for the Hello Welcome Song and Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Mexico and we sang Buenos Dias. We gave it our all with our three voices of Itsy Bitsy Spider, we sang 1-10 in Italian, we took two deep breaths and visited Kaua'i. Mahalo to Mei who joined us dancing the hula as we sang Hukilau. We sang Oide Oide Panda and Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes in Japanese and learned what our kids like to eat and drink with Wheels on the Bus, counted with Five Little Penguins (Thanks, Eli for helping with the mini penguin hand). We danced Hokey Pokey and created our community pizza with banana and broccoli. We're a healthy bunch!

8/19/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. We gathered for the Hello Welcome Song, the Itsy Bitsy Spider in three voices, Zahari, the French speaking zebra sang Frere Jacques and Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Mexico and sang Buenos Dias with us. Grazie molto to Nonna e Nonno for helping us count 1-10 in Italiano and to Farshad for teaching us 1-10 in Farsi (Merci to our lovely volunteers for holding up the numbers!). We sang Oide Oide Panda and Head, Shoulder, Knees and Toes in Japanese, Wheels on the Bus, Five Little Penguins, Hokey Pokey and we created a sweet pizza with toppings of peach, mushrooms, broccoli and nectarine.

8/5/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. Zahari, the French and English speaker zebra, showed up and sang Frere Jacques and This Little Light of Mine, we sang the Hello Welcome song and used the instruments on our body, our hands, and Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Mexico and sang their song and Buenos Dias with us. Ryoko joined us with the violin and Reiko, Farshad and I played the ukulele and we sang Do Re Mi, Oide Oide Panda and Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in Japanese (our Japanese sure is coming along!), Wheels on the Bus with Animals and Food, Hokey Pokey, counted Five Little Penguins and we made a pizza with papaya, mango, broccoli, and nectarine toppings.  

7/29/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. We gathered for more awesome, educational, good vibes summertime fun today! We sang our Hello Friends song, started to teach our little ones about musical notes with singing Do Re Mi, and met a new friend, our French and English speaking zebra, Zahari, who helped us all sing Frere Jacques and This Little Light of Mine. We sang Itsy Bitsy Spider in our three voices, Wheels on the Bus with Animals, Fruits & Vegetables, our Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Colombia and we sang Buenos Dias in Spanish and Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes & Oide Panda, Usagi, Koara in Japanese. Our little ones are learning their left from right and body parts with Hokey Pokey and our Pizza today had toppings of pepperoni, sausage, cheese, mushrooms and strawberries!  

7/22/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. Summer fun today! We sang our Hello Friends song, Itsy Bitsy Spider in our three voices, Wheels on the Bus with Animals, Fruits & Vegetables, Dottie and Aiko helped with our Spanish song with Dos Parajitos and we sang in Spanish, Buenos Dias, in French, Frere Jacques, in Japanese, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes & Oide Panda, Usagi, Koara, counted 5 Little Penguins in Spanish today, danced Hokey Pokey and created a pizza with pineapple (gracias, Panchi!), pepperoni, cheese and mushrooms.

7/20/19 BABY MUSIC JAM Weekend Family Music at Seabird Preschool 11am-12pm. Good times with the community. We sang the Hello Friends song, Wheels on the Bus with Animals & Veggies and learned carrots, "markov" in Russian and got our Spiders out for our three Itsy Bitsy Spiders songs. I played the ukulele, we sang Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes and Oide Panda in Japanese, Frere Jacques in French, Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Spain and we sang Buenos Dias, we counted with 5 Little Penguins, took deep breaths together, hula'd Hukilau, and made a Pizza.

7/15/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. What energy today, folks! We had special guest, Papa Bob, stop by and play ukulele with us and we sang Happy Birthday to Deckland, who turned 2 years old, and Ron, who turned 1 years old! Good times with our Hello Friends song, Itsy Bitsy Spider in our three voices, Wheels on the Bus with Animals, Fruits & Vegetables, Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Venezuela (gracias, Aiko for helping with Pablito & Paloma parajitos!) and we sang in Spanish, Buenos Dias, in French, Frere Jacques, in Japanese, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes & Oide Panda, Usagi, Koara, counted 1-10 in Italiano, sang/counted 5 Little Penguins (thanks, Natasha for being the second penguin hand in the audience!), we danced Hokey Pokey and created a pizza together. Welcome all the new friends who joined us! 

7/8/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. The kids are getting into it! We took two deep breaths and went to Hawai'i and Aiko & Jack joined me upfront to dance the Hukilau Hula, we all jumped into two boats and sang rounds of Row, Row, Your Boat for a zen feeling, we sang Hello Friends, Itsy Bitsy Spider in our three voices, Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Spain and sang Buenos Dias. We learned what our little ones like to eat and drink as we sang Wheels on the Bus-- Luna likes fresas, Kip likes manzana, Aiko likes cake and Elizabeth likes water! We sang Frere Jacques in French and Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes & Oide Panda, Usagi, Koara in Japanese, counted 5 Little Penguins, danced Hokey Pokey and created a chocolate, peach, banana pizza together. 

Preview of New Pizza Phones for next time! =)

Here are the words for you to practice with your little ones.

PIZZA PIZZA
We're making a Pizza, Pizza Pizza (x2)
We're making the Dough, Pizza Pizza (x2)
We're Tossing the Dough, Pizza Pizza (x2)
We're putting on the Sauce, Ssss, Ssss, Ssss, (x2)
We're putting on the Cheese, Sch, Sch, Sch (x2)
We're putting on the Mushrooms, Plop, Plop, Plop (x2)
We're putting on Pineapple, Uww La La (x2)
We put the Pizza in the Oven, Hot, Hot, Hot
We take the Pizza out of the Oven, Hot, Hot, Hot
We're cutting our Pizza, Cut, Cut, Cut (x2)
We're eating our Pizza, Yum, Yum, Yum (x2)
We take that last bite of our Pizza, ahhhh yum, yum, yum, yum, yum (x2)
The Pizza Tastes Yummy in the Tummy Yummy (x2)

6/24/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. What awesome energy today! We sang Hello Friends, Itsy Bitsy Spider in our three voices, Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Mexico and sang Buenos Dias, we sang Row, Row, Row Your Boat in rounds (how zen!), took two deep breaths and traveled to O'ahu where we hula'd the Hukilau, sang Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes in Japanese and Oide Panda, Usagi, Koara in Japanese, Frere Jacques in French, counted 5 Little Penguins, danced Hokey Pokey and created two pizzas together. It was nice and sunny at the Playground afterwards as we picnicked together. Good times today!

6/22/19 BABY MUSIC JAM, 11am at Seabird Preschool. Such a wonderful time with little ones and families at our weekend baby and toddler music jam! We sang in English, Spanish, French and Japanese and learned a few more words in different languages-- Thank you to the parents for teaching us how to say your kids' favorite foods in German and Dutch as we sang Wheels on the Bus. See you all next month for our next weekend family music jam on 7/20/19 at 11am at Seabird! 

6/17/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. B A B Y 🦔 M U S I C J A M. Our little ones are learning languages, counting, music and reading! Awesome creative start to the week playing ukulele and singing Hello Friends, Wheels on the Bus with Animals, Frere Jacques, Itsy Bitsy Spider in our three voices, Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Costa Rica & El Salvador and sang Buenos Dias. We sang read Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See, continued with Brush Your Teeth and then read Crocodile Goes to the Dentist. We sung our hearts out in Japanese with Atama, Kata, Hiza, Pon and Oide Panda, Usagi, Koara, counted 5 Little Penguins, and ukulele’d My Favorite Things from the Sound of Music, danced Hokey Pokey and we made a pizza with mozzarella cheese,🍍, and pepperoni! Wonderful community picnic at The Fish afterwards. Good vibes! 🤙

5/27/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at The Fish at Joe DiMaggio Playground. We celebrated Memorial Day Holiday together outdoors by singing, dancing, and learning Spanish, French, English and Japanese with our little ones.

5/20/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. We sang our hearts out and had a good time singing, playing music, dancing and creating pizza!

5/13/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. Good energy today as we came together and sang in French with Oh Matelot and Frere Jacques, Itsy Bitsy Spider in our three voices, Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Puerto Rico and sang Buenos Dias, we sang Atama, Kata, Hiza, Po in Japanese, counted 1-10 in Farsi (Merci, Farshad!), Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, ABCs, She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain, Wheels on the Bus with Animals, danced Hokey Pokey, counted 5 Little Platypi Jumping on the Bed (Gracias, Robert!) and we made a pizza with broccoli, mushrooms and cashew cheese.

5/6/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. We gathered and sang in French with Oh Matelot and Frere Jacques, Rain Is Falling Down, Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Colombia and we sang Buenos Dias, Hokey Pokey, Open Shut Them, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Wheels on the Bus with Little Ones' favorite foods and we made a pizza.

4/29/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. Today we were on a boat ride, singing rounds of Row, Row, Row Your Boat and then we brought out our Spiders for Itsy Bitsy Spider with all our voices (yay, Lana for answering High Voice when I asked what our third spider voice would be!). It was a special music time when we learned how to count 1 to 10 in Farsi to the melody of ABC's with Elodie's daddy, Farshad. Merci, Farshad!! =) Then we sung It's A Small World, Frere Jacques, The More We Get Together, Wheels on the Bus (with a friendly bus driver who said, "Come Aboard!"), Old MacDonald (Dottie had the piggy again and made a true oink sound!), Hokey Pokey with the most body parts we've ever sung (the nose, the tongue and the butt were fantastic!), and we made a Pizza with toppings of basil, nori, and pineapple. 

4/22/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. We sang the Hello Welcome Song, got our Itsy Bitsy Spider on, practiced French with Frere Jacques, Spanish with Buenos Dias and Dos Parajitos Verdes (who flew in from El Salvador), and we sang Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes in Japanese and learned a new Japanese song, Katatsumuri, about snails ("Den den mushi mushi katatsumuri"...) and passed around for show and tell Reiko's snails from her back yard (Arigato, Reiko San!). We read a book on Babies from all over the World to learn about different countries and cultures and we sang Wheels on the Bus and The More We Get Together, took a deep breath to Moloka'i and Hukilau'd, danced Hokey Pokey and made a post Easter pizza full of toppings of green apples, pink peeps, & a chocolate bunny! Next week, we're debuting a favorite nostalgic song. Hint, could have been your favorite ride at Disneyland as a kid. 

4/15/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. There were more ukulele additions to our music today. Hooray! Folks are getting the hang of tuning their ukes. =) We sang our Hello Friends Welcome Song, Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Colombia to sing in Spanish, we sang Itsy Bitsy Spider in our three Spider Voices, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, ABCs, If You're Happy and You Know It, Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes in Japanese, took a deep breath and found ourselves in Kaua'i and danced the Hukilau, Wheels on the Bus with our Little Ones' favorite foods, counted Five Little Porcupines, danced Hokey Pokey and we made two pizzas full of chocolate, cheese, non-spicy sausage, pepperoni, & green apples! 

4/6/19 BABY PORCUPINE MUSIC JAM at Tel-Hi Co-Op Community Day. So much fun with bubbles, friends & music. We sang Itsy Bitsy Spider in our Spider Voices, If You're Happy and You Know It, Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes in Japanese, Hukilau (mahalo to our volunteers who danced in the front!), Wheels on the Bus with Animals, Hokey Pokey and we made a pizza with cheese, sausage, and anchovies! 

4/1/19 BABY PORCUPINE MUSIC JAM. Good energy today! We sang This Land Is Your Land, Three Itsy Bitsy Spiders in our spider voices, Buenos Dias, and Wheels on the Bus. We belted out Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes in Japanese and folks know the body parts in Japanese by heart! Great Progress!! We hula'd, danced Hokey Pokey and created a musical pizza complete with toppings of pizza (thanks, Aiko!) & gummy bears (thanks, Hendricks!).

3/18/19 BABY PORCUPINE MUSIC JAM. What a great group today! Lots of little ones to sing Our Welcome Song! =) Our spider voices came out for Itsy Bitsy Spider and Dos Parajitos Verdes came in from Costa Rica (Gracias, Robert!), and tweeted Buenos Dias.  We sang Wheels on the Bus with Animals, Fruits, and Vegetables and continued to practice our Japanese with Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes. We danced Hokey Pokey and created a  mushroom, salami, pineapple pizza! Next time, thinking to play Baby Shark so get ready. Da da, da da, da da, DA DA!!!

3/11/19 BABY PORCUPINE MUSIC JAM. Awesome playing ukulele today with Reiko, Farshad, Mike & Jennifer! We sang Itsy Bitsy Spider with our three different voices and Dos Parajitos Verdes came in from Medellin, Colombia (Gracias, Allie!), and flew over us as we sang Buenos Dias. Our Japanese is coming along and we're singing Head, Shoulders, Knees, & Toes (see 10/15/18 post for the words in Japanese to practice). Through a big breath, we traveled to Oah'u and danced the Hula (mahalo for joining in the hula, Bridget!). We sang Wheels on the Bus with Animals and Vegetables and learned our right and left and body parts by dancing and singing Hokey Pokey. Our pizza toppings today were mushrooms and pepperoni. Keep up with the Creativity!

3/4/19 BABY PORCUPINE MUSIC JAM. More parents and little ones are bringing ukuleles and learning to play!!! So exciting! We sang Itsy Bitsy Spider, Twinkle Twinkle, ABCs, Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes in Japanese. Dos Parajitos Verdes came in from San Salvador, El Salvador, and flew over everyone and we sang Buenos Dias. Through a big breath, we transported ourselves to Kaua'i, swam with sea turtles and sang Baby & Mommy Turtle and danced the Hula (thanks for the ukulele accompaniment, Mike & Reiko!). We sang Wheels on the Bus with Animals and Vegetables and learned our right and left and bodies parts by dancing and singing Hokey Pokey. Our pizza toppings today were pizza (thanks, Dottie) and pepperoni. Next time for ukulele practice, we'll play Row Row Your Boat in C so all can join in playing and Itsy Bitsy Spider chords are listed below. Enjoy!

2/25/19 BABY PORCUPINE MUSIC JAM. We brought out our spiders, sang about raindrops, counted 5 Little Penguins, and sang Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes in Japanese. Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Pueblo, Mexico, sang Buenos Dias and flew all around our little ones. We danced Hokey Pokey and sang Wheels on the Bus with Animals. The children were jumping around like jelly beans with the songs and they are responding now when I ask how many Penguins there are! Fantastic progress, learning, comprehension and language development!! 

2/16/19 BABY PORCUPINE MUSIC JAM at SEABIRD PRESCHOOL. Woohoo, weekend music with families! We sang our hearts out with our little ones and danced hula, hokey pokey, made pepperoni and chocolate pizza (one word, YU-MMY!), played with finger puppets and learned English, Spanish, and Japanese. Good community gathering and creating an environment where our children are creative, confident, and open-minded.  

2/10/19 BABY PORCUPINE MUSIC JAM BIRTHDAY. So much fun singing, dancing, playing with puppets, ukulele-ing and celebrating a one year old's first birthday party.  

2/4/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. In homage to the rain today, we sang Counting Raindrops and Rain is Falling Down. We sang with Spiders, Atama, Kata, Hiza, Pon in Japanese, Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Venezuela and sang Buenos Dias with us. We breathed in & out and visited Maui where we hula'd Hukilau, swam with the Baby, Mommy, and Daddy turtles, danced Hokey Pokey, sang Wheels on the Bus with Animals, Fruits and Vegetables and made pizzas with toppings of banana, pineapple, porcupine and apples.

1/28/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. Big thank you to Pat, who taught us how to count and sing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 in Cantonese "Yat, Yi, Saam" to the tune of "Knick, Knack Paddy Whack, Give a Dog a Bone" (see below!). We sang with Spiders, Atama, Kata, Hiza, Pon in Japanese, Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Honduras and sang Buenos Dias with us. We hula'd Hukilau and Hokey Pokey'd, sang Wheels on the Bus with Animals, Fruits and Vegetables and made pizzas with toppings of banana, watermelon, sea cucumbers, and Aiko's suggestion, pizza! =)

1/21/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at the Fish at Joe DiMaggio Playground. Outdoor nature concert! We sang with Spiders, Atama, Kata, Hiza, Pon in Japanese, Dos Parajitos Verdes flew in from Quito, Ecuador, and sang Buenos Dias with us. Big thank you to Aiza for teaching us how to count 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 in Tagalog (isa, dalawa, tattle, apat, lima). We hula'd Hukilau and Hokey Pokey'd. We sang Wheels on the Bus with Animals, Fruits and Vegetables. Yuna had the banana, who said "I like the Bus!" and we made from scratch, meat lovers pizzas full of salami, pepperoni, prosciutto, and yes, even porcupine!

1/14/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. Good times learning about different places in our world today! Dos Pajaritos Verdes flew in from Peru and we sang en espanol. We all got our spiders out for Itsy Bitsy Spider, her cousin, The Big, Hairy Spider, and aunty, Itty Bitty Teeny Weeny Spider. We sang a Flower Song and breathed in fragrant tulips, learned about the sunflower in Portuguese, "margherita", jasmine from India, and pink peonies from Lyon, France. We had fun with Wheels on the Bus with Animals, Fruits and Vegetables, hula,  Atama, Kata, Hiza, Pon, and we read "In My Meadow" with the finger puppet bunny. Our talented and energetic chefs made a mushroom and pickle pizza & goat cheese and chocolate pizza! Yu-mmy!!! More folks are bringing in ukuleles to learn. I'll teach Wheels on the Bus and once you've got that under your belt, you're good to go with introducing all kinds of vocabulary and creativity with your little one. 

1/7/19 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. Lots of imagination today with Wheels on the Bus with Animal, Fruit and Vegetable puppets, practiced Japanese with Atama, Kata, Hiza, Pon, sang Buenos Dias and took a deep breath in an breathed out and found ourselves on O'ahu, swam with mommy, daddy, and baby turtle and hula'd the Hukilau. Sang, played ukulele, showed our regular, big & hairy, and itty bitty spiders, hokey pokey'd, and made pizzas. Used the cardboard pizza box phones and sang "Five Little Penguins". Awesome community gathering.

12/17/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. We sang "Hello Welcome" and every little one heard his or her name. =)  This time, Los Dos Pajaritos Verdes flew in from Argentina to sing with us "Buenos Dias" and "Dos Pajaritos Verdes". We sang "Atama Kata Hiza Pon" in Japanese, danced hula to "Hukilau", smiled as we "brushed teeth", and the children helped with "Wheels on the Bus" with animals. We learned our body parts and sang "Hokey Pokey" and we made an uni, & ikura fish egg pizza and a nori & pumpkin pie pizza! Oishii desu ne? =)

BABY PORCUPINE MUSIC JAM & CARD POP UP at Charlie's Corner in Noe Valley on

Saturday, 12/1/18, at 12:30pm, was Awesome!! Thank you everyone for coming out!

11/26/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. Dos Parajitos Verdes visited us and returned from Colombia today, we sang Atama, Kata, Hiza, Pon in Japanese, and made a mushroom & artichoke pizza and a gorgonzola cheese & stinky tofu pizza. YUMMY!

11/24/18 BABY PORCUPINE had a wonderful time with you all at Playground on Bluff Trail Park. Dos Pajaritos Verdes from Spain came to sing with us en espanol, the Big Hairy Spider and the Little Itty Bitty Spider showed up, we "brushed teeth", sang Atama, Kata, Hiza, Pon in Japanese, read "A Special Friend Indeed", dialed on our pizza phones, counted Five Little Penguins, sang Wheels on the Bus with Animals, danced the Hukilau and the Hokey Pokey and made a cheese & pepperoni pizza and an anchovy & olive pizza. We had so much fun at Picnic and Playground afterwards. So good to see friends and their little ones and family!

CANCELED due to poor air quality--BABY PORCUPINE will be at North Beach Public Library on Saturday, 11/17, and will teach ukulele class at 11am. There will be five ukuleles for those who would like to try out the instrument. If you have an ukulele for you or your little one, bring it and learn some songs you can play together. Stay for Baby Music Jam at 11:30am. Good times with the Community in November! 

11/12/18 BABY MUSIC JAM canceled at The Fish at Joe DiMaggio Playground in North Beach due to poor air quality. 

11/5/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. We sang the "Hello Welcome" Song and this time, Los Dos Pajaritos Verdes flew in from Bogota, Colombia, to sing with us "Buenos Dias". We sang "Atama Kata Hiza Pon" in Japanese, hula'd to "Hukilau", "brushed teeth" and read "My Dad is Amazing". We sang "Frere Jacques" (next week, we'll sing another French song too), the little ones did an amazing job with "Wheels on the Bus" with animals, "Hokey Pokey" and we made a pineapple pizza and a pepperoni, jalapeño, cheese pizza! 

10/29/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Playground. We gathered around The Fish and enjoyed the beautiful weather and nature outside. We danced the hula to Hukilau, Los Dos Pajaritos Verdes flew in from Argentina to sing with us in Spanish, and we read "The Carrot Seed". We celebrated Halloween by singing The Big Hairy Spider in big hair spider voices and we had candy corn as one of our toppings for the Making the Pizza song and sang it in cackling voices. 

10/22/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. Today we sang, "The More We Get Together", Los Dos Parajitos Verdes visited from Managua, Nicaragua, and we made a cheese & mushroom pizza and a banana, cookie, avocado pizza. The Five Little Speckled Frogs stopped by to sing and to jump in the pool where it was nice and cool and we danced the hula. 

10/15/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. Today we breathed in and out and were transported to O'ahu where we learned the hula to Hukilau. The Dos Parajitos Verdes, Pablito y Paloma, flew in from Guatemala City to sing with us and we learned "Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes" in Japanese (nihongo). See chart below if you'd like to practice for next class. The Japanese vocabulary and ukulele chords are included. Arigato Reiko San for creating the visual. Our community pizzas were cheese, salami, & mushrooms and pineapple, jalapeño, & gorgonzola cheese!!

"Head, Shoulders, Knees, & Toes" in Japanese

Atama, Kata, Hiza Pon, Hiza Pon, Hiza Pon

Atama, Kata, Hiza Pon,

Me, Hana, Kuchi

10/1/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. Good times singing in English and Español today! Excellent audience participation with the moose, shark, lion, elephant, frog, turtle and porcupine puppets for Wheels on the Bus with Animals song. We read My Mom is Magical! and created two yummy pizzas as we sang We're Making a Pizza! So awesome singing with you all today!! 

9/24/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. We sang Itsy Bitsy Spider in our three Spider voices, we "Brushed our Teeth", danced the Hokey Pokey, spent time with Dos Pajaritos Verdes, created a gourmet pizza song with honey (thanks, Drew!), goat cheese and walnuts (thanks, River & Annika!) and learned all about our great state by reading All Aboard! California.

9/17/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. So much love celebrating my birthday with you all! You are the Best!!! We sang our hearts out, read Tip Tip Dig Dig, sang Happy Birthday and celebrated with Celeste's yummy zucchini muffins, took a deep breath to Hawaii where we sang Hukilau and of course, made Pizzas!  

9/10/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. Numbers galore! We counted/sang 1-10 in English, Spanish & French, read the book 5 Little Ducks and sang the words (awesome to sing/read stories to little ones!), "brushed" our teeth in song, and sang a bunch of other songs and played the ukulele.

Here's practicing for next time! 
    
             English     Español  Français
1             One         Uno        Un
2             Two         Dos      Deux
3            Three       Tres       Trois
4             Four      Cuatro    Quatre
5             Five       Cinco      Cinq
6              Six        Seis          Six
7           Seven      Siete       Sept
8            Eight       Ocho        Huit
9            Nine       Nueve       Neuf
10           Ten         Diez         Dix

9/3/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Playground. Special outdoor concert at the Fish. We gathered together to celebrate Labor Day. Fabulous pizzas were made with whimsical toppings of yogurt, blueberries, tomatoes, pepperoni, and jalapeño for the our Pizza Song. Wonderful community gathering at the Fish for potluck picnic of salads, mac n cheese, corn on the cob, and gohan rice dish.

We're Making A Pizza, Pizza, Pizza!

A dozen new Pizza Phones for "Five Little Penguins" song!

*Good DIY activity with your little one.*
Cut up cardboard from a product at home,
Add the numbers, color, markers & stamps.
Promotes cognitive development,
learning numbers & imaginative play.

8/27/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse in North Beach, San Francisco.

We added another French song today, here are the lyrics so you can practice with your baby! On a chante en francais -- Voila les paroles a "Il Etait Un Petit Navire".

Ohé ohé ohé ohé matelot
Matelot navigue sur les flots
Ohé ohé ohé ohé matelot
Matelot navigue sur les flots.

8/20/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse in North Beach, San Francisco.

We learned the hula to "Hukilau" and sang, danced, and played the ukulele. Breath in....breath out... and we're in Kaua'i. Magic. =)

8/13/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse in North Beach, San Francisco.

Today we sang en español con Pablito y Paloma, dos pajaritos verdes! The two green birds flew in special today from Argentina. We will sing and speak more in Spanish at Baby Music Jam.

8/6/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse in North Beach, San Francisco.

Wheels on the Bus with Animals today!

7/30/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse in North Beach, San Francisco.

Mighty Golden Gate Bridge book reading. Learning about the wonder of our City.

7/23/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Champ de Mars in Paris, France. Yes, it was dreamy!

ABCs en francais!

8/13/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse in North Beach, San Francisco.

We read and sang "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?" =) The melody is fantastic and you can have "sing conversations" with your little ones with whatever words or vocabulary you see. On the way to school in the morning, we'll sometimes have an exchange like this, 

--"Houses, Houses, What do you see?"
--"I see a Big Tree looking back at Me."
--"Big Tree, Big Tree, What do you see?"
--"I see Cars looking back at Me."
--"Cars, Cars, What do you see?"
--"I see Hills looking back at Me."

So have fun with the melody and using words all around us to engage your little ones.

Hello Welcome Song

7/14/18 BABY MUSIC JAM: Celebrating Baby Porcupine's friend's birthday at Crissy Field.

7/9/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse. 

We sang Japanese Ohayoo Song.

7/2/18 BABY MUSIC JAM at Joe DiMaggio Clubhouse in North Beach, San Francisco.  10am ukulele lesson & 10:30am ukulele music, songs, dancing, & puppet show. Creative mornings full of imagination. Fantastic for little ones. We'll gather for potluck picnic afterwards at the Playground. Toddlers play and caretakers eat.
Win-win for everyone. All are welcome. =)

*We'll do the Pizza Song with the handmade pizza phones!

6/30/18 BABY PORCUPINE POP UP & 
BABY MUSIC JAM, 11am at Mini Chic in the Castro. I'll bring cards and take orders for custom baby portraits, fishy portraits and hand lettering names + we'll sing, dance and play ukulele. Good times!

*Inspired to learn more French songs and include them in the Baby Music Jams.

6/25/18 BABY MUSIC JAM 
Creative mornings full of imagination. Fantastic for little ones. We'll gather for potluck picnic afterwards at the Playground. Toddlers play and caretakers eat. Win-win for everyone. All are welcome. =)

*We learned how to play the C chord on the ukulele and the Hukilau hula dance today.

6/23/18 BABY PORCUPINE WORKSHOP The Workshop at the Library was awesome! Thank you to everyone who came and learned how to carve their very own original stamp and created a card with it and wrote a letter to someone in the City who'd love a Hello. Such awesome community!

*Stand out stamps were the unicorn and skull. Love the creativity. Keep it going, folks!