Music bookLittleTune Classics · Level 3 · Sing It Through
Pat-a-Cake
- 10 spreads
- About 3 min of song
- English · Español
Pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker's man! It's Baby Ben's birthday, and Zola and Finn are helping Baker Lu make the cake. Clap with a friend, stir it fast and slow, roll it, pat it, poke five little holes and draw a big B for Baby. Then wait, still as a tree, while it bakes. Sing the rhyme everyone knows, play the clapping game on every page, and find the little pink star.
Level 3 · Sing It Through
Longer verses, more to remember.
The child: Sings whole verses, follows a story, keeps counts and sequences, and can learn the tune on the keys.
The grown-up: Shares the singing. Try word mode and the melody view, or the Piano Path lesson for the tune.
What the levels meanGoals
- Motorbilateral hand play: clapping, crossing hands, circling, rolling the forearms, patting, pointing; a still freeze
- Socialpartner clapping, taking turns to lead
- Cognitivethe steps of baking in order, counting to five, letters: B and the child's own initial
In a session
Partner or solo clapping game on every verse, one new hand move per spread, fast and slow (spread 3), counting pokes (6), drawing a letter in the air (7, 9), a freeze and wait (8)
Session ideas
- Partner clapping
- Real dough
- My letter
The full ideas open with the book.
An activity kit for this book
Downloadable, to print or use on screen. They come with the book.
18 pages