VTech Alphabert Parents' Manual page 27

ALPHABERT THE READY TO READ ROBOT
ACTIVITIES
ACTIVITY 16 - HEAR A SONG
This activity allows your child to hear various popular children's melodies.
Learning Benefits for Your Child Learning Benefits for Your Child
Learning Benefits for Your Child-The Hear a Song activity provides your child with Learning Benefits for Your Child Learning Benefits for Your Child
an opportunity to have some fun while developing better listening skills.
ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Press the Hear a Song activity button and you will hear a sound effect followed
by "Time for some music."
2. Press any letter button to hear a dual-tone melody.
The learning toy will play the melody and fun
animations will appear on the LCD screen.
There are 26 songs to choose from. Press the following
letter buttons to hear the corresponding melody:
a. The Alphabet Song
b. My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean
c. Camptown Races
d. Did You Ever See A Lassie?
e. Farmer in the Dell
f. Frere Jacques
g. Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
h. Hickory Dickory Dock
i. Old King Cole
j. It's Raining, It's Pouring
k. Jack and Jill
l. Little Miss Muffet
m.London Bridge
How Can You Help?
• Provide plenty of time for your child's creative expression. Ask your child to
think of new words that could go along with the melody of the song. Ask your
child to share his or her new creation with others!
• Have your child draw or paint a picture about a melody from the learning toy.
Your child may wish to draw or paint a series of pictures that tell about the song.
• Ask your child if he or she recognizes the melody being played. Encourage
your child to sing along if he or she knows it. If the melody is unfamiliar to him
or her, but familiar to you, be sure to teach the song to your child.
n. Mary Had A Little Lamb
o. Old MacDonald Had A Farm
p. Pease Porridge Hot
q.Polly Wolly Doodle
r. Row, Row, Row Your Boat
s. Sailing, Sailing
t. Shenendoah
u. Sing A Song of Sixpence
v. Skip to My Lou
w.Take Me Out to the Ball Game
x. The Wheels on the Bus
y. Three Little Kittens
z.Pop! Goes the Weasel
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