It is a must that every early childhood educator spends time learning and memorizing a wide variety of fingerplays. A fingerplay is a short poem or rhyme that is either spoken or sung and involves the use of hands and fingers to help “act” it all out. What is the purpose of a fingerplay? Fingerplays [...]
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