Songs help young children learn speech and language skills. Songs encourage children to participate by speaking up and speaking out. Songs help children remember vocabulary and concepts. Songs help children practice their speech. Each song on 'Do You Like Pie?' has two different types of children in mind those who speak very well and those who don't. All children will love the rhythms and the rhymes. Children who speak very well will learn all the words over time. Children who are challenged in speech and language will have fun singing the parts specially designed for them - the parts with repeating phonemes, syllables and words. This CD has songs that can be used in individual or group speech-language practice. Use them at home, in the car, in the classroom, in school assemblies, in music classes, in English classes, or in speech, occupational or physical therapy. Sing along with the CD, then sing the songs, or the choruses, later without the music. We hope you enjoy using these songs in your work with children! The Characters Little Sweet Pea is young and innocent Mrs. Peabody is a music teacher who thinks she can sing Gruff is a smart little guy who boldly speaks up whenever he can Professor Dauby is intelligent and educated, but very boring Baby Bobbie is just learning to talk Gary is a Baby Bobbie's dad, and he sings Cajun-style music Ronnie thinks he's Elmo (but he's not) and he loves pies Shanti is a beautiful young woman who sings everything The Island Sisters sing calypso-style tunes during beach parties Jo-Jo has a frontal lisp, and she substitutes W for both R and L Mr. Peabody loves his out-of-tune wife and sings along with her on occasion Mr. Mann is a grandpa from Alabama who used to be a famous blues singer how to use this CD with kids Why Use Songs When learning songs, preschool children usually pick up on the repeating parts first. For example, when