Sing
4 Little Snowmen
Hello my friends! In this song we will practice counting down from 4 to 0, while expressing sadness for each melted snowman, aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhh poor them! Nursery rhyme characters experience many different emotions. This can help children identify their own emotions and understand the real emotions of others. When children act out the nursery rhyme stories Read more…
Action Songs
This Old Man
Hello my friends! Music researchers have found correlations between music making and some of the deepest workings of the human brain. Research has linked active music making with increased language discrimination and development, math ability, improved school grades, better-adjusted social behavior, and improvements in spatial-temporal reasoning, a cornerstone for problem Read more…
Fingers Play
2 Little Dicky Birds
Hello my friends! I am sure you know this short poem! I love it as it is simple and provides great fingers play! 2 little dicky birds sitting on the wall one named Peter one named Paul. Fly away Peter fly away Paul Come back peter, Come back Paul! Have Read more…
Fingers Play
Good Morning Mrs Hen
Hello my friends! I love this cute fingers play as it is a great Numeracy skills tester! How wonderful it is that with very little effort, a teacher can bring such knowledge to children each day just by providing the opportunity to do a little something with music! Chook, chook, Read more…
3D ART
Butter Beans Balancing Structures
3 years+ These structures leave children explore their vision and their creativity. I only demonstrated the technique insisting on the fact that a structure/building has to balance itself in order to stand up, otherwise it collapses. Then, I let them free to create their own balancing structures. Put some Read more…
3D ART
3D Prisms
3.5 years+ We all know how difficult is to ‘teach’ the 3D shapes to young children. In time, I discovered a way to do it, actually to ‘watch’ it as the children will create their own 3D shapes so that they understand the difference between them and the 2D Read more…