Music for Little People

Children learn a lot through the medium of song — especially when those songs are accompanied by actions. They will name familiar objects around the room, name body parts and also incorporate names of actions: we move faster” and slower”, stretch higher” and lower” and respond to instructions such as stop” and go”.In the first half of term we’ll be singing about our holidays and all the time spent at the beach and frolicking in the sea! We’ll be having fun at the seaside” and sailing with the good ship on the Alley—alley-Oh”. You’d better watch out for the pirates who go this way, that way, forwards and backwards, over the Irish Sea” — but maybe we’ll be able to row our boats quickly enough out of the way. In the second half of term we’ll move on to all sorts of songs about transport. We’ll be singing about the traffic lights and how to cross the road as well as going down to the station to see all the trains.