We absolutely love song time at Keddy Kiddy Care, children learn so much from a good singing session. Not only does it improve the obvious………..their communication skills, it also improves their memory, social skills and emotional skills plus ITS FUN! Here are our favourite songs and rhymes………….
Number Songs
- 5 little ducks went swimming one day
- 5 little men in a flying saucer
- 1, 2 buckle my shoe
- 5 little monkeys jumping on the bed
- 1,2,3,4,5 once i caught a fish alive
- 5 enormous dinosaurs
- 5 currant buns in a bakers shop
- 5 little speckled frogs
Action Songs
- Sleeping bunnies
- Dingle Dangle Scarecrow
- If your happy and you know it
- Teddy bear, Teddy bear
- Head, shoulders, knees and toes
- I’m a little teapot
- The grand old duke of york
- Roly Poly
Other Songs
- Incy Wincy
- Old McDonald
- Wind a bobbin up
- Twinkle, twinkle
- Twinkle, twinkle chocolate bar
- London Bridge
- Row, row row your boat.
- Baa baa black sheep
- Baa, baa pink sheep
- Miss Poly
- A sailor went to sea, sea, sea
- Wheels on the bus
- BINGO
- Humpty dumpty
- Hey diddle diddle
- Hickory Dickory dock
- Jack and Jill
- Animal fair
- The alphabet song
- Tiny Tim……………………We sing 3 verses of this, I don’t know if the last 2 are common knowledge so i’m adding them below as my children really enjoy them
“I had a little sister, her name was Laura Lie,
she went up in the chimney to see if she could fly,
she flew across the rooftops,
she scared off all the crows,
now my little sister has a feather in he nose,
ah, AH, ACHOOO”
“I had a little brother,
his name was Charlie Brown,
I took him to the circus,
he dressed up as a clown,
he ate up all the jelly,
he ate up all the cake
now my little brother has a rumble tummy ache
Rumble, RUMBLE, BLEURGH”
I’m sure there are many more songs out there but these are the ones I use most.
Magic Bag
What we do is have a bag with song cards in, we call this our magic bag, we sing
“Whats inside the magic bag?
EIEIO,
Who will look in the magic bag?
EIEIO.”
We play around with this tune, singing in quiet voices, loud voices, no voices, squeaky voices, fast and slow voices. Each time we sing this a child is chosen to pick a card from the bag to see which rhyme or song we sing next.
Once the song is sung it moves into a second bag so that it isn’t chosen again until all the songs have been sung, we sing around 7 songs a day so that by the end of the week children have joined in with 35 different songs!
If there’s any extras you have as favourites please let me know, or if there’s any of the above that you don’t know the words to and would like me to add, again just drop me a comment. Thanks for reading, i hope someone finds this useful xx