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Learning & Development: Movement sessions: Part 5 - Song time
Nursery World,
9 October 2008
Organising children to sing songs along to actions or stories is the focus of another movement session by Helen Bilton.
BEFORE GETTING STARTED Look again at Part 1 (Nursery World, 26 June, p16) about planning a session. Remember also that when organising sessions around song, it's better to use the word 'sound' rather than 'noise' (which can suggest a bit of a racket!). THE SESSION Part 1: Warming up - Start by singing songs that children can act out alone and standing up, such as 'I'm a little teapot' or 'Humpty Dumpty' or 'Puffer train'. After singing them through a...
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