Summary
Contents
This book helps children enjoy greater success in other content areas as they learn about rhythm and chants, music, instruments, art, ring games, and story projects.
Songs
During Key Stage I pupils… sing a variety of songs from memory, adding accompaniments and creating short compositions, with increasing confidence, imagination and control.
We suggest that you end your Circle Time sessions with a ‘fun ending’. The songs in this section will help you to do that; they have a teaching purpose of their own as well as being fun. However, if you can link a song to the theme you are working on, so much the better.
There is a list of song books in the appendix.
Many children will know the following nursery rhymes which can form a fun ending to Circle Times.
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Boys and Girls Come Out to Play
Goosey Goosey Gander
The Grand Old Duke ...