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11 Suggestions of Music for End of Year Celebration
Do you do a leavers event where you share memories of the children's time in your early years setting? If so, are you struggling to think of pieces of music that you could use to accompany it? Well, I have listed below 11 happy and/or celebratory pieces of music that you may like to use. There are affiliate links for your convenience.
1. Greatest Day by Take That
2. A Million Dreams from Greatest Showman
3. Don't Stop Me Now! by Quee…
Galloping Around
Travel and Transport is a fun topic/theme that the children really enjoy. I usually start this topic with the focus of travelling on the land, e.g getting around by walking or by horse. Horse related songs, rhymes and music are great as a stimulus to get children moving as they sometimes struggle to think how to move; having a focus really helps them. e.g. trotting or galloping like a horse.
I sometimes use the hobby horses as shown in the image below. I use these with the children inside an…
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