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Everyone can manage 5 minutes of music a day!
Are you not quite ready for a 20 minute music time? What about 5 minutes of music each day instead?
Here are some suggestions for the next week. Just pick one idea for each day:
Monday
- Pick a nursery rhyme the children know well
- Choose a new simple song to teach the children. Sing just the first verse to them. Ask the children to just join in with the missing word at the end of each phrase. e.g. twinkle twinkle little ….. (star)
- Play a piece of music to the children and ask them to m…
So you think you can't sing!
'I can’t sing!'
I hear so many adults saying this to me. I would like you to ask yourself: why am I thinking this? Is it that you struggle to sing along to some songs on the radio, did someone make a comment in the past or maybe you just believe you can’t sing?
The children in your setting want to sing and so they need you as their carer/teacher to teach them new songs and rhymes. So, whatever the reason you need to overcome that fear and start singing!
What’s stopping you?
Do you love …
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