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By Anne Hole

Under Singing

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Not the Wheels on the Bus Again!

Singing familiar songs regularly with young children is an important part of their development. Although it doesn’t mean you need to be singing the same songs and/or in the same way every day.

When I talk to many adults in nurseries and preschools they mention they are fed up with singing the same songs. One of the songs that children ask for constantly is, ‘The Wheels on The Bus’. Does this sound familiar?

How can you overcome this?

Vary how you approach a song.
Create a repertoire lis…

Musical Opposites

When I get the instruments out with the children, I hear many of them shaking/banging/scraping as fast and/or hard as they can. Does this sound familiar? I find most children love playing as loud and fast as they can although there are a few who prefer to play quietly and maybe slowly.

We can use this to our advantage when exploring sound as we can encourage the children to explore opposites in music, two examples being dynamics (loud and quiet) and tempo (speed: fast/slow)

Not the Wheels on the Bus Again!

How can you overcome this?

Musical Opposites

Dynamics (loud/qu…

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