Ok, here is the ‘programme’ I used last week, I’ve trawled my childhood memories for a few more but any other suggestions gratefully received 🙂
Humpty Dumpty
Twinkle twinkle little star
Old McDonald had a farm
Grand Old Duke of York
Five Little Ducks
Five little men in a flying saucer
Incy Wincy Spider
Round and round the garden like a teddy bear
Miss Polly had a dolly
Wind the bobbin up
Wheels on the bus
Hickory Dickory Dock
Row row row your boat (including crocodiles and dinosaurs)
Dingle Dangle Scarecrow (need to learn the words to second and third verses)
Teddy Bear, teddy bear
I hear thunder
Baa baa black sheep
I’m a little teapot
Ones I’ve thought of since:
Hot Cross Buns
Mary Mary quite contrary
pat a cake
ten green bottles
ten fat sausages
Cheeky monkeys bouncing on the bed
London’s burning
Hole in my bucket (is that a nursery rhyme do you think?)
Oranges and Lemons (anyone know if it has movements?)
In a cottage in a wood
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly – can’t believe I hadn’t thought of this one before – or will it give nightmares?! 😆
Ring o roses
FFS how long is rhyme time? I used to do 20 minutes with about 10 songs! I also used to theme the songs each week and have one that signaled the start and another the end. Also count to three before each song using fingers (funny how tots can’t separate fingers).
How old are they?
If 18mths plus use the old magic carpet trick, sit on it, fasten seat belts etc (drag it out)- going up high what can you see (hand over eyes ad though looking)- where are we going?…landed wherever undo belts and settle down to sing
Jack and Jill
Build a house with 5 bricks
5 little peas in a pea pod press
Big eyed owl
Off to bed to dream off more!
20- 25 minutes long. We sing most songs twice but they are all under 18 months old so there is no real interaction with them. I have a box of instruments which I hand out and then collect back in again which kills a bit of time but the first week I had 12 songs and still did the whole thing in about 15 minutes. I paced it a bit better last week but it still felt too quick.
Some of them are really quite tiny, none of them are old enough to actually join in themselves, it’s more being jiggled on their mummies laps. Don’t know build a house or big eyed owl, will google for them :). Thanks x
peter rabbit’s got a fly upon his nose [lots of baby actions there!]
i had a little nut tree [no actions?]
goosey gander
there was a crooked man
to market to market [animal actions]
sing a song of sixpence
half a pound of tuppeny rice.
argh!! all these are going to be in my head all night now!
Andrew loved 5 little men in a flying saucer and little rabbit foofoo,
gonna build a house was a fave when i worked at the nursery ,
how bout the house that jack built,
oh and the one about the horse with the swishy tail,
and the big ship that sails on the alleyalleyo,
one finger one thumb,
i guess they’re too young for heads shoulders knees and toes,
teddy bear teddy bear run up the stairs,
mary had a little lamb,
5 sticky buns in a bakers shop,
the one about the caterpillar or was it a worm something wiggley in the garden called wiggleywoo,
if you’re happy and you know it clap your hands,
that’s all i got for now but i’m sure i’ll think of some more while i’m trying to sleep 😆
i have bloody rabbit foofoo in me head at the moment!
put your finger in the air
old king cole was a merry old sole
I am the music man, I come from far awaaaay, and I can plaaaay.
But ffs, why so babies of 6 months need to come to a library to be socialised and hear nursery ryhmes. I thought that was something you did while changing shiity nappies. I’m allowed to be a grumpy old lady today.
😆 we had the speech on why we run baby rhyme time when I went for the training (did I blog about that at the time? some of it was quite disturbing!). As libraries are council run and have to do their bit for ‘community’ storytime and rhymetimes were dreamt up. The idea is that the mums get to come along and make some contacts, learn some nursery rhymes themselves and get their heads round singing to their babies and the benefits of it and the library becomes accessible to them in a non-threatening and friendly way. The music and movement type classes that run can be up to £5 per session which is out of financial reach for lots of people so to come to something for free means we get a lot of attendees. In areas of ‘social deprivation’ (of which Lancing is classes as one) this is doubly important, some of these mothers are really young, really broke and probably don’t even know any nursery rhymes or would dream of spending time singing to their children (broad generalisation obviously, and not mine- the library service’s).
For the library it brings in potential borrowers – and it does work, we have to put two people on the counter before and after story time and rhyme time as books get brought back and taken out by most attendees. We also get those babies joined up as members really early so it increasese our membership numbers too.
So there you go – the blurb!