Brown Bear Rap

Scottish music

Let's dance!
Follow the instructions
(the teacher points to the different clues while listening to the music):

• Turn around
• Stamp your feet
• Move your arms
• Wiggle you bottom
• Shake
• knees up
• Touch your head
• ...

Family shark

Hands up, hands down chant

Hands up, hands down
shake your body,
shake your body

Hands up, hands down
shake your body,
let's start!

Hello, hello how are you?



Free Resources by clicking on this picture

If you're happy

I'm happy to say hello from this new blog.
Are you happy, too?

Row, row, your boat

Rock, scissors, paper

Today is Monday by Eric Carle

And a funny way to dance with it:

Flea Fly Mosquito

Minute 0:32

The elephant song

Five Little Ducks

and our version: It's dinner time! It's ice-cream time!

Mama, mama, my shoes don’t match

Two Little Dicky Birds

Two little frogs, two little snakes, two little cats, etc...






In the following video, it's possible to see Jamie Keddie (a famous ESL writer) with other teachers singing the rhyme. Jamie has got two bird drawings stuck  on his nails, and when Peter and Paul fly away, he changes the fingers and we can't see the birds. Children love it because they think that the teacher is a magician that makes Peter and Paul disappear and appear again.

Tofa, tafa

Who took the cookie from the cookie jar?

Click on the picture to get free resources:

Wind the Bobbin Up

Point to the ceiling...

Head to the ceiling...

Nose to the ceiling...

Back to the ceiling...

and my favourite one:
Bottom to the ceiling...

Incy Wincy Spider

And what about Great Big Spider? And Tiny Tiny Spider?

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Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

I can sing a rainbow

Some of my students singing "a rainbow"...

Tommy Thumb Where are you?

And then another version with the finger family:

Head and shoulders

Hickory Dickory Dock

Hickory Dickory Dock is a popular English nursery rhyme about a mouse that goes up and down a clock. It’s simple. It’s fun. And it introduces some basic concepts like up and down, simple counting, and telling time.

This adapted version from Super Simple Learning provides us an opportunity to introduce more language. “Why just a mouse?”, “What happens when bigger and bigger animals climb up the clock?” In this version, “Hickory Dickory…Crash!” is a little bit silly, but a lot of fun.

 

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Once I caught a fish alive

And then one day I caught a shark alive!

The Wheels on the Bus

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Five Little Monkeys

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One finger, one thumb

Ten in the bed

This is the way

There was an old woman who swallowed a fly

Frogs songs

Three Green and Speckled Frogs 
Der Glumph Went the Little Green Frog



and watch minute 3:33:

Give yourself a clap
Give yourself a pat
Give yourself a cuddle
and say hip hip hooray!

Goodbye Sweet Hearts