::: heads, shoulders, knees and toes
As the children are just settling in to the new year, we like to sing old familiar songs which the children are comfortable with, but with a twist so they feel a bit more ‘grown up’. An example is the well known favourite, “Heads, shoulders, knees and toes”.
This is the way we sing it with a jazzier tune than the regular one:
Heads, shoulders, knees and toes,
knees and toes.
Heads, shoulders, knees and toes,
knees and toes
and eyes and ears and mouth and nose.
Heads, shoulder, knees and toes, knees and toes.
We sing it through as it should be, then each time after that we touch all body parts mentioned in the song but one by one leave out their names.
….. , shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes etc
….. , ………, knees and toes, knees and toes etc.
….. , ……… , ….. and toes, ….. and toes etc.
….. , ……… , ….. … …., ….. … …. etc.
In the end, the whole song is totally quiet with us all just moving our hands up and down our bodies. We find the children are very proud of themselves when they can do this altogether and without prompting from the teachers.
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