It’s the week of the frog this week, as at The Children’s House we will be learning all about the lifecycle of the frog 🐸, doing art relating to it & playing Frogs & Toads games, as well as yoga! As well as this, we are having a week of board games – to encourage turn taking, sharing & social skills while having lots of fun! – so we are asking children to bring in their favourite board games to play with us, & if any family members are free to come in & play a game with us we would love to have you!

Five Little Speckled Frogs

5 little speckled frogs, sat on a speckled log,
Eating some most delicious bugs – yum yum!
1 jumped into the pool, where it was nice and cool,
Then there were 4 green speckled frogs – glub glub!

4 little speckled frogs…
3 little speckled frogs…
2 little speckled frogs…
1 little speckled frog…now there are no more speckled frogs – glub glub!!

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We’re going to be having another week of music appreciation this week at The Children’s House following on from all the fun last week! We will be learning all about composers, conductors & their roles in the orchestra, playing musical instruments from the different families of the orchestra (string, woodwind, brass, percussion), doing drum painting, and moving to different types of music with streamers.

We’re still having family members coming in to join us in the classes & play an instrument or sing a song for us, and we would love to have more, so just please let us know!

Elsie the Elephant

Elsie is an elephant who wants to play,
She is musical & big & grey.
She is good at singing Mi Re Do,
That’s why the little children love her so!

(youtube link: https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=elsie+the+elephant+song#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:7048e629,vid:nsYv-7ax-w4,st:0)

Welcome back everyone from the Easter break – we hope you had a lovely couple of weeks! We’re going to be doing all about music appreciation for the next couple of weeks, so this week we will be doing warm up songs, learning to keep to the beat, discovering about dynamics, the four families of the orchestra, practising playing songs on the Montessori bells, & listening to musical stories e.g. Peter & The Wolf, where instruments each represent a different character in the story.

If there are any family members that would like to come in & join in the class & play an instrument or sing a song for us we would love to have you, just please let us know!

Hey Beetle (poem)

Hey beetle say beetle is your larder bare,
My worm you can share.
Thank you but I’m far too shy,
Said the beetle passing by.