Pussy cat, pussy cat

Pussy cat, pussy cat where have you been?

I've been up to London to visit the Queen.

Pussy cat pussy cat what did you there?

I frightened a little mouse under her chair!

ACTIVITY: clapping song

Tap or clap the beat

Tap or clap the rhythm of the words

 

DEVELOPS: rhythm and beat

 

Rhythm is a strong, regular repeated pattern of sound. It is the actual sound of the notes, or words which are in a song.

Beat is the foundation of rhythm. It is the steady, repetition in music, like a clock's tick.  Tapping your foot to music is tapping the beat.

I'm a little teapot

I'm a little teapot
Short and stout
Here is my handle
Here is my spout
When I get all steamed up
Hear me shout
"Tip me over and pour me out!" 

ACTIVITY:
Following actions of handle and spout and bending to the side - don't forget to sing again and bend to the other side.

DEVELOPS:
Body awareness.

All of Twinkle

Starry Night Over the Rhone
Oil on canvas by Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890)

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.

When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light,
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night.

Then the traveller in the dark,
Thanks you for your tiny spark,
He could not see which way to go,
If you did not twinkle so.

In the dark blue sky you keep,
And often through my curtains peep,
For you never shut your eye,
Till the sun is in the sky.

As your bright and tiny spark,
Lights the traveller in the dark.
Though I know not what you are,
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

Ring-a-ring-a-rosie

Illustration to ring-a-ring-a-roses in Kate Greenaway’s Mother Goose, taken from the Project Gutenberg version 1881

Ring-a-ring-a-rosie,
A pocket full of posies;
A tishoo! A tishoo!
We all fall down

The cows are in the meadow,
Eating buttercups:
A tishoo! A tshoo!
We all jump up.

Humpty Dumpty

Cover of a 1904 Humpty Dumpty by William Wallace Denslow.


Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall,
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.
All the king's horses
And all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again

ACTIVITY: 
Babies: "falling" from parents knee
Toddlers: "falling" from standing