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If You're Happy and You Know It and Schemas
How can you use music activities as an opportunity for children to explore the schemas that they enjoy?
Let's take the well-known song 'If you're happy and you know it' to see how we can explore some of the main schemas:
Here are the words for the song including the well-known action clap your hands:
If you're happy and you know it.... clap your hands (clap clap)
If you're happy and you know it... clap your hands (clap clap)
If you're happy and you know it and you really want to show it
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Round in a Circle
Some children love to move around and around, whether that be spinning on the spot or running around in a circle. As many songs/rhymes include moving in a circle or spinning around we can use these to help explore a child’s need to spin, twirl, twist…. and also encourage those to try who wouldn’t normally choose to rotate. So, it is worth having a collection of ‘round in a circle’ songs and rhymes that you can call on. Here are 3 that I know the children really enjoy:
Horsey Horsey
Horsey…
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