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Singing
Singing + Children =
Singing is such a wonderful experience for all. In the video below Prof Sarah Wilson, an expert in Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical Neuropsychology, discusses what happens to your brain when you sing.
In summary, she says:
When you think about singing or are singing, large areas of the brain light up!
- Motor Networks
- Auditory or Listening Networks
- Planning and Organisational Networks
- Memory Networks
- Language Networks (if singing words)
- Emotional Networks
Plus it releases dop…
50 Song and Rhymes
What song and rhymes will you sing/say with the children in your early years setting in the next year?
Here are 50 songs and rhymes, in alphabetical order, that I have sung or will be singing in the next year:
- A hedgehog is very prickly
- Aeroplanes, aeroplanes
- An elephant
- Baa, baa black sheep
- Bobby Shaftoe
- Big Bear
- Christmas pudding
- Cobbler, cobbler
- Coffee, coffee
- Cows in the kitchen
- Cuckoo
- Dr Foster
- Dingly dangly scarecrow
- Down in the jungle
- Five little ducks
- Five little men …
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