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Eyes on Me 1,2,3!

Eyes on Me 1, 2, 3!

Do you like to use songs and rhymes in your routines?

Would you like some songs to get the children's attention?  I have gathered together some songs that I have heard, found and created to share with you.  Here are 6:

Carpet Song

(tune Frere Jacques)

Are you criss cross? Are you criss cross? Eyes on me? Eyes on me? Hands in your lap Hands in you lap. Quietly Quietly

Everybody do this

Everybody do this, Do this, do this Everybody do this Just like me!

Eyes on me!

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Talk like a Pirate!

Talk like a Pirate (3)

Do you follow calendar events in your early years setting? Did you know that on the 19th September it is ‘Talk like a pirate day’?  Well, I didn’t until a couple of years ago.  It hasn’t been around that long but I think some of the new events are quite fun as a starting point.  Whether, in your setting, you plan most of the activities or it is child led, themed days can be a great stimulus.

For example with ‘Talk like a pirate day’, there are lots of ways you could incorporate this theme in a …

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