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By Anne Hole

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My 5 Favourite Early Years Themes.

Is your favourite theme in my top 5?

I link my music activities each half term to popular topic/themes; it works really well for my music times. Many early years settings link their daily activities to themes, topics and events. If you do this do you also link your music time activities to this too? Whether you do or not at the moment it is really worth considering. I have around 12 topics that I use but I’m going to share with you my 5 favourites.

Animals

I think the animal theme is the m…

5 Great Action Songs

Action songs are great.

They can make a song fun and enjoyable to sing and they can also help the children learn the words. I sometimes make actions up to help children learn the words. There are many action songs but I have chosen 5 which both the children and I enjoy.

1. Head Shoulders Knees and Toes.

This is a song I vividly remember singing as a child. My favourite part was missing the words out. If you've never done this you would hum instead of saying the body parts:

First verse …