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By Anne Hole

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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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Not the Wheels on the Bus Again!

Singing familiar songs regularly with young children is an important part of their development. Although it doesn’t mean you need to be singing the same songs and/or in the same way every day.

When I talk to many adults in nurseries and preschools they mention they are fed up with singing the same songs. One of the songs that children ask for constantly is, ‘The Wheels on The Bus’. Does this sound familiar?

How can you overcome this?

Vary how you approach a song.
Create a repertoire lis…

If You're Happy and You Know It and Schemas

Not the Wheels on the Bus Again!

How can you overcome this?

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