Description:

This superb collection of nursery songs has been compiled to provide enjoyment and learning opportunities for young children. Links have been made to every learning area within the Foundation Stage Curriculum so that practitioners can introduce music into their planning in a variety of new and interesting ways.

Suggestions for using the songs are given in the accompanying booklet to encourage the adults and children involved to extend their own ideas. Each CD covers a wide range of musical styles, from traditional nursery rhymes to contemporary favourites, including songs from a range of cultures.

Personal, social and emotional development.

Communication, language and literacy.

Creative development.

Knowledge and understanding of the world.

Physical development.

Mathematical development.

Instrumental versions of 20 songs for children to dance to.

Simpler arrangements of 20 songs for children to play percussion to.

CONTENTS:

ABC song

Agadoo

Aiken drum

Alison’s camel

Animal fair

A-tisket, a-tasket

Baa, baa, black sheep

Bananas in pyjamas

Bob the Builder

Brother come and dance with me

Can you tell me?

Charley Marley

Chick, chick, chick, chicken

Cobbler, cobbler, mend my shoe

Dance to your daddy

Dancing queen

Did you ever see a lassie?

Ding, dong, bell

Dingle dangle scarecrow

Doctor Foster

Down by the river

Down by the station

Down in the jungle

Do your ears hang low?

Dry bones

Dumplins

Each day different

Eat brown bread

Everybody do this

Everybody loves carnival night

Five currant buns

Five little ducks

Five little men in a flying saucer

Five little monkeys

Five little speckled frogs

Frère Jacques

Girls and boys come out to play

Going for a ride

Happy birthday to you

Head, shoulders, knees and toes

Here we go round the mulberry bush

Hey diddle diddle

Hickory, dickory, dock

Hill an’ gully

Hokey, cokey

Hot cross buns

How much is that doggy in the window?

Humpty Dumpty

I am the music man

I can see cherries

If you’re happy and you know it

I hear thunder

I jump out of bed in the morning

I’m a little teapot

In a cottage in a wood

Incy, wincy spider

I think I’ve caught a cold

It’s raining, it’s pouring

I went to school one morning

I went to the cabbages one day

I went to visit a farm one day

I would like to be

Jack and Jill

Jack in a box

Jelly on the plate

Jingle bells

Let everyone clap hands like me

Let’s twist again

Lily the Pink

Little Arabella Miller

Little Miss Muffet

Little mousie brown

Little Peter Rabbit

Looby Loo

Mairi’s wedding

Mary, Mary, quite contrary

Miss Polly had a dolly

Mix a pancake

Music man

My grandfather’s clock

Nellie the elephant

Oh, I do like to be beside the seaside

Oh, we can play on the big bass drum

Okki-tokki-unga

Old King Cole

Old MacDonald

Old Mother Hubbard

One elephant

One finger, one thumb

One man went to mow

One musician in the band

One two three

One, two, three, four, five, once I caught a fish alive

On our way to Mars

Open, shut them

Oranges and lemons

Pat-a-cake

Pease pudding hot

Penny on the water

Peter plays with one hammer

Pick a bale o’ cotton

Polly, put the kettle on

Postman Pat

Puff, the magic dragon

Pussy cat, pussy cat

Put your finger on your head

Ride a cock-horse

Ring-a-ring o’ roses

Rock-a-bye baby

Roly-poly pudding and blackberry pie

Row, row, row your boat

See-saw Margery Daw

She’ll be coming round the mountain

Sing a rainbow

Sing a song of sixpence

Someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

Take me to the seaside

Talking

Ten fat sausages

Ten green bottles

Ten in the bed

The animals went in two by two

The ants go marching

The bear went over the mountain

The farmer’s dog’s at my back door

The farmer’s in his den

The grand old Duke of York

The Locomotion

The north wind doth blow

There’s a worm at the bottom of my garden

There was a crooked man

There was a little girl

There was a man lived on the moon

There was a princess long ago

The runaway train

The sun has got his hat on

The umbrella man

The wheels on the bus

The wise man built his house upon the rock

The world is big, the world is small

This old man

Tinga layo

Tommy Thumb

Twinkle, twinkle, little star

Walking

Wash your dirty hands

We all clap hands together

What shall we do when we all go out?

When Goldilocks went to the house of the bears

When I was one

Who built the ark?

Will you come to my party?

Wind the bobbin up

Wombling song

Yankee Doodle

Yellow submarine