This Spring, we sang about the colours of the rainbow at Bangers & Smash!
Kitty ran sessions at regular Bangers & Smash nurseries, Purple Jay Herne Hill Dulwich, The Oval Montessori, Crystal Nurseries, Under the Willow and School Outdoors Dulwich.
She was also delighted to welcome four more Purple Jay nurseries to the Bangers & Smash family – Lambeth, East Dulwich, Peckham Rye and Lewisham!
Singing a Rainbow
Children and staff enjoyed:
singing a new hello song, Dulce, Dulce
practising the names of different colours and singing Bangers & Smash original, Colourful Clothes
taking it in turns to play a rainbow-coloured rainstick and singing I Can Sing A Rainbow
White
looking at a picture book, Four Seasons In One Day, and thinking about what colours we see in Winter
learning a poem about a snowball, Make A Little Snowball
singing a song about snowflakes, Three Little Snowflakes
closing their eyes and listening to an excerpt from Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky while Kitty trailed a feather boa across their faces
using tuned percussion ( handbells and chime bars) to make snow music
sitting in a circle and bouncing a snowflake decoration on a white sheet while listening to Winter by Vivaldi
Red and gold
looking at a red music box and trying to guess what song it plays (Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star)
taking it in turns to wear bamboo hats while singing a hello song in Mandarin, Ni Hao Ma
looking at pictures of Chinese children and identifying what colours their clothes are (red and gold)
passing a den-den daiko drum around the circle
listening to small, medium and large cymbals from Thailand and asking if they make:
a loud sound or a quiet sound?
a long sound or a short sound?
a high sound or a low sound?
singing a song in Mandarin, Gong Hey Fat Choy, in celebration of Lunar New Year
learning a poem about a dragon and parading round to a tambourine accompaniment
looking at a wooden horse from China and dancing with red and yellow scarves to a piece of music from Mongolia, The Horse Race
singing a song for Valentine’s Day, I Love You
learning actions to a Doris Day song, A Bushel And A Peck, and performing it with red scarves
blue
taking it in turns to make the sound of the sea with an ocean drum
sitting in a circle and bouncing a blue cloth up and down while singing Little Ripples – then adding in a mermaid, a whale and two fish
learning actions and singing along to Baby Beluga by children’s performer and songwriter, Raffi
performing The Big Ship Sails On The Alley, Alley-Oh as a circle dance
green
looking at a toy frog and singing an action song, Little Green Frog
looking at a picture of a tree and singing Roots, Trunks, Branches, Leaves to the tune of Head, Shoulders, Knees And Toes
finding different ways to play claves while singing If You’re Ever In The Forest
looking at some plastic dinosaurs and singing:
Ten Big Dinosaurs (babies and toddlers)
When a Dinosaur’s Feeling Hungry (preschoolers)
dancing with a green soft toy dinosaur to Walk the Dinosaur by Was Not Was
purple
dancing to The Purple People Eater by Sheb Wooley
YELLOW
learning a rhyme about a banana and dancing to Banana, Banana, Banana by the Kew Park Mento Band
looking at some toy ducks and singing:
Five Little Ducks Went Swimming One Day
Six Little Ducks That I Once Knew
parading round in a circle to Ducks Like Rain by Raffi
Under the Willow and School Outdoors Dulwich
Under the Willow and School Outdoors Dulwich brought their termly projects to a close with Project Celebrations for parents and carers on Wednesday 2 April.
Staff and children presented songs and activities on the theme of Singing a Rainbow.
School Outdoors Dulwich performed in their log circle as one big group while Under the Willow split into three smaller groups – babies, toddlers and preschoolers.
Each performance was special but highlights included toddlers belting out their favourite action song, Big Red Combine Harvester, at Under the Willow and children waving yellow scarves to You Are My Sunshine at School Outdoors Dulwich.
School Outdoors Dulwich
Celebrating Easter
We finished off the term with songs celebrating Easter, including:
The Easter Bunny
Hey, Little Hen
Chick, Chick, Chicken
There Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens
The Easter Parade
Check out Crystal Nurseries’ homemade Easter bonnets!
