Bring Circle Time Home with Songs Your Child Will Love

اکتوبر 11, 2022

Singing is a great learning tool and is something many children enjoy. The songs you’ve heard in our programs (or sing at home!) help your child to learn and develop thier literacy, numeracy and motor skills – all while uplifting their mood. Bring circle time home with these 10 songs your child will love!

Click the song titles below to learn the lyrics and tune.

Down by the Bay

Down by the Bay is all about words that rhyme. Not only are there rhyming words in the lyrics, but it’s a song that allows your child to make up their own rhymes – practicing and building literacy skills. How many rhymes will you create?

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom

Zoom, Zoom, Zoom introduces simple math concepts as children count down from 5 (or 10) before the rocket ship blasts off. Try jumping as high as you can for the blast off! 

Sleeping Bunnies

Let’s all lie down and go to sleep, shhh. Sleeping Bunnies is great for large muscle development when your child “wakes up” and hops around like a bunny. Try acting out different animals with this song. Maybe you’ll be a sleeping lion or unicorn! 

Popcorn Kernels

Popcorn Kernels practices both small muscle and large muscle skills. You can use a small towel or dishcloth to scrunch up and throw in the air as the kernels pop!

A Smooth Road

A Smooth Road has descriptive language with words such as smooth, rough, and bumpy. Use your legs to bounce your child up and down to the song, or have your child act out the motions with their favourite stuffed toy.

Five Little Ducks

Learn math concepts such as counting and simple subtraction with Five Little Ducks! Use your fingers to represent the ducks and count them as the numbers change.  

Roly Poly

Roly Poly introduces opposites such as “up and down” or “fast and slow.” Roll your arms over one another for Roly Poly while moving your arms up and down or fast and slow to show what these words mean.

Itsy Bitsy Spider

When your child uses their fingers to mimic the Itsy Bitsy Spider crawling up and down, they are practicing small muscle skills. Change up the song by making a GREAT BIG SPIDER and a teeny weenie spider! Changing the size of the spider expands vocabulary.  

One Little Finger

One Little Finger encourages following instructions and identifying body parts. Enjoy singing and dancing together by using your finger to tap from your nose all the way to your toes! 

Old Macdonald

Learn the names of animals and the sounds they make with Old Macdonald! Try using your hands, arms and legs to imitate the different animals on the farm. What animals does Old Macdonald have on his farm today?