Five Cheeky Monkeys Jumping on the Bed

Five Cheeky Monkeys (poem)

Five cheeky monkeys jumping on the bed

One fell off and bumped his head.

Mummy called the doctor and the doctor said,

“No more monkeys jumping on the bed!”

Four cheeky monkeys jumping on the bed….

Three cheeky monkeys jumping on the bed….

Your child will enjoy acting this out with you; encourage them to take on a role such as a monkey, the mummy or the doctor.

Brush your teeth (song)

Brush your teeth each morning

Brush your teeth each night

That’s the way to keep them

Clean and shining white

Eat a piece of apple

After having lunch

It’s better than a sweet to eat

It cleans teeth while you munch

If you keep those simple rules

Everyone will say,

“What lovely teeth you children have,

Let’s see you smile today!”

Miss Polly had a Dolly (song)

Miss Polly had a dolly who was sick, sick, sick

So she called for the doctor to come quick, quick, quick

The doctor came with his bag and his hat

And he knocked on the door with a rat-a-tat-tat

He looked at the dolly and he shook his head

And he said “Miss Polly, put her straight to bed!”

He wrote on a paper for a pill, pill, pill

“I’ll be back in the morning with my bill, bill, bill.”

The Doctor’s Song

(Tune – Row, row, row your boat)

I use a stethoscope

To listen to your heart.

To help you be a healthy child

And heal you when you aren’t.

Oh, Before I Eat My Meals

(Tune – If you’re Happy and You Know It)

Oh, before I eat my meals I wash my hands (scrub,scrub)

Oh, before I eat my meals I wash my hands

(scrub,scrub)

Oh, it’s very smart I think

Sending germs right down the sink,

Oh, before I eat my meals I wash my hands (scrub, scrub)

A Wheelbarrow Has One Wheel (song)

A wheelbarrow has one wheel

And it goes right round and round.

A bicycle / motorbike has two wheels…..

A tricycle has three wheels…..

A motor car / tractor / van has four wheels…..

A long lorry has six wheels….

My Dolly Has to Stay in Bed (poem)

My dolly has to stay in bed

Tucked up nice and tight

She has some pains in her poor head

And spots came out last night.

The doctor came and saw her chest

It was red as red can be

He told me what I should have guessed –

She’s got measles, just like me!

Pancake Song

Pop a little pancake into the pan

That’s for my dinner today

Shake on the sugar with a shake, shake, shake…

Squeeze on the lemon with a squeeze, squeeze, squeeze…

Roll it all around with a roly, roly, roll…

Pop it in your mouth with a yum, yum, yum…

Pop another pancake into the pan.

Ten Fat Sausages (song)

Ten fat sausages sizzling in the pan

And if one went POP and the other went BANG

There’d be eight fat sausages sizzling in the pan.

Eight fat sausages….

Six fat sausages…. etc.

Mix a pancake (song)

Mix a pancake

Stir a pancake

Pop it in a pan

Fry a pancake

Toss a pancake

Catch it if you can.

Five White Teeth

Five white teeth

Sitting in a mouth

Five white teeth

Sitting in a mouth

Along came a

Sticky, sticky sweet

Along came a

Sticky, sticky sweet

And made one tooth go bad!

Four white teeth…

Three white teeth …etc.

My Heart (poem)

My precious heart works very hard

It pumps the blood around

It’s very busy day and night

And makes a beating sound.

The blood is rushing through my veins

Round and round it goes

It goes right up into my head

And down into my toes.

We’re Getting Lots of Exercise

(Tune – The Farmer Wants a Wife)

We’re jumping up and down

We’re getting lots of exercise,

We’re jumping up and down.

We bend and touch our toes…

We stretch up to the sky…

We wave from side to side…

Hand Washing Song

(Tune – Twinkle, twinkle little star)

I can wash my hands you see,

Wash them clean as clean can be

Inside, outside, fingers too

Around my thumbs and then I’m through

Now rinse away the dirt and stains,

Send those germs right down the drain!

Sing this song while washing your hands. It helps to develop proper hand washing skills. It takes about 30 seconds to sing which is the amount of time it should take to allow antibacterial soap to do its job.

Training (poem)

Whether sunny or raining

We’re always out training

To keep ourselves healthy and fit

From the tops of our heads

To the tips of our toes

We exercise each little bit.

Five Little Seeds (poem)

Five little seeds asleep one day,

Asleeping, asleeping, asleeping they lay,

A bird flew down and took one away

How many seeds were left that day?

Five Little Speckled Frogs

Five little speckled frogs

Sat on a speckled log,

Eating some most delicious bugs, yum, yum.

One jumped into the pool,

Where it was nice and cool,

Now there are four green speckled frogs, glug, glug.

Four little speckled frogs … etc.

The Frog (poem)

Inside some jelly in a pond

There was a little egg

One day it grew a wiggly tail

And then a little leg.

Then three more legs began to grow,

Its tail became much shorter,

A small green frog hopped on a rock

And swam across the water.

Five Small Seeds (poem)

Five small seeds planted in a row

Down came the rain and the

Seeds began to grow

Out came the sun, the buds

Began to show

Five small flowers growing in a row.

In the Spring (song)

(Tune - She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain)

We’ll be seeing lots of changes in the spring.

We’ll be seeing lots of changes in the spring

We’ll be seeing lots of changes,

Seeing lots of changes

We’ll be seeing lots of changes in the spring.

There’ll be blossom on the branches in the spring…

There’ll be daffodils and tulips in the spring…

There’ll be lambs and baby chickens in the spring

There’ll be sunny days and showers in the spring

Flowers Growing

(Tune – The Mulberry Bush)

Children lie on the floor curled up in a ball, pretending they are tiny seeds buried in the ground

This is the way we sprout our roots,

Sprout our roots, sprout our roots.

This is the way we sprout our roots,

When Spring time is here.

This is the way we pop through the ground,

Pop through the ground, pop through the ground. etc.

Additional verses

This is the way we stretch and grow…

This is the way we shoot up so tall…

This is the way we open our buds…

This is the way we bend in the breeze…

This is the way we smile at the sun…

The Flowerbud (poem)

Here is the flowerbud

Shut so tight

Here is the sun

Shining so bright

Here are the raindrops

Down they come

Open petals

One by one.

Springtime

(Tune – London Bridge)

Yellow daffodils in the park

In the park

Yellow daffodils in the park

in Springtime.

Busy birds build their nest,

Build their nest,

Busy birds build their nest

in Springtime.

Baby chicks hatch out of eggs,

Out of eggs,

Out of eggs.

Baby chicks hatch out of eggs

in Springtime.

Little lambs skip and play

Skip and play

Little lambs skip and play

in Springtime.