Songs

Singing nursery rhymes in English with your child is a great way to integrate English into your daily life, both inside and outside the home. Whenever possible, try to use pictures, animations or props related to them, as they will help them understand, encourage them to learn them and help them remember them.

Before they become familiar with a song, children need to hear it several times, but you can be sure that very soon they will be humming it and soon after singing it.

Advantages

1. Assimilate different sounds and rhythms

2. Development of expressive abilities

3. Development of listening skills and promotes understanding

4. Helps to develop your voice

5. Develop the sense of rhythm

6. Promotes social relations

7. Stimulates reasoning 

Days of the week

Normally, at the beginning of the session in the infant classroom, an assembly is held to find out who the missing students are, what the weather is like or the days of the week. In this case, this song allows us to teach the days of the week in English, which can be implemented as we go through the daily routine in the classroom when working on the day we are in.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

On many occasions, after a change of class or after break, students return to the classroom with an intensity and pace that does not allow them to concentrate. For this reason, the return to calm is one of the most important moments of the day for Infants, as this moment allows the students to relax and return to a state of tranquillity with which to begin a different activity. It is the English version of 'little star, little star, where are you?' and through its slow rhythm and warm music it will bring the pupils back to a state of wellbeing and calmness, thus benefiting the classroom atmosphere.

Family fingers

We learn the family with our fingers! For the youngest children (3 years old) the aim is simply to associate the word with the meaning through the sound of the video and as the level increases, words such as daddy, mommy, brother, sister or baby can be learnt. In addition, from the age of 5, they can begin to internalise expressions such as 'where are you' or 'here I am' which can be applied in the classroom routine.

Head, shoulders, knees and toes

This dynamic consists of a song about the parts of the body. The child will learn this catchy tune and, as he/she sings it, plays the different parts of the body that it names.

If you're happy and you know it

This activity is a song about emotions. The child associates a gesture or sound to each of the emotions.