Parents’ Area

Songs we sing

  • I will build a little house

    With two chimneys tall

    A little sloping roof

    And a garden wall

    Two broad gates that open wide

    And two tiny little windows

    You can peep inside

    I will build a little table

    Just for two

    Two tiny little chairs

    One for me and one for you

    Open the door and come right in

    For my tiny little house

    Shines like a bright new pin

  • From out the battered Elm tree

    The owlets cry we hear

    And from the distant forest

    The cuckoo answers clear

    Cuckoo x 10

    Repeat

  • Today’s Monday

    Today’s Monday

    Monday’s runner beans

    All you hungry children

    Come and eat them up.

    Today’s Tuesday

    Today’s Tuesday

    Tuesday is spaghetti

    Monday’s runner beans

    All you hungry children

    come and eat them up

    Today’s Wednesday

    Today’s Wednesday

    Wednesday is soup

    Tuesday’s spaghetti

    Monday’s runner beans

    All you hungry children

    Come and eat them up

    Today’s Thursday

    Today’s Thursday

    Thursday is roast beef

    Wednesday’s soup

    Tuesday’s spaghetti

    Monday’s runner beans

    All you hungry children

    Come and eat them up

    Today’s Friday

    Today’s Friday

    Friday is fresh fish

    Thursday’s roast beef

    Wednesday’s soup

    Tuesday’s spaghetti

    Monday’s runner beans

    All you hungry children

    Come and eat them up

    Today’s Saturday

    Today’s Saturday

    Saturday is chicken

    Friday’s fresh fish

    Thursday’s roast beef

    Wednesday’s soup

    Tuesday’s spaghetti

    Monday’s runner beans

    All you hungry children

    Come and eat them up

    Today’s Sunday

    Today’s Sunday

    Sunday is ICE CREAM

    Saturday’s chicken

    Friday’s fresh fish

    Thursday’s roast beef

    Wednesday’s soup

    Tuesday’s spaghetti

    Monday’s runner beans

    All you hungry children

    Come and eat them up

    (We substitute the Red House menu for each day)

  • Popocatepetl is a big volcano

    Far away in Mexico

    Popocatepetl goes

    Popocatepetl goes

    BANG sizzle sizzle BANG

  • When Mr Clicketty plays a silly game, all the kids in the street, they like to do the same:

    Wash your face in orange juice (repeat from crowd)

    When Mr Clicketty plays a silly game, all the kids in the street, they like to do the same:

    Wash your face in orange juice, clean your teeth with bubblegum (repeat of each from crowd)

    When Mr Clicketty plays a silly game, all the kids in the street, they like to do the same:

    Wash your face in orange juice, clean your teeth with bubblegum, fix the fence with sticky tape (repeat of each from crowd)

    When Mr Clicketty plays a silly game, all the kids in the street, they like to do the same.

    Wash your face in orange juice, clean your teeth with bubblegum, fix the fence with sticky tape, brush your hair with a toothbrush (repeat of each from crowd)

    When Mr Clicketty plays a silly game, all the kids in the street, they like to do the same:

    Wash your face in orange juice, clean your teeth with bubblegum, fix the fence with sticky tape, brush your hair with a toothbrush, fry an egg on the slippery dip (repeat of each from crowd)

    When Mr Clicketty plays a silly game, all the kids in the street, they like to do the same:

    Wash your face in orange juice, clean your teeth with bubblegum, fix the fence with sticky tape, brush your hair with a toothbrush, fry an egg on the slippery dip, belly flop in a pizza!?

    (repeat of each from crowd, but belly flop in a pizza elicits the repeat in a disgusted voice with ˜EWWWW, YUK! generally added)

  • I dig my garden dig dig dig

    I dig my garden dig it deep

    I plant some seeds and watch them grow, but

    along comes a rabbit, oh no

    He ate my carrots munch munch munch

    He ate my carrots he ate a whole bunch

    I run to the garden and shu shu shu, but

    the rabbit is in my patch, oh what shall I do?

    I dig my garden dig dig dig

    I dig my garden dig it deep

    I plant some seeds and watch them grow, but

    along comes a rabbit, oh no

    He ate my tomatoes munch munch munch

    He ate my tomatoes he ate a whole bunch

    I run to the garden and shu shu shu, but

    the rabbit is in my patch, oh what shall I do?

  • A ram sam sam, a ram sam sam

    Guli guli guli guli guli ram sam sam

    A ram sam sam, a ram sam sam

    Guli guli guli guli guli ram sam sam

    A rafi, a rafi

    Guli guli guli guli guli ram sam sam

    A rafi, a rafi

    Guli guli guli guli guli ram sam sam

  • Toomba toomba

    Toomba toomba

    Toomba toomba

    Toomba (x2; tap hands on thighs)

    Don don don diri-diri-don

    Diri-diri-don (x2; clap hands)

    Tra-lalalala-la

    Tra-lalalala-la

    Tra-lalalala-la la-la-la (x2; rotate hands going up.

    Final line finishes with la-ehi! and a clap)

“Let’s think beyond what a child has achieved and work together to create new understandings.”