Page 10 - Term Three Song Bank

Mice, Mice
Mice (rest), mice (rest), Eating up the rice (rest). Nibble, nibble, nibble, nibble. Nice, nice, nice (rest).
Activities for public classes with parents/carers 1. Conceal mouse puppet in your sparkly bag. Make a squeaking sound so the babies can guess what it is. Reveal the puppet and tell the babies that you are going to say the mouse rhyme. Cup one hand as though it has rice in it. Your puppet nibbles at the rice as you say the rhyme.
2. "This time we're going to tap our tummies every time we hear a silent part." The adults say the rhyme and tap their child's tummy during the crotchet rests. As above, only you choose another action, (e.g. tapping noses, clapping hands etc.). Repeat several times.
3. Slow down the tempo so the parents can lift their child up high and say 'whee!' during the crotchet rests.
Activities for ELCs and pre-schools
1 & 2. Same as for classes with parents if you have staff helping that can either do the actions on some of the babies or demonstrate the actions for them. Even just seeing lots of adults do the actions will help the babies to visualise a crotchet rest. If you have limited help during the class then perform the same activities for ‘Mice, Mice’ as described in the Term Two plans.
1. Same as for babies public classes with parents/carers
2. "This time we're going to tap our tummies every time we hear a silent part." Say the rhyme and the children tap their tummies during the crotchet rests. Everyone will know the rhyme from last term so encourage the adults and older toddlers to help you to say the words. Younger toddlers will benefit from adults helping them with the actions.
Repeat several times with other actions (e.g. tap noses).
3. Ask the older toddlers to suggest actions. You will need to give them some options to choose from (e.g. clapping hands or stomping feet on the floor).
1 & 2. Same as for toddlers
3. Volunteers suggest actions that could be performed during the “silent parts”.
4. "We can also put sounds in the silent parts. Let's say 'shh' and do this (pointer finger to lips) every time we hear a silent part." Perform the rhyme, holding pointer finger to lips and saying 'shh' during the crotchet rests.
5. Ask volunteers to suggest new words to say or noises to make during the silent parts. If they struggle for ideas, you could give them suggestions like 'bang' or 'beep'.
You (the teacher) can also think of actions to do with the sounds, (e.g. clapping hands for 'bang' or beeping a horn for 'beep'). Do not ask the children for an action as well as a sound as this may be too much for them to think about.
mouse puppet
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