This is a rhyme and activity book designed for playgroup or preschool children. It contains simple, repetitive songs and verses that teach body awareness, the five senses, and basic movements like clapping, stomping, and jumping. The text includes well-known rhymes such as 'Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes' and 'When You're Happy and You Know It', alongside original verses about eating, sleeping,…
This is a nursery rhyme and activity book for playgroup or preschool children. It is designed for teachers, parents, or caregivers leading group singing and movement sessions with young learners.
The book opens with a repeated greeting song 'Playgroup Hello music!' and then presents Level 1 titled 'Wonderful Super Senses'. This section includes a rhyme about listening to the body's signals for eating, drinking, and sleeping, followed by a verse about the five senses seeing a butterfly, hearing a bird, smelling a flower, tasting food, and touching.
Level 1 continues with the classic song 'Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes' and instructions for actions like marching, stomping, clapping, and tapping knees. It also includes 'When You're Happy and You Know It' with variations and a final 'Hurray!'
Further rhymes in Level 1 cover body parts: 'Chubby cheeks, dimple chin' describes facial features, and 'All of Me' and 'Just Me' list hands, arms, fingers, legs, eyes, ears, nose, and toes with associated actions like hugging, snapping, jumping, and stamping.
Level 2 introduces the theme 'Family Makes Home' with a rhyme about rooms: kitchen for eating, bedroom for sleeping, bathroom for washing, and living room for meeting. The book ends with this verse about a warm and sweet home.