counting up songs

[AnonyMouse_30128]

We have been doing lots of work with core songs this term (80% of our children have some sort of CLL difficulty!)  apart from 12345 once i caught a fish alive has anyone got some good counting up songs? (need to count up before we count down!!) 

[AnonyMouse_8282]

At this time of year you could do 'One Little Candle Burning Bright' 

[AnonyMouse_30128]

i'm not sure if if ive found the right version of this? i don't know the song. I have about 60% EAL at the moment so it needs to be super simple and repetitive to help them learn the concepts. If it's the version i've found i fear it may be too tricky at this point!😉

[AnonyMouse_19782]

How about 1 Little ..........  2 little,    3 little,  (pandas, kittens, puppies, dinosaurs - or depending upon your resources etc)    up to 5 or 10   obviously need to make the beat fit the tune at the end   or teaching them to meditate - eyes closed, breathing count 1 pause blow out, 2 pause blow out etc.  or elephants on the spiders web song?    

One elephant one fine day went on a spider's web to play

He thought it such tremendous fun he called for another elephant to come

2 elephants one fine day went on a spider's web to play, 

They thought it such tremendous fun, they called for another elephant to come 

We used to have the children going around in a circle to this, calling in another friend.

The end of the song goes

The web went creak, the web went crack and all of the elephants went Kersplatt ( children fall to the floor)

Edited November 21, 2021 by Panders

[AnonyMouse_8282]

This is what we sing-

One little candle burning bright, lights up the sky on a dark dark night, candle light is so much fun- we could do with another one.

Two Little candles  "     '      "     "     "

Three Little.....

Four.....

Until you reach your desired number- then the last bit is 'we don't need another one'

[AnonyMouse_14268]

1 potato, two potato….

1,2 buckle my shoe

Peter hammers with one hammer

Gosh you have really made me realise how few counting up songs there are in comparison to counting down songs!

Edited November 21, 2021 by zigzag

[AnonyMouse_19782]

Peter Hammers !  Dont know how I forgot that one!

[AnonyMouse_30128]

4 hours ago, louby loo said:

This is what we sing-

One little candle burning bright, lights up the sky on a dark dark night, candle light is so much fun- we could do with another one.

Two Little candles  "     '      "     "     "

Three Little.....

Four.....

Until you reach your desired number- then the last bit is 'we don't need another one'

Ah thought there must have been a simple version.....the one i found on you tube was rather more complex! 😂

we learnt one potato this week  which worked well....i had also forgot Peter hammers. This cohort are not yet at the elephant song stage...but won't take long! So thanks Panders. 

1 hour ago, zigzag said:

 

Gosh you have really made me realise how few counting up songs there are in comparison to counting down songs!

Amazing isn't it! i could write pages on songs going backwards!

[AnonyMouse_19920]

one banana, two bananas etc.,

ants go marching one by one

one potato, two potatoes etc

[AnonyMouse_30128]

one banana 2 banana????

[AnonyMouse_30128]

not this im assuming???

 

[AnonyMouse_19782]

Did you see the other banana song?   One banana two banana ( two adults dressed as bananas, saying it over and over) then some other chap coming on and doing odd things 😨 I gave up at that point

[AnonyMouse_13453]

One dainty daffodil makes its way through

up pops another one and that makes two!

Two dainty daffodils, nodding by a tree,

up pops another one, and that makes three!

Three dainty daffodils, what a golden score,

up pops another one and that makes four!

Four dainty daffodils, glad to be alive,

Up pops another one, and that makes five!

Five dainty daffodils, swaying in the sun,

someone picks themself a bunch

And now there are none. 

 

[AnonyMouse_30128]

20 hours ago, Cait said:

One dainty daffodil makes its way through

up pops another one and that makes two!

Two dainty daffodils, nodding by a tree,

up pops another one, and that makes three!

Three dainty daffodils, what a golden score,

up pops another one and that makes four!

Four dainty daffodils, glad to be alive,

Up pops another one, and that makes five!

Five dainty daffodils, swaying in the sun,

someone picks themself a bunch

And now there are none. 

 

This is rather lovely...but WAY too many words for the cohort at this point in time . My rhymes have to be repetitive with the majority of the words the same in each verse (5 currant buns ETC) But thanks for the response. I shall save this for another day.xxxxxx

[AnonyMouse_13453]

It’s a very old one - my grandmother taught it in her nursery, my mother in hers, and I did in my preschool.   It doesn’t matter too much that they can’t say all the words at first, but they loved shouting out the numbers.    

[AnonyMouse_19782]

Cait, I had no idea how your family had been involved with  nurseries too - how fantastic

[AnonyMouse_13453]

Yes, it’s been a family thing for a really long time.   My daughter worked in childcare for quite a while in Guernsey too, but the salary wasn’t good enough so she went into hospitality.   

[AnonyMouse_8282]

'Cocomelon' counting dinosaurs song- is quite a simple 1-10 song.

[AnonyMouse_19782]

Yes Louby loo - Cocomelon and Babybum youtube programmes both have very repetitive 1-10 songs and they do work our not quite 2 year old granddaughter already repeats numbers to 10 and is beginning now to point and count, these things do work - bit like Sesame St. back in the day.

[AnonyMouse_8282]

2 hours ago, Panders said:

Yes Louby loo - Cocomelon and Babybum youtube programmes both have very repetitive 1-10 songs and they do work our not quite 2 year old granddaughter already repeats numbers to 10 and is beginning now to point and count, these things do work - bit like Sesame St. back in the day.

I've been  totally 'cocomelon'd' out today, by our not quite two year old!!!!😂

[AnonyMouse_19782]

We took 12 day old granddaughter for her first photo call today.   The photographer was a parent of ours at pre-school and she takes the most amazing photos, her real passion tho is the very early days when babies can be almost mesmerized into sleep and she poses them how she wants them, we used to call her the baby whisperer.   Such a lovely morning for me and her mummy and getting to meet the photographer again.

[AnonyMouse_19762]

Oh blow I had missed this thread - sorry fm

Hmm - think that anything and everything that I know has already been offered...

I do know loads of 'counting down' songs but that's not what you are looking for 😂

[AnonyMouse_14268]

Just come across this.

[AnonyMouse_13453]

Ah, did anyone else sing that to the Indians one? 

[AnonyMouse_19782]

Of course - if you see my post further up the thread - you can use anything - an animal, dinosaurs etc.  it's just a bit of a stretch at the end of the song sometimes to make the beat work - as mentioned by Louby Lou, these sites Cocomelon or Babybum on youtube adapt songs all the time, some I think a little too americanised but I've seen it work with my own granddaughter