Age 3-4 - EY A3
Begin to develop awareness of the structure of simple songs and rhymes, joining in with repeated lines/sections
Sing songs that include repetition, e.g. echo songs, songs with choruses.
Children may recognise when a song has finished.
Children may sing lines or sections of songs without support. Allowing them to sing without adult support (and encouraging school staff to allow this too) helps children find their singing voices and gain confidence singing.
Children may play untuned percussion/other sound makers to match a repeated pattern in the song.
Sing songs, omitting the last word of a paired rhyming line and asking children to supply it, e.g. ‘Baa, baa black sheep have you any wool? Yes, sir, Yes, sir, three bags …’, in order to develop an understanding of how rhyme works in song.
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