What do you talk about when you meet a music education expert? Well a lot actually! Last week on a sunny winter’s morning, I enjoyed a great conversation by the seashore at Brighton about singing to babies and the singing Neanderthals. As I anticipated, it was...
Why teach nursery rhymes at home? Do you need to convince yourself or someone else of the importance of the nursery rhyme tradition? Here are just three of the many reasons that make them crucial to early childhood learning. I hope after reading this you’ll be...
How do children gain a sense of belonging and become socially bonded by knowing nursery rhymes? I’ve written before about the benefits of singing nursery rhymes with young children. In this post we explore ideas about social bonding and the pleasurable aspects...
This post is about the critical contribution of nursery rhymes to emergent literacy. I have many reasons for teaching nursery rhymes and this one is dear to my heart. Singing nursery rhymes to and with babies, toddlers and young children prepares them for a lifetime...
Certain nursery rhymes are ‘songs of knowledge’. I have many reasons for teaching nursery rhymes. This post is about passing on common knowledge such as rudimentary counting skills, letters of the alphabet, or the names of the days of the week. Songs of...
