This month Lucy Sparkles performs the counting song ‘Here is the Beehive’. Click \u2018read more\u2019 for EYFS and musical aims, lyrics and further activities.<\/p>\n
Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Making Relationships)
\nTo develop and enrich friendships among children through tickling or to enrich the parent child relationship through tickling<\/p>\n
Physical Development (Moving and Handling)
\nTo develop finger dexterity by doing the actions and to practice moving at different speeds<\/p>\n
Expressive Arts and Design (Exploring and Using Media and Materials)
\nTo move to a regular beat<\/p>\n
Mathematics (Numbers)
\nTo count to five<\/p>\n
Understanding the World (The World)
\nTo understand that bees live in beehives<\/p>\n
Expressive Arts and Design (Exploring and Using Media and Materials), Communication and Language (Understanding) & Literacy (Reading)
\nTo learn language to describe sounds and rhythm and understand and demonstrate the meaning of ‘fast’ and \u2018slow’<\/p>\n
Personal, Social and Emotional Development (Self-confidence and Self-awareness)
\nTo build self-confidence through having a special turn on their own<\/p>\n
Communication and Language (Listening and Attention)
\nTo play games which involve listening for a signal<\/p>\n
To feel the pulse through actions and to understand and demonstrate a ‘fast’ and ‘slow’ tempo.<\/p>\n
Further Activities for \u2018Here is the Beehive\u2019<\/p>\n
Babies: Hold your baby’s hand and move it to the pulse. Then gently squeeze their fingers one by one as indicated by the words. Give your baby a tickle at the end.<\/p>\n
Pre-schoolers: The children are sitting in a circle. Count five children into the centre to be the bees so that they know exactly which is one, two, three, four and five. They curl up in a ball. As the numbers are sung, they get up one at a time and buzz around, ending in their original place in the circle.<\/p>\n
Here is the beehive,<\/em> This month Lucy Sparkles performs the counting song ‘Here is the Beehive’. Click \u2018read more\u2019 for EYFS and musical aims, lyrics and further activities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[106,107,60,104,101,51,108,105,45],"yoast_head":"\n
\n Where are the bees?<\/em>
\n Hidden away where nobody sees.<\/em>
\n Here come the bees now,<\/em>
\n Out of the hive.<\/em>
\n One, two, three, four, five.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"