This is something a bit different.

I’ve been teaching my little one the months of the year but with a twist. Do you remember song and dance” The Macarena”?

Well there are 16 moves in the “dance”. The first 12 are hand and arm movements. (The same number as the months in the year. Oh wow!) The last 4 are changed to suit little one like an exaggerated bum wiggle and a ¼ turn. Repeat. While the first 12 moves are being done encourage some body movement. The kids love it, especially when December comes along with an extravagantly wide sweep of the arm, smacking the right bum cheek, followed by a body wiggle (like in Hokey Pokey)

I haven’t used the Macarena music because in China we are restricted as far as internet searching goes and I haven’t been able to find a suitable instrumental version.

You can find moves here…….  http://www.ehow.com/how_2057774_dance-macarena.html  and there are many examples of the dance on the net. You might need to slow the music down a bit. And there are some freeware editing programs available to download.

As an entrance you could get you kid to skip onto the stage, take their positions, shout HEY and start the dance.

Enjoy.

PS. As for London Bridge is Falling Down, I use flashcards of various musical instruments and have the kids sound the tune out prior to singing it. If you change the sound of the instrument slightly, you can get the children to practise some difficult phonics or sounds that are different in English to their native language.

D.M.