Round the garden

                              *from STONES HILL SONGS*

This one takes a well-known old rhyme and takes it a bit further. This teddybear is going to do a bit of exploring around the garden and find places to play... use this song with its easy repetitive formula to fire up the imagination. It could be incorporated into a story to set the scene.

This song stimulates language and vocabulary development while practising skills of fine motor co-ordination and motor-planning. All good reasons to include songs such as this in young growing lives!

  Round and round the garden just like a teddybear
  I'm one step, two steps, more steps up to see what might be there
  I've found a patch of hairy bush - I think I'll stay and play
  I'm heading down, I'm heading home, I've finished for the day 

  .... I've found a pair of shapely shells (ears)....
  .... I've found two marbles rolling round  (eyes)...
 ......I've found a soft and pointy tip  (nose)...
  .....I've found a warm and cosy cave  (mouth)...
  .....I've found a pair of squashy beds  (cheeks)...
  .....I've found two rows of stepping stones  (teeth)...
 ......Another soft and pointy tip  (chin)....
  

Stay and play with each part a bit longer - move it, feel it, make sounds with it, see what each bit can do while you're there.

Explore the collection of Stones Hill songs listed below  - share them with people whom you know will use and enjoy them. Please acknowledge source and composer if piece is used for public performance - copyright Liz Campbell, Stones Hill songs. Feedback would also be appreciated - how the song works for you, how you may have used it: liz.jessam@gmail.com

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