01/05/2026
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Who's coming along for this play-a-long on Tuesday May 19th in Harborne? (We actually start on May 12th!)
No, that's really not me singing in the video clip, but I'll be encouraging you to do so with your 0-5 year old, and showing you ways to use this rhyme to develop a whole raft of early learning skills!
This rhyme may be about tiny little creatures but it's one that has potential to do some major developmental heavy lifting! 🏋️♀️
There's counting and number sense involving sequencing 1-10, exposure to number order, loads of repetition to give little ones confidence, seeing and hearing numbers used in context via my uniquely designed images and a vehicle towards a young child being able to understand early maths.
There's huge potential too for consolidating loads of language and vocabulary, gross motor skills, memory and social-emotional learning.
You may be wondering why any of this matters...
Think of it like this: future learning as a child grows becomes much more demanding. If the foundational skills are not there to be built on, that could spell significant challenges that no child wants to endure, and I've witnessed extreme and avoidable outcomes during the past 40+ years in teaching.
Take something like the 11+ in Maths.
It tests numerical reasoning BIG TIME, so children who've experienced relevant and stage appropriate play based support, will probably have an intuitive feel for number order, quantity awareness and sequencing, so will likely find that things like mental maths, pattern spotting and problem solving comes far more easily to them later on in, say, Year 3, 4 and 5.
This rhyme is essentially your child's first number line! 0️⃣1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣6️⃣7️⃣8️⃣9️⃣🔟
You'll see exactly how to use songs like this at home!
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