Learning Songs

Hey Mr.Bumble Bee!

Can you come and please help me?

THANK YOU Mr.Bumble Bee,

Together we’ll get the job done!

And the Bees Buzzed high, and the Bees buzzed low,

And the bees buzzed fast, and the bees buzzed slow,

And the bees buzzed everywhere a bee should GO,

But they all worked together!

BEE

Please don’t tread on all my questions,

Please don’t snuff le all my why’s,

Please don’t tell me that you don’t like ‘I wonder’,

that you don’t want to know why an aeroplane can f ly.

Why a monkey likes to eat bananas?

Why a train it never comes on time?

Please don’t tread on all my questions,

Please help me to f ind out how & why?

CAT

When the Snail, snail, slimy snail

goes slipping, down the slide,

When the snail, snail, tiny snail,

goes slipping down the slide.

She gets to the bottom and picks herself up

and brushes the muck off her shell,

And gets herself ready to try it again,

Coz that is the way of the snail.

Of the snail! Of the snail!

Yes that is the way of the snail!

She never gives up till she’s got to the top,

Yes that is the way of the snail!

SNAIL

Going to think of something special for you Unicorn.

Going to dream up something dif ferent for you Unicorn.

Something that theres never been,

Something that’s never been seen.

Will you come out here and play with me Unicorn?

Can we imagine what could be Unicorn?

Something that there’s never been,

Something that’s never been seen.

UNICORN

I l ike to join things up I l ike to connect things up… Mr.Spider!

I l ike to join things up I l ike to connect things up… Mr.Spider!

I l ike to join things up I l ike to connect things up… Mr.Spider!

I l ike to join things up I l ike to connect things up… Mr.Spider!

Things I think of,

And things I have done,

I l ike to spin a web and join them up as one!

SPIDER

Owl in the wood.. .

Owl in the wood.. .

What should I do?

Owl in the wood.. .

Owl in the wood.. .

I don’t know what to do!

Don’t worry if you get stuck,

The owl she l ikes to say,

Don’t worry if you get stuck,

There’s always a dif ferent way.

OWL

Chameleon lives in the jungle,

Hiding in the trees big and tall ,

But even though you can’t see him

You’ll always hear the Chameleon’s call!

CHAMELEON! CHAMELEON!

I can get better,

I can get bigger,

I can get stronger,

YES! I can change & I do it every day!

CHAMELEON

Creative Partnerships is the Government’s flagship creativity programme for schools and young people, managed by Arts Council England and funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and the Department for Children, Schools and Families.

It aims to develop:

• the creativity of young people, raising their aspirations and achievements• the skills of teachers and their ability to work with creative practitioners• schools’ approaches to culture, creativity and partnership working• the skills capacity and sustainability of the creative industries

Creative Partnerships supports the development of high quality, evidence based creative activities across the whole school and curriculum; projects that through consultation with young people are relevant, motivational andput the development of the imagination and ideas at the heart of learning processes.

These songs have been created to get us all talking & thinking about learning. Hopefully you will enjoy singing them. The animals each have a message that we can all benefit from.We never stop learning...

Inspired by the learning community at Victoria Park Nursey School during a week in June 2010.

Words & Music by Tim Godwin [email protected] by Children of VP & Caroline Fletcher [email protected] by Mark Tunstall & Ania Kiedycz

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