How to play the ukulele

How to play the ukulele

So…Here’s how you’re going to learn to play the ukulele: a little bit of help from me each week, but mostly from You Tube at home. Below are two sets of teachers, one in Dutch and one in English. You can learn a lot from 

Family Tree

Family Tree

Here’s a clapping song I wrote about the family tree. For Grandma and Grandpa clap up high, Mum/Dad, aunties/uncles clap in the middle and for all the brothers/sisters/cousins, clapped down low. All that activity plus singing makes it extra tricky, but I know you can 

Shotgun

Shotgun

Time for a Sing-along with George, who’s seriously happy in the passenger seat!         Did you know that ‘riding shotgun’ comes from a time when stage-coaches dashed around the new colonies of America and Australia? A driver controlled the horses and the 

A Cosy Christmas

A Cosy Christmas

A Cosy Christmas By Group 7 with Kylie van Dam, 2018     Friends and family at Christmas time, It’s so cosy. Father Christmas is a friend to us, He makes us happy. Reindeer fly across the sky, Bringing lots of presents to you and 

WINTER

WINTER

           

Let’s get Christmassy!

Let’s get Christmassy!

  The Faith Song       We wish you a merry Christmas,  We wish you a merry Christmas,  We wish you a merry Christmas And a happy new year.  Good tidings we bring,  to you and your kin.  We wish you a merry Christmas 

Sinterklaas.

Sinterklaas.

    Sinterklaas is on his way again. Here are a couple of favorites to get everyone in the mood (as if all the pepernoten don’t do the job!).                        

11 november is de dag…

11 november is de dag…

The 11th of November is St Maarten! Here in Utrecht, St Maarten is the patron saint and his day is often celebrated by popular culture. Children make (or buy) small lamps, earlier out of sugar-beets or large root vegetables but now, out of paper, drawings, 

Friends

Friends

It was Book Week last month and the kid’s theme was Friendship. So… I wrote us a Friends song. Fancy a happy little sing-along? Come join in!   Unfortunately I made the silly mistake of printing out the words before I filmed it. Not my 

The Ants Go Marching

The Ants Go Marching

An oldie but a goodie! Also works for older second language children, though please be careful when marching and thumb sucking. Many a soldier has come unstuck at that one! 😉 Thanks to Turtle Interactive.             And if you fancy