CD review: Work Out

The Sticky Kids Work Out CD is the follow up to the Warm Up CD. This innovative CD is aimed at children up to the age of five and includes 22 action-packed songs and rhymes for a really fun fitness work out.

The kids will love the Work Out CD because they can do lots of running, jumping, spinning and stretching. Children enjoy moving to the music and songs and some favourite songs on this Work Out CD are Can You Run as Fast as Me?, the Seaside Song and How Does a Butterfly Go?

The grown-ups will love this Work Out CD because it:

• Offers a mix of imaginative songs and physically challenging action songs to keep children fit and healthy.

• Includes a circle song to encourage children’s co-operation with each other.

• Helps children to explore a variety of ways to move their body.

• Is tried and tested in nursery schools.

• Has a full set of lyrics and user notes.

A great idea for the Can You Run as Fast as Me song

Ask the children to show you their pointy finger and get them to draw an imaginary spot on the floor. Then you can start colouring in your spots. You can start by saying: “My spot is blue, tell me what colour your spot is.” Then say: “We do this song by staying on our spots.”

Before you play the song you can ask one of the children to show everyone how fast they can run on the spot or how high they can jump – this will encourage the others to really push themselves and get a great work out.

During the song you can remind the children to stay on their spot. This song is hard work for the grown-ups!

A great idea for the Seaside Song

Why not use this song as the focus for an end of school concert? We heard about a nursery school that did this. The parents enjoyed watching their children perform songs and rhymes about the seaside. And the kids loved dressing up and using seaside props.

A great idea for the How Does a Butterfly Go song

How does a Butterfly Go? This song could be used during the exploration of a theme about mini beasts.

The Sticky Kids Work Out CD is also part of our Fun and Fitness Pack. To find out more check out the Sticky Kids website.

Singing is great for your children’s health

The Sticky Kids collection of health and fitness CDs include lots of fun and singing. Did you know that singing in itself is great for your children’s education and physical and mental well-being?

What is singing good for?

Singing is great for your physical health because it:

* Increases circulation

* Both energises and relaxes the body

* Strengthens the immune system (it’s been shown that people in choirs are less prone to illness)

* Releases body's pleasure hormones, known as endorphins, into the brain and body.

* Encourages deeper rhythmical breathing.

Singing is good for you memory because:

* Songs and music are very evocative and therefore tap into emotion-linked memory centres

* Songs assist longer-term recall. When information is joined up with music and movement, there's a greater chance that the brain will transfer it to the long-term memory.

Singing is good for you mental well-being:

* Being involved with an activity such as singing is more likely to improve your behaviour than if you are emotionally detached

* Music stimulates the limbic system, which is the part of the brain that manages emotions

* Singing has been shown to develop emotional literacy, such as recognising, naming and managing our emotions and those of others.

Singing is good for your soul:

* Songs remind you that you are not alone

* Songs keep you connected to other people

* Singing in a positive environment gives you a sense of power and responsibility.

3 great ways to encourage children to sing

1. Around the home, try songs for tidying up. Kids will love the tidy up song on the Sticky Kids CD Rattle and Shake.

2. In the car, play singalong songs. Start with one of our Sticky Kids CDs songs such as Fabby Dabby Dee and Munch and Crunch

3. Go to the theatre for a singalong show. Sticky Kids Tour the UK with their Singalong Shows all year round. Singing in a big group is a fun experience.

Get fit with Sticky Kids

The Sticky Kids CDs are aimed at parents and young children who are looking for a fun way to keep fit together. The Sticky Kids CDs were originally produced as a resource for pre-school groups and now they are being used in homes across the UK.

The singing and dancing CDs are ideal for having fun and keeping fit with your children and your kids will soon become fans of the whole collection.

Your children will love:

* Singing

* Dancing

* Listening

* Laughing

Without even knowing it they will be:

* Improving their overall physical fitness

* Developing physical skills and the control of fine motor skills

* Enhancing their language and listening abilities

* Raising their levels of confidence

* Learning to express a range of emotions

* Expanding their imagination

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