Sign & Rhyme

10/12/2025

Happy Wednesday everyone🤩. Thank you for coming to Sign & Rhyme today at Bagworth Community Centre🥰. It was great to see so many Christmas outfits🎄, you all looked FAB-U-LOUS🤩.

We welcomed a new family today, so hopefully we will see you both again next week🥰.

I love hearing all your animal noises when we do Row, Row🐊🦁, and I also love to see your actions for shivering for the penguin🐧. The best of all though is hearing you giggling when you are being tickled by your parents and grandparents😂.

It's great to see you all contemplating which item you are going to choose from a choice of 2 items 😍, 'mmm, shall I take the 'HORSE' or 'SANTA'?'🤔 It can be a tough decision sometimes🤔😂.

You seemed to enjoy our ❄️'Snowflake'❄️ song. First the snowflake was on your nose❄️, then your toes❄️, then your head❄️ - I wonder where you will put it next? 🤔Maybe in your hair, and then you can flutter it in the air❄️. Have fun❄️.

🎅It will be our last session next week before Christmas descends on us, so do pop along for more Christmas Cheer🎅.

I hope you have a great Christmassy week, and I shall look forward to seeing you all next Wednesday - ONLY 15 MORE SLEEPS TIL CHRISTMAS DAY😴X.

Have fun.
Marie😍x

09/12/2025

What beautiful singing we had from the children at Incy Wincy’s Preschool - Bagworth this morning, it was great to hear you all 🥳

🎅We had some very helpful elves too, putting presents into Santa's Sleigh 🎅, he certainly has a lot of work to do now, delivering all those presents🎅.

You did well thinking of things 'Christmassy' that we could clap or tap out on the tambourine, we had Christmas tree🎄👏👏👏, Santa🎅👏👏, Bauble👏👏, Reindeer🦌👏👏 and fairies👏👏. Well done🥳.

Thank you for a lovely morning🥰.

I shall look forward to seeing you all next Friday - it will soon be Christmas🎅, HO, HO HO

Have fun.
Marie🥰

05/12/2025

🎄We had a lovely time at Incy Wincy’s Preschool - Bagworth this morning with our Christmas songs🎄.

The children also had lots of fun shaking their instruments 🪇, jingling their Christmas bells🎶 and banging the drum🥁. Well done all of you🥳.

You did some fantastic listening to our story 'Boomerang Bear'🧸. The children all looked so sad when the little boy decided he didn't want his teddy anymore😢😭😢. SANTA TO THE RESCUE 🎅- he knew that the little boy would want his teddy back, and he was able to get it back to him just in time for Christmas🧸. So a very happy ending, and it was lovely to see your faces light up when the little boy got his teddy back❤️.

I hope you all have a fun week, and I shall look forward to seeing you again next Tuesday 🥰.

Marie 😍.

03/12/2025

🎅🎅Ho, Ho, Ho, our Christmas sessions have officially started at Bagworth Community Centre🎅🎅, and it was lovely to see you all.

A big shout out to our Birthday Children 🥳🥳🥳Happy Birthday to one of the little girls who has just turned 2🎈🎈, another little girl who will be 2 🎈🎈on Friday and one of our boys who will be 4🎈🎈🎈🎈 on Saturday. We hope you all have a great day, from everyone at Sign & Rhyme🎉🎉.

We had fun with our Christmas songs today🎁🦌🎄. I am sure you will all learn Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer over the next couple of weeks 🤣.

I think you all enjoyed our story 'Boomerang Bear' 🥰. No matter how old you are, everyone loves to keep their teddy bear💕.

Tickles and giggles all round for our Row Row song😍. It's so lovely to watch the children waiting in anticipation for their tickles😍.

🎅🎅I shall look forward to seeing you all next Wednesday for more Christmas songs🎅🎅.

Have fun 🥰.

Marie x

03/12/2025

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02/12/2025

🎅🎅Do pop along tomorrow for some festive fun with your little ones 🎅🎅

28/11/2025

Such a lovely activity to do with your little ones ❤️

26/11/2025

Happy Wednesday everyone, thank you all for coming to Sign & Rhyme this morning at Bagworth Community Centre 🥳.

It was lovely to see one of our families popping in to see us as they are having a short visit to the UK 🥰. Thank you so much for coming along it was great to see you all - the children have grown up so much - gorgeous😍😍.

It is great to see all the children making their choices of what they would like from our props when given two choices to choose from🥰. Great communication 🥳. I could tell by your facial expressions that some of you were a bit unsure of our 'Cockerel' today 🤣, another great way to express yourself🥰. Well done all of you 🥳.
Lovely to hear them ask for a particular song too 🥰.

Thank you all for tidying away all our toys/props and instruments🥰, it is such a delight to see you all helping each other. Well done all of you🥳.

Just a reminder, we start our Christmas Songs next week 🎅🎅, yes it will soon be here😱.

Have a great week, and I shall look forward to seeing you all next Wednesday😍 for some festive fun 🎅.

❄️☃️❄️☃️The Ratby Snowman Festival is on this weekend so do pop along and see all the houses taking part ❄️☃️❄️☃️.

Have fun 😍
Marie x

25/11/2025

Sunny morning✔️, closer to Christmas✔️, lovely time with the children at Incy Wincy’s Preschool - Bagworth✔️. Now that's what I call a great start to Tuesday✔️.

I think you enjoyed our stories today, 'Goat goes to Playgroup' 🥰. He certainly did a lot of things there🤣. I think you particularly liked the bit when he was dressing up and he put his trousers on his head 🤣 . Our other story was 'Counting Sheep' , and you all did a great job of counting how many sheep there were 🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑 . Well done all of you 🥳.

Good to see that you have had a fun time with our 'Fun On The Farm' theme, and it was great to see and hear you say/sign what animal was going to be in the 'Animal Box'. I think you all liked the cockerel 🐓, and I think you enjoyed shaking him to hear the sound he makes too🐓'COCK-A-DOODLE-DO.

I hope you all have a great week, and I shall look forward to seeing you next Friday when we will be starting our Christmas Songs 🎅. GOSH😱, is it that time already!!!🤩

Have fun 🥰.
Marie x

21/11/2025

Brilliant 😊 x

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