Bookbug Session: Starting School

Hello, everyone! We're glad that you could come.

If you've got a little one starting school this August, here are some fun songs and rhymes that will help support their early numeracy, language learning and coordination, as well as other valuable social skills. You can find most of the songs and rhymes below on the Bookbug app and Song and Rhyme Library.

There's also a lovely rhyming story celebrating all the wonderfully funny things that make us who we are: The Same But Different Too by Karl Newson and Kate Hindley.

'I am me and you are you.

We're the same but different too.'

Pack your pencil cases and snacks, it's time to start school with Bookbug!

Get started with

• Hello Song

Counting songs and rhymes

• One, Two, Three, Four, Five
• One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four
• Five Little Ducks

Songs and rhymes full of actions

• Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes
• If You're Happy and You Know It
• Sleeping Bunnies

Story time: The Same But Different Too by Karl Newson and Kate Hindley

Snacktime songs and rhymes

• Bananas Unite
• I'm a Little Teapot

Calming songs and rhymes to end the session

• Rub-a-Dub-Dub
• Swing Me Over the Water
• Goodbye Song

We have a special recording of this Starting School Bookbug session which you can watch now with your little one! You can also order your own copy of (this link will open in a new window)The Same But Different Too by Karl Newson and Kate Hindley. And check out our brilliant book list with lots of reassuring stories about starting school.