This is standard fare at the toddler groups I have been going to for some years now. It seems to me that the success of this song is the gentle "ssshhhh! shushes while the little ones are lying on the floor, followed by (and I believe this is an absolute ESSENTIAL element) the suspenseful "ohhhhh" (getting louder and louder) that then erupts into an enthusiastic clambering upright of the children and a jolly "hop little bunnies, hop hop hop etc.."
So,
"See the sleeping bunnies sleeping till it's nearly noon, come and let us wake them gently with our merry tune"
Oh how still: Ssshhhhh, Shhhhhh (finger to lips action by all mothers/fathers/nannies/childminders etc.)
Are they ill? (always find that bit a bit disturbing to be honest): Shhhh Shhhhh
Wake up soon, Wake up soon
BIT OF A PAUSE then a very slowly building Ohhhhhhhhh and then,
Hop little bunnies hop hop hop; Hop little bunnies hop, hop, hop; Hop little bunnies hop hop hop; Hop then stop.
I am fed up of being at groups where it is all rushed and there are no shushes after the "oh how still, are they ill" bits but then there are a few uncoordinated shushes after the "wake up soon, wake up soon" bit if you're lucky. There are awkward glances from all the mothers/fathers/nannies/childminders etc. with this misappropriation of the shushing part because everbody is looking to someone else to come in with the "Hop little bunnies, hop hop hop" and the children are confused too. The shushes have their place in this song but NOT in this bit!!
I would like to know what the Mumsnet consensus is on this VERY important issue.
Thank you.
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to be irritated by people's inability to sing a decent version of sleeping bunnies?
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ajamore · 23/09/2009 12:04
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