EYFS Staff...what are your "go-to" counting songs?

[lucysmam]

Once I caught a fish alive? Five little monkeys jumping on a bed? Five currant buns?

I want to add a couple to a gift for our class teacher who's leaving at the end of the year.

Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer
Ten fat sausage
Five little ducks

Five little snowmen standing in a line...

5 cheeky monkeys swinging in a tree
5 little men in a flying saucer
1 elephant went out to play
5 little speckled frogs

Five little speckled frogs

1 elephant went out to play, upon a spiders web to play....

5 fish they swam in the ocean blue...

5 little men in a flying saucer

12345 once I caught

10 monkeys bouncing on the bed

5 little ducks

Five little firemen

Hmmm, this was meant to help me decide on one or two 🤣🤔

Five grey elephants balancing, step by step on a piece of string

Five currant buns in a baker’s shop

@picklemewalnuts I've never heard of that one! How does it go?

I think it's Australian. And perhaps goes up instead of down, which is useful.

5 grey elephants balancing
Step by step on a piece of string.
Thought it was such a wonderful stunt
that they called for another
Elephant.

6 grey elephants... etc.