Boogie Mites Portchester, Gosport and Fareham

15/05/2023

Our Boogie Mites App has LAUNCHED! 🎵🚀

Can You Feel The Beat?

Research shows us that beat synchronisation is an important skill that helps children’s language and literacy skills. Children’s beat synchronisation skills can be strengthened before schools through lots of musical participation, keeping the beat through body percussion, marching, junk percussion activities such as tapping sticks and drumming.

“Having a rich early repertoire of singing and musical remediation will help matching syllable beat patterns to language before children start learning to read.”
Prof Usha Goswami, Professor of Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience, University of Cambridge

Boogie Mites Web App: Building Strong Foundations For Language and Literacy Through Music is launching this month. We have made music videos around action songs, percussion songs, musical poems and letter sound nonsense rhymes, for children to enjoy at home and in the setting. The music activities are for educators, parents and carers to join in with their children, role modelling the fun of shared music making.

You can subscribe to trial 18 music videos free of charge for one month:

Informed by neuroscience evidence, input from early years advisors, teachers, parents and children. Educational musical fun for children ages 2-5 years.

10/05/2023

Your Own Boogie Mites Business!!

Do you have a passion for working with children and creating joyful experiences? Own a meaningful and profitable Boogie Mites license with one of the UK’s leading music enrichment operators.

Our Boogie Mites methodology sets us apart from other franchises and licensee providers, and our fantastic team will support and mentor you on your journey to growing your business.

Download the FREE Boogie Mites Licensee Guide: https://www.boogiemites.co.uk/run-your-own-early-years-business/

30/10/2022

🎉CALLING ALL PARENTS!!!!🎉

Boogie Mites are looking for ambassadors worldwide to test their brand new app!

The app will include the Musical Poems written in collaboration with world-renowned children's author, Michael Rosen, as well as Topical Tunes and Fun Phonics.

You will get FREE access to it throughout November and December (via a website first for month one and then as an actual app for month two) and all that will be needed is some honest feedback along the way!

Use the link below to sign up:

15/07/2022

FUN-DAY FRIDAY! 🥳🎉
Some of you may be thinking about how you can help your pre-schoolers to be "school ready" for September. One way is by preparing them for their first big adventure into the world of phonics. Before children can begin to really understand how sounds create words, and how to blend and segment, they need to begin to develop their phonological awareness; that is to say, they need to begin to hear, recognise and distinguish sounds.
One of the best ways to introduce children to the concept of really actively listening to sounds is to go on a sound walk. This can be inside or outside (although outside is always more fun). At various points during your walk, encourage your child to close their eyes, listen, and try to tell you what they think they can hear. It might be the birds singing, cars zooming by, other people talking, children playing, crunchy leaves underfoot....... it all depends on where you are! But in actively listening and tuning in to different sounds, they will begin to develop their phonological awareness and be more engaged in, and aware of, the array of different sounds that accompany our everyday lives. This in turn helps to sharpen their auditory skills and prepares them for distinguishing between sounds in words.
So why not take advantage of the beautiful weather this week, and go on a sound walk together? You could even introduce this idea with a craft activity, making a listening crown with big ears!
Happy Boogie-ing!

13/07/2022

WHY MUSIC WEDNESDAY! 🎵🧐
Over the last few weeks, we have been working with Ben Kingston-Hughes, who is the Managing Director of "Inspired Children". Boogie Mites and Ben delivered a joint workshop about "The Joy of Music" and the importance of bringing joy to children's lives.
It was fascinating (and rather unsettling) to learn that the word "joy" barely gets a mention in EYFS, the National Curriculum, or any other educational guidance publications, although it is pivotal to children's development.
Music, without a doubt, brings joy. It provides the brain with a total workout, firing up various elements which build the fundamental architecture for all of our basic skills; it reduces cortisol, the stress hormone, and floods our brain with happy and pleasure-inducing chemicals; it provides us with a secure context for communication, and helps to activate our ventral vagal nerve network, which triggers calmness. Singing can even help to build up our lungs and cardiovascular system, creating the respiratory system that we need for a healthy life.
We move, we dance, and we form social bonds with others through shared music.
Music is joyful, and we should grasp every opportunity to share in the joy of music with others, especially our children.
Happy boogie-ing!

11/07/2022

MUSIC MONDAY! 🎵🥁💃🎵
During July, our Mities theme is Fairy Tales. We are having lots of fun putting on our Seven League Boots to walk around Fairytale Land, tapping our sticks and making sound effects to The Grand Old Duke of York, trying to reason with a very cheeky Goldilocks, and learning all about a sleepy princess!
Here's a sneak peak at some of those songs from our Fairy Tales music pack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlzUhFBpioM
Did you know that you can purchase our themed music programmes and continue the Boogie Mites fun at home?
If you'd like to know more about treating your little ones to any of our gorgeous collections of themed songs, including “In The Garden”, “On the Farm”, “On the Sea”, “Dinosaurs & Transport”, and a whole host of other exciting themes, please do take a look here:
https://www.boogiemites.co.uk/shop/mities-for-parents/
Happy Boogie-ing!

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06/07/2022

WHY MUSIC WEDNESDAY! 🎵🧐

Meet Harriet - our creative director, and Boogie Mites songwriter and performer!

Harriet is a singer-songwriter and a mum of two, and this was the launch pad for Boogie Mites. It all began more than 20 years ago, when Harriet often helped out in the local family centre, leading the singing during circle time. Pretty soon, she realised that there are only so many times you can sing Incy Wincy Spider! (I believe she has also brilliantly referred to this as "Wheels on the Bus fatigue"!)
So she started to write new songs, taking inspiration from the children she saw at the family centre.
Today, thousands of early years settings in India, Australia, Asia, Dubai and all over Europe sing Boogie Mites songs every day, learning and having fun through the power of music.
Harriet has a wealth of experience and has sung at some prestigious venues, including London’s iconic Royal Albert Hall as a backing singer for an all-star line-up, including Van Morrison.
Currently, Harriet is also working with the children's author and former Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen, to create songs based on poems from his books 'Ready For Spaghetti' and 'A Great Big Cuddle', both published by Walker Books.

05/07/2022

TESTIMONIAL TUESDAY! 🥳
It's such a pleasure to be able to go into different
settings around the community, sharing the power of
active everyday music-making with others.
It's equally as lovely to hear about the impact of our
sessions from the parents and practitioners that we
work with. 💚💜

01/07/2022

FUN-DAY FRIDAY! 🥳🎉
Body Percussion is an important Early Years skill which helps our children to develop in a multitude of areas. Firstly, hearing and using rhythm and repetition helps children develop early literacy skills and begins to develop their phonological awareness. Secondly, through copying movements, children are developing their physical skills of coordination, balance and strength. Finally, body percussion activities improve memory and concentration, as the children learn to follow a set of instructions and copy a sequence.
But what is body percussion? To put it simply, it's a way of making sounds and rhythms using our bodies. Clapping, clicking, stamping, striking and tapping our bodies are all body percussion movements.
A body percussion sequence can be as simple as repeating these four simple actions: *clap* *clap* *tap knees* *tap knees*, or as complex as a string of 6 or 8 different movements. You can even set them to music, to make it more enjoyable.
Why not have a go at making some body percussion sequences with your children this weekend?

Happy Boogie-ing!

28/06/2022

TESTIMONIAL TUESDAY! 🥳
It's such a pleasure to be able to go into different settings around the community, sharing the power of active everyday music-making with others.
It's equally as lovely to hear about the impact of our sessions from the parents and practitioners that we work with. 💚💜

27/06/2022

MUSIC MONDAY! 🎵🥁💃🎵
This month, our Mities have been enjoying a selection of songs all about Healthy Living. We've sang about healthy food, tapped our sticks to delicious healthy meals, danced our way through a trip to the park, and drummed along to the beat inspired by a sweet papaya.

Here's a sneak peak at some of those songs from our Healthy Living music pack:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrPZFNB09zo

Did you know that you can purchase our themed music programmes and continue the Boogie Mites fun at home?
If you'd like to know more about treating your little ones to any of our gorgeous collections of themed songs, including “In The Garden”, “Fairytales”, “Jungles”, “Dinosaurs & Transport”, and a whole host of other exciting themes, please do take a look here:
https://www.boogiemites.co.uk/shop/mities-for-parents/
Happy Boogie-ing!

Fun, funky songs to help you to teach your children the healthy habits they can benefit from for the rest of their lives. https://boogiemites.co.uk/shop/heal...

24/06/2022

FUN-DAY FRIDAY! 🥳🎉
Following on from last week's sea theme, this week's FunDay Friday suggestion is to make a paper plate jellyfish!
This activity really helps to develop children's fine motor skills, as (with the help of their grown-up) they press down on a hole punch, and thread the wool or string through the holes, then use pens or stickers to create a face or decorate the jellyfish body.
As with many crafts, this also gives you the opportunity to widen your child's vocabulary as you talk about colours, textures, choice of materials, size and shape.
Why not get crafty this weekend, and make a paper plate jellyfish together? As always, we'd love to see your creations, so don't forget to tag us or post them to our pages!
Happy Boogie-ing!