[Latest] Nursery Teacher Exam Piano Set Pieces | Thorough Prep with 2023 Selections and Past Pieces!

After studying early childhood education and completing rigorous practical training, the final hurdle before becoming a certified childcare worker is the Nursery Teacher Examination.

Once you pass all nine written subjects, what awaits you is the practical skills test covering Music, Art, and Language.

Among these, the sing-and-play piano component can be a major source of anxiety for those with little instrumental experience.

In this article, we present a comprehensive collection of past nursery teacher exam repertoire pieces that you should practice—both as preparation for the exam and to build performance skills you can use in real childcare settings.

Of course, the latest assigned pieces are included as well.

This time, we have carefully selected easy arrangements that even those who feel unsure about piano can master without strain.

All sheet music is available for download, so give it a try!

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[Latest] Nursery Teacher Exam Piano Set Pieces \| Thorough Prep with 2023 Selections and Past Pieces!
	Title	Playlist	Review
1	If you’re happy and you know it, clap your handsamerika min’yō		“If You’re Happy and You Know It,” originally based on an American folk song…
2	Goat MailDan Ikuma		I ended up eating the letter I got from the white goat...
3	Under the big chestnut treeIgirisu min’yō		The children’s song based on a British folk tune, “The Big Chestnut …”
4	A line of ducklingsNakata Yoshinao		The children toddle along after the mother duck...
5	Nyanunyonyo Weather ForecastUno Seiichirō		You can tell the weather from a cat’s behavior! Such a…
6	Playing bus (pretend bus play)Yuyama Akira		Not only singing, but also, just like in the lyrics, the friend next door…
7	loquatIsobe Shū		While sheltered by the tree’s leaves, the loquat fruit huddles close…
8	Song of a Little BirdAkutagawa Yasushi		The little birds are all singing together in unison, so...
9	LullabyKusakawa Shin		The children’s song “Yu…” has long been cherished as a lullaby.
10	Donguri KorokoroYariya Tei		It was also one of the set pieces for the 2019 Nursery Teacher Examination.
11	motherNakata Yoshinao		Composer Yoshinao Nakada, who created numerous children's songs and school songs…
12	aye-ayeUno Seiichirō		There are various nursery rhymes that feature animals, but...
13	When I Become a First GraderYamamoto Naozumi		Around the time graduation from kindergarten draws near, you’ll feel like singing “One Year…”
14	There’s no such thing as ghosts.Mineharu		The ghost, a frightening presence for children, is a te...
15	carp streamerMonbushō shōka		As May approaches, you can hear the children’s song in various places…