S&S: Vocal–4, Creating Music–3, Dramatic Play/Games–3

Musical activities:

1. Flap your wings and quack like a duck.
2. Quack a question for the children to answer, encouraging improvisation. Children respond simultaneously, in whatever way they’d like. This is not a direct repeat, but an answer to the question.
3. Repeat several times. Incorporate other animals if you’d like.
4. Rock and clap to the beat while singing a cappella or with guitar or piano using the song sheet for chords.
5. Ask the children to suggest farm animals and movements.
6. For the last variation, sing “On this farm he had some animals” and allow the children to create a farm by being their favorite animals during the animal sound section.
7. Tonal patterns Presentation ideas: music play. Notice whether the children are echoing the patterns. As they sing, observe whether they are following the contour of the pattern, singing in tune, or pretending to sing.