Musical activities: Sing a cappella while clapping your hands or sing accompanied with piano or guitar encouraging the children to sing along. Model and observe spacing and consistent beat. Sway left and right while singing all of the children’s names where indicated.* Limited time? Sing goodbye to the boys, girls, teacher(s) and then into “So […]
Musical activities: Distribute instruments. Turn on Children choose an instrument and play freely to build confidence in improvisation and movement to the beat and rhythms. Collect instruments.
Musical activities: Flap your wings and quack like a duck. 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. Repeat several times. Incorporate other animals if you’d like. Rock and clap to the beat […]
Musical activities: Stand up.Turn on Reach, bounce, march, fly, spin, etc. into the lyrics. Use one large movement throughout an entire verse. Be sure to use the entire body, responding to both macrobeat and microbeat. Variations: large movement. Sit down.
Musical activities: Voice play: Raise shakers overhead with an ascending “Whoo!” Lower shakers with descending “Whoo!” Distribute shakers. Turn on Shake eggs (microbeat) through first section of song. Shake to macrobeat on repeat. Tap knees to microbeat during second section. Tap to macrobeat when first section repeats. Repeat step four with shaker variations. Continue a […]
Musical activities: Use vocal play to transition to this rhythmic rhyme. Jump fingertips off of lap saying, “Jump, jump, jump jump!” This vocal play can be extended with a nonsense syllable. Ex: “Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo!” as fingertips jump high. Follow these movement instructions while reciting the rhyme: • 1st verse: Jump fingertips off of knees macrobeat (big). • 2nd verse: Swim macrobeat (big). […]
Musical activities: Sing the song inserting each child’s name where indicated. Suggested accompaniment: piano, guitar, ukulele, tambourine or clapping hands Invite the children to clap, bounce or tap along, encouraging an active response to music. Model and observe spacing and consistent beat. Move about the circle making eye contact and waving to each child as you […]
Musical activities: Distribute jingle bells and turn on Use jingle bell variations as in lesson plan 7 moving in all areas of space. Ask the children who would like to lead the resting tone play. Notice whether their movements indicate when to start and stop. Put jingle bells on your head. Tip your head down and use descending vocal play as […]
Musical activities: Lead as you did week 20. As children toll the balls to their partners, observe carefully. Are they maintaining accurate spacing? Collect balls.
Musical activities: Lead as you did week 22. Ask the children what else we could do in Sandy Land. Tonal patterns