Musical activities: Distribute shakers. Turn on Verse: Sing and shake to the macrobeat. Encourage all children to join you. Create a new way to play on every repetition of the verse, alternating between macrobeat and microbeat. Refrain (show me a motion): Shake high in the air. Observe the children’s created variations. Continue a cappella, incorporating […]
Musical activities: Go to each child and do this chant. Draw clockwise circles on belly on the first half of the rhyme, “Round and round” using macrobeat. Creep fingers up child’s back or tummy on “One step, two steps” using microbeat. Each verse has a different ending. Change the movement to reflect the new ending […]
Musical activities: Gather designated kitchen equipment or other props in one area. Allow the children to freely choose a prop or the teacher can choose for non-mobile children. Turn on The children will use props as instruments experimenting with new sounds and learn how to create and improvise music with something other than a musical […]
Musical activities: Turn on Dance with each child through one verse Come and dance: dance freely moving to the macrobeat. La, la, la: dance freely moving to the microbeat. Suggested movements: spin, dance to each child tapping their shoulders Continue a cappella.
Musical activities: Sing and tap the child’s legs to the macrobeat Rub child’s belly in a clockwise circular motion to “It’s Yum, Yum” Tickle the child on “Oo-oo-oo –so good” Extend: Incorporate other foods such as squash, cereal, green beans, etc Tonal patterns
Musical activities: Vocal play: Roll hands to your lap from overhead. Use a gentle descending “ah” voice play. Run your fingers down the baby’s backs. Repeat encouraging a vocal response from the children. 1st & 2nd phrases: Pat your lap to the macrobeat. 3rd & 4th phrases: Clap hands to the microbeat, gradually lifting them […]
Musical activities: Distribute kitchen equipment as you would distribute assorted instruments in a JamRound.* Allow the children to freely choose a prop or the teacher can choose for non-mobile children. Turn on The children will use props as instruments experimenting with new sounds and learn how to create and improvise music with something other than […]
Musical activities: Turn on Dance with each child one at a time. • 1st verse: jump • When I’m tired: Drop at the knees, allowing baby to feel the descent. Pause briefly for the fermata. Make an ascending tone using “oo” as you straighten back up on “oop.” Return to this movement after each verse. […]
Musical activities: Vocal play: Extend arms and yawn. Repeat several times. Repeat as in week 18. Sing and move around the group incorporating other animals and sounds. Ex: Little bird, little bird is sleeping in her nest… If you wake her, if you shake her, she will tweet, tweet, tweet! Tonal patterns Encourage the children […]
Musical activities: Lead the chant, using tactile stimulation with each child:• 1st & 2nd phrases: tap the child’s torso to the macrobeat.• 3rd & 4th phrases: tap the child’s torso to the microbeat.• “Mmm.., cozy!”: Rub the child’s belly in a circular motion saying, “Mmm.., cozy!” Rhythm patterns