JamRound™ – Teacher’s Choice
September 6, 2019
Musical activities: This is a routine activity. Use the song you have chosen and follow the procedure in lesson plan one.
Pop! Goes the Weasel
September 6, 2019
Musical activities: Turn on or lead this familiar song a cappella. Put one child at a time on your lap. Bounce them gently to the macrobeat and then gently lift the child in the air or just lift their legs gently on “Pop” “A Penny for…” rock the child gently side to side to […]
Swinging
September 6, 2019
Musical activities: Go to each child and tap to the uneven feel of 5/8 meter (1-2-3-4-5). Tap legs on beat one saying, “Dee-dle, dee” and lift your hands high to exaggerate the grouping of three beats. Keep the movement big for the 1-2-3 spacing. Be ready to come back down on beat four. Tap hands […]
There’s a Cobbler
September 6, 2019
Musical activities: Go to each child. Even though you will say strong sounds make sure you do it gently on the child’s stomach area. Tap to the macrobeat (big) while saying “bam” each time you tap their tummy. Begin the rhyme continuing the same movement. Introduce a new sound word such as, “bop,” “boom,” “ping,” […]
Hello and Welcome
September 6, 2019
Musical activities: Sing the song inserting each child’s name where indicated. Suggested accompaniment: piano, guitar, ukulele, tambourine or clapping hands. Move around the circle making eye contact with each child when their name is sung. Use a “hello” hand movement when singing the children’s names. Return to clapping hands or your instrument when all the […]
It’s Time to Say Goodbye
August 28, 2019
Musical activities: Sing a cappella while clapping your hands or sing accompanied with piano or guitar encouraging the children to sing along. 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 long, farewell, I enjoyed my time with […]
Starry Night
August 28, 2019
Musical activities: Distribute instruments. Turn on . The children will play freely to the music encouraging improvisation and movement to the beat and rhythms. Observe the children when the music stops to see whether they are continuing to play or stopping. Collect instruments. Allow the children to continue playing for a few moments after the song […]
Five Little Pumpkins
August 28, 2019
Musical activities: Follow the activities in lesson plan 6. Repeat, replacing pumpkins with other things:a. Squirrels raced out of sightb.Turkeys: gobbled out of sightc. Flowers: floated out of sightd. Roosters: crowed out of sight Ask the children for variations. Accept all ideas. Halloween is approaching. Substitute costume ideas. For example, spiders: crept, batmen: flew, princesses: […]
Dance Niggun
August 28, 2019
Musical activities: Stand up and form a circle. Turn on Section A: In a circle, sing and walk lively to the right to the microbeat for the first half of the song. The first half of the song repeats before moving into the second half (B section) which also repeats. Section B: a. Take two steps in […]
Drumming Music
August 28, 2019
Musical activities: Tap to the macrobeat on the floor as you sing: Take a drum… Tap to the microbeat as you sing: Listen to the… Tap your belly to the macrobeat repeating the song. Tap to the microbeat as you sing: Listen to the… Repeat replacing the lyrics with nonsense syllables. Rock side to side […]