Musical activities: Distribute scarves. Use opening high-low voice play to invite the children to use the syllable “oo” sliding their voice and stars (scarves) from a low position to high in the air. Simultaneously slide voices (high to low) moving scarves downward. Repeat. Turn on or lead a cappella. Start with scarves in a low […]
Musical activities: Stand. Make a circle. Blow your whistle. Repeat several times and assess the children’s vocal placement. Circle your arms at your sides like the wheels of a train and say, “ch, ch, ch, ch” inviting the circle into the middle. Wave hello to all of the passengers creating community. Step back to the open circle. Repeat […]
Musical activities: Distribute sticks.Turn on Lead as in lesson plan 16. Sing the first half of the song with a loud voice moving the sticks accordingly. Contrast with soft voice and corresponding stick movement. For example: click on the macrobeat for loud, tap the tips of the sticks on the microbeat for soft. Any movement […]
Musical activities: Begin this rhythmic rhyme by rocking your body side to side and patting your lap to the macrobeat. Repeat the rhyme tapping your lap and keeping a light beat in your body using microbeat. High/low voice play: Recite the rhyme using a low voice. Tap the floor to the macrobeat. Recite the rhyme […]
Musical activities: Turn on or sing acapella. Pick up one child at a time and move with them gently rocking from the beginning of the song. On “The Wind is Blowing,….” rock and gently turn with the child in a slow circle. On “Achoo” playfully lift the child up and tickle their belly with shaking […]
Musical activities: Pretend to blow whistles to start train, keeping vocal placement high. Circle arms like wheels of a train while saying, “ch, ch, ch, ch” to the beat of the song. Chug in a circle in front of the children then around them to put them at the center of the circle. Lead with guitar, tambourine, ukulele, […]
Musical activities: Distribute shakers. Turn on With the children still in the line or circle begin shaking the eggs in front of you. Alternate between macrobeat and microbeat on each repeat of the song. Visit each child and tap their toes to the macrobeat and microbeat while singing, “I love (child’s name), yes I do.” Observe their responses to the […]
Musical activities: Sit or lay in a circle. Recite the rhyme with a high voice. Keep a light bounce, and sway to the macrobeat while you do the following movements: – “Here are grandma’s glasses”: Touch tips of thumb and index finger together to make a circle and hold to eyes creating glasses. – “Here […]
Musical activities: Turn on or sing acapella. Pick up one child at a time and move with them gently rocking from the beginning of the song. On “The Wind is Blowing,….” rock and gently turn with the child in a slow circle. On “Achoo” playfully lift the child up and tickle their belly with shaking […]
Musical activities: Pretend to blow whistles to start train, keeping vocal placement high. Circle arms like wheels of a train while saying, “ch, ch, ch, ch” to the beat of the song. Chug in a circle in front of the children then around them to put them at the center of the circle. Lead with guitar, tambourine, ukulele, […]