Musical activities: Turn on Dance and sing along. Incorporate children’s names. Use movement to reflect verse-refrain as follows:• Verse: Choose a new large movement on every repeat.• Ask the children to contribute new large movement ideas for the verse. Observe the expansion of their movement vocabulary. • Refrain (I’m gonna..): Improvised dancing Tonal patterns Presentation ideas: music play
Musical activities: Opening high/low play (repeat several times):Macrobeat (Do this twice)• Tap top of head singing “ding” on A (sol*). • Tap knees singing “dong” on D (do*).Microbeat (Do this twice) • Four taps on head, singing “ding” with each tap(A) • Four taps on knees, singing “dong” with each tap (D) Sing a cappella, tapping head to […]
Musical activities: Lead as in lesson plan 12 for the value of repetition. Incorporate children’s movement ideas. Prepare for later music reading with an audiation game as follows: • “My turn”: Say, “Wibble, wobble” using movement from the rhyme • “Your turn”: Students imitate • “My turn”: Repeat movement without sound • “Your turn”: Imitate Repeat the game […]
Musical activities: Distribute finger cymbals. Turn on Tap to macrobeat. On repeat, switch to microbeat singing on a nonsense syllable to encourage music babble. Variations: finger cymbals. Include children’s ideas. Use nonsense syllables. Include children’s spontaneous or suggested ideas. Collect finger cymbals.
Musical activities: Turn on Clap hands, and rock side to side at the start of each verse. Incorporate large movement variation as indicated in the lyrics. Sing a cappella. Incorporate variations in dynamics with voice and movement: • Tippy toe (soft) • March (loud) • Creep (soft) • Jump (loud) Encourage children to sing along, and observe. […]
Musical activities: Roar with voice, arms, and facial expression. Ask children for more animal sounds and movements. Sing a cappella. Optional: Sing and move as follows. Begin each verse with clapping (microbeat) • Slowly: Pound floor with fists or stomp feet (macrobeat) • Bump: Alternate hand tapping on knees (macrobeat) • Hop: Bounce fingertips on knees. (microbeat) […]
Musical activities: Vocal play: Pull back reigns of a horse, and say, “neigh!” Encourage children to join in. Begin rhyme. • Mother and father: Bounce body, and hold reigns while simultaneously circling hands in front (microbeat) • Mother fell off: Rock side to side (macrobeat) • Uncle John: Repeat first movement. • Final “on”: Fall back with […]
Musical activities: Vocal play: Pull back the reins with lots of horse neighs. Observe the children’s responses. Are they beginning to attempt music babble? Sing a cappella, or turn on Give each child a turn to bounce on your lap: • Horse ride: Bounce* as if riding (microbeat) • Clip clop: Alternate tapping hands on each […]
Musical activities: Repeat as in week 18 for the value of repetition.
Musical activities: Turn on Sing and dance with each child, using the following movements: • Skip to my Lou (refrain): Walk with a bounce or rock happily • Fly’s in the buttermilk: bounce • Little red wagon: Turn Choose a new large movement variation at the start of each verse. For the refrain go back to […]