Last week was a great week doing songs about outside fun.
Last Week: Learned "Mister Sun" and practiced playing instruments just at particular times (when the sun comes out). This is a great activity for learning to take turns and for preparing for playing different instruments at different times. Also we learned a song about going on a picnic with different foods. We sang "What Shall We Do When We All Go Out?" and acted out our favorite outside activities while we sang. (Riding bikes, swinging, sliding, etc.) We also sang "Bounce High" while bouncing a ball to our moms. We sang a fun song about going fishing and used some movement to it as well!
At Home: "What Shall We Do" is a great simple song for kids to be able to brainstorm different movements to use. "Bounce High" is another song to sing while you are outside playing ball...I thought it was neat that some children were already trying to keep a steady beat while bouncing their ball...not an easy feat!
Next Week: Next week is all about transportation! We're going to do songs about trains, cars, using our bodies for transportation, wagons, etc. We'll read a funny book using one of our songs too! We're going to use instruments on one of our "train trips"...be ready! It's going to be a fun week! We're also going to review some songs that we will be doing at our sharing night on the last night of class. Make sure you have invited family and friends...the original form said April 11 but the sharing night is actually APRIL 18th!
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Week 5...
was such a fun week! We had some very special friends join us and they got to see us sing, dance, and play...and even did some of that with us.
LAST WEEK: We learned the song Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear and danced it with our stuffed animals. Reviewed All Around the Brickyard with instruments and The More We Get Together with scarves. Learned and moved to another friendship song Good Friends Always Stick Together (a great song to sing with Mom!). We did some free movement to a song from "Spirit" with scarves...and our moms were our copycats!
AT HOME: Teddy Bear is a great song to sing at home...the melody is very repetitive and the movements are fun! We are becoming very familiar with All Around the Brickyard and this is an easy song to sing at home while you are doing something..."I'm gonna cook it, cook it, cook it or I'm gonna color, color, color...". I heard in my house this week "I'm gonna dress up, dress up, dress up". It's fun for kids to brainstorm different things to do in this song.
NEXT WEEK: This coming week is all about outside fun...so great for this weather we've been having! We're going to learn a song about going on picnics using some food to help us out. We'll also learn a song about playing on the playground, do some dancing with scarves, and play instruments to a song about sunshine.
Looking forward to seeing you Monday evening!
LAST WEEK: We learned the song Teddy Bear, Teddy Bear and danced it with our stuffed animals. Reviewed All Around the Brickyard with instruments and The More We Get Together with scarves. Learned and moved to another friendship song Good Friends Always Stick Together (a great song to sing with Mom!). We did some free movement to a song from "Spirit" with scarves...and our moms were our copycats!
AT HOME: Teddy Bear is a great song to sing at home...the melody is very repetitive and the movements are fun! We are becoming very familiar with All Around the Brickyard and this is an easy song to sing at home while you are doing something..."I'm gonna cook it, cook it, cook it or I'm gonna color, color, color...". I heard in my house this week "I'm gonna dress up, dress up, dress up". It's fun for kids to brainstorm different things to do in this song.
NEXT WEEK: This coming week is all about outside fun...so great for this weather we've been having! We're going to learn a song about going on picnics using some food to help us out. We'll also learn a song about playing on the playground, do some dancing with scarves, and play instruments to a song about sunshine.
Looking forward to seeing you Monday evening!
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Week 4
LAST WEEK: We talked about the Circus. We did the song "Friends in the Circus" and listened for different sounds that we could move to...a trapeze artist climbing up the ladder, a sleeping tiger, a funny clown, a tightrope walker, and a muscle man! The goal of this is to get kids to recognize those sounds and to just experience different types of movement. If you noticed, by the end of this activity, lots of kids were "getting it"! Lots of them could identify most of the sounds and which movement they corresponded to. We also did a speech piece that went with our Circus song and added instruments to it. This was a tricky activity, but many kids were also successful here. I am not looking in these instances for kids to play the correct rhythm of the words, but to start to identify that they don't play on every sound. We also played the game "Wee Willie Winkie".
AT HOME: Sing, sing, sing! Make this a part of your everyday life. Any song you can remember from class, sing it with your child! You can practice the movements from "Friends in the Circus" and talk about what sound you heard when you did that movement (ex. when the piano played up high it sounded like a tightrope walker).
NEXT WEEK: Next week is FRIENDSHIP WEEK! Please being a stuffed "friend" from home...a teddy bear, stuffed animal...your choice. We'll do some activities with our friends. We're going to learn a song about Teddy Bears, review the dance The More We Get Together with scarves, and learn a couple new songs about friendship. We will also have some free movement time and a more structured movement experience.
AT HOME: Sing, sing, sing! Make this a part of your everyday life. Any song you can remember from class, sing it with your child! You can practice the movements from "Friends in the Circus" and talk about what sound you heard when you did that movement (ex. when the piano played up high it sounded like a tightrope walker).
NEXT WEEK: Next week is FRIENDSHIP WEEK! Please being a stuffed "friend" from home...a teddy bear, stuffed animal...your choice. We'll do some activities with our friends. We're going to learn a song about Teddy Bears, review the dance The More We Get Together with scarves, and learn a couple new songs about friendship. We will also have some free movement time and a more structured movement experience.
COMING UP...
Recap and more info coming later today but please note...
THIS WEEK our theme is FRIENDSHIP. Please bring a stuffed animal friend from home to help us in music this week. We will meet in our regular room. More info coming soon!
THIS WEEK our theme is FRIENDSHIP. Please bring a stuffed animal friend from home to help us in music this week. We will meet in our regular room. More info coming soon!
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Week 3
THIS WEEK:
Lots of fun with farm animals this week! First we reviewed our Snowflake Dance, and how snowflakes move. This was challenging, but by the end there were some children that were recognizing where to move based on the sound of the music...very impressive! We sang Down on Grandpa's Farm with some farm (stuffed animals). Then we worked on the partner dance "Chook Chook", another very challenging but fun dance. We also sang "I Love My Little Rooster" (great for getting kids to explore different areas of their voice!) and learned "I Had a Little Piggie". At the end we reviewed "All Around the Brickyard" with instruments.
AT HOME:
"I Love My Little Rooster": This is a great song for kids to find their natural singing voice. In our culture, we have a tendency to sing MUCH too low. Our voices are made comfortably to sing higher than you probably think, especially for younger children. Kids voices are all the same at this point...there is no difference in boys' and girls' voices. So practice singing and exploring different animal sounds as long as you are going all the way up to your high voice! We're going to do that song again this week, so if you forget the words, parents :), don't worry!
"All Around the Brickyard": This class HAS to move at such a fast paced to keep kids' attention that it is important for you to sing with your children at home. Hopefully you will remember this song, as it will be one of our constants that we keep going back to. Practice different movement to it (stamp it, hop it, skip it, etc.)
NEXT WEEK:
Please note...We will meet in the SANCTUARY next week! One of our activities will work much better movement wise in the sanctuary so we will start out in there.
This week (I'm sorry I'm getting this up so late!) we are going to do songs about the circus as well as review some songs from previous weeks. We're going to add movement to "I've Got Friends in the Circus". This is a listening activity, so please make sure you are a CAREFUL listener. :) We'll also learn a chant about "Lions and Tigers and Bears" as a B section for our song "The Circus", which we'll add instruments too.
See you soon!
Lots of fun with farm animals this week! First we reviewed our Snowflake Dance, and how snowflakes move. This was challenging, but by the end there were some children that were recognizing where to move based on the sound of the music...very impressive! We sang Down on Grandpa's Farm with some farm (stuffed animals). Then we worked on the partner dance "Chook Chook", another very challenging but fun dance. We also sang "I Love My Little Rooster" (great for getting kids to explore different areas of their voice!) and learned "I Had a Little Piggie". At the end we reviewed "All Around the Brickyard" with instruments.
AT HOME:
"I Love My Little Rooster": This is a great song for kids to find their natural singing voice. In our culture, we have a tendency to sing MUCH too low. Our voices are made comfortably to sing higher than you probably think, especially for younger children. Kids voices are all the same at this point...there is no difference in boys' and girls' voices. So practice singing and exploring different animal sounds as long as you are going all the way up to your high voice! We're going to do that song again this week, so if you forget the words, parents :), don't worry!
"All Around the Brickyard": This class HAS to move at such a fast paced to keep kids' attention that it is important for you to sing with your children at home. Hopefully you will remember this song, as it will be one of our constants that we keep going back to. Practice different movement to it (stamp it, hop it, skip it, etc.)
NEXT WEEK:
Please note...We will meet in the SANCTUARY next week! One of our activities will work much better movement wise in the sanctuary so we will start out in there.
This week (I'm sorry I'm getting this up so late!) we are going to do songs about the circus as well as review some songs from previous weeks. We're going to add movement to "I've Got Friends in the Circus". This is a listening activity, so please make sure you are a CAREFUL listener. :) We'll also learn a chant about "Lions and Tigers and Bears" as a B section for our song "The Circus", which we'll add instruments too.
See you soon!
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