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.
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