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Dance Studio
Have children to pretend they are taking dancing lessons. Encourage them to experiment with different kinds of dance movement.
Explore Together (indoors): Music Day Performance
Gather children in the same groups as yesterday. Play the same music children listened to yesterday. Allow children to practice their music or movements from the week.
Explore Together (indoors): Music Mural #1
Play a piece of music and ask children to paint how they feel. Turn the volume up and down as they paint.
Explore Together (indoors): Music Mural #2
Play a piece of music that contrasts the previous day’s piece. Have children repeat the exercise of painting how they feel.
Explore Together (indoors): Responding to Sound
Invite children to create their own music by responding to the sounds they hear indoors. Provide various materials and help children identify and imitate sounds.
Explore Together (indoors): Scarf Dance
Provide materials such as scarves, feathers, or strips of construction paper and have children move to music using these materials.
Feel the Music
Play a piece of music and have children talk about how the music makes them feel. Ask them to draw how they feel.
Join the Band #1
Invite children to form their own band, like Violet in the book Violet’s Music. Encourage children to name and talk about the different musical instruments.
Join the Band #2
Invite children to form their own band, like Lionel and Leona’s rooftop band. Encourage children to name and talk about the different musical instruments.
Musical Murals
Play different types of music and have children paint to the music. Display the paintings and the names of the artists.
Play Together: Say It with Dance
Show children pictures of faces showing different emotions. Ask children to move in a way that shows that emotion.
Play Together: “Show Us What Your Instrument Can Do”
Gather children with their rubber-band instruments. Sing the song, “Show Us What Your Instrument Can Do” and have children demonstrate making sounds.
Read Together: Jazz Baby #1
Have children close their eyes and listen to a short jazz recording before you read the story Jazz Baby by Lisa Wheeler.
Read Together: Jazz Baby #2
Children imagine they are listening to the music in the story Jazz Baby by Lisa Wheeler as you read it aloud.
Read Together: My Family Plays Music #1
Read a book about a family that likes to make music with many different musical instruments. Help children make connections to the book.
Sing Together: “Abiyoyo Is a Giant”
Have children vary the pitch as they sing and act out the song “Abiyoyo Is a Giant.”
Small Group: Making Music
Continue sharing and exploring making music in small groups. Invite the class as a group to give a concert of the sounds they made.
Talk Together: Feeling the Music
Talk about how different music can make you feel happy, sad, or even silly. Play a piece of music and ask children how they feel.
Talk Together: Move to Music
Talk about some of the music the children have been listening to together. Play some music and invite children to move to the music.
Talk Together: Musical Instruments
Have children listen to music and name instruments they hear.