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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.
Greeting Song: “Clap a Friend’s Name” #3
Sing the greeting song and hold up a name card as children “grow” like a plant. Repeat until every child is included.
Greeting Song: “Good Morning” #1
Sing a greeting song and have the group acknowledge each child by name.
Greeting Song: “Good Morning” #4
Sing the greeting song and hold up a name card for each child to recognize his or her name.
Greeting Song: “Here We Are Together” #4
Sing “Here We Are Together” with children as they hold up their name cards when they hear their name in the song.
Greeting Song: “I See Someone” #3
Sing the greeting song to three children at a time and clap the parts in their names. Identify whose name was called first, next, and last.
Greeting Song: “Will You Meet a Friend of Mine?” #1
Sing the greeting song and signal to one child and have the whole class greet him or her.
Greeting Song: “Will You Meet a Friend of Mine?” #2
Hold up a name card in the last line of the greeting song "Will You Be A Friend Of Mine" and have everyone greet that child.
Greeting Song: “Will You Meet a Friend of Mine?” #5
Have children discuss and choose how they would like to sing the greeting song.
Play Together: "Alphabet Hokey Pokey"
Have children review the letters “Oo,” “Ss,” “Nn,” and “Qq” as they sing “Alphabet Hokey Pokey” with you.
Play Together: “Color Hokey Pokey”
Have children play a game and dance about colors.
Play Together: Growing Seeds
Play soft music and have children act out moving like a plant as it grows.
Play Together: “The Cook in the Kitchen”
Sing the song “The Cook in the Kitchen” as children play the game and become ingredients in the bee-bim bop.
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.”
Sing Together: “Alphabet Hokey Pokey” #1
Gather children in a circle. First teach children the traditional song and motions. Then hand out plastic letters and sing the song for a particular letter.
Sing Together: “I’m Feeling Sorry”
Have children recall the story Tell the Truth, B.B. Wolf and sing the song about the wolf and the three pigs.
Sing Together: “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt”
Sing “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt” with children. Vary the volume of the verse each time you sing and sing the chorus loudly.