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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): More Shake and Listen

Have children predict which objects make the loudest sounds. Facilitate children’s explorations.

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.

Greeting Song: “Hola Greeting Song” #1

Sing the greeting song, hold up three name cards and greet those children by name. Repeat until every child is included.

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.

Learn About Letters Together: “Here We Go Round the Alphabet”

Sing “Here We Go Round the Alphabet” and have children walk around a circle of the alphabet letters. 

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.

Review the Week Together: Unit 5, Week 4

Review ramps, trackways, and obstacles explrations and the letter “Hh,” letter sound /h/, and the word hill

Sing Together: “Abiyoyo Is a Giant”

Have children vary the pitch as they sing and act out the song “Abiyoyo Is a Giant.”  

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