Movement Activities Time For Music

for a Spaced Music * PreK-K experience beat

Class * count beats end of verses
or Zoom Lesson * tap beats on a beat strip

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Action Songs, Fingerplays Whoops Johnny

* movement with hands, arms
Movement Songs Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny
* standing movement
Whoops! Johnny! Whoops! Johnny!
Singing Games Johnny, Johnny, Johnny
* many varieties, but include some
game-like aspect – webinar#3 will
be on adapting games * Do you want your name
Dance, Play Parties Fast or slow?
* patterned/choreographed * Spoken – not sung, so OK
movement
Move to Music (Classical)
* ribbons, scarves, plates, cups
Link to Whoops Johnny on Musicplayonline.com

Action Songs and Fingerplays Action Songs and Fingerplays:

* la n g u a g e d e v e lo p m e n t - p r o v id e r ic h
vocabulary, r ange of expr ession
* h e lp s c h ild r e n u n d e r s t a n d m e a n in g o f t h e
w o r d s – O pen S h u t T h em,
* d e v e lo p s fin e m u s c le c o -o r d in a t io n
*d e velop a steady beat ~f luency r eading
* C h ild r e n a r e e n g a g e d – e v e n b a b ie s .
* C h ild r e n le a r n t o w a t c h t h e le a d e r
• Kids become a w ar e of rhyme, and cr eate
rhymes: S pider on the Floor, D o wn b y the Bay
* c h ild r e n g a in la n g u a g e f lu e n c y
* childr en cr eate new verses, new w or ds
* teach concepts: beat /rhythm high/lo w,
fast /slo w, loud/quiet, long/short, smooth
E v e n t h e y o u n g f e e l s a t is fa c t io n w h e n t h e y
learn a new skill.
Fun!!!

Link to Spider on the Floor on Musicplayonline.com

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 Open Shut Them Open Shut Them
Doing actions helps children understand meaning of the words
Pryce at 7 months, doing actions and “singing” with me
Open, shut them. Open, shut them. Give a little clap, clap, clap.
Open, shut them. Open, shut them. Put them in your lap, lap, lap.
Up and down. Up and down. Up, up, up, up, down, down, down.
Up and down. Up and down. Up, down, down, down, down, down,
down.
Big and small. Big and small. Big, big, big, big, small, small, small.
Big and small. Big and small. Big, big, big, big, small, small, small.
Hot and cold. Hot and cold. Hot, hot, hot, hot, cold, cold, cold.
Hot and cold. Hot and cold. Hot, hot, hot, hot, cold, cold, cold.
Loud and quiet. Loud and quiet. Loud, loud, loud, loud, quiet, sh!
Loud and quiet. Loud and quiet. Loud, loud, loud, loud, quiet, sh!

Link to Musicplayonline

Link to Open Shut Them on Musicplayonline

Action Songs to teach Action Songs can teach

musical concepts literacy, counting,and
other skills
Tony Chestnut
Tempo “Stay Apart”
Will be online by Aug.
in a new ”Healthy
Link to Musicplayonline Habits” Unit

Link to Tony Chestnut on Musicplayonline New Unit - Healthy Habits - will be in Units fol-
lowing the Back to School Unit. Link to UNITS

Stay Apart We’ll Stay Apart

We’ll stay apart. We’ll stay apart.
Stay apart! Stay apart! And we’ll cover when we cough.
When at school you have to stay apart. And we’ll stay apart. (2x)
Stay apart! Stay apart!
When at school you have to stay apart. We’ll wear masks. We’ll wear masks.
And we’ll cover when we cough.
* if you can’t sing, listen to recording And we’ll stay apart. (2x)
and move to the music
* teaches tempo * if you can’t sing, listen to recording and move to the
andante~moderato~allegro~presto~prestissimo music * unison, round
Will post at Musicplayonline.com in Aug – in a
Healthy Habits Unit Will post at Musicplayonline.com in Aug – Healthy Habits

New Unit - Healthy Habits - will be in Units fol- New Unit - Healthy Habits - will be in Units fol-
lowing the Back to School Unit. Link to UNITS lowing the Back to School Unit. Link to UNITS

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 Alligator Alarm
Alligator Alarm Carter, age 11 months – singing before he could talk!
Children can learn many skills from music – letter sounds, letter recognition, body parts

Index

Link to Alligator Alarm on Musicplayonline Musicplay PreK includes the Alphabet Action songs.
Search for Letter A or Letter B find alphabet songs

Movement in Place
v Dance Unit - Musicplayonline Move to Music
Many Options in the Listening Section
Action Songs: Movement Songs: Action Songs:
Tony Chestnut – tempo Father Abraham Chester – tempo
Head and Shoulders Dooby Doo Deep and Wide – tempo * Great Gate – plates
Mountaintop Monster
Listen to the Water
Go Bananas Downright Upright * Mendelssohn#4 - plates
Monkeys We Come from Pluto
Bear Hunt Elephants Have Wrinkles Pizza Hut
Oats and Beans
Oh my Aunt Came Back
One Green Jelly Bean My Hat
Button Factory
* Hands, Plates, Scarves with
Johnny One Hammer
Shake it Together
Sam the Robot Ham and Eggs Contradance
In a Cabin in the Wood My Bonnie Pizza Pizza
Little Peter Rabbit Under the Chestnut Tree
Austrian Went Yodeling
Button Factory
Ham and Eggs Categories – clap game * Hungarian Dance #5 – balls, hands,
Topnotcher
Chinese Fan
Pizza Pizza Swimming chef
A Ram Sam Sam She Sailed Away
Napoleon Sleepy Bunnies Who Did
George Washington Bridge * Move, then reflect and respond, Learn about composers

Link to Dance Unit - Movement Activities Link to Great Gate in K and Mendelssohn#4 in K

Listening Section - many movement examples

Dance Line Dance

See Musicplayonline.com Dance Unit instructions guided

* Hunt the Cows Bad Bad Leroy Brown

From a Kimbo CD:
* Seven Jumps
Dances in a Line

* La Raspa
(Disclaimer: I’ve only ever used this track from the disk.)

https://www.kimboed.com/dancesinaline.aspx
* Irish Jig – Gr. 5 – St. Patrick’s Day Unit
music
* children learn many concepts from dance: phrasing,
steady beat, form *Webinar 1 – Sleepy Bunnies A Line Dance Unit is planned for
* UNITS are on the left menu, under Online Learning
Musicplayonline in the Fall.

Link to Dance Unit - Gr. 1-2 Line Dances will be added to Dance Unit in the
Fall of 2020 - with a good teacher. (not Denise!)

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 Body Percussion • Adapting Singing Games in 2020
New Unit by Cristian will be online soon!
• Listen, Move, Reflect
• Fun Movement for Zoom or
in/person
• Ukulele Fun!
• * Hybrid Recorder in-
person/online

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