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Music stimulates learning, lowers stress, and advances memory, attention, and brain development.
Combining music with movement creates new learning pathways in the brain while enhancing motor
skills and muscle development.
ABC Music & Me combines structure with flexibility to enable children of all temperaments to flourish.
A quiet child is allowed to observe and absorb, while a highly active childs energy can be funneled into a
creative and positive experience.
ABC Music & Me includes a storytime in every class, encouraging early literacy development and skills
such as listening, sequencing, empathy, and anticipation.
Gathering in a group to sing and play is a positive way to lower inhibitions, build self-esteem, and foster
a sense of inclusion. Group learning also helps children develop social skills such as turn-taking and
cooperation.
In Family & Friends, children will sing songs, say rhymes, dance, and play, all around the theme of friends and
family members. They will listen to grandma and grandpa calling on the phone, hear a conversation between
two friends, and take turns with classmates playing the triangle and rolling a ball. Theyll listen to a story
about lots of different family members moving like lots of different animals. Come join the fun! Sing and play
with your Family & Friends!
INTRODUCTION
Home Kit
The ABC Music & Me Home Kit facilitates the essential learning partnership between the child, the parent(s),
and the learning center team. As an Instructor or Center Director, you can communicate the value of the Family
Guide and Home CD to parents. The more reinforcement a child gets at home, the more the child will learn.
Home CD
Parents will also receive a CD containing the songs, poems, and story heard in class. The Family Guides parent
pages suggest simple ways to use the Home CD to have fun building on the classroom learning at home.
Teacher Kit
Your Teachers Kit includes all of the tools and information you will need to begin teaching this unit.
Teachers Guide
Your Teachers Guide contains one unit of ABC Music & Me, comprised of four 30-minute lessons. Each
unit is designed to emphasize a particular learning focus, such as keeping a steady beat or recognizing high
and low sounds. In your Teachers Guide, you will find:
Step-by-step instructions for leading Lessons 1 and 3
Lesson extensions for Lessons 2 and 4 (Lesson 2 is identical to Lesson 1, but includes new extensions
to include the second time around. Lesson 4 is identical to Lesson 3, but includes new extensions.)
Easy Guides for Lessons 1 & 2 and Lessons 3 & 4 (Photocopy these simple lesson overviews and use
them as handy reference guides while teaching.)
Class preparation and materials check-list (located on the back of the Easy Guides)
An alphabetical index of musical scores to the songs in each unit
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INTRODUCTION
Activity Title
Activity Focus
(see below)
Materials
needed for
this activity
Skills emphasized in
this activity
Step-by-step
instructions for
you to use in the
classroom
Your class CD is
narrated by a
Kindermusik CD
Host. The CD
script is included
here for your
reference.
Extensions for
Lessons 2 and 4
will be included
in Lessons 1 and
3. Use this easy
lesson extension
bar to augment
the activities the
second time
around.
Space is provided on
each lesson page for
teacher notes.
This months
learning focus
Every lesson in ABC Music & Me contains a variety of activities, each chosen and designed to encourage different kinds of learning.
The following activities are included in every 30-minute lesson:
Rituals: Greeting and Goodbye
The predictability of rituals allows young
children to relax into a new situation.
When children are comfortable, they are
better able to focus, engage, and open
themselves to learning.
Movement
Participating in a variety of creative
movements, from the largest locomotor
movements to the smallest fingerplays,
helps children develop coordination,
rhythm, and neural pathways for learning.
Singing
Singing together is a natural way to invite
children into the joyful world of expression,
creativity, and socialization. Singing allows
children to express themselves, explore
their voices, and expand their growing
sense of rhythm, melody, and confidence.
Vocal Play
Playing and experimenting with the endless sounds the voice can makefrom pops
and purrs to whistles and whirrs, squeals
and squishes to bumps and boomshelps
children develop the vocal expressiveness
and confidence they will use in language
and expression throughout their lives.
Storytime
Reading aloud to children fosters awareness of sounds, teaches use of language,
and develops pre-reading skills.
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Focused Listening
Listening activities that are brief, focusing
attention on one sound at a time, allow
children to practice the skills of attention
and careful listening.
CD
Track Activity
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Getting scarves
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Rigaudon (2:48)
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Lessons 1 & 2
Lessons 1 & 2
CD
Track Activity
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Making a circle
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Sitting down
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Listening to storytime
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Moving to music
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Sitting down
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CLASS PREPARATION
You may use dot stickers or masking tape to create a music circle on
the floor. Each child should have enough space to see you easily and sit
without being crowded.
Lessons 1 & 2
CD Player
Teaching CD for Lessons 1 & 2
Scarves (1 per person*)
Zig Zag blocks (2 per person*)
Family Guide
Egg shakers (1 per person*)
Optional Materials
Tissues, streamers, or ribbons (1 per person*)
see extension on p. 11
Have fun!
Greeting Ritual
Lessons 1 & 2
Materials: CD Track 1
Benefits:
Establishing ritual
Developing singing skills
Exploring loud and quiet
Directions:
Gather the children, and invite them to sit and sing hello with you.
Hello and welcome to ABC Music & Me! Lets wave to our friends while
we sing hello together.
Grandmas Glasses
Chant with
Movement
Benefits:
Lessons 1 & 2
Materials: CD Tracks 24
Directions:
We all have families and they all look differentmoms, dads, sisters, brothers,
aunts, uncles, Grandmas, and grandpas. Lets pretend to be Grandma and were
putting on Grandmas glasses. (Pause) Grandma loves hats, maybe one with
flowers or a feather. Pretend to put on Grandmas hat. (Pause) Now, hold your
hands and place them in your lap, just like Grandma might. (Pause) Listen and
play along to this rhyme about Grandma.
Practice the motions for the chant with the children: pretending to put on
glasses and a hat, then laying your hands in your lap.
Grandmas Glasses
These are Grandmas glasses.
(Pretend to put on glasses.)
This is Grandmas hat.
(Pretend to put on a hat.)
This is the way she folds her hands
And lays them in her lap.
(Lay hands in lap.)
Listen to the first verse of the rhyme, modeling motions about Grandma for the
children to follow.
Did you hear Grandmas high voice? Use your high voice to say These are
Grandmas glasses. (Echo: These are Grandmas glasses.)
How about Grandpa? He has glasses and a big hat AND a low voice. He likes to
cross his arms across his chest just like this. (Pause) Lets pretend to be Grandpa.
Start by putting on his glasses.
Lessons 1 & 2
Listen to the rhyme about Grandpas glasses, modeling the motions for the
children to follow.
Grandpa has a low voice. Pretend to be Grandpa and use a low voice to say
These are Grandpas glasses. (Echo: These are Grandpas glasses.)
Talk about how Grandpa had a low voice, and encourage the children to
imitate Grandpas low voice as they say These are Grandpas glasses.
What fun! Lets do the whole poem again: well start with Grandma in her
high voice.
Grandmas Glasses
These are Grandmas glasses.
(Pretend to put on glasses.)
This is Grandmas hat.
(Pretend to put on a hat.)
This is the way she folds her hands
And lays them in her lap.
(Lay hands in lap.)
These are Grandpas glasses.
(Pretend to put on glasses.)
This is Grandpas hat.
(Pretend to put on a hat.)
This is the way he folds his arms,
Just like that.
(Fold arms across chest.)
Say the rhyme with the children, doing the motions and using high and low
voices to match Grandma and Grandpa.
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Developing auditory
discrimination
Developing listening skills
Exploring high and low
voices
Lessons 1 & 2
Materials: CD Tracks 59
Focused Listening
Directions:
(Sound: phone ringing) The phone is ringing! Lets answer and see who it is. Hello?
(Pause)
Hello, Bobby. This is Grandma. Can you come over for a visit?
Invite the children to imitate Grandmas high voice and say Can you come over
for a visit.
Listen to the sound of Grandpa calling on the phone, and encourage the
children to imitate his low voice.
Lesson 2
extension:
Invite the children
to think of other
things Grandma or
Grandpa might say,
then say them
together in a high
or low voice. For
example, you might
say, lets make sandwiches together or, lets
go to the playground.
h and low sounds with
I can make hig
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Creative
Movement
Lessons 1 & 2
Benefits:
Developing gross-motor
skills
Moving expressively
Directions:
Its time for scarves! Come and get one scarf, then stand in a spot where
you have plenty of space to move. (Getting-instruments music)
First, lets swish our scarves from side to side: swish, swish, swish, swish. (Pause)
This time, find a bouncy way to move your scarf: bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce,
bounce. (Pause) Now, move your scarf in a circle: cir-cle, cir-cle, cir-cle, cir-cle.
(Pause) Take a walk with your scarf, and move it however you like: high, low, or
side to side. (Pause) Youre ready to play! Well start with swishing.
Practice scarf movements: swishing the scarves from side to side, moving them
in bouncy ways, and moving them in circles.
Verse 1
Lets go swishy, swishy, swishy.
Lets go swishy all day long.
Lets go swishy, swishy, swishy.
Lets go swishy all day long.
Refrain
Come on through, my darlin, darlin, darlin.
Come on through, my darlin, all day long.
Come on through, my darlin, darlin, darlin.
Come on through, my darlin, all day long.
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Lessons 1 & 2
Verse 2
Lets go bouncy, bouncy, bouncy.
Lets go bouncy all day long.
Lets go bouncy, bouncy, bouncy.
Lets go bouncy all day long.
Refrain
Verse 3
Lets turn round and round and round
Refrain
Lesson 2
extension:
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Song with
Movement
Lessons 1 & 2
Benefits:
Developing sequencing
skills
Developing singing skills
Labeling parts of the body
Directions:
Lets play Follow the Leader. Youre teacher will be the leader. Listen and watch.
Touch your head (Pause) then your shoulders (Pause), now count with your
fingers: 1, 2, 3! (Pause) Back to your head (Pause), shoulders again (Pause),
now time to count: 1, 2, 3! (Pause) This time, touch your knees (Pause) then
your toes (Pause) and count: 1, 2, 3! (Pause) Knees again, (Pause) back to toes.
(Pause) Time to count: 1, 2, 3! (Pause) Youve got it! Lets do a new one: touch
your ears (Pause) and your nose (Pause) and count: 1, 2, 3! (Pause) Back
to your ears, (Pause) and touch your nose. (Pause) Lets count: 1, 2, 3!
(Pause) Time to sing and play along to our song. Get ready to start with head
and shoulders!
Practice the motions for the song: touching head, then shoulders, then counting 1, 2, 3; touching knees, then toes, then counting 1, 2, 3; and touching ears
and nose and counting 1, 2, 3.
Lesson 2
extension:
What other parts of
the body could be
used for this song?
Make up new verses
to move to and sing
together: hips and
elbows, back and
belly, etc.
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Verse 3
Ears and nose, children. 1, 2, 3! ...
(Touch ears, then nose, then put up fingers to count 1, 2, 3)
Move and sing along to the song, matching motions to the words.
Exploring instruments
Developing fine-motor
skills
Lessons 1 & 2
Instrument
Play-Along
Directions:
Instrument play is always fun! Come and get two Zig Zag blocks.
(Getting-instruments music)
Invite the children to come and get two Zig Zag blocks.
Lets tap them together quickly. (Pause) Aaaand, stop. I bet you can find
another way to tap them quickly. (Pause) Aaaand, stop. How about scraping
them together slowly by moving them back and forth? (Pause) Aaaand, stop.
This time scrape them slowly by twisting them in one direction, then another.
(Pause) Aaaand, stop. You can find lots of ways to play your Zig Zag blocks
to this music.
Play along to the music, modeling a variety of ways to play, and acknowledging
the childrens ideas for playing the Zig Zag blocks.
Blocks away, blocks away. Gently put the blocks away.
(Instruments-away music)
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Movement
Lessons 1 & 2
Benefits:
Directions:
Stand up, and hold hands with your neighbor, and make a circle. (Pause)
What a nice circle. Tiptoe around the circle: tip-toe, tip-toe, tip-toe, tip-toe,
aaaand stop. (Pause) Now, rock in place by leaning forward and back. (Pause)
Aaaand stop. (Pause) In our song, there will be time for tiptoeing in a circle and
standing in one place and rocking forward and back. Well start with tiptoeing!
Invite the children to hold hands and make a circle, then practice the motions
for this song: tiptoeing around the circle, then stopping and rocking in place
forward and back.
Lesson 2
extension:
Explore other ways
to tiptoe and rock:
for example,
tiptoe sideways or
backward, and rock
from side to side, or
with partners.
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Encourage the children to sing along to the music, moving their whole bodies
as they rock and tiptoe.
Come sit back down. (Pause)
Lessons 1 & 2
Materials: CD Track 24
Family Guide
Storytime
Directions:
Find a spot where you can listen to a story about lots of different family
members and lots of animals.
Read the story Flip-Flap, Sugar Snap! with the children. Point out all of the
animals and different family members.
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I Love My Family
Instrument
Play-Along
Lessons 1 & 2
Benefits:
Directions:
I bet youre ready to shake, shake, shake! Come and get one egg shaker.
(Getting-instruments music)
I Love My Family
Refrain
I love my family, family, family, family.
Take a look and you will see.
I love my family, family, family, family.
Theyre okay with me!
Verse 1
Some kids have a father, some have a mother.
Some have a sister and even a brother.
Everybody has a family tree,
But my familys best to me!
Refrain
Verse 2
Some kids have a grandma, a grandpa and a cousin.
Aunts and uncles can come by the dozen.
Everybody has a family tree,
But my familys best to me!
Refrain
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Encourage the children to explore the egg shakers, playing them in a variety of
ways. Acknowledge the childrens ideas and model alternative suggestions.
Lessons 1 & 2
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Movement
Lessons 1 & 2
Benefits:
Developing gross-motor
skills
Moving creatively
Directions:
Its dancing time! Stand up, and make sure you have space all around you
to move! (Pause) You can move all around the room to this danceyou might
hear special ways to move in the music, like marching and hopping, or you can
move any way you feel. Lets do the Please and Thank You Dance!
Invite the children to stand up and get ready to move freely to the Please and
Thank You Dance.
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Lessons 1 & 2
Teacher Tip
There are many movements described in this
song. Children may or
may not explore the
motions included in
the music. The primary
goal for this song is
expressive movement
and creativity, so invite
the children to move
freely throughout
the song, modeling
motions and acknowledging their movement
ideas, or following
some of the movements described
as many as suit the
needs for your class.
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Music Listening
Lessons 1 & 2
Benefits:
Learning relaxation
techniques
Developing listening skills
Directions:
Its time to rest a little. Find a place to lie down and rest quietly. (Pause)
Listen to this beautiful song while you rest.
Teacher Tip
If children are restless,
invite them to move
their hands while lying
down. They can create
motions for the song:
pretend to climb a tree
and let their hands slide
down to their legs or
the floor.
Lesson 2
extension:
Drape scarves over
children to use as a
blanket as they lie
and listen.
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Establishing ritual
Experiencing individual
recognition
Developing vocal skills
Lessons 1 & 2
Materials: CD Track 34
Goodbye Ritual
Directions:
Weve had so much fun playing, singing, and listening to family and friends
today. Its time to sing goodbyesee you next time!
Sing the goodbye song, waving and making eye contact with each child.
Lesson 2
extension:
After the song, you
may want to turn off
the CD player and
go around the circle
singing a personal
goodbye to each
child. (Be sure to ask
the children if they
want to be sung to,
and allow them to
pass if they dont.)
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Lessons 3 & 4
CD
Track Activity
Johnny (0:17)
Katie (0:18)
Triangle (1:28)
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Sitting down
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Getting sandblocks
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Listening to storytime
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Sitting down
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CD
Track Activity
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Lessons 3 & 4
CLASS PREPARATION
Lessons 3 & 4
You may use dot stickers or masking tape to create a music circle on
the floor. Each child should have enough space to see you easily and sit
without being crowded.
CD Player
Teaching CD for Lessons 3 & 4
Triangle
Sandblocks (2 per person*)
Family Guide
Beach ball
Optional Materials
Pretend telephone or rhythm sticksee extension on p. 27
Have fun!
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Greeting Ritual
Benefits:
Establishing ritual
Developing fine-motor
skills
Developing singing skills
Directions:
Gather the children, and invite them to sit and sing hello with you.
Lessons 3 & 4
Welcome back to ABC Music & Me. Its great to be together again! Lets wave
to our friends as we sing hello.
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Lesson 4
extension:
Give yourself a big hug for this verse. Will you sing the 1, 2, 3 part?
Verse 4
e ABC Music & Me
Hug hello, hug happily.
Hug hello with a __, __, __!
Hug hello and sing with me.
Sing verse 4 while the children hug themselves and sing along, inserting 1, 2, 3
in the black space of the song.
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Fingerplay
Materials: CD Tracks 25
Benefits:
Developing fine-motor
skills
Exploring vocal sounds
Directions:
Lessons 3 & 4
Hold one hand in front of you and spread out your fingers. Use your other
hand to tap each finger one time, starting at the pinky: Johnny, Johnny,
Johnny, Johnny, Johnny. (Pause) Pretend that your pointer finger and thumb
make a slideslide all the way to the end of your thumb. Whoops! (Pause) Lets
start again. Well start at the pinky: Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Whooops!
Johnny. (Pause) Youve got it! Now, let Johnny bounce back the way he came,
starting with the thumb: Johnny, whooops! Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny.
(Pause) We can put it all together, starting at the pinky and going back again.
Invite the children to hold up one hand, then use their other hand to tap each
fingertip, starting with the pinky. After the first four fingers, slide down the
index finger to their thumb, saying whoops! as they go. Then tap the thumb,
slide back to the index finger (saying whoops! as you go), and tap each other
finger, returning to the pinky.
Repeat, this time saying Johnny on each fingertip, and saying whoops!
between the index finger and thumb.
Johnny has a friend named Katie. Put up your other hand, and give Katie
a turn to bounce. Start with your pinky.
Lesson 4
extension:
If time allows, insert
the names of
children in your class
in place of Johnny
and Katie. Be sure
to ask a childs permission before saying
a special verse for
him or her, and pass
if a child would
rather not have you
say his or her name.
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Repeat the fingerplay with the other hand, this time saying Katie instead
of Johnny.
Benefits:
Focused Listening
Directions:
Share with the children that they will hear two friends talking with each other
on the phone.
Lesson 4
extension:
Talk about parts of the conversation: did they hear the friends say Hello?
Invite the children to say Hello, and imitate other parts of the conversation
Goodbye, etc.
Children love to
receive telephone
calls. Pretend to
give each child an
individual phone
call: make a phone
ringing sound, then
say something to
each child, such as
Hello, Sam!, Is
Allie there?, or
other conversational
ideas, such as How
are you today? or
What are you
wearing? If youd
like, use a pretend
telephone (this can
be a rhythm stick) to
pass around as you
make calls. Be sure
to ask each child for
permission before
calling, and let him
or her pass if he or
she would rather
not participate.
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Lessons 3 & 4
Its fun to spend time with friends! Listen while two friends, Johnny and Katie,
talk on the phone.
Triangle
Instrument
Exploration
Materials: CD Track 9
Triangle
Benefits:
Taking turns
Exploring instrument
sounds
Directions:
Lessons 3 & 4
Share that you have an instrument that can make a sound like a phone ringing: a
triangle. Demonstrate by playing the triangle.
Lesson 4
extension:
Extension: there are
lots of ways to play
the triangle. If time
permits, invite the
children to explore
other ways to play by
tapping it gently to
make a quiet sound,
or striking it firmly
to hear a louder
sound that rings for a
long time. Explore
playing it by holding
the striker with the
other hand.
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Movement
Benefits:
Developing locomotor
skills
Moving in response to an
auditory cue
Directions:
Remind the children of the tiptoe and rocking movements of the song.
Share that this week, theyll tiptoe and rock all around the room.
Lessons 3 & 4
Youve already tiptoed and rocked to Hey, Betty Martin while moving
in a circle. This week, well sing it again, but you can tiptoe and rock
all around the room. Start with tiptoeing!
Refrain
Hey, Betty Martin, tippy toe, tippy toe.
Hey, Betty Martin, tiptoe fine.
Hey, Betty Martin, tippy toe, tippy toe.
Hey, Betty Martin, please be mine.
Verse
Rock with me, Ill rock with you.
Well go rocking the whole day through.
Rock so fine, rock so fine,
Rocking, rocking, all the time.
Refrain
Lesson 4
extension:
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Instrument
Play-Along
Benefits:
Exploring instruments
Developing fine-motor
control
Directions:
Lessons 3 & 4
Explore different ways to play the sandblocks: scraping them together, tapping
them together, and tapping their handles together.
Verse 1
Lets go swishy, swishy, swishy.
Lets go swishy all day long.
Lets go swishy, swishy, swishy.
Lets go swishy all day long.
Refrain
Come on through, my darlin, darlin, darlin.
Come on through, my darlin, all day long.
Come on through, my darlin, darlin, darlin.
Come on through, my darlin, all day long.
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Verse 2
Lets go bouncy, bouncy, bouncy.
Lets go bouncy all day long.
Lets go bouncy, bouncy, bouncy.
Lets go bouncy all day long.
Lessons 3 & 4
Refrain
Verse 3
Lets turn round and round and round
Refrain
Play the sandblocks along to the music, inviting the children to play freely or to
explore movements that match the words of the song.
Sandblocks away, sandblocks away, gently put the sandblocks away.
(Instruments-away music)
Lesson 4
extension:
If children have been
enjoying partner play
for Hey, Betty
Martin, you might
encourage them to
engage in partner
play with their
instruments, such as
tapping each others
sandblocks together.
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Storytime
Materials: CD Track 17
Family Guide
Benefits:
Directions:
Lessons 3 & 4
Its time for our story, Flip-Flap, Sugar Snap! I know you can help with
the words today.
Read the story with the children, inviting them to join you in saying some of the
repeated words, such as east, west, and the way you like the best.
Lesson 4
extension:
There are so many
ways to move in this
story! Have a movement storytime by
reading the story
while the children
move like
the animals.
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Creative
Movement
Benefits:
Developing inhibitory
control
Moving expressively
Directions:
While seated, invite the children to shake their hands in the air, then stop.
Repeat several times.
Invite the children to stand, then dance freely while the instrumental interlude
plays.
Remain standing for the rest of the song, going back and forth between shaking
hands, stopping, and dancing.
hands,
hands,
hands,
hands,
everyone, lum-a-lum
everyone, lum-a-lum
everyone, lum-a-lum
everyone, lum-a-lum
And, stop!
Teacher Tip
lum.
lum.
lum.
lum.
If children need
suggestions for movement during the freedance section of this
song, provide ideas for
ways to move such as
twisting, dancing
down low or up high,
swaying, stomping,
swooping, leaping, and
twirling. Acknowledge
childrens movement
ideas as you dance
around the room.
Lessons 3 & 4
Shake your hands in the air: shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, aaaand stop.
(Pause) Lets do it again: shake, shake, shake, shake, shake, aaaand stop.
(Pause) In our next song, you can dance all around to the music, and there
will be times for you to shake your hands, and then stop.
Stand upits time to dance and shake!
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Song with
Movement
Materials: CD Tracks 2122
Benefits:
Directions:
Lessons 3 & 4
Repeat this song as in previous weeks, touching each part of the body and
singing along as it is mentioned in the song.
Lesson 4
extension:
Head and shoulders
with friends: invite
children to touch a
neighbors head,
shoulders, knees and
toes along to the
song. Or, make up
your own verses
(see Lessons 1 & 2
extension) and sing
them together
as a group.
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Roly, Bouncy
Movement
with a Prop
Benefits:
Directions:
Ask everyone to spread their legs apart wide so that their toes touch someone
elses toes.
Take out the ball, and tell the children that everyone will take turns rolling back
and forth.
Roll the ball to the children one at a time, and encourage them to roll the ball
back to you.
Lessons 3 & 4
Its time for a game we can play together with our friends! Sit in a circle, and
spread your legs wide, so that your toes touch your neighbors toes. (Pause)
Your teacher will roll a ball to you. When you catch it, roll it back.
Everyone will have a turn to roll and play.
Roly, Bouncy
e Roly, bouncy, 1, 2, 3.
Roly, bouncy, 1, 2, 3.
Catching the ball, just you and me.
Roly, bouncy, 3, 2, 1.
Catching together is lots of fun!
Pass the ball back to your teacher.
If the children in
your class are older
3s and 4s, you might
encourage them to
roll the ball to each
other, rather than
always back to you.
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Goodbye Ritual
Materials: CD Track 27
Benefits:
Establishing ritual
Experiencing individual
recognition
Developing singing skills
Directions:
Lessons 3 & 4
Singing and playing with friends and family is so much fun! Its time to sing
goodbye for nowsee you next time!
Sing the goodbye song, waving and making eye contact with each child.
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hap - pi - ly.
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hel
Stretch hel - lo
lo
and
with a
sing
1,
with
2,
3!
me.
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Let's go swishy, swish-y, swish-y, let's go swish-y all day long.
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on through, my
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dar - lin',
Come on through, my
dar - lin',
all daylong.
all day
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Vs. 3
long.
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#
#
Hey, Bet- ty
Mar - tin,
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fine,
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fine;
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me, I'll
jump with
through.
jump - ing,
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tip - toe
whole day
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you.
Jump so
jump - ing,
tip-py toe.
please
be
We'll go
Hey, Bet-ty
Fine
mine.
jump-ing the
fine,
jump so
all
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& 4
the
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time.
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Shake hands,
&b
Shake
hands,
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Lum,
lum,
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ev - 'ry - one,
ev - 'ry - one,
lum,
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lum,
dum - a - la - lum.
#
dum - a - la - lum.
dum - a - la - lum.
#
dum - a - la - lum,
and
stop!
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&b
and
and
&b
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three. Head
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three. Head
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one,
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one,
one,
two,
two,
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two,
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three.
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hap - py as can
be.
. .
Now it's time to
go but we'll
Me!
be
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&
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Julee Kowallis
back soon
for
B C
Mu - sic &
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