1. Singing Songs, Fingerplays, and Chants 2. Instruments and Using their body as a musical instrument Musical Instruments 3. Movement Experiences Listening to music and moving to it Doing an activity with a song

 RHYTHM  Clap, clap different sequences  SOUND / TONE  Sounds of different instruments, sound of voice  MELODY  Move hand up and down with notes  HARMONY Identify notes that don’t sound right  DYNAMICS  Soft, loud  TEMPO/ BEAT  How fast & slow Playing guitar to Elvis Presley music BINGO

 Adds spice to the child care facility!  Provides children with the opportunities to explore sound, rhythm, beat, and tone.

 Gives children the chance to explore their body movements, voice, feelings, and ideas.  Teaches many concepts!  Self-confidence  Language  Listening  Creativity  Cognitive

Fast paced music. Feather or balloon float Head, shoulders, knees, and toes

 There should be some REAL MUSICAL instruments within the music center. This could include:  Drums  Keyboards  CD Players  Guitars  Many more!  Children can also create their own instruments!

 Music naturally delights and moves children.  It will also naturally sooth and calm a child.  Makes a great transition! (moving from one activity to the next) i.e. Clean up song!

 Many children are introduced to singing by finger-plays.  Young children usually enjoy SIMPLE and REPETITIVE songs.  The opportunity to play simple instruments helps develop children’s interest in rhythm.

Communicates and Expresses their ideas  Children move much better than they speak.  It simultaneously involves the inner being and the physical body. Move as if you were carrying a heavy box, walk like a giant, run like an animal, be an ice cream cone melting in the summer, make an interesting shape with your body. Learn how movement is related to space Make yourself big, small, tall, short Move around without touching anyone, pretend to be driving a car around the room, float around the room lie a feather Lift your leg in front of you, backwards, sideways. Step backwards Have 4 people link arms back to back and walk around like a spider while singing Eensy Weensy Spider

 Placed away from noisy and active play areas.  Wide variety of musical instruments for the children to use and explore.  Supplies to create their own musical instruments.  Carpeted / rug to sit on and move around on.  Tape recorders / CD players / Microphones Headphones, Tapes/CD’s  Supplies for the children to move to the music.  Streamers, scarves, paper plates, costumes, feathers…

 Tap out your Name  Create a beat pattern and we repeat it  Tap out the beat as someone moves around  Follow a teacher directed beat movement  Listen to a walking beat (slow), Listen to a jogging beat (faster), Pound for a jumping beat. Now have the kids listen to the beat and do the actions. Use a bell to signal freeze.  Tap out a beat to a story (Click Clack Moo By: Doreen Cronin)  Tap out a beat to a song (Sing ‘Ring around the Rosies’ or ‘Sally the Camel’ and tap a beat with it.)

 Familiar songs and tunes that they have heard or sung before  Simple Songs with lots of repetition  Old Macdonald had a farm  Songs with fingerplays, actions, games  Wheels on the bus, Patty Cake, Hokey Pokey  Songs and Dances of different cultures  Songs with funny sounds or silly lyrics  Hey-Diddle-Diddle, Name Song (Annie, Annie, Bo Bannie..) What is a Knick-Knack Paddywhack? This song has it all!

 This old man, he played one He played knick-knack on my thumb [some versions use "drum"] With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home This old man, he played two He played knick-knack on my shoe With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home This old man, he played three He played knick-knack on my knee With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home This old man, he played four He played knick-knack on my door With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home This old man, he played five He played knick-knack on my hive With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home  This old man, he played six He played knick-knack on my sticks With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home This old man, he played seven He played knick-knack up in heaven With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home This old man, he played eight He played knick-knack on my gate With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home This old man, he played nine He played knick-knack on my spine [some versions use "line" here] With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home This old man, he played ten He played knick-knack once ag'n [some versions use "on my hen" here] With a knick-knack paddywhack, give a dog a bone, This old man came rolling home

1. Practice the song and know it by heart 2. Being enthusiastic is more important than having a good voice. Animated and smile. 3. Catch their interest with a picture, object, or story. Relate it to life in a story. 4. Sing it from beginning to end. Allow them to participate with you while the listen. Give the children something to listen for. They can clap along while you sing it a second time 5. Use musical instruments, pictures, props, costumes, or gestures to remind children of words. 6. Teach the part that is repeated most often first and then teach other sections of the song. I’m a little teapot short and stout, Here is my handle and here is my spout. When I get all steamed up, hear me shout. Tip me over and pour me out.

 Act out the song – Pretend to be or do what the music says (Horses, Rabbits, etc.)  Guessing games  (Play Name That Tune – guess the sing with first 3-5 notes)  Let them choose the songs to sing  Vary the way you sing, listen to, and move  Sing 5 speckled Frogs in an opera voice, with a country twang, fast, like an old person without teeth, …..  PIGGY BACK Song - Change the words to a song.  Instead of 5 frog’s – turtles or pigs etc.  Same tune different topic and words (Sing:Twinkle Twinkle and ABC at the same time)

 What about a child who won’t sing or participate?  Don’t pressure  They usually know the songs and sing them at home.  Let them help with the props  Let them choose the song to sing  Have a teacher sit with them and sing  Say, “What is something teacher doesn’t like to do alone – sing. Will you help me?”

 Paper-Plate Tambourine!  Fold a paper plate in half. You can decorate it any way you choose but you need to have your names on the instrument. Punch the holes around the plate about 1” apart and lace together with yarn OR use stapler. When one small opening is left, fill with a small about of beans to make it shake! Finish closing your Tambourine!  Child Development Song Evaluations (7)  Music Lesson plan (with 2 activities) & Examples of those activities  Music Signs Option