Wednesday, March 9, 2022

Come on Spring!!

 Wait. How is it already March?? Where did January and February go? Oh Man! Time to update what music classes have been doing! Here we go:

Fingerplays: Five Little Snowmen Fat; Catching A Fish

Action Songs: Alice the Camel; Head & Shoulders, Baby; All Little Penguins; Hop Up & Jump Up; Sleeping Bunnies

Pitch Exploration: Andrew Got a Pogo Stick; Follow the Ribbon; Big Pig; I Thought I Heard a Puppy Whine; Copy the Slide Whistle

Circle Games: Grizzly Bear; Paige's Train

Echo or Fill in the Blank Songs: Who Fed the Chickens; Valentine; My Name is Michael

Recorded Music We've Used in Class: "Robot Re-charge" by HighScope; "Highway Number 1" by Shenanigans; "Stop & Go" by Ella Jenkins; "Texas" by The Amidons; "Santa Rita" by HighScope; "Chugga Chugga Choo Choo" by Choo Choo Soul; "A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald; "The Boy From Ipanema" by Ella Fitzgerald; "Groovin' High" by The Dizzy Gillespie Sextet; "Salt Peanuts" by Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker; "What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong; "Feet Can't Fail Me Now" by Buckwheat Zydeco; "Ballet of the Unhatched Eggs" by Modest Mussorgsky; "El Baile Madrigal" by Germaine Franco; Click here for a playlist of most of the songs we've used in class 

Instruments & Manipulatives we've used: tambourines; scarves; floor spots as steering wheels; shaky eggs

Songs They've Listened to: Martin Luther King; Spring is Here