Winter Wonderings

Our winter has only been missing enough snow to play in, but we're still having fun in music class! Here are the things we have been doing in music:

Fingerplays: Five Fat Turkeys; A Big Eyed Owl; Chop, Chop, Chippity Chop; Miss Polly Had A Dolly; Five Little Snowmen Fat

Action Songs: Head & Shoulders, Knees & Toes; Mother Gooneybird; Jack in the Box; All Little Penguins; Riding Our Ponies; My Poor Hand is Shaking

Pitch Exploration: Copy my slide whistle with your voice; Pass the Owl; Cowboy Joe; Big Pig; I Thought I Heard a Puppy Whine

Circle Games: Highway Number 1; Going Around Our Hoops; Gallop All Around; Exercise Game No. 2; Grizzly Bear

Simple Songs to Sing: Pumpkin Pie; Who Fed The Chickens; Frosty, the Snowman; You Are My Sunshine;  

Echo Songs/Fill in the Blank Songs: Oh My! No More Pie!; What's Your Favorite Thing About Winter?; What Was One Fun Thing About Your Winter Break?; John, the Rabbit; I Made a Snowman

Instruments & manipulatives we've used: Scarves; Our bodies as food shapes before Thanksgiving; jingle bells; hoops; kids have helped me strum the ukulele; Triangles

Recorded music we've used for movement: "Heartburn Waltz" by Vince Guaraldi Trio; "Sandy Boys" by Carolina Chocolate Drops; "Sleigh Ride" by Leroy Anderson; "Skating" by Vince Guaraldi Trio; "Santa Clause is Coming to Town" by the Jackson 5; "Wizards in Winter" by Trans Siberian Orchestra; "Jingle Bell Rock" by Owen Rochester Jazz; "Robot Re-Charge"; "Toom-Bah-Ee-Lero" by Ella Jenkins; "Run Mountain" by Carolina Chocolate Drops; "Wonderful Life" by Matoma; "The Boy from Ipanema" by Ella Fitzgerald; "Salt Peanuts" by Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie; Haydn's Surprise Symphony; "Feet Don't Fail" by Buckwheat Zydeco Click here for my Spotify playlist with all this music

Music they've listen to: "Oh, How Lovely"; A Minor Round; "Martin Luther King"; "Harriet Tubman"

Click here to find lyrics for all the songs we've sung in music

Keep sharing the music you love with your kiddos! They love sharing music and dancing with you!!