Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Snuggle Up with some good music in the Cold Weather!

 Fingerplays: Five Little Bells; Five Little Snowmen Fat; Chop, Chop, Chippity Chop

Action Songs: Horse Stood Around; Jack in the Box; All Little Penguins; See How I’m Jumping; My Poor Hand is Shaking

Pitch Exploration: copy the slide whistle; I Thought I Heard a Puppy Whine

Circle Games: Looby Loo; The Reindeer Pokey; Going Around Our Hoops; Riding Our Ponies

Simple Songs to Sing: Snowflakes Are Falling

Echo Songs/Fill in the Black Song: Johnny on the Woodpile

Instruments/Manipulatives we’ve played/used: yarn microphone; jingle bells; scarves; rainbow ribbons; triangles; rainbow hoops

Recorded Music we’ve moved to can be found on this playlist: Music from PreK music 24-25

Songs for Listening:Jingle Bells” by Duke Ellington; “Wizards in Winter” by Trans Siberian Orchestra; “Puppy for Hanukkah” by Daveed Diggs; “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy” performed by Nina Kaptsova; “Santa Claus is Coming to Town” by the Jackson 5; Martin Luther King; Harriet Tubman

Lyrics to the songs we’ve sung: Lyrics page