Kindergarten students sang, moved, listened and responded to music this quarter. They rocked, swayed or played to the beat of the drum, tapped their fingers to a steady pulse, danced, marched and clapped in response to the music.

 

Each of these activities require an ability to sense or respond to a steady pulse or beat. From a conceptual perspective they discovered that: Music may have an underlying beat. The beat is steady.

 

Here are a few examples of some of our songs/activities - ask your child to tell you about them (or sing them!!) at dinner!!:

 

Singing Time- 5 Little Pumpkins, Oh Once I Had a Pumpkin, Pumpkin Pumpkin Lets Give You Some Eyes, Brown Bear, It's a Small World, Ole, Johnny Works with One Hammer, 5 Green and Speckled Frogs 

 

Poems with songs: 2 Little Blackbirds, Little Miss Muffett

 

Books with songs: Brown Bear, Brown Bear; 5 Little Ducks, Napping House, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Five Little Ducks Went Out One Day (Rafi)

 

Movement- Marching to John Phillip Sousa, Dancing Flashlights

 

Dances: Dino Stomp (Ku Ku Kangaroo), Mac Chicken, Dice Dancing, Bat Dance, Smurffs

 

Games: Grizzly Bear

 

Orff Ensembles (xylophones and loud things!)- 2 Little Black Birds,Little Miss Muffett, Surprise Symphony by Haydn, Rumpapdumpumpum (Drums), I Know a Chicken (Shakey eggs)