Let’s Play Music

Keeping a steady beat, patterning, solfege, in-tune singing, building routine

Hickety Pickety Bumblebee

Learning names of classmates, exposure to minor 3rd interval, in-tune singing, playing the tone bells

Tambourine Train

Keeping a steady beat using whole body, following a given rhythm, experiencing spatial skills by dividing time into equal parts, Dalcroze Eurythmics, minor 3rd interval

Great Big Red Balloon

Singing a major scale, introduction to staff function, distinguishing high and low notes, full body involvement

Scotland’s Burning

Solfege hand signs, audiation (hearing music in head that is not heard by ears)

Primary Chords Song

Beginning to distinguish between the 3 most commonly used chords in music (I, IV, and V chords), playing an accompanying instrument while singing, doing fun (and secretly educational!) actions to a song

Echo Ed

Experiencing and imitating rhythms before seeing them on paper, developing internal hearing while waiting to echo, keeping a steady beat

Magical Lamp (puppet show)

Intelligent listening to classical music, using body to feel the themes in the music, enjoying the different layers of music

Frog in the Middle

Feeling a steady beat, self expression, parent/child bonding, experiencing the “mi-re-do” melodic pattern at the end of the song

Let’s Say Goodbye

Keeping a steady beat, solfege, in-tune singing, building routine