Nothin Blues with CD

Triangle Week 9

Have everybody bring his or her songbooks to the circle. They could sit on them if they are a distraction to the kids.

Hello

Nothin Blues with CD

Get out the songbooks and Sing-a-long!
Let adults of moving children know they can get up and dance with their child if they would prefer to connect with them that way.
Can intro with warm fuzzy moments about loving our children or about your connection to your child through this song, if you have one.
Can also remind parents that the songbooks are a great way to stay connected to music making over the summer months.
Get an action going like a clap so that the beat is still present, turn on the CD and sing. 
Can cue parents as you go like “back to the top” when it repeats or “let out your blues singer now” at the end when there’s big riff –ing finish.
Be sure to sing this song a few times with the CD – it’s very bluesy so don’t wing it just cause the CD is playing and you have the words. Hah!

TP’s Blues

Skip to My Lou – F#

Boat Ride from last week OR straight up dyad actions like bouncing rolling waving rocking.

TP’s Major

PE: Community Music

I want to sincerely thank you for all your wonderful participation this term. Your contribution to the class is important because we want the children to know that music is something that you share. All of your children will have no problem mastering their personal musical selves, but there will come a time when they will venture out of their personal music-making and recognize how they musically fit with what is going on around them. You’ll know when this happens when they start asking you to stop singing, or when they all of a sudden stop participating in music class. These actions are usually misinterpreted as them not liking music class anymore, or them judging your musical ability, butwhat’s likely on is they have become aware of their musical contribution to the group and because they can’t do it the way we do it, they feel inadequate. On their own, they are musical masters, but in the group they may feel they “can’t do it”. So we want to make sure we get them over that hump to ensure that they will always feel confident in group music making situations. (Call to action): So if we want to encourage them to feel confident in sharing their musical offerings to the group, we want to feel relaxed about sharing our musical offerings with the group. Your inhibitions may become their inhibitions, so that is why it is so important for us to know that this circle is a space free of judgment where we are all safe to offer what we have and just make some fun music together.

Train Song/Dance With Me/Camel Song with movement

Your choice of one of the above songs done previously during the term. Make a train or do a straight up action song with Dance with Me.

Hey Ho with sticks or Camel Song with bells or Dance with Me shakers

See previous lesson plans in Week 8 and Week 4

RP’s and 1-8 play

I’m Hiding

1st verse - 2x straight with peek-a-boo (can cue parents with babies to lay them down so they can look up into parent’s eyes)
Get parents on a snap - 2nd verse - 2x hiding behind a family’s back and popping up to say boo!
Can invite older children to hide with you or have them hide behind their parent’s back. (1st or 2nd verse)
Could also try using the sheet to hide under

Rolling a Round Ball - C

Use a big ball and model rolling to the families and back unless your location doesn’t have a physio ball available.
Get everyone to make a line across the room sitting. Then ask if they had brought their ball and did the blow up the ball (this is quick cause they’re already familiar with it). Then sing one verse of song while pretending to roll a ball the group at large. Then said “keep it going’ as you go to get the real ball. Then sing song as you roll ball to each child and they or the family roll it back to you. Get the group clapping on the steady beat so they are engaged while they are waiting for their turn. Can do half a verse or full verse for each child. You can also physically manipulate the rolling back to you with smaller children. Once you have rolled to everybody, you can repeat going back the other way down the line. You can incorporate their names into the song if this is helpful. Finish the last phrase of the song and grab 3-4 seconds of silence before going on to do RP’s to the sound of the ball bouncing on the ground or kids banging on the ball like a drum. After the RP’s I then say, “Balls are a great way to play with music so I encourage you to experiment with ball play at home this week. You can roll on the beat, bounce it to hear the beat, or roll the babies right on top of the ball to the rhythm or phrasing of the song” If you get the song going without the ball, it sets up a clear musical structure and people ‘get’ the my turn/your turn concept of rolling ball very quickly without any formal instruction.
If you don’t have any access to a physio ball through your locations gym, then use the beach ball rolling/ bouncing/ tossing on a sheet.

PAL

Breezes – F#

Lullaby – slower tempo

Next week is the last class! Choose your favourite song from THIS CD and come and tell me next week. We’ll sing all your favourites. 

Fall and summer reg reminders – keep your legacy going – what would help them keep themselves committed to music and come back again to sing with you next year!? Let them know! Share your passion!

Summer Picnic at Maple Grove Park . Check your email for an invitation!

Goodbye - A