Workout Plan:
Activity Directions:
- Beat Motion "Keeping the Beat #22"- Find ways to show the beat of the music on your body. Parents copy child. Child copy parents.
- Pitch Exploration "Siren Whistle"- Create ambulance siren noises with your voice and copy each other.
- Echo Song "Bill Grogen's Goat"- Sing each line of the song parent echoing child. Try again with child echoing parent.
- Simple Song "Johnny had One Friend"- Sing together, alone, take turns singing a verse, while showing how many friends on hand.
- Movement Exploration (body parts) "Glue Dancing"- Put on some of your favorite music. Choose body parts that have to be glued still while the other parts move to the music. Can you guess what each other glued?
- Movement for Form and Expression "Move It #4"- Have your child show you the choreographed moves to this song. Perform together.
- Arioso "I Sing Like This"- Have child use their singing voice and use the words "I sing like this." Try the same thing with whisper, speak, and shout.
- Beat Motion "Grandma's Glasses"- Recite the poem and add movements.
- Songtale "Jennie Jenkins"- Listen to the story together and follow along. Try to sing the story together.
Song Lyrics and Recordings
- Beat Motion "Keeping the Beat #22"-
Music- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5U9dCTBcNI - Pitch Exploration "Siren Whistle"- no lyrics or recordings needed
- Echo Song "Bill Grogen's Goat"-
Music- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnM2vFq4b-U
Lyrics-
There was a man. (echo each line)
Now please take note
There was a man
Who had a goat
He loved that goat
Indeed he did
He loved the goat
Just like a kid
One day that goat
Felt frisk and fine
Ate 3 red shirts
Right off the line
That man he grabbed
Him by the back
And tied him to
The railroad tracks
Now when the train
Came into sight
The goat grew pale
And green with fright
He heaved a sigh
As if in pain
Coughed up those shirts
And flagged the train - Simple Song "Johnny had One Friend"-
Music- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By-BHykiPm8
Lyrics-
Johnny had one friend, one friend, one friend.
Johnny had one friend, Johnny had two.
(same process up to 5) - Movement Exploration (body parts) "Glue Dancing"-
Music- Any music of your choice, here's what I like- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6fPN5aQVDI - Movement for Form and Expression "Move It #4"-
Music- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=208g0WW_8zA
Moves-
The kids know this one as the story of two jellyfish that sometimes get along and sometimes get grumpy with each other.
Part A- One hand (jellyfish) makes a grabbing motion pulsing upward, then downward. Do the same motions with the other hand. Then do the motions with both hands at the same time.
Part B- Swipe one hand across body and up. Do the same with the other. Do the same with both at the same time.
REPEAT MOTIONS FROM PART A AND B
Video- This is a fun one to use with scarves (or dish towels) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT1tZjNKvVM - Arioso "I Sing Like This"-
- Beat Motion "Grandma's Glasses"-
Lyrics to poem-
These are grandma's glasses (index finger and thumb of each hand make circles for each eye to look through)
And this is grandma's cap (place both hands on head)
And this is the way she folds her hands (fold hands)
And puts them in her lap (place folded hands on lap)
These are grandpa's glasses (make large circles with hands to look through)
And this is grandpa's hat (hands and arms straight up and out)
And this is the way he folds his arms (fold arms)
Just like that (bounce folded arms 3 times) - Songtale "Jennie Jenkins"-
Music- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=801pZnLD_Gg
Lyrics-
Will you wear white, oh my dear, oh my dear? Will you wear white Jennie Jenkins?
I won't wear white for the color's too bright.
I'll buy me a fol-dee-rol-dee, til-dee-tol-dee, seek-a-double roll, Jennie Jenkins roll.
Will you wear red, oh my dear, oh my dear? Will you wear red Jennie Jenkins?
I won't wear red. It's the color of my head.
I'll buy me a fol-dee-rol-dee, til-dee-tol-dee, seek-a-double roll, Jennie Jenkins roll.
Will you wear blue, oh my dear, oh my dear? Will you wear blue Jennie Jenkins?
I will wear blue if your love is true.
I'll buy me a fol-dee-rol-dee, til-dee-tol-dee, seek-a-double roll, Jennie Jenkins roll.
Will you wear green, oh my dear, oh my dear? Will you wear green Jennie Jenkins?
I won't wear green. It's a shame to be seen.
I'll buy me a fol-dee-rol-dee, til-dee-tol-dee, seek-a-double roll, Jennie Jenkins roll.
Will you wear purple, oh my dear, oh my dear? Will you wear purple Jennie Jenkins?
I won't wear purple. It's the color of a turtle.
I'll buy me a fol-dee-rol-dee, til-dee-tol-dee, seek-a-double roll, Jennie Jenkins roll.
Will you wear black, oh my dear, oh my dear? Will you wear black Jennie Jenkins?
I won't wear black. It's the color of my sack.
I'll buy me a fol-dee-rol-dee, til-dee-tol-dee, seek-a-double roll, Jennie Jenkins roll.
Then what will you wear, oh my dear, oh my dear? What will you wear Jennie Jenkins?
I have nothing to wear. I can't go anywhere.
I'll buy me a fol-dee-rol-dee, til-dee-tol-dee, seek-a-double roll, Jennie Jenkins roll.
