Workout Plan:
Activity Directions:
- Beat Motion "Keeping the Beat #24"- Find ways to show the beat of the music on your body. Parents copy child. Child copy parents.
- Pitch Exploration "Propeller"- Pretend that you are sending a propellor to fly into the sky. Trace the path it flies with your voice and copy each other.
- Echo Song "Down by the Bay"- Sing each line of the song parent echoing child. Try again with child echoing parent.
- Simple Song "Fais Dodo"- Sing together, alone, take turns singing a verse, while showing how many friends on hand.
- Movement Exploration (body part leading) "Elf Ride"- Place an invisible elf on your elbow, Take them on a tour of the room, leading with your elbow. Place them on a different body part (nose, hip, toe, etc) and take them on a tour.
- Movement for Form and Expression "Move It #3"- Have your child show you the choreographed moves to this song. Perform together.
- Arioso "Moo"- Oh no! You turned into a singing cow! Can you make up your own cow song? You can only use the word "Moo"!
- Beat Motion "Ram Sam Sam"- Sing song and add movements.
- Songtale "The Tailor and the Mouse"- Listen to the story together and follow along. Try to sing the story together.
Song Lyrics and Recordings
- Beat Motion "Keeping the Beat #24"-
Music- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndhlN8YFwC0 - Pitch Exploration "Propeller"- no lyrics or recordings needed
- Echo Song "Down by the Bay"-
Music- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kP0SlO1KpjA
Lyrics-
Down by the bay
Where the watermelons grow
Back to my home
I dare not go
For if I do
My mother would say
**Enter rhyme here like "Did you ever see a bear coming his hair?"
Down by the Bay! - Simple Song "Fais Dodo"-
Music- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FXHtfgUYdc
Lyrics-
Fais dodo, and let us go dreaming
Fais dodo, come dreaming with me. - Movement Exploration (body parts) "Elf Ride"-
Music- Any music of your choice, here's what I like- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rTjJUcJNAw - Movement for Form and Expression "Move It #3"-
Music- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJzYF8FXmRE
Moves-
(Bobbing) Bend knees to the beat
(Sea weed) Sweep arm up and down 2 times, then side to side 2 times. Repeat with other arm.
(Little fish) Palms together moving upward side to side
(Giant squid) Both arms sweep up and to the center, then out and down - Arioso "Moo"-
- Beat Motion "Ram Sam Sam"-
Music- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FLJUvQ1xT0
Lyrics to song-
A ram sam sam (pat, pat pat), a ram sam sam (pat, pat pat)
Goolie goolie goolie goolie goolie (roll one hand over another repeatedly) ram sam sam (pat, pat pat)
A-rafi! A-rafi! (throw hands up x2)
Goolie goolie goolie goolie goolie (roll one hand over another repeatedly) ram sam sam (pat, pat pat) - Songtale "The Tailor and the Mouse"-
Music, lyrics and book- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVzGwX-ap_s