Warm up your voices with echo patterns

Warm up your voices by echoing so-mi patterns

Sing "Welcome Welcome"

Listen to the song.
Play the video again and sing along!

Listen to the story, "All Are Welcome"

Pause the video and sing the welcome song each time you here the words, "All are welcome here." If you have the storybook, accompany the refrain on C-G or D-A on Orff instruments. Then, you can use this as a way to review how to hold mallets and play the instruments.

How to.... What if?

Talk to the students about how they should enter/leave, sit, and what happens in the event of fire drill or lockdown.

Make Me a Circle chant

Make Me a Circle chant is a way to have students make a circle quickly. Chant the poem starting quietly and getting louder, then count how many beats it takes to make a circle. You might have to count higher than 10 the first time!
Each time you make a circle, use the chant and see how quickly your students can make a circle!

Hello Circle Chant

Learn the names of the students in your class with this simple name game!
Continue to use this activity until you know your students names - and they know each other's names. Try the variations!

Practice Rhythm with Vegetable Rhythms

Watch the video and say the vegetable rhythms and clap right after the teacher.

You'll say the rhythms with the kids on the recording.

Sing the "Wash Your Hands" Song!

Watch the video to learn the "Wash Your Hands" song.

Play the video again and sing along!

When you wash your hands, sing the song twice to make sure you wash for 20 seconds!

Can you create actions to go with the music?

Complete the All About Me Worksheet

Complete and colour the All About Me worksheet.
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Save paper and ink and draw your own pictures on plain paper and write all about you!

Share your "All About Me" sheet with your teacher or someone in your family!

Listen to the song "She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain"

Listen to the song "She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain".

After hearing verse one, can you sing along with it?

Can you make up actions to go with the song? For ideas, watch the kids demo video.

Learn the actions for the song "She'll be comin' Round the Mountain"

Watch the video to learn the actions for the song "She'll be comin' Round the Mountain".

Sing along and do the actions!

Learn to sing "The Music Time is Over"

Watch the video and sing along!

Music is literacy

Parents, Teachers and Administration:

Music education is important for children.

Whether in class or at home, keep our children singing, playing, moving, listening and creating music!