Kindergarten Extra Lesson – October Week 5
Teaching Procedures
Sing the echoes for "Welcome to School"
Play Freeze Dance with the Music
Play Freeze Dance with the music or play instruments to the beat!
Invite the students to move to the beat - dance, twist, hop, turn, sway.
Teachers starts the music. When the teacher hits pause, all FREEZE.
Some teachers play this as an elimination - if you're moving after the music stops, you sit down.
A fun variant is to have the students freeze and make a pose. You might make a pose like a pumpkin, a cat or a skeleton.
You could invite students to choose instruments and play to the beat along with the music.
Teach "Alphabet Action"
This action song is to help students learn the letters of the alphabet. If you have small alphabet cards, place them in a pocket chart and point to them as you sing the song.
Create movement for "Alphabet Action"
Teach "Stop! Look and Listen!"
This song is included to give you an opportunity to talk about the safe ways to cross the street. You can add actions to the chorus of the song. Use the song to review singing and speaking voices. Listen to the song and have the students tell you which part of the song is spoken and which part is sung.
Say the poem "Candies in the Bowl"
Use different kinds of voices to perform it. (Options: speaking, singing, shouting, whispering, thinking, loud/quiet, fast/slow, high/low)
Play the "Pumpkin Fat" game
Form a circle and choose one student to go into the middle of the circle. Have the students in the circle face away from the child in the middle. They pat the beat as they sing. At the end of the song, they clap the words “just like that.” All the students in the circle jump around so they are facing the child in the middle. They make the scariest faces that they can. The student in the middle (or the teacher) chooses the scariest face to be the next child in the middle. You could have more than one student in the middle to speed up the game.
Review "Brush Your Teeth"
Learn "Brush Your Teeth".
Have the students create actions to go with the song.
Talk about why it's important to brush teeth after you've eaten candy.
Review "Halloween Looby Loo"
Play the game with "Halloween Looby Loo".
Parachute-free alternative: Instead of moving with the parachute on the part with the "oo", pretend you're stirring up a brew. You can also sing the song and simply form a circle by joining hands.