Play Freeze Dance with the Music

Play Freeze Dance with the music.

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 game - 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 or cat or skeleton.

Listen and sing with "Halloween Looby Loo"

Listen and sing with "Halloween Looby Loo".

Listen to the song. When you are ready, sing along!

Play the game with "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.

Learn the poem "Jelly in the Bowl"

Teach the poem, keeping a steady beat as you say it. You can keep a beat by walking, stomping, or patting your stomach. Ask the students if they've ever eaten jello and ask them to "wibble wobble" like jello does as they say the poem.

Now try moving to the poem:
Lines 1, 2, 4: pat your tummy to the beat
Line 3: wiggle

Then, choose 2 instruments.
Play one on lines 1, 2, 4 (sticks) and the other one on line 3 (shaker).

Try other ways to move or play with the poem.

Create movement for "Jelly in the Bowl"

You can make up your own movements, or use the ideas in the video.

Choose two instruments.
Play one on lines 1, 2, 4 (sticks) and the other one on line 3 (shaker).

Listen and sing "Pumpkin Fat"

Teach the song by rote.

Do the solfa activities for "Pumpkin Fat"

Play the Which Pattern Game for "Pumpkin Fat"

You will hear a pattern on an instrument.

Figure out if it's pattern 1, 2, or 3.

At the end of the activity, play all the patterns on the glockenspiel.
Do you know what song this is?

Play the game with "Pumpkin Fat"

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.

Sing our closing song, "Skinnamarink"

Sing our closing song, "Skinnamarink".