Trace and Color the beats.
Tap on the beats as you count to 8 between verses of Time for Music.

Follow the flashlight and make your voice go up and down the way the flashlight goes.

Play Freeze Dance with the music.

Invite the kids to move to the beat - dance, twist, hop, turn, sway.

The teacher 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 kids freeze and make a pose. You might make a pose like a pumpkin or cat or skeleton.

Show the children the graphic of Little Miss Muffet. Explain that a tuffet is like a stool and that curds and whey are kind of like cottage cheese. Say the poem.

Say the poem and invite the children to do the actions with you. Say the poem quiet/loud, fast/slow/, and with magic lips (thinking voice).

Find the largest toy spider that you can and bring it into your class as a visual to use with the song. Sing the song, moving the spider to the place on your body.

Listen to the song "Spider on the Floor".

Sing the song "Spider on the Floor" with the teacher and kids. Invite the children to think of new places for the spider to go and make up a rhyme for it.

For example:
There’s a spider on my nose... Well what do you suppose, I’ve got a spider on my nose.

If you can buy a class set of plastic spiders, the children love having the manipulative to move as they sing the song.

Print and color, or draw your own spider to use in the song.

If you can buy a class set of plastic spiders, the children love having the manipulative to move as they sing the song.

Review "Eensy Weensy Spider". Which spider had a high voice (teeny tiny) and which had a low voice (great big).

Sing the Letter C song.

Listen to the song "Cool Cat".

Play the video again and sing along.

Do the movements for the song "Cool Cat".

Show the students the visual for the song with the skeleton, black cat, and ghost. Teach the song by rote or using immersion, first doing non-locomotor movement, then inviting them to create locomotor movements for each verse.

Copy the movements for "The Bony Skeletons Walk".

Listen and participate in the Mortimer story.

Mortimer reinforces many musical concepts. Invite the students to add sound effects and movements to parts of the story. (Additional teaching suggestions are available in the Song Activities under Mortimer in the Song List)