Tap the beats on the beat strip at the end of "Time for Music".

If your students can find a small toy, they could tap the toy on each beat.
When Artie Almeida has students use a toy or stuffed animal to keep the beat, she calls it a "beat buddy".
It's a fun manipulative for kids to use in keeping a beat.

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Warm up your voice with animal sounds.

Teach the song "I Like Puppies" and make all the animal sounds.

If you have a stuffed animal or toy of a dog (puppy), cat, cow, and duck, create movement to the song with your stuffies.

Play the video again, and sing and move to the song.

Which animal made a short sound? A puppy has a short bark.

Which animal made a long sound? The cow's moo is a long sound.

Find long and short blocks or lego pieces. Create patterns with your blocks.
Then perform the patterns with a short bark for the short blocks, and a long moo for the long blocks.

If you don't have blocks, draw long and short patterns.

Our Musicplay teacher Dana Herro tells the Bebop Bear story and introduces the song to the students.

Sing the Letter B song.

Sing and move to Bebop the Bear.

Watch the kids in the video do the movements for "Bebop Bear".

Sing and move to the song.

Practice printing the letter B and draw things that start with B.

Sing the echoes in the song "Bear Hunt".

Create movements to go with the song "Bear Hunt".

You can copy the teacher in the video or make up your own.

Sing "Skinnamarink".