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While teaching this learning module you will cover multiple concepts including: Beat, Expression
You'll also cover the themes of: Alphabet Songs, Animal Songs
In this lesson, you will:
Musicplay is a menu. The teacher is not expected to teach every song or activity. Choose the songs and activities from the list that will best fit your schedule and the needs of your students.
Sing our opening song "Time for Music" and tap the beats at the end of each verse.
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.
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.
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.
Create movements to go with the song "Bear Hunt".
You can copy the teacher in the video or make up your own.