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Try a circle time freeze game in your class to teach active listening and impulse control. Try adding finger puppets to incorporate a sensory element to this activity! Children will love playing with cat finger puppets while they move and groove to a fun song that facilitates listening skills when they have to freeze.
Musically Minded aims to provide a wide variety of music. By doing so, we are able to give teachers and classes access to world music for kids. Teaching kids music from around the world well help them understand the world we live in. In turn, they will be open to the lives and experiences of others as they grow and form relationships with people from all over the world. Kye Kye Kule is a phrase used in West Africa without a direct English translation that is used to get someone’s attention. This traditional song most likely originated in Ghana, but is used all over the world. Use this call and response song to introduce your students to world music while teaching them to mimic rhythms and melodies. Using music in unfamiliar languages doesn’t have to be intimidating. Just do your best pronouncing new words and learning new rhythmic and melodic styles, and your students will do the same. That’s part of the beauty of bringing new music to our class. We all get to learn something together!
This original preschool rhythm stick song is set to the familiar tune of “La Cucaracha”, a traditional Spanish folk song. Encourage your students to play along on their rhythm sticks or claves while practicing gross motor movements, and rhythm matching. In addition, they will be gaining exposure to Spanish vocabulary while they play. Add this song to either your bug unit or your world culture unit.
Bring the ladybugs inside for a fun circle time your preschoolers will love to participate in again and again!
You’ll get 6 highly-engaging activities that teach counting, rhyming, movement and more! Activity pack includes detailed activity guides, colorful printables and digital audio recordings. This “ready to go” activity pack means you can spend less time planning and more time having fun teaching!
This circle time action song offers a variety of movements and prompts, encouraging children to play in imaginative ways. When children are engaged in a silly song, they don’t realize they are learning valuable skills. Your children will be dancing and playing as they follow the ladybugs. Try this song with ladybug finger puppets or with your hands!
This movement song for preschool is a great addition to any bug unit. Let your little ladybugs explore gross motor movements while they follow along with the lyrics. Add ladybug finger puppets for your students that benefit from having something to hold during an activity. Your students will love using their imaginations to play with their ladybugs. Encourage them to be kind to their ladybugs. This will help them develop emotionally and socially. This movement song will be a great addition to your bug themed circle time.
Using a familiar classroom transition song to gather friends to circle makes children not only feel part of a community by knowing a song, but it also builds routine. Teaching children to form a circle by having them take their neighbor’s hand, makes creating a circle a breeze! Classroom transition songs are a valuable tool in the classroom to teach students to listen for cues and follow directions. Teach them to listen for cues and understand when it is time to transition to something new.
An infinite number of ideas await to be explored in this concept-building activity for preschool. From jumping to hiding and everything in between, “Little Peter Rabbit” provides an opportunity for children to not only build their movement vocabulary, but also pretend to be someone other than themselves. By pretending to be something or someone else, children can try on roles and learn to empathize with others – a skill that will benefit them for a lifetime.
Filled with 23 songs with downloadable audio tracks, step-by step directions and colorful visual, this activity guide book is your perfect accompaniment to circle time.
Infused with songs to get kids up and on their feet, “Move, Move, Move” is a perfect mix of actions songs for children ages 2-7. Parents and teachers alike will love the way learning and movement go hand in hand to strengthen skills across the curriculum. In “Kitty Freeze Game,” kids will enjoy moving around like cats, then freezing their bodies as they strengthen their muscles and their listening skills. “Flying to the Moon” offers little astronauts the chance to blast off into space and learn to count backwards. “The Shape Train” will have children moving their bodies to make common shapes. Replicating the shapes physically will help children later make the shapes on paper.
By weaving meaningful movement activities into everyday learning, children’s bodies and brains benefit. Research shows when children move, it strengthens learning, improves memory and retrieval and increases motivation and morale. What are you waiting for? Make movement matter with the children in your life by sharing all the songs from Move, Move, Move with them today!
Infused with songs to get kids up and on their feet, “Move, Move, Move” is a perfect mix of actions songs for children ages 2-7. Parents and teachers alike will love the way learning and movement go hand in hand to strengthen skills across the curriculum. In “Kitty Freeze Game,” kids will enjoy moving around like cats, then freezing their bodies as they strengthen their muscles and their listening skills. “Flying to the Moon” offers little astronauts the chance to blast off into space and learn to count backwards. “The Shape Train” will have children moving their bodies to make common shapes. Replicating the shapes physically will help children later make the shapes on paper.
By weaving meaningful movement activities into everyday learning, children’s bodies and brains benefit. Research shows when children move, it strengthens learning, improves memory and retrieval and increases motivation and morale. What are you waiting for? Make movement matter with the children in your life by sharing all the songs from Move, Move, Move with them today!
Infused with songs to get kids up and on their feet, “Move, Move, Move” is a perfect mix of actions songs for children ages 2-7. Parents and teachers alike will love the way learning and movement go hand in hand to strengthen skills across the curriculum. In “Kitty Freeze Game,” kids will enjoy moving around like cats, then freezing their bodies as they strengthen their muscles and their listening skills. “Flying to the Moon” offers little astronauts the chance to blast off into space and learn to count backwards. “The Shape Train” will have children moving their bodies to make common shapes. Replicating the shapes physically will help children later make the shapes on paper.
By weaving meaningful movement activities into everyday learning, children’s bodies and brains benefit. Research shows when children move, it strengthens learning, improves memory and retrieval and increases motivation and morale. What are you waiting for? Make movement matter with the children in your life by sharing all the songs from Move, Move, Move with them today!
Peekaboo is a great technique to use to hold young children’s attention. This peekaboo is a simple way to use this technique in your classroom. As they play this silly song with you, they will be learning about scientific concepts without even realizing it. Explain to your students how the sun and moon take turns being in the sky, and have them play along with this peekaboo song!
Phonemic awareness is the key indicator of a child’s success in learning to read and central to later spelling achievement (Stanovich, 1993-1994). Because of this, a preschool song about instruments is a valuable tool to use in your classroom. Children must be able to hear the sounds of language (phonological awareness), separate from its meaning (Machado, 2003, p. 237). One way to strengthen this skill is through listening activities where the child must focus on one sound in their environment also known as auditory discrimination. “Musicians, Musicians” does just that while also teaching children to identify the sounds of musical instruments. While using this preschool song about instruments, ask your students to try mimicking the sounds as well to incorporate vocal exploration into the activity. They will have a blast pretending to be different instruments while practicing auditory discrimination!
