Superplan Ten

  • Coming In Classical: Vivalidi – Spring, from The Four Seasons

    Vivalidi – Spring, from The Four Seasons

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    Activity Instructions:

    Allow children to listen as they enter. Pick an instrument you are not using for them to play with.

    Historical information:

    The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives a musical expression to a season of the year. They were written about 1721 and were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight additional violin concerti, as Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (“The Contest Between Harmony and Invention”).

    The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi’s works. Unusually for the time, Vivaldi published the concerti with accompanying poems (possibly written by Vivaldi himself) that elucidated what it was about those seasons that his music was intended to evoke. It provides one of the earliest and most-detailed examples of what was later called program music—music with a narrative element.

    Vivaldi took great pains to relate his music to the texts of the poems, translating the poetic lines themselves directly into the music on the page. In the middle section of the Spring concerto, where the goatherd sleeps, his barking dog can be marked in the viola section. Other natural occurrences are similarly evoked. Vivaldi separated each concerto into three movements, fast-slow-fast, and likewise each linked sonnet into three sections

    Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_(Vivaldi)]


  • Hello Song: Tot Rock Hello

    Tot Rock Hello

    CASIO-SA-77:
    Pattern 01, Tempo 5


    Rhythm Only
    With Lyrics, no names
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    Activity Instructions:

    Call children to circle. Start rhythm on Keyboard, and use each child’s name in the song.

    Lyrics:

    I’m gonna rock rock rock with with my Tots
    Rock, rock rock with my Tots
    Rock, rock rock with my Tots
    in Rockin’ Rhythms music class

    Let’s all rock with [Name Here]
    Let’s all rock with [Name Here or “together”]
    Let’s all rock with [Name Here or “and have fun”]
    in Rockin’ Rhythms music class

  • Song w/Instrument: Maracas Hi, Low, Scale

    Maracas Hi, Low, Scale

    Equipment:

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    Activity Instructions:

    Pass out maracas, explore shaking and high and low pitches. Then sing song several times.

    Lyrics:

    I am shaking my maracas
    Way up high
    Way up high
    Way up high
    I am shaking my maracas way up high
    Way up high in the air

    I am shaking my maracas
    Way down low
    Way down low
    Way down low
    I am shaking my maracas way down low
    Shaking them near the ground

    I am tapping my maracas
    to the scale
    Do re me fa so la ti do
    I am shaking my maracas
    to the scale
    Do re me fa so la ti do

  • Lapride: Turtle and the Bunny (Tortoise and the Hare)

    Turtle and the Bunny (Tortoise and the Hare)

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    Activity Instructions:

    Have children sit in parent’s laps. Explore Bumping and Bouncing fast, and walking slowly with left or right leg up. This is a version of the tortise (turtle) and the hare (bunny). Use the turtle and the bunny in your lap.

    Lyrics:

    [FAST- bounce Part 1, bump Part 2]
    The turtle and the bunny met one day, met one day, met one day
    The turtle and the bunny met one day, met one day, met one day
    The turtle and the bunny met one day, met one day, met one day
    and they decided to race

    Hopalong bunny sped away, sped away, sped away
    Hopalong bunny sped away, sped away, sped away
    Hopalong bunny sped away, sped away, sped away
    Hopalong bunny sped away
    and the turtle began his chase

    [SLOW – one knee up, other knee up, alternate]
    Slow and steady wins the race
    wins the race, wins the race
    Slow and steady wins the race
    Turtle followed at his own pace

    [FAST- bounce Part 1, bump Part 2]
    Hopalong bunny turned around, turned around, turned around
    Hopalong bunny turned around, turned around, turned around
    Hopalong bunny turned around, turned around, turned around
    Couldn’t see the turtle so he sat down

    Hopalong bunny, tired out, tired out, tired out
    Hopalong bunny, tired out, tired out, tired out
    Hopalong bunny, tired out, tired out, tired out
    Shut his eyes and took a nap

    [SLOWLY – one knee up, other knee up, alternate]
    Mr. Turtle kept on walking
    past the bunny’s napping place
    Mr. Turtle kept on walking
    Slow and steady wins the race

  • Color or Shape Song: Egg Decorations

    Egg Decorations

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    Printables (.pdf)

    Activity Instructions:

    Point out decorated eggs on the wall to the children. Review the colors and patterns. Then have the children go to the wall and touch the egg that you are describing.

    Lyrics:

    Hop like a bunny 
    Hop like a bunny
    Find the egg that has [*green stripes]
    Hop like a bunny 
    Hop like a bunny
    Find the egg that has [*green stripes]

    *pink polka dots, purple zig zags, green stripes, solid blue

  • Song w/Instrument: Egg Shaker BUNNY

    Egg Shaker BUNNY

    Equipment:

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    Activity Instructions:

    Pass out shakers, allow children to explore making different sounds with the eggs. Then sing song. Introduce spelling BUNNY and CHICK.

    Lyrics:

    There was a girl/boy who had a pet
    and bunny was its name o
    B U N N Y
    B U N N Y
    B U N N Y
    and bunny was it’s name o

    There was a girl/boy who had a pet
    and chick it was its name o
    C H I C K
    C H I C K
    C H I C K
    and chick it was its name o

  • Body Awareness: Hop Mr. Rabbit

    Hop Mr. Rabbit

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    Activity Instructions:

    Practice hopping, wiggling your nose, chomping your teeth, scratching your ears. Then play song and follow motions.

    Lyrics:

    Hop hop Mr. Rabbit,
    Hop hop down the trail

    Wiggle your nose, Mr. Rabbit
    Wiggle your nose, down the trail

    Chomp your teeth Mr. Rabbit
    chomping on an orange carrot

    Scratch your ear Mr. Rabbit
    Scratch your ear with your paws

    Hop hop Mr. Rabbit,
    Hop hop down the trail

  • Solfege Song: Row Your Boat

    Row Your Boat

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    Activity Instructions:

    Hand out microphones. Say hello to each of the kids. Ask the children what songs they would like to sing.
    Then transition into solfege. Have them sing Do, Re, Mi Fa, Sol, Fa, Mi, Re, then Do (repeat several times, be silly)
    Sing syllables one phrase at a time, repeat phrase with parents.
    Afterwards, sing song on words.

    Lyrics:

    Do, Do, Do Re Me – 11123
    Mi Re Mi Fa Sol  – 32345
    Do Do Do Sol Sol Sol Mi Mi Mi Do Do Do  – 888 555 333 111
    Sol Fa Mi Re Do  – 54321

     

  • Song w/Ball: Roll the Spiky Ball

    Roll the Spiky Ball

    Equipment:

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    Activity Instructions:

    Have children pair up. Practice rolling, bouncing, ball on head, nose, knees, toes.

    Lyrics:

    [INTRO]
    Will you roll the spiky ball
    Will you roll the spiky ball
    Will you roll the spiky ball to a friend
    (repeat)

    [BREAK, introduce bouncing]

    Will you bounce the spiky ball
    Will you bounce the spiky ball
    Will you bounce the spiky ball with your hands
    (repeat)

    BRIDGE
    Put the ball on your head
    Put the ball on your nose
    Put the ball on your knees
    Put the ball on your toes

  • World Music Dance: Africa – He Lives in You from Lion King- African Tribal Music

    Africa – He Lives in You from Lion King- African Tribal Music

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    Activity Instructions:

    Pass out scarves for children to dance with

  • Musical Exploration: Musical Exploration

    Musical Exploration

    Activity Instructions:

    Dump a variety bucket of instruments out for children to play and try different instruments. Teacher’s choice on background music, make sure that the song lyrics are clean and the topic is child-appropriate. You may want to find out some of your participants favorite popular songs and include them here!

  • Musical Game: 123, Indentify Me Review

    123, Indentify Me Review

    Activity Instructions:

    Show children pictures of instruments on the wall, tell them their names and let them listen to the sound with the .mp3 player. Have them run to the pictures on the wall and touch the instrument. Have them identify each instrument a couple of times.

  • Puppet: Three Little Bunnies

    Three Little Bunnies

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    Activity Instructions:

    Use bunny finger puppets to sing song.

    Lyrics:

    Three little bunnies jumping on the bed
    One fell off and bumped his head
    Mamma called the doctor and the doctor said
    No more bunnies jumping on the bed

    You may jump but on the ground
    Where you will be safe and sound
    You may hop and play around
    But you must do it on the ground

    (continue with 2 and 1…)

  • Goodbye Song: Goodbye Song

    Goodbye Song

    CASIO-SA-77:
    Pattern 12, Tempo 8


    Rhythm Only
    With Lyrics, no names
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    Activity Instructions:

    Start rhythm on keyboard. Then sing song, putting each child’s name in the song. Adjust the ending based on the number of children you have – feel free to repeat or not, and add goodbyes to mommies, daddies, instruments, etc, if needed to finish the musical phrasing, depending upon the size of your class.

    Lyrics:

    Goodbye, Cya later, adios my friends
    Our time in Rockin’ Rhythms class has come to an end
    au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bon voyage, chiao
    Until we meet again my friends, I’ll say goodbye for now

    |: Goodbye [Name goes here]
        Goodbye [Name here]
        Goodbye [Name goes here]
        Goodbye [Name here]
        Goodbye [Name goes here]
        Goodbye [Name here]
        We’ll rock again next time :|