This fall, music with the Owls,
Cardinals and Catbirds has been full of songs, rhymes, games, movement and
instruments. I wanted to share some of the activities we’ve loved the most!
First, we turned this story into a finger play and acted out the different motions. We took turns being the different pumpkins and had a ‘solo’ part when it was our turn to talk. We added sound effects creating wind sounds and using other percussion instruments like drums, woodblocks, bells and more!
Little Autumn Fairy
A little Autumn fairy,
Sitting in a tree,
Painting all the leaves,
And throwing them at me.
Sunny leaves of yellow,
Ruby leaves of red,
Come fluttering down,
All around my head.
Soon the branches will be bare,
The leaves will all be shed,
And the squirrels and the hedgehogs,
Will all go to bed!
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| Trees! |
Pumpkin Patch Song & Game
Where Oh Where Oh Where is _______? (x3)
Way down yonder in the pumpkin patch!
One person is in the middle of the circle and they close their eyes. Four other friends hide pretend pumpkins around the room. When they have everything hidden, we start singing the song and the person in the middle has to go and find the pumpkins.
The next step with this game is to hide just one pumpkin and then sing loudly when they are close to finding the pumpkin and sing quietly when they are far away.
Seven Jumps
This is a folk dance from Denmark. I
used the music in a different way for our young friends!
Check out this VIDEO from the Cardinal class.
We have recently added finger cymbals
and drums to this piece!
Thanks a lot!
A song for Thanksgiving.
We have started listening and learning
this beautiful song. We have shared some of the things we are thankful for too!
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