by Carol Biddiss | Oct 24, 2012 | 3-5 year-old, body percussion, drama and movement, finger play, games and dances, melody and harmony instruments, memory song, Nursery rhymes, Preschool Music Activities, Preschool Music Lesson Plans, rhythm instrument, story song, theme lesson plan
Making Christmas memories with songs, rhymes and activities Do you remember the songs you sang or heard as a young child? Give the children in your care something special by making Christmas memories through musical activities this year. This post tells you what...
by Carol Biddiss | Oct 7, 2012 | 3-5 year-old, body percussion, circle dances, drama and movement, finger play, memory song, Preschool Music Lesson Plans, rhythm instrument, story song, theme lesson plan
Here’s a lesson plan called “Over the Sea” for you to try. It’s all about watery places lagoons, salty seas and stormy oceans. It’s inhabited by sailors, fish, sharks, dolphins and ocean-travellers pining for their loved ones. The people travel in dinghies,...
by Carol Biddiss | Sep 7, 2012 | 3-5 year-old, Music Curriculum, Preschool Music Lesson Plans, teacher confidence
“I’m new to teaching music to young kids. How do I get their attention?” So you have a new assignment – teaching music in a preschool classroom and you are quivering in your boots. You know how to handle fourteen year-olds with your quicks wits and sure-fire...
by Carol Biddiss | Aug 1, 2012 | 3-5 year-old, body percussion, emergent literacy, Preschool Music Lesson Plans, theme lesson plan
What floats a preschooler’s boat? Silliness. Here’s a silly song, One Two Three Flea that will have them roaring with laughter and wanting to learn the lyrics. Meanwhile you can give a big tick to ‘rhyming words’ in your program with their...
by Carol Biddiss | Oct 24, 2013 | 3-5 year-old, Classroom Equipment, drama and movement, Preschool Music Activities
OLD GREY CAT preschool music activity The old grey cat is sleeping, sleeping, sleeping, The old grey cat is sleeping, in the house. The little mice are nibbling, nibbling, nibbling The little mice are nibbling, in the house. The old...
