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Category Archives: Early Years
2017/5 Classroom Percussion – Group exercise for Early Years
Here’s a lesson that went rather well today. I remembered one of the games I tripped across while looking at Drum circle activities, on youtube, posted by a drummer called Kalani. (I was so impressed by him, that I bought … Continue reading
2017/3 A Snail song for young children
I found this song and game on youtube; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Oz5wOq8qLY no, back a step, I found the song on www.singup.org which is a great song site, but you need to PAY MONEY to join it (but loads and loads of resources). … Continue reading
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Tagged singing game, so mi songs
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99/100 We’re Going on a Bearhunt
I watched the animation of this famous children’s classic story on television over Christmas. It’s been written down by Michael Rosen and illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. I say “written down” rather than “written”, because, as Michael Rosen says himself, it … Continue reading
Posted in Class Teaching, Composition, Early Years, Lessons that have happened
Tagged bearhunt, books, class percussion
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75/100 The shy soloist
This week’s challenge with the infant class concerned the soloist for the Nativity Play. She is supposed so be a sheep, and has a solo to sing to the other sheep. Left to her own devices, she sings confidently all … Continue reading
74/100 The Singing Tummy-Button Success
The last post concerned a young lad in the infant class who consistently sang in a high-pitched version of the more usual drone of children who “haven’t found their singing voice”. A week later, and I was working with the … Continue reading
54/100 “So-Mi” songs, Bee Bee
Another So-mi song which I use all the time with classes up to the age of about 7 It’s well worth indicating the pitch movement in the melody, with Kodaly hand movements or just by moving your hand up, down, … Continue reading
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Tagged pulse and rhythm, singing game, so mi songs
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15/100 1,2,3 It’s Good to Be Me
Great song for Keystage 1 and Early Years; It is on www.singup.org, and also on youtube here, with words and signing; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igmU0b65WCU and here, as a backing track and words only; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYexa_3uFGc I haven’t tried signing properly it yet. I … Continue reading
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Tagged internalising the pulse, keystage 1, pulse
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Issue 147: ‘So-Mi’ songs
Songs that use these two notesĀ are the bedrock of early lessons in almost any instrument; clarinets – use G and E. Piano, use F and D. Ukuleles, open G and E strings. Descant recorders, C’ and A. Or G and … Continue reading
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Tagged early years, singing games, so, so mi songs
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