Program

This music and movement program uses children’s music and songs, dances and movement games, rhymes and fingerplays, and use of musical and rythym instruments to incorporate music fundamentals such as duple and tonal patterns into teaching body awareness, music and movement. Sample curriculum: Introduction song (Hello My Friends, Hello!) Name or color song (Mary Wore Her Red Dress) Fingerplays (Humpty Dumpty; Where is Thumpkin?, Five Brown Buns) Children's songs (Twinkle, Twinkle, Litter Star; Peanut Butter & Jelly Song; If I Knew You Were Coming; Old MacDonald--with ASL signs for the animals) Movement songs (Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes; My Bonnie: Grandma Moses; Driving in My Car; Ring Around the Rosie) Children's songs with musical/rythym instruments (Bumpin' Up & Down in My Little Red Wagon; Bell Horses; Dum Dum Da Da) Outro Song: You Are My Sunshine Curriculum is adjustable by age (20min for ages 1-3, 30min for ages 3-5, 45min for ages 5-6) and theme (parts of the body, seasons, animals). Stand-alone 60-minute concert with music for ages 2-10 also available.