Studio Purple Music & Movement

Repetition is key for this age, so we repeated much of what we did last week (introducing the songs to children who weren’t here last Monday), and added some new songs and activities, too.

Paw Paw Patch (no link)

We passed around a red, slightly squishy, heavy, mini-medicine ball, while I sang Magic Penny

After passing around the ball, we then passed around a clap! I clapped (one clap), then the person to my left clapped once, then the next and the next, all around the circle. They did well! (We also tried 2 claps after this, which was a little trickier, partly because it’s hard to stay focused on this exercise for very long, but we made it around!).

We did an exercise in which we held and moved an invisible ball which expanded when we breathed in and contracted when we breathed out. It got very big! We closed our eyes and imagined what color it was (interestingly, many children said “black” – because when you close your eyes that’s the color you see!), and when we were done with it, we made it small and put it in our tummy for whenever we needed it.

Then I passed around the rhythm sticks (one is smooth and one has ridges, so that you can click them or rub them, or play them on the floor, as we quickly discovered). I showed them sign language for “together” (fists together with thumbs up in front of your chest, then move them out and around in a circle and back to your chest). I explained that when we play music, we need to be together, and they were in fact quite capable of being together when we played the rhythm sticks – lovely to hear! We played to:

Bling Blang and Building a New Way

We did a calming song: Ooh Ooh, followed by some Yoga poses, butterfly, turtle and we added a new one, tulip.

Then a stand up song: Here Comes Mouse

Alligator Pit

And finished with the Goodbye Song