Page 31 - Spring song bank

Gymnopedie No.1 performed by John Lenehan
Everyone puts on their “listening ears” and their “quiet lips”. Play the track through your speakers and blow bubbles for the children manually or using a bubble gun. The babies look and touch the bubbles as the music plays. Hand out scarves for the next activity whilst the music is still playing and gradually turn down the volume until there is silence. The length of this activity will depend on how quickly you have moved through previous activities. Including 30 seconds of listening is better than not including listening at all.
Everyone puts on their “listening ears” and their “quiet lips”. Play the track through your speakers and hand each child a coloured scarf. There are several ways you can use this track.
1. Pretend the scarf is a pillow or blanket and pretend to sleep as you listen to the music. Wake up and stretch in time to the music.
2. Ask the children which instrument they can hear in the piece. Pretend your scarf is the piano and pretend to play the music.
3. Move your scarf up and down and from side to side. Make circles. Throw it in the air and catch it. Pretend it's a magic paint brush and paint a house or write your name.
The children place their scarves over their heads for the next activity and you gradually turn down the volume until there is silence. Name and congratulate the children who sat the most quietly. The length of this activity will depend on how quickly you have moved through previous activities. Including 30 seconds of listening is better than not having listening at all.
Same as for toddlers
scarves & bubbles
Horse and Buggy performed by BBC concert Orchestra & Leonard Slatkin
Activities for classes with parents
Hand each baby some “reins” (a coloured scarf). Babies are bounced on an adult's knee as though they are riding in the buggy. The adults should slow down during the middle section as the horse gets tired (tempo slows) and they speed up as the horse trots home hurriedly at the end (tempo speeds up again).
Activities for classes in the nursery
Tell the babies that today they will be listening to a song about a horse and buggy and that today they are going to take the teddy for a ride in the buggy. The parachute becomes the buggy. Place your small teddy on top. The adults and older babies hold onto the parachute and bounce up and down as they move it up and down to the pulse. The buggy should slow down during the middle section as the horse gets tired (tempo slows) and they speed up as the horse trots home hurriedly at the end (tempo speeds up again).
Same as pre-schoolers activity one
1. Everyone puts on their “listening ears” and their “quiet lips”. Explain to the children that today they will be listening to a song about a horse and buggy and that they are going to go for a ride in the buggy. Play the track through your speakers and hand each child some “reins” (a coloured scarf). The children hold their reins and bounce up and down to the pulse. Ask them to listen out for the sound of the horses' hooves and the crack of the driver's whip. The children should slow down during the middle section as the horse gets tired (tempo slows) and they speed up as the horse trots home hurriedly at the end (tempo speeds up again). Towards the end of the track the children place their scarves over their heads for the next activity.
2. Tell the children that today they will become the horses. Play the track through your speakers and hand each child a “tail” (a coloured scarf). The children gallop around the room like horses, adjusting their speed according to the track as before. Towards the end of the track the children place their scarves over their heads for the next activity.
parachute, small teddy & coloured scarves
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