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Resources for Spring Music Lesson Seven Activity: Here is the Beehive (traditional)
1. Ask your child if they know where bees live. Pretend to collect some bees up from the floor and put them into one of your hands which will become the beehive. Shake your beehive (fist) to the pulse during the first three lines. During the last line pop out one finger at a time as you count to five and then tickle your child as you make a buzzing bee sound. Encourage your child to sing along and do the actions with you.
2. Collect up some "old, slow, lazy bees" and perform the song slowly. Collect up some "young, quick, busy bees" and perform the song quickly.
Lyrics:
Here is the beehive, where are the bees? Hidden away where nobody sees.
Here come the bees now, out of the hive. One, two, three, four, five.
Bzzz!
Other Ideas!
At home: Name the members of your family “one” through to “five”, so that each person has a different number. If there are less than five people in your household, just name people up to the number you have. E.g. If there are only three people in your house, name someone “one”, someone “two” and someone “three”. Everyone curls up into a ball on the floor and starts to sing the song. When each person hears their number, they get up and buzz around the room.
In the nursery: The children are sitting in a circle. Count five children into the centre to be the bees so that they know exactly which is one, two, three, four and five. They should curl up in a ball. As the numbers are sung, they should get up one at a time and buzz around, ending in their original place in the circle.
Musical aims:
P
To feel the pulse through actions
T
To understand and demonstrate a 'fast' and 'slow' tempo
EYFS/Educational Aims:
PSED (MR)
To develop and enrich friendships among children through tickling
PD (MH)
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