Halloween Music Patterns

A fun game to demonstrate that music makes patterns too!

Print off your favorite holiday characters, designate a "sound" or "voice" for each one, then use them to create your own patterns of your favorite songs.

Goopy Soup

We read Hubble Bubble Granny Trouble, then made our own pot of GOOOPY SOUP!

Glow in the Dark Halloween Fun

Going Up and Down with Phantom of the Opera:

Freeze and Move with Toccata in D:

Drumming to Monster Mash

Spin Little Spider

Flippy Floppy Scarecrow

Today we learned this song (Flippy Floppy Scarecrow)

And read "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything".  Then we each picked out an instrument and we played along to the narration

Halloween songs...

I shut the door...

Who's behind that funny face?

rolling pumpkins

5 Little pumpkins

pumpkin pumpkin round and fat

Jack--o-happy

Bats are sleeping

Mr. Jack-o-lantern

Mr.Potato Head

One of our favorites!

Pets!

Finally got the lists of parental approval for posting to the internet for all  the classes so we can begin posting videos.  Here are some of our favorite pet songs for PET week:

5 little birdies:

Tiny Tim the Turtle

3 little Fishies

Scat the Cat

Handel's water music

Learned about Friderick Handel and he played his "water music" 

Springtime Songs and music

Waltz of the flowers.   Spinning windmill flowers from the dollar store make great waltzing flowers

Little Arabella has a very annoying pet caterpillar!

puddles are for jumping

this is one wiggly wiggly worm

and a little wiggly worm music

Bumble Bee wind socks from the dollar store make great props for our Flight of the Bumblebee Song

little sees wake up in the springtime and grow!

Some bugs are helpful, but others are not.  We had fun tiptoe-ing up to them and giving them a good SWAT!

MUD!  SCHLORP!  SCHLORP!

Musical Instrument Exploration

 This past week we explored lots of different musical instruments from around the world.  We explored instruments from Africa, South America, Japan, China, Latvia, the Phillipeans, Trinidad and Tobago, Vietnam, Australia, and America.  The instruments were set up in a circle around the room and the kids rotated from one instrument to the next so everyone got to try every instrument & then each of us got to tell which was our favorite!

Boomwhacker Music

Playing Boomwhakers

Composing our own Boomwhacker music.

Space Story

Playing with light sabers, looking for alien spacecraft, travelling through outer space

and sharing our alien voices

Jazz Band

Jazz band

We played Jazz instruments, and read Jazz Fly and Ben's Trumpet

Drumming Drumming Drumming

drumming on boxes to Hand, Hand Fingers Thumb

Drumming on buckets to Tanka, Tanka Skunk

...

and then we did our own drumming beats to our names and to animal names

tapping on a real drum

Winter Singing

The Snow--key-Pokey

Snow Play

Once there was a snowman....

Snowflake Dancing

A chubby little snowman

Once there was snowman

5 little snowflakes