Aug 13, 2024 | Activities
As we all gear up for the beginning of the school year, I prepare for family, friends, flowers, food and lots of air mattresses to arrive at our home in anticipation for our daughter’s wedding! We are excited to host many events and out of town guests over the next several weeks. If you are my friend on my Lynn Kleiner Facebook, I’m sure you’ll see what’s going on here at the Kleiner’s in Southern California.
Now, let’s review that important preparation to start the year off with the foundation for a successful school year.
Check out these back to school suggestions:
Moving : Want to get participation from even the most apprehensive student? Check out these suggestions in this blog for music and movement
Playing : Don’t forget the important tips and rules in introducing (and reviewing!) the Orff instruments. The right posture, hand position and mallet placement results in the best sound! Get those good habits now.
Singing : And my favorite lesson plan and story to start off the school year, from our Rhythm Readers lesson plans, FROGGY! Get ready for SCHOOL!!!
Stories ! Here’s the book ! Don’t forget to use your Music Box discount code when ordering.
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Aug 13, 2024 | Activities
I cannot stop thinking of our teachers, their families, friends and communities in Texas. Here’s a video to encourage quick evaporation!
MISTER SUN Lynn Kleiner’s Music Rhapsody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97_agrwNru4&list=PLcGAMvU2YN-VW1J18R_XC-Szv9BA1uJF1&index=25
Many of you know that I choose a different Hello and Goodbye Song each school year. I just wouldn’t be happy singing the same song for 40 years. Ha! This week’s featured FREE Music Box Download gives you all kinds of ideas how to use the Hello Song ” Ev’ry Morning.” Whether you have 2 year olds or 12 year olds, this download offers a challenge and lots of fun for many stages of development.
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Aug 13, 2024 | Activities
I have been asked to present the best of “Music Rhapsody” early childhood program at a Conference. I’m so curious if your list would match mine. After more than 35 awesome fun years of making music with young children, it will be hard to do this in just a 75 minute workshop. ha. I would love our Music Box teachers to chime in on this. Can you list your top 5-10 activities? Any activities from the Music Rhapsody early childhood curriculum or the Lynn Kleiner resources would be great. Thanks!
Aug 13, 2024 | Holiday/Winter Concert Ideas For Ages 2-6
I recieved a request to post ideas/references for a preschool holiday program that might have a storyline and have the songs support that. This depends on the setting. If this is a secular setting where the focus is something fun and festive but not based on Christmas, I suggest looking at two stories, The Toymaker and Little Penguin’s Tale. These have video samples to watch as well as detailed lesson plans. Go to Music Box, click Downloads under Stories with Music, click Videos. If one of these stories work for the program and more songs are needed, I am happy to help give some suggestions to add to these!
Aug 13, 2024 | Classroom Materials
Hello All!
I wanted to share a quick idea with you about using the book “The Very Busy Spider” in your classroom this October! The featured free Music Box download of the moment is “The Very Busy Spider” which includes lesson ideas for ways to accompany the story with fun and spooky movement and music.
Although you can always use your regular colored scarf set, it is fun to collect all of the extra tattered scarf pieces that you have cut off of old scarves (maybe 5 long strands) and tie them together on one end to make a colorful spider silky “web” scarf. You can use these colorful fun scarves for spinning movement with “The Spider Kept on Spinning” song, from the Jungle Beat CD.
Another fun suggestion in the lesson plan is to use finger puppets of the animals in the book for solo singing in the story. You can get all of the animals from the story at https://musicrhapsody.com/product-category/puppets/
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Color copy the pages, cut out, laminate, and make popsicle stick puppets instead!
Enjoy all of the fun activies and E minor Orff accompaniment that go along with this classroom favorite. Have fun!
Love, Lynn Kleiner
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