3. GAME: ‘Sevens’
The game typically consists of four-five
different patterns, with the first pattern
as the easiest and the final pattern as
the most difficult.
4. GAME: ‘Sevens’
How to Play 'SEVENS’
1. Pat (legs or a table/desk)
2. Pat, clap
3. Pat, clap, snap
4. Pat, clap, snap, clap, snap, clap, pat
5. Pat, clap, elbow, elbow, clap, snap, pat
5. Benefits From Music and Movement
• Develops self-confidence
• Develops language skills
• Develops listening skills
• Develops Creativity skills
• Develops their Cognitive skills
• Music naturally delights and moves AND Calms
and soothes kids as it gives them a chance to
• Music is a great transition for change (Clean Up Song)
• Provides children with opportunities to explore
elements of music (rhythm, sound, dynamics).
6. ELEMENTS OF
MUSIC:
• RHYTHM
– Clap, clap different sequences
• SOUND / TONE
– Sounds of different instruments, sound of voice
• MELODY
– Move hand up and down with notes
– HARMONY
• Identify notes that don’t sound right
• DYNAMICS
– Soft, loud
• TEMPO/ BEAT
– How fast & slow
Playing guitar to Elvis Presley music
BINGO
7. The Music Lesson
1. Singing
Songs, Fingerplays, and Chants
2. Instruments and
Using their body as a musical instrument
Musical Instruments
3. Movement Experiences
Listening to music and moving to it
Doing an activity with a song
11. Rhythm Sticks
• Tap out your Name
• Create a beat pattern and we repeat it
• Tap out the beat as someone moves around
• Follow a teacher directed beat movement
– Listen to a walking beat (slow), Listen to a jogging beat (faster),
Pound for a jumping beat. Now have the kids listen to the beat and
do the actions. Use a bell to signal freeze.
• Tap out a beat to a story (Click Clack Moo By: Doreen Cronin)
• Tap out a beat to a song (Sing ‘Ring around the Rosies’
or ‘Sally the Camel’
and tap a beat with it.)