Kindermusik at Montessori!

Milk and Cookies

We have had a great start to our semester at Kindermusik Montessori!  Our 2-3 year olds are working on a unit about helping out around the house.  We have been pretending to build a house with sticks, in a poem called "A Carpenter's Hammer".  It goes like this:

The Carpenter's hammer goes rap, rap, rap!

And his saw goes see----saw-----see!

He Hammers and hammers!

And saws and saws!

And builds a house for me!

Our rhythm sticks have been our Hammers and Saws.....

Tyler and Zara use their sticks as SAWS in our carpenter's poem...

Abby builds a rooftop with her sticks at the end of the poem...
"He builds a house for me!"

Thomas builds a rooftop

 We have been tapping in lots of different ways!

Adam drums on the floor!

Jersee taps her shoes!

Rolling!

We have also been pretending to clean up pretend "spills" in a song about cleaning the kitchen.  We dance around in a circle swishing our scarves and then use the scarves to pretend to clean up a spill on cue with the words of the song.  They are eager to "help" and love to offer suggestions about what has spilled on the floor....juice, chocolate milk, maple syrup....what a mess!  You can download the song "All Around the Kitchen" at http://play.kindermusik.com/tracks/2887-all-around-the-kitchen/



Abby cleans up a pretend spill!

The next part of the lesson is about cooking!  We are pretending to bake muffins in our pretend oven.  We sing a little song that says, "Go into the kitchen and take a peek!  Go out of the kitchen and tap your feet"  You can see them doing our little kitchen dance around our egg shaker muffins, peeking in to see if they are done!  You can download this song at http://play.kindermusik.com/tracks/3274-go-into-the-kitchen/

They like to line up their eggs after we use them.  They take great pride in this!

****FYI:  Many of the songs we use can be downloaded from Play.Kindermusik.Com. Go to the age group 1 1/2-3 and look for the "Milk and Cookies" album 1 and 2 to see the songs that are available for download. 

Hello, Weather!  Let's Play Together!

Our 3-5 year olds are doing a unit on the changing weather!  The introduction to this unit talks about waking up in the morning and looking outside at the weather.  The weather will determine what we get dressed in, what we can do that day, etc.!  We have talked a lot about morning routines.  I had to include these pictures of our warm up because I just love how "in sync" these kids are. 

The first part of our weather unit talks about the WIND. A windy day sometimes indicates a change in the weather!  We read a story about the wind whooooshing through the town.  Each time the wind blows in our story, we play a glissando on the glockenspeil.  We sing a little song that goes: "Ooooooooh, ooooooooh, I can hear the wind.  Ooooooooh, oooooooooh, I can hear the wind".  Ask your child to sing it to you!  Here are the kiddos taking turns on the glockenspeil as we make the sound of the wind!

The wind brought a storm our way!  We are using sandblocks to make the sound of light and heavy rain, thunder and lightning!  Here are some of our musical weather songs:

• Rain:  Pitter patter, pitter patter!  I can hear the rain!  Pitter, patter, pitter patter!  I can hear the rain!
• Storm:  Boom Boom!  Boom Boom!  I can hear the storm!  Boom Boom!  Boom Boom!  I can hear the storm!
• Lightning:  Zig!  Zag!  Lightning's Jagged Flash!  Zig!  Zag!  Lightning's Jagged Flash!
• Sun:  Oh Mister Sun, Sun!  Mr. Golden Sun!  Please shine down on me!  Oh Mister Sun, Sun!  Mr. Golden Sun! Hiding behind a tree!  These little children are asking you to please come out so we can play with you!  Oh Mister Sun, Sun!  Mr. Golden Sun! Please shine down on me!

We also have a great version of "Finiculi, Finicula" that we do with our sandblocks.  Here are some pictures of us doing Finiculi, Finicula.  (You can download this song at http://play.kindermusik.com/tracks/3327-funiculi-funicula/ )

 

***FYI:  Many of the songs we use can be downloaded from Play.Kindermusik.Com. Go to the age group 3-5 and look for the "Hello, Weather" album 1 and 2 to see the songs that are available for download.