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Music Time Madness
I’m going to be honest with you, not every Music Time I teach goes to plan. I currently run classes for nurseries/preschools and in the past have run parent /carers and children classes.
Parent/Carers and Children Classes
When I ran my parent/carers and children classes, I sometimes liked to think of them as organised chaos. These usually had children between the ages of 18 months to 4 years and I witnessed children doing various things during my Music Time: wandering around, opening and sh…
Everyone can manage 5 minutes of music a day!
Are you not quite ready for a 20 minute music time? What about 5 minutes of music each day instead?
Here are some suggestions for the next week. Just pick one idea for each day:
Monday
- Pick a nursery rhyme the children know well
- Choose a new simple song to teach the children. Sing just the first verse to them. Ask the children to just join in with the missing word at the end of each phrase. e.g. twinkle twinkle little ….. (star)
- Play a piece of music to the children and ask them to m…
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