Want to liven up your preschool music lesson? Try a hip hop activity. Here’s a loop-based track and “homie” activity we do to keep our hip hop preschool kids on their toes. (Bonus points – it’s also great for rhyming and remembering...
Are you always asking “how does that song go?” You know what it’s like when you’ve got a bit of a song in your head but you don’t how it goes. It’s most frustrating. You know it’s about a donkey with a funny name and...
Most people learn to sing a song by hearing it sung. When we were invited to run training sessions for educators in our preschool music methods, we were constantly being asked for vocals on the music tracks. People just wanted to know how that song went-with a...
I’m still reflecting on that lesson plan ‘Be Kind to Animals’ with children 3-5 years-old. Our melody and harmony instrument song, ‘Little Girl Little Girl’, was about an adult asking a child if they had fed the animals their correct...
It’s pretty easy to find songs for 1-3 year olds when your rich driving concept or theme is farming practices but what are the best songs and the best music activities to go with those songs? In our preschool music lesson ‘Baa! Moo! Oink! there is no...
This is what fun music is really like in preschool. Yesterday I had the pleasure of finding out how much children love singing really silly songs and having fun. I was in a local preschool with about thirty children, late morning just before the younger ones went...
