Dance Party: 60s Dance Party!

SRC 60s Dance Party (props: hula hoops, shakey eggs, scarves/ribbons, parachute)

As patrons enter, Hand out shakey eggs and let kids dance/shake to Baby Beatles! Tracks #1 (Here Comes the Sun), 2 (All Together Now), 3 (Everybody's Got Something to Hide), 5 (Birthday),7 (Ob La Di, Ob La Da), 8 (Love Me Do) (Baby Beatles! [music CD] Babypants, Caspar. Aurora Elephant Music, 2013) (also had hula-hoops out during this time and helped kids try these.)

Or use Yellow Submarine tracks #2 (Hey Bulldog), #13 (When I'm 64) Yellow submarine [music CD] Beatles.Hollywood, Calif. : Capitol, 2009

or '60s music revolution. [music CD] Let the Sunshine In
[New York] : Time Life, [2012]. 2012 Disc 2, tracks #1 (The Letter), #2 (Kicks), #6 (Everyday People)

Additional possibilities:  Beach Boys: “Wouldn't It Be Nice” other dance songs e.g. “Twist & Shout” “Macarena”?

Pass out Scarves/Ribbons:

60s Disc 2, track #8 (Age of Aquarius)

Yellow Submarine #12 (All You Need is Love)

Bring out Parachute:

60s Disc 1, track #4 (Up Up and Away)

60s Disc 2, track #3 (Spinning Wheel)

Yellow Submarine #1 (Yellow Submarine)

Baby Beetles #13 (Octopus's Garden)

Freeze dancing to: tracks #1 (dance), #2 (Spiderman), #3 (Batman), #6 (Mighty Mouse), #11 (The Incredibles) of Super heroes [music CD]. Hit Crew (Musical group)
Edison, NJ : TUTM Entertainment, 2007

Clean up toys and parachute, everyone joins hands to make circle, sing “Sing” by Joe Raposo (song from Sesame St. - also started in the 60s.)

Hand-stamping to Louis Armstrong's “It's a Wonderful World”

Other album possibilities for general dance parties:A Child’s Celebration of Dance, Wiggles dance party, Spaghetti Eddie v.3, track #2 Freeze, Kimbo Move & Learn, track #7 Alphabet March & Match, #16 Freeze, Baby Genius: Kid's Dance Party, Learning Station: You Can Dance!

8/3/2015

Dance Party: Shake, Rattle, and Roll! 50s Sock Hop

Shake, Rattle, and Roll -- Time travel to the 50s for our sock hop dance party -- poodle skirts and grandparents optional!    -- music cds, shakey eggs, scarves,   parachute?

CDs – codes relate to tracks below: You Can Dance (YCD) --The Learning Station, Child’s Celebration of Rock ‘n Roll (RnR) -- Music for Little People, Blue Suede Shoes (BSS) – Elvis Music for Kids -- -- Music for Little People  (Another good album (didn’t arrive in time): A Child’s Celebration of Dance).

As people entered, playing:

Alley Oop  RnR#7

Rock Around the Clock RnR#1

C’mon Let’s Dance YCD#1

Optional: Blue Suede Shoes BSS#5, Party BSS#7,

Passed out Scarves:

Splish Splash RnR#3

La Bamba RnR#15

Optional: Doo Wop YCD#4, At the Hop – The Fabulous 50s (Reader’s Digest) #1, Hound Dog BSS#1, Shake, Rattle & Roll BSS#3, Stuck on You BS #9

Passed out Shakey Eggs:

Willie & the Hand Jive RnR#4

Funky Chicken YCD#10

Optional: Don’t Be Cruel BSS#10

Parachute:

Rockin’ Robin RnR#6

Yakety Yak RnR#8 (bring parachute down on “yakety yak”)

Freeze Dance:

Move and Learn (Kimbo) – Freeze #16

Optional: Name Game RnR#9, Jailhouse Rock BSS#11, Monster Mash RnR#12

Purple People Eater RnR#10

Closed by forming a circle and singing Joe Raposo’s song “Sing” (to calm everyone back down)

Hand stamps.

 

BWL 7/20/2015

“Groundhog Day–Shadowplay!” Story/Craft Program (Ages 3-9)

 

(Long program but full of action songs and activities, may wish to pick and choose depending on ages attending & whether doing crafts or not.)

Display: Books about Groundhog Day, Shadows, 535.4

Optional video playing as kids enter: Robert Louis Stevenson’s “My Shadow” story section and/or hand shadow section (played this in 2016) from Reading Rainbow DVD “My Shadow” or "My Shadow" from the album A Child's Garden of Songs: The Poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson in Song (very nice rendition).

Opening: Talk about Groundhog Day, showing pix of groundhog in Groundhog Day by Lynn Peppas (394.261 Peppas) or from other sources.

Read: Go to Sleep Groundhog by Judy Cox – created a season/holiday “clock” to accompany story  -- in 2016 replaced by Grumpy Groundhog by Maureen Wright

optional Flannel: Ground Hog Day – Gregory Groundhog Looks for His Shadow based on the book Gregory’s Shadow by Don Freeman

Sing: one or two of these groundhog songs:
1. Groundhog Day  (to the tune of "Where is Thumbkin? / Frere Jacques", source unknown)

Where is groundhog? Where is groundhog?   (Thumb behind back)
Here I am! Here I am!   (Bring thumb forward)
Shadows on this sunny day,   (wiggle thumb)
Frighten groundhogs all away.   (Thumb behind back)
Winter will stay! Winter will stay!

Where is groundhog? Where is groundhog?   (Thumb behind back)
Here I am! Here I am!   (Bring thumb forward)
My, oh my, a cloudy day.   (Wiggle thumb)
I will stay outside to play.   (Move thumb around)
Spring is near! Spring is near!

2. Shadow Time  (to the tune of "The Itsy-bitsy Spider", source unknown)
The furry little groundhog
Goes in his hole to sleep,
Through the cold winter's
Snow and ice so deep,
In February
He stretches to and fro,
Will the furry little groundhog
Get scared by his shadow?

3. I'm a Little Groundhog (to the tune of "I'm a Little Teapot", source unknown)
I'm a little groundhog, it's my day.
Wake and stretch, go out and play.
Down in my burrow, down so deep,
Time to wake, from my long winter's sleep. I'm a little groundhog short and stout,
February second I will come out.
If I see my shadow they will shout,
"Six weeks more winter without doubt!"

4.  Little Groundhog --Jean Warren  (Tune: "Kookaburra" from
www.preschoolexpress.com/pattern_station03/groundhog_activities_feb03.shtml)
Little Groundhog sits in his home all day.
Wishing that winter would go away.
Go - ice and snow. Go - winds that blow
Let Little Groundhog play.
Little Groundhog sits in the sun all day.
Wishing his shadow would go away.
Go - ice and snow Go - shadows that show
Let Little Groundhog stay.

2017, started here:

Read: I have a Friend by Keiko Narahashi (great figurative language)  or My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson (clever classic poem)
(Science snippet: talk about when shadows are short and long -- midday & ends of day because of the position of the sun.)

Action Song: Shadow Song by Carol Simon Levin (Tune: " Mary Had a Little Lamb”  suit actions to words)

It was a very sunny day, sunny day, sunny day.
It was a very sunny day, when my shadow came to play.
And everywhere that I did go, I did go, I did go,
Everywhere that I did go, my shadow followed too.
It followed me when I ran fast, I ran fast.
It followed me when I ran fast, for that's what shadows do.
   It followed me when I climbed high…
   It followed me when I dug in the sand…
   It followed me when I skipped rope…
It started out pretty short, pretty short, pretty short.
It started out pretty short, in the early afternoon.
Later it grew very long, very long, very long,
Later it grew very long, at the end of day.
When nighttime came, my shadow was gone, (sharply clap hands together)shadow was gone, shadow was gone.
When nighttime came, my shadow was gone -- it had gone away.



Read: Moonbear’s Shadow by Frank Asch Action Songs: 

I Am Your Shadow by Carol Simon Levin (Tune: “I'm A Little Teapot”)

I am your shadow, short and fat,
Lift up your hand, I can do that,
Lift up your foot, I'll do that too,
I do anything that you do.
I am your shadow, long and thin,
Put your finger to your chin,
Then watch me, I do that too,
I do anything that you do!
or
Did You Ever See A Shadow?  by Carol Simon Levin (Tune: "Did You Ever See A Lassie", suit actions to words)

Did you ever see a shadow, a shadow, a shadow?
Did you ever see a shadow, swing this way and that?
Swing this way and that way and this way and that way.
Did you ever see a shadow, swing this way and that?
Continue with other actions e.g. Jump… Dance…Clap …
or

You are My Shadow by Anne Harris, Wichita Public Library (tune: “You are my Sunshine”)

You are my shadow, my only shadow.

Whenever I jump, then you jump too.

Whenever there’s sun, you are right by me.

Oh, clouds (or night) don’t take my shadow away.

Continue with other actions e.g. run, dance, wiggle

Read: selections from Guess Whose Shadow? – Stephen Swinburne (younger) or What’s That Shadow – 535.4HAR  (interactive – read some of the rhymes aloud w/o showing pix to emphasize listening skills)

 

Read: Shadows are About – Ann Whitford Paul (splendid action words)

Action Song: Dancing with my Shadow on  Musical Games by Don Cooper

Read (if kids have interest): Shadowville by Michael Bartolos or Nighttime Ninja by Barbara DaCosta 

Action Song:  Be My Shadow by Carol Simon Levin (Tune: "Be My Echo" from Sesame Street --action song, words in italics are echoed by children)

Be my shadow, sing after me
Do what I do, care-ful-ly
Reach high, high, high (high, high, high)
Bend low, low, low (low, low,low)
Run fast, fast, fast (fast, fast, fast)
Walk slow, slow, slow (slow, slow, slow)
Walk along a tight rope (walk along a tight rope)
Skipping to and fro (skipping to and fro)

Be my shadow (be my shadow)
Do what I do (do what I do)
Follow the leader and sing after me (sing after me)

Climb up stairs (climb up stairs)
Turn around (turn around)
Reach arms to the sky (arms to the sky)
Now touch the ground (touch the ground)
Walk on your tippy toes (walk on your tippy toes)
Then upon your knees (then upon your knees)

You've been my shadow (been my shadow)
You did what I did (did what I did)
You followed the leader and sang after (sang after) me!

Show: DVD Reading Rainbow: finger shadow demo. segment (through curtain fall)  left projector on so kids could try themselves (repeatedly ran this segment with no audio the rest of the program - kids could make hand shadows and watch their puppets dance on the lighted screen as well.)  In 2016 showed DVD Go to Sleep Groundhog.

Optional: Add more science by including the sun rotational segment from the DVD.

Craft Stations (some years):

• Shadow Puppets – (materials: cardstock, scissors, hole punches, paper fasteners, pipe cleaners, scotch tape, chopsticks or popsicle sticks) resource book: Making Shadow Puppets 791.53 BRYANT  (2017)
• Silhouette heads (materials: overhead projector, 11x17 black paper, 11x17 construction paper for backing, pencil, scissors, glue sticks, chair to sit in, tape to hold black paper on wall)
• Making silhouettes pictures  – cut their own action shadows (materials: scissors, black paper, construction paper, gluesticks, pencils) -- related book: Nighttime Ninja by Barbara Dacosta
• Hand Shadows handout (use projector left up after DVD) http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/4753864/how+to+hand+shadow+like+a+boss/ or http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/23/manual-of-hand-shadow-puppetry/#!tB24N or http://www.thebestkidsbooksite.com/storydetails.cfm?TopicID=279 or http://www.gutenberg.org/files/12962/12962-h/12962-h.htm
• Groundhog visor (printouts from http://www.daniellesplace.com/imagesApat/groundhog-hat-pat2.gif, scissors, markers, tape)

Optional: Played this while stations and for dancing:

 
2/14 2/16
Handout available here: http://tinyurl.com/csl-singalong-shadowplay

2017 storytime/craft – week after Groundhog Day – showing DVD Reading Rainbow “My Shadow” as kids arriving, then opened program  by showing picture of Groundhog and asking about the holiday but didn’t read any Groundhog books or sing any Groundhog songs, skipped directly to the book I Have a Friend.

Other possible titles:
The Black Rabbit by Philippa Leathers
Hortense and the Shadow by Natalia & Lauren O’Hara (2017) – for school age audiences

Flannel (not the most interesting): The Shadows Run Free

Picture This: Figures in Motion: The Paintings & Sculpture of Edgar Degas

Picture This: Figures in Motion: The Paintings & Sculpture of Edgar Degas

Kindergarten through 5^th grade.

“Join us as we learn about the people in Degas’ famous paintings, then try our hand in capturing motion on paper and in three dimensions.”

· Browse Degas and the Dance (J759.4 RUB) A Weekend with Degas (J759.4 SKI), Edgar Degas (759.4 VEN)

· Read aloud: Edgar Degas: Paintings that Dance (J759.4 COC), Degas and the Little Dancer : a Story about Edgar Degas (Picture Book Anholt) and/or Marie in Fourth Position (Picture Book Littlesugar)

· Have kids create pastel drawings showing movement (dark construction paper, pastels) and/or action figures (pipe cleaners, foil, masking tape, playdough, tissue paper, google eyes, fabric, etc. for decorating)

· Resources: Picture This: Activities and Adventures in Impressionism (759.054 RAI) pp.24-29 Pastels, Action figures, Start with Art: People (J704.942 LAC) p. 16 drawing with different materials, Impressionism (759.054 BOL) p.20 , The Usborne Art Treasury (J750.11 DIC) p. 60-63 Pastel Dancers, My Art Book (DK) (J745.5 MY) p.34-39 “Freeze Frame”

9.07

PreSchool Storytime: Earth Day

 

 

Earth Day: incorporates story and song, sign-language, non-fiction, sequences and kinesthetic learning in a storytime designed to build empathy and environmental awareness

Ages 2-6

 

Music when entering: Tom Chapin’s This Pretty Planet (start with track 1 –“Come Blow Your Horn”)  (or can use CD accompanying Joe Raposo’s book Sing)

Read: The Earth and I by Frank Asch (beautiful pictures, child’s eye view thanking the earth and making a difference)

Sing (with signs): “Walk the World Now Children” –  (track 8 of Some Assembly Required by Tom Chapin)  Used signs: walk, world, children, now, me, love(ingly), forever, day, drink, water, breathe, air, work, soil/land) (scanned, in sign language folder)

 

Read: I Love our Earth by Billl Martin Jr. (525 MAR -- non-fiction, multicultural, great pix, seasons)

Flannel: The Seed Story  (cumulative story, sequencing –storytelling pre-reading skill): “This is our garden, this is the seed that grew in our garden, …roots from seed, …rain that will fall, …sun that will shine, …stem that will grow, …bud that will form, …flower that will bloom

Action Song: “Digging Digging this is how we dig the soil, in our garden” (Raffi)

 

Interactive Book: Tap the Magic Tree by Christie Matheson

Interactive Book (older groups): Earth dance ( 811.54 RYD Ryder) (acted this out as we read it -- kinesthetic) or Singable Book: What a Wonderful World – George David Weiss & Bob Thiele (several good illustrated versions of this song made famous by Louis Armstrong). Alt: Earthsong by Sally Rogers  (musical book -- can act out the motions)

Song/Puppets: “We’ve Got the Whole World in Our hands”… (passed around Earth ball and animal puppets as we sang -- suit verses to puppets e.g. “We’ve got the lions in the plains,  …the kangaroos and their joeys,… the birds in the air,…the monkeys in the trees,  the whales in the seas, …the squirrels in our gardens, etc.)

Video:  Reading Rainbow: On the Day You Were Born (beginning with baby in hospital nursery through story sequence) – consider starting with this as kids arrive if doing as craft program.

Music/Action/ Parachute (or scarves or colored ribbons):  “This Pretty Planet” track  15 on Tom Chapin’s This Pretty Planet

Hand stamping to "What a Wonderful World" (Louis Armstrong recording – The Fabulous Louis Armstrong 625 ARMS is a good version) and/or “This Pretty Planet”

Alts: no time: All the World – Scanlon, Earthsong – Rogers  (can act out the motions), Mother Earth – Luenn (figurative language), Wangari’s Trees of Peace -JBiog Maathai, The Mangrove Tree: Planting Trees to Feed Families ( J577.698 ROTH),  Picture a Tree – Reid, Inch by Inch: The Garden Song -- Mallet

More earth day songs here: http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/2015/04/sing-springhappy-earthday.html, more earth day ideas here: http://carolsimonlevin.blogspot.com/search/label/Earth%20Day%20%26%20Environment
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Tidy – Emily Gravett (2017) good for K+

If You Plant a Seed – Kadir Nelson
Sidewalk Flowers – JonArno Larson
Mrs. Spitzer's Garden -- Edith Pattou -- beautiful book emphasizing metaphor of young students/garden

 

BWL 4.16 – didn’t do a separate Spring themed program.

http://phpearth.com/easy-earth-day-crafts-for-kids.html
(didn’t do this in 2017, consider for 2018)

http://krazee4kindergarten.blogspot.ca/2013/04/earth-day-freebie-includes-headband.html
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/FreeDownload/Earth-Day-Freebie-Includes-Writing-Printables-Headband  (made headbands, “hands” (printed on blue) and double-strip (printed on green), along with B&T cardboards cut in 3” strips, markers, gluesticks, scissors, stickers)

4/18/17 BWL with craft above