Music that builds better Brains Steve Girman – Presenter African Tribe Story – Don’t need to be a professional to sing! Folk Music Active/Passive

Greeting and Transition Songs Hello, and How Are You? Good Morning To You Move Over and Make Her a Space.

How Music Helps the Brain Grow Music is made up of Patterns Music and movement form brain connections literally (in the brain) Phonemic Awareness Background knowledge You tube about brain

List: what are we learning? 2 Little Blackbirds List: what are we learning?

Teaching New Songs Demo “I Go You Go” Together Student Models

Call / Response Songs Did You Feed My Cow? Something in My Shoe Boom Chicka Boom Candy Man

Finger Plays 5 Green and Speckled Frogs 5 Little Monkeys I Caught a Fish Alive

Reverse Sequence Songs Comin’ Round the Mountain – Sharon Lois and Bram Parade went Marching – Tom Chapin Pirate Song - Jack Harmann

Piggy back songs Easy (no rhymes) Muffin Man Farmer in the Dell London Bridges Are You Sleeping? Pop Goes the Weasel Grizzly Bear Harder (rhymes)

Animals Plants Weather Play Your turn… Piggy back songs Your turn… What are the signs that Winter is coming? Animals Plants Weather Play

Piggy back songs In small groups, pick an Autumn topic List what you want them to learn? Write a song that matches the rhyming pattern.

Don’t Throw Your Junk in My Backyard Rounds What do they teach? Row Row Row Your Boat Don’t Throw Your Junk in My Backyard