DANCE!
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Below are some fun songs and children's stories about dancing you can enjoy at home this Summer.
When you are dancing or playing instruments at home remember to play around with different beats (Macrobeat or the big beats, the steady beat, and the microbeat or little subdivided beat that your child will find easily).
"Repeating the melody while changing the rhythmic movement helps everyone learn the music more deeply because it involves more neurological pathways and more parts of the body."
Malambo from Estancia by Alberto Ginastera
Waltz from Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky
Bounce Me Brother With A Solid Four
Obla Di Obla Da by the Beatles
When you are dancing or playing instruments at home remember to play around with different beats (Macrobeat or the big beats, the steady beat, and the microbeat or little subdivided beat that your child will find easily).
"Repeating the melody while changing the rhythmic movement helps everyone learn the music more deeply because it involves more neurological pathways and more parts of the body."
"How Can You Dance" by Rick Walton and Ana Lopez-Escriva is a fun book that compares dance moves to animals and nature. The book has a great rhythm to it and encourages children to try/create the dance moves themselves!
"Color Dance" by Ann Jonas is a fun book that teaches primary colors and what colors they make when you mix them. This is a fantastic book to go along with the song "Me, You, We" from the Summer Music Together Collection. Sing one color for the first, another one for the second, and the color those make when they are mixed together for the last verse which is sung up a third from the first two verses.
Click the YouTube links below for some great songs to add to your collection of dance and play along songs.
Malambo from Estancia by Alberto Ginastera
Waltz from Swan Lake by Tchaikovsky
Bounce Me Brother With A Solid Four
Obla Di Obla Da by the Beatles
