Help children learn body parts and develop strong drawing and cognitive skills.
To support schools and families during current school closures, the PreK Interactive Teaching Tool is free for 30 days. Watch a fun video of children moving and grooving to the “Wood Piece Pokey” from the Learning Without Tears PreK Interactive Teaching Tool. They learn important position words and the names of the wood pieces so they can later build letters successfully. The “ Wood Piece Pokey” is a fun song that has children using their gross motor skills to imitate their teacher’s or families’ movements. Our Get Set for School Sing Along music album has lots of songs that encourage children to imitate and follow directions.
Learning how to imitate and follow directions are important skills that will follow preschoolers into their careers. Have fun teaching children to imitate and follow directions.“I Am Happy to See You” is also recorded in Spanish on the Sing, Sound, and Count with Me music album.
Learning Without Tears has also translated all of our song lyrics to Spanish. Try their name in all capitals first and then move to title case. Morning meeting or circle time is a great way to greet children and get the day started whether you are in your brick and mortar classroom or teaching class virtually.Ĭhildren learn to recognize letters in their name and the names of their friends as they sing “I Am Happy to See You.” As you insert children’s names into the song, be sure to hold up their written name so that students can see the letters.īe sure to ask students if they know any of the letters or if they have similar letters in their own name.
Build community while teaching name and letter recognition.Here are 12 preschool music activities to help your preschoolers have fun as they learn important foundational skills. Music and movement are particularly powerful for the cognitive, social-emotional, and sensory motor development of preschoolers. This is an awesome time to use music in your virtual classroom or in your home to get the "feel goods" and to help teach children important concepts. DJs have hosted virtual dance parties that have gotten us up and moving in our living rooms. Throughout this pandemic, amateur and famous musicians have shared their live music via social media to entertain us.
Listening, singing, and dancing to music brings us joy. And it has the ability to take us back in time to a memory.It can get us through challenging times.Music can inspire, encourage, and unite us.Music is one of the most powerful gifts in the universe.