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| Music Class Magic Bracelets - Monica Gelinas |
| Today I used "magic bracelets" with the K's and first graders.
They've been having a hard time with right and left directions. We all wore the "magic bracelets" on our right hands and everything
worked much better. I'm also going to use them with my fourth graders, with whom I've just started recorder. They'll put the
bracelets on their left wrist to help remember their left hand position. I bought those colored, sort of rubbery bracelets
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Game To Teach Proper Sitting To Young Ones - Sandy Elder |
I knew I was in for a challenge when my first graders first
entered my room this afternoon. Instead of sitting down like I'd told them to, they ran around, shoving and laughing, then
finally falling, flipping, rolling into their semi-sitting positions. Yikes!
Rather than get mad (OK, I did
get mad, but rather than show it), I said, "Oh, I guess you need some practice sitting down." I told the dangerously rough
ones to sit by a wall and watch while the rest of us showed them how by playing the "sit down game" (sounds like a game to
me!).
Tune: "The More We Get Together"
Words: (sung by teacher with/without the piano)
Walk around the room,
the room, the room.
Walk around the room, and now sit down!
(They had to sit properly immediately - legs crossed and
hands in lap, or they too were "out.")
Crawl around the room, the room, the room.
Crawl around the room, and now
sit down!
Dance around the room...
Skip around the room...
Walk around backward...
Tip toe 'round the room...
(you get the idea)
They LOVED it and not only got out most of their wiggles, but also learned how to sit
down QUICKLY and QUIETLY. We stopped the game and let the others join in, but only if they continued to sit down properly
when it was time. Any flipping, jumping before sitting, etc. sent them back to the wall. | |
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