Teach, Improvise, and Explore with Nursery Rhymes - Week 2 Musical Mondays PD

Summary

David Row, the music teacher behind Make Moments Matter, provides an engaging session on how to creatively expand nursery rhymes like "Wee Willie Winky" for primary grades. He shares innovative ways to introduce the poem, encourage improvisation, and integrate pitch percussion instruments. The session includes a playful storytelling approach to help kids understand archaic vocabulary and improvisation techniques. Additionally, David discusses his excitement about an easy recorder ordering process for schools and offers Valentine's Day teaching resources at a discount.

Highlights

• David discusses expanding nursery rhymes like "Wee Willie Winky" for educational fun. 🎉
• Creation of engaging stories about the nursery rhyme characters helps children relate and understand better. 😀
• Various movement and sound exploration activities using nursery rhymes engage students further. 🕺
• Simple improvisation techniques are developed to cater to primary music lessons. 🎶
• David shares a new system by Sweet Pipes to simplify recorder ordering in schools. 📦
• Valentine's Day resources are on sale, perfect for early planning. 💌

Key Takeaways

• David Row shares creative ways to expand nursery rhymes in primary music education. 🎶
• The poem "Wee Willie Winky" is used to demonstrate storytelling and musical improvisation. 📜
• Storytelling helps children understand and enjoy nursery rhymes. 📖
• Exploring movements and sounds with instruments enhances learning. 🥁
• David introduces a new, hassle-free recorder ordering system for schools. 🎷
• Valentine's Day teaching resources are available at a discounted rate. 💖

Overview

David Row introduces a delightful concept of teaching music to primary students using nursery rhymes like "Wee Willie Winky." The idea is to expand these seemingly simple rhymes into interactive storytelling sessions where children participate actively through narrative and music, fostering an enriching educational experience.

In his session, David demonstrates how nursery rhymes can be used not just for storytelling, but also as a base for movement exercises and musical improvisation. By incorporating instruments, he encourages kids to explore various sounds and rhythms, contributing to a more dynamic learning environment. This hands-on approach assists children in understanding complex vocabulary and concepts through fun storytelling.

Additionally, David talks about his latest venture, ordering recorders via Sweet Pipes, which ensures a hassle-free process for music educators. With Valentine's Day approaching, he also highlights available resources on sale, which can aid teachers in lesson planning. His multifaceted approach truly supports music educators in making moments matter in the classroom.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction and Overview The chapter introduces David R., a music teacher who shares his expertise and experiences through various online platforms such as his blog makemoments.org and social media. The main focus of the discussion is to talk about recent exciting developments and to share specific lesson objectives for music education.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Nursery Rhymes in Primary Grades The chapter discusses methods for teaching nursery rhymes to primary grade students, focusing on ways to expand and explore these rhymes in lesson plans. The author outlines their approach to teaching 'Wee Willie Winkie' to kindergarteners, including techniques for introducing the poem and engaging students with its archaic vocabulary. The ultimate goal is to demonstrate how these rhymes can be adapted and altered to enhance learning.
• 02:30 - 05:00: Valentine's Day Resources and Bulletin Board The chapter discusses how improvisation can be incorporated into changing poetry and using pitch percussion instruments. Additionally, it mentions that resources and ideas discussed in the video can be found on the presenter's website, makemoments.org. Viewers and listeners can find direct links to these resources under the video tab or in the caption of the video or audio they are engaging with.
• 08:30 - 12:00: Recorder Ordering Made Easy The speaker announces their attendance at the Colorado Music Educators Association conference in Colorado Springs on January 31st, where they will be conducting three sessions. They express excitement about participating in the state workshop and invite attendees in Colorado to connect with them there.
• 12:00 - 16:00: Wee Willie Winkie Storytelling In this chapter, the speaker discusses their upcoming sessions at the Kentucky Music Educator Association, scheduled for next Thursday, February 6th. The speaker expresses excitement about sharing ideas and mentions planned ukulele and puppet sessions. They also note the fast-approaching Valentine's Day.
• 16:00 - 23:00: Finger Play and Improvisation The chapter focuses on planning ahead for events, using the example of Valentine's Day preparation. The narrator discusses putting resources for Valentine's Day on sale through Teachers Pay Teachers, specifically mentioning a sale period (January 27th and 28th) offering a 20% discount. The importance of creating fresh materials for occasions, such as needing a new bulletin board, is also touched upon, indicating a preference for continuous creation and innovation to keep activities and displays fresh and relevant.
• 27:15 - 33:00: Using Instruments for Exploration In this chapter, the focus is on using instruments for exploration. The discussion begins with a playful and seemingly off-topic anecdote about creating a bulletin board titled 'What is a Love Song?'. This bulletin board includes information on the definition of a love song, which is typically about romantic love, falling in love, heartbreak, etc. It also contains fun facts about love songs, such as the notable success of songs by The Beatles that have the word 'love' in their titles - a significant portion of their number one hits. While the anecdote may seem unrelated, it symbolizes the theme of exploration, as well as using creative and unexpected tools to learn and discover more about a topic.
• 45:00 - 51:00: Conclusion and Upcoming Events In this chapter, the author discusses various aspects of love songs, highlighting popular titles like 'Love Me Do,' 'She Loves You,' 'Can't Buy Me Love,' and 'All You Need Is Love.' The content goes beyond The Beatles, covering a variety of interesting facts about love songs. The chapter includes slides, numbering around 27 or 28 pages, that present these facts. Additionally, there is a section with four or five 'finish the lyric' activities related to love songs, featuring examples such as the lyrics from a well-known love song that references Romeo and Juliet.

Teach, Improvise, and Explore with Nursery Rhymes - Week 2 Musical Mondays PD Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 hey everyone my name is David R and I'm the music teacher who blogs at makem moments.org you can also find my ideas on Facebook on Instagram on patreon and a variety of places when you search for my name David Ral or make moments matter um so I'm really excited to share um some fun stuff that's been happening tonight um my main lesson objective thing I'm going to share about is um how
• 00:30 - 01:00 you can expand a nursery rhyme how you can do a lot with a nursery rhyme um with primary grades I'm going to talk a little bit about that um how I start that lesson where it progresses and what our ultimate goal is or what an ultimate goal might be what you can do with that lesson if you take it and um add and adapt and change and so I'm going to talk a little bit about how I introduce the poem we Willy winky with my kindergarteners um what I do to um encourage them um along the way to learn some of that weird archaic vocabulary to talk a little bit about it pre-
• 01:00 - 01:30 improvisation how we can change the poem and do some things along the way and then how we're going to take it to pitch percussion instruments okay that's coming in just a second so um stay tuned for that so A couple quick things if you hear me talk about um a resource an idea something you're interested in in this video um I probably have a direct link to it on my Links Page which is um on my website makem moments.org under the video tab or you can just click the link at wherever you're watching or listening to this and hopefully there will be a direct link at the bottom of the caption
• 01:30 - 02:00 um also if you want to see me in person not just through your computer or phone or whatever you happen to be um accessing this on I'm going to be um in Colorado at Colorado Springs at the Colorado music educators Association conference this Friday um January 31st I'm doing three sessions there I'm really excited to be coming to Colorado for um your state Workshop so if you're in Colorado please come this Friday I hope you'll um be there and say Hi and um uh we can chat and be a good time and then uh next week I'm going to in um
• 02:00 - 02:30 Kentucky at the Kentucky music educator Association um doing I think three sessions that's on next Thursday on February 6th I can't wait to be um in um Kentucky sharing a few ideas I'm going to be doing um an ukulele session um a puppet session prepare yourself um it's gonna be a really great time that's gonna be next week on February 6 so come say hi um also looking ahead because I know that Valentine's Day is coming way faster than I realized it for first um
• 02:30 - 03:00 to because I like to um think ahead a little bit um I have put all my Valentine's Day resources that are on Teachers Pay Teachers I put them all on sale um today and tomorrow so that's to I can only do two days at a time with TPT for sales so today the 27th of January tomorrow the 28th um all that stuff is 20% off if you want um uh to look for Valentine's Day stuff for example I I wanted a new bulletin board and so I was like I got to make something else I've used all these things before to school I'm just like
• 03:00 - 03:30 bored what what can I do so um I made a new bullish and board set and it's called it's maybe a little bit David R ridiculous but it's called what is a love song so there's there are a couple Pages like what is a love song like what does that mean love song it's song about romantic love or falling in love or heartbreak or blah blah blah it gives a little definition there are some fun facts about love songs like for example if the Beatles Ed the word love in a song title it was destined to be a hit because a fifth of their top of their 20 n billboard number one hits had love in
• 03:30 - 04:00 the title Love Me Do she loves me Can't Buy Me Love All You Need Is Love fun facts like that not just about the Beatles there there are a bunch of other things so there are like several slides about that there like 27 or 28 Pages total on this thing um there's a a set of four or five finish the lyric about this love song so for example um Romeo take me somewhere we can be alone I'll be waiting all there's left to do is run you'll be the prince and I'll be the princess it's a blank baby just say love
• 04:00 - 04:30 story obviously right I just I know how to sing it because you know I didn't want Taylor Swift's AI to be combing through these videos and like Ping my video but anyway um and then there's a little uh quote about or a little fact about Taylor Swift is Taylor Swift the queen of love songs it's eser 7 80% of her songs are about love relationships or breakups it's a lot okay so there there are four or five um of these like finish the love song quote then okay this is maybe my favorite part I have some famous musicians and then uh which love
• 04:30 - 05:00 song am I famous for so SEL Dion I'll Stand By You My Heart Will Go On Have I Told You Lately or just the way you are okay which one is it I hope you know Elvis Presley is he known for my girl Have I Told You Lately Love Me Tender or just the way you are okay but that that's on both it's a good song so I would I'm I would honestly print these out and cut them in half so I can have all these little half pages around um and then in case kids want to check um I do have a answer
• 05:00 - 05:30 page okay so in this one bulletin word set there's like the facts about love songs there's like um a list of some famous love songs you might know famous breakup songs you might know um and then I have like the Phil finish the finish the love song lyric and then like the the famous love love song singer sort of Stu it's it's hilarious I'm very excited about it um but anyway all the all the Valentine's Day stuff I know it's a little early but not really um all the Valentine's Day stuff is 20% off if you're interested um there's a link to that on my Link's page but it's just my
• 05:30 - 06:00 TPT store okay um all right so something I'm very excited about that um happened so recently um so I have forever and always been stressed out about ordering recorders because I hate ordering recorders it's always like so much how many kids need a recorder do you have one at home what kind of get no no oh yeah you got this random other one that you found on the internet great okay so and then then um
• 06:00 - 06:30 not just ordering recorders but like what color are you getting and like uh you know like what you know all these different things about ordering it's always stressed me out um what resource they need do they need an extra blah blah blah and then they start bringing the money and they bringing like you know a bag of nickels and one kid has a check and one kid brings in too much money and like all this stuff and recently parents have always been like hey so can I pay online and I'm like no our district doesn't offer an online payment portal like I really wish you could they're like can I just ven venmo
• 06:30 - 07:00 you directly and I was like no you definitely can't do that so anyway it stressed me out well um there's a service through a company called sweet pipes you might be familiar because if you've taken or orph levels they have all these books that you probably have had to play out of um so all these books are published by a company called sweet pipes but they don't just publish books they also um sell children's books musical instruments um uh publish different Works uh publish books teachers books
• 07:00 - 07:30 all sorts of stuff you see them at um a lot of major conventions um and anyway so sweet pipes has this really cool thing that I decided to try for the first time where you you email them and you say I want to set up a direct School order and they take all your information um what's your school what's your blah blah blah all the things and then you go on their website and they say like which items do you want your students to purchase so um I went in and found like the four recorders that I wanted my kids to purchase like you can either it's one
• 07:30 - 08:00 recorder but you can either get it in Ivory or blue or green or pink it's the Yamaha basic um Ys 24 or 20 series whatever it is um and so I chose a recorder chose a neck strap they could get a bag they can get um they they have an option for if you want to donate a recorder okay parents can do that if they want you can you can list required items like the recorder the bag and the next strap and then you can um give optional items if you want like if you also want to get a book or you want to get a whatever like you can put all that
• 08:00 - 08:30 in parents then so like once I send once I give tell sweet pipes that sweet pipes um they set up a a spot on their website that says School recorder orders and there's a drop down box and it said my school name prayer Ridge Elementary and parents just click it they go in they you know get you know one blue recorder and a neck strap I'm going to get the pink neck strap and a bag okay and I'm going to buy an optional whatever they go through they pay for all of it it's all a secure portal I don't ever touch
• 08:30 - 09:00 the money and so sweet pipes sets that up so it's just the things that I want them to order um sweet pipes makes a letter for me to send out saying like hey here's how you do it here are the problems if you have issues call this number blah blah blah um and so then once it's live I send out this link in this letter to parents and they go on and they buy the stuff directly from sweet pipes however it doesn't ship to their home It All Ships In One Mass order to my school the day after the were like the C off for ordering they
• 09:00 - 09:30 just pack it all up and they ship it to my school and then I disseminate it to kids or I keep it in the classroom or whatever whatever my policy is at my school I know some people are like they buy the parents buy it but we keep it at school or the parents buy it we send them home or you know whatever it is you do um all of it just comes straight there so today there was this huge box on my secretary's desk she's like it's the recorders but like I need like the shipping list or whatever I was like actually no you don't because none of the money came through our school account and she was like
• 09:30 - 10:00 right you told me about this when I told my secretary and my principal they were like do it do it try it we'll see if it works because I know my secretary is like sick of like you know 35 checks and you know a bunch of cash and bunch of random coins someone's you know turning in like gold $1 coins and all these weird things somebody send in half you know like all the weird silly stuff so it was so easy parents just went online they ordered and it all has come to me now and and I'm I'm so excited about it because I didn't have to touch any of the money and it all just was so easy
• 10:00 - 10:30 and they sent an email to me saying like here are all the people who have ordered at any point in that process when the ordering was open I could have emailed them and said like hey who can you send me a list of who's ordered in case I need to like go track down some kid or some parent to remind them you need to go order um it was just so easy now if you go to their website now you're not going to find my school's name because once the like the cut off happens like you parents can can no longer order from
• 10:30 - 11:00 the website because it's like once the cut off is there then they take my name off the website my school's name off the website and they ship everything out so if I wanted parents to be able to buy more I'd have to like call write sweet pipes back and be like hey can we do another order or whatever um but it it was just so simple and so easy I don't have to see any of the money the parents get an automatic receipt because it's through there like you know shop portal whatever so it made it easy for parents it made it so easy for me um and all the
• 11:00 - 11:30 stuff came and it was really it was like so simple and uh because we ordered like so much I can't remember how much you had to order it was free shipping anyway it was so fabulous I'm going to write about it on my blog because it just would made recorder so easy made it so easy and I know that parents aren't accidentally buying the wrong thing because I I chose from the website this specific item put this in our um option for a what available thing it's it's wonderful so anyway um if you have questions about it send me a direct
• 11:30 - 12:00 message email me makem moments matter gmail.com and I will tell you all about it and how it worked at my school um I also on the Links Page today I put a link to a description on the sweet pipes website but go check it out it made recorder ordering so easy okay I can't say enough about how happy I that okay um so more to come on that if you have questions or I'll I'll let you know if we have any issues or anything along the way um ordering from sweet pipes so um I
• 12:00 - 12:30 just had to talk about that cuz it's mine but my secretary was like so happy she's like oh my gosh you mean I don't have to like sift through a bunch of random coins and checks and whatever and any it's very excited okay uh Nursery rhym so I'm going to talk about how like I introduce the poem some of the things I do with it what do we do to talk about improvisation how do we get it on Pitch instruments all with kindergarten um you could do with kindergarten or first it depends on what you want to do so I'm going talk specifically about the poem
• 12:30 - 13:00 we Willy winky although there are some other poems you could do this with if you're interested it just depends on what poem you want to teach so the poem we Willy winky in case you don't know it goes like this we Willy winky runs through the town upstairs downstairs in his night gown wrapping at the window crying at the lock all the children in their beds for it's 8:00 okay so that's like the traditional version I learned I teach it slightly differently with my kids but mostly the same so uh with kids
• 13:00 - 13:30 I teach this as a story instead of just like telling them the poem I say oh there was a okay actually I'm really embarrass to say oh there was a little boy and this little boy lived in another country and in this country they spoke English but they spoke a little bit different and I like go into this like weird pseudo accent where I like tell the story in this like a like off Celtic sort of Irish whatever accent um but I I talk about how they have an accent there they say things a little bit different instead of saying small they say we instead of saying mom they say mom
• 13:30 - 14:00 instead of you know like a couple different things that are a little bit different but it is English but they just it's a little bit different um and so then we talk about this little boy and how he wanted to stay up and his mom said no you have to go to bed and he's like but I want to play no you got to go to bed but I want to have a snack no you got to go to bed but I want to read no you got to go to bed and So eventually she uh she cooks him to bed he goes to sleep and then the second she turns out the light he W he walks over to the window climbs out the window he lives on the ground floor and he runs to his
• 14:00 - 14:30 friend's house and he gets to his friend's house and he goes Daniel Daniel come out to play it's me it's Willie Daniel and he and he yells and the kids are like so excited about how hilarious this kid is run away and he wants to go play with his friends but Daniel doesn't wake up Daniel doesn't come out because guess what Daniel's doing it's 8 o' he's in bed all kids need to be in bed by 8 o'clock he's asleep okay so anyway so Daniel doesn't come out so Willie goes H so he runs over to his other friend's house who lives in apartments sioban and he runs
• 14:30 - 15:00 up the stairs up the stairs up the stairs and he goes to the door but the door's locked shoban and he yells and he try to it's wiie it's me it's wiie and he but guess what she doesn't come out to play because she's asleep in bed it's 8 o'clock all the kids need to be in bed it's 8 o' so then he runs down the stairs down the stairs down the stairs he runs over to his other friend's house Daniel Daniel and he tries to wake up Dan he's knocking at the door why is the door locked and he's trying to get in and and he can't get in he
• 15:00 - 15:30 goes Daniel come out to play it's really and he said so finally he goes home he's he's frustrated he gets home and he climbs through the window he closed the window he climbs over to bed he pulls his covers over and goes I'll try again tomorrow night and that's when he hears click and the light switch has turned on and he says mom at the door oh hello Mom Willie where have you been I've been here asleeping bed no you've not Willie Where Have You Been um I must have been sleepwalking no you have not and so she calls him out and he's like
• 15:30 - 16:00 but Mom how did you know because Daniel's mom and Patrick's mom and Siobhan's mom they've all called me said Willies at our door banging at the window crying at the Lock and he's trying to get in and say they need to go play but at 8:00 he needs to go to bed oh you're in big trouble really so like I teach it as a story because there are some things in the poem that like don't make sense to a kindergarten right so like wrapping at the window crying at the Lock those words in context when you
• 16:00 - 16:30 teach it as a story he's wrapping at the window oh that's one of the things I say differently because what when he's doing this what is he doing he's knocking okay and he's crying what the he's not like crying he's like yelling right so like how so it's a little different so as I teach it in this story it irons out some of those things where there are like maybe words they don't know or the context that doesn't quite make sense so I talk through and and um do a lot of that in the story reinforce some of those things that are going to come up and then I say because Willie did this
• 16:30 - 17:00 thing that he shouldn't have done and because they wanted to remind all the other kids never to do that they wrote this poem and it goes like this we Willy winky runs through the town upstairs downstairs in his night gown okay that's another thing we talked about he didn't put on his PJs he put on a night gown what is a night gown yada yada y wrapping at the window crying at the lock all the children are in bed because it's 8:00 now that's not the
• 17:00 - 17:30 orig the original is all the children in their beds for it's 8:00 but for my kids that gets a little confusing because all the children in their beds four it's eight they think four is in the number four and instead of like because so I say all the children are in bed because it's 8:00 it doesn't alter the poem all that much it's not a big deal but it helps iron out and explain some of those things okay then we learn it as a finger play and a finger play is when you have your hands and fingers act out the story
• 17:30 - 18:00 so we Willy winky runs through the town I said if you're going to make your fingers do uh a skip what would that look like how about tiptoe through the town how about hop through the town that's one foot how about jump through the town okay that's toy so he runs through the town I just have them do that so that they can see that that that's what the fingers are doing they're running and it helps remind them of what the thing is that they actually should be remembering it try of cements it in their head we
• 18:00 - 18:30 Willy winky runs through the town upstairs downstairs in his in his and the kids are like night gown in his night gown yes and then wrapping at the window crying at the lock all the children AR in bed because it's 8:00 so we could just like fall asleep with our hands our head on our hands or could tap on our watch it's whatever you want to do we do
• 18:30 - 19:00 it two or three times and then that's the end of that lesson we come back to it another day but for that day that's as much we tell the story in that sort of longer form in more of a narrative form and then we do the poem two or three times with the finger play action so they they sort of get that process and they remember it as a pull okay so then the next lesson we come back and I say ah do you remember that little boy Willie Willie the one who got out when he shouldn't have gotten out what do you remember about Willie what
• 19:00 - 19:30 did he do and so we like we go through we talk through the poem we we say the poem again as we had learned it and then I say okay but that first part we Willy winky runs through the town what else could he have done how else could he have moved and so then we talk about a lot of different ways he skipped through the town we Willy winky skipped through the town we Willy winky stomp through the town and I ask kids to come up with different words what could we do what could we do what could we do this is teaching kids that I want to hear their
• 19:30 - 20:00 different answers what is an on task answer that fulfills the question but that is creative so what do I mean by that I mean like I'm teaching kids like um he doesn't float through the town that's kind of through the town how would he float he doesn't fly through the town Willie can't fly he's a boy he's just a kid right he's not a bird so some of those would be like off task answers he uh he explodes through the town I don't know something that like you know your hry kid would say um but
• 20:00 - 20:30 like so I'm looking for word words that fit the like the assignment right that like what's another movement action he could do through the town he could run he could tiptoe he could hop he could skip he could jump he could March you know I don't know and so we try as many of those as we feel like trying and our fingers acted out and then we go upstairs downstairs in his night gown what else could he need forn out and then again we go through like
• 20:30 - 21:00 different things Upstairs Downstairs in his everyday clothes upstairs downstairs in his Halloween costume Upstairs Downstairs in a school uniform you know like whatever we could come up with to again just a variation to teach them like I wonder what else we could put in here we could also change Upstairs Downstairs to side to side you could do downstairs upstairs if you invert that pattern um you could do back and forth in his night gown you could do you know all around the town in this night gown
• 21:00 - 21:30 you could change the action there too if you wanted again just for a variety but then going back to the original before you leave it so like we tried all these different things okay what's the original G Upstairs Downstairs in his night count coming up with those options again and then wrapping at the window crying at the Lock what else could he do at the window he could tap at the window he could scratch at the window he could wave at the window he could um um I don't know he look through the window like what else could he do and then
• 21:30 - 22:00 instead of crying at the Lock what he could whisper at the Lock he could singing at the Lock you know so trying different things there um and then all the last one is all the children are in bed because it's you change the time because could you all the children are in the pool because you could change where all the children are um but again at the final time we each of those four like you know phrases we change we change we play with at the final time then we go through and we do the poem
• 22:00 - 22:30 again mostly I wanted to like I want them to see like I want to see what else can you do what else can you do what else can you do this is like preparing them for improvisation later on down the road where we say like what else could you try what else could you try what else could you try and I want them to know that like I want to hear your answers I want to see what you could do sometimes a little Silly's fine yeah like what kind of what could we do oh could he do that could he jump could he you know whatever so we try different stuff but then also it's over and over and over and over they're feeling that Cadence of the poem something something
• 22:30 - 23:00 in his night gown something something in his night gown something you know so there's vocal exploration there's trying but it's always ending with that in his night gown or in his school clothes in his whatever it reinforces what's happening in the PO and then before we leave the lesson we do the original we Willy winky runs through the town upstairs downstairs in his night down wrapping at the window crying at the lock all the children are in bed because it's 8:00 and then maybe a few weeks down the road we come back to this
• 23:00 - 23:30 lesson only now get out our instruments so I've got uh a xylophone here and um we Willy winky instead of um you know let me see if I set this up on the um instead of running through the town we've got him here on the xylophone so we Willy winky runs through the town what would that look like if you're using um a xylophone and actually I usually start with fingers he moves just like the fing just like
• 23:30 - 24:00 the finger play that we did moving through the town we do it with our fingers what if he's [Music] skipping what if he's stomping through the [Music] tone right um what if he's uh falling through the to right what if he's uh hopping that's one foot what if he's uh leaping so we're taking that finger play that we played around with already
• 24:00 - 24:30 before now we're just doing it on an instrument Upstairs Downstairs what sounds like upstairs let's see because they're going to want to do a slide anyway which one sounds more like upstairs that or yeah and so we play around with that Upstairs Downstairs in his night gown and then wrapping at the window you could do your fingers here what if you did it here on the side of the instrument on like the box like not the Musical
• 24:30 - 25:00 part not these bars but like somewhere else where else could you do it right see play around the that um and then all the children are in bed because it's 8 o'l let's tap eight one 2 3 four five six seven eight oh I love that then eventually after doing it several times with fingers we move to mallets now if you're at this stage where you want to try it with kids I love putting two kids on an instrument one on each side
• 25:00 - 25:30 because right now being on the the right side where letters are facing up does not really matter we're using it as a like a vehicle for exploration we're not using it as like oh we're going to play this song or whatever so it doesn't matter if they're on the right side of the not right side right like I just met oh gosh sorry I don't know if you saw that but I did a thumbs up and apparently yeah on Facebook it a thumbs up bubble I hate when it does that sorry anyway so um uh so we're
• 25:30 - 26:00 just using this as like an instrument for exploration you don't need to worry about whether they're on the rights it or not but this means that I can put one person here and one person here and the two kids can share the instrument on both sides of the instrument and um and so if you don't have enough for one for each kid or whatever or even if you just want the work in pairs this is an easy way to do that so uh they do all that stuff with finger play with their fingers trying and exploring and then eventually we'll get a mallet and the Mallet version would be the same sort of exploration and play only now the Mel when they Hur so we Willy winky runs
• 26:00 - 26:30 through the town upstairs downstairs in his night gown this one I have them hold up like here's Willie oh my gosh look he's wearing his night gown how embarrassing he's wearing that out on the town what okay so it's just holding up a mallet he's it's not I don't know and when a kid's like he's naked I'm like no he's not can you see his night gown oh my gosh do you not see it because kids are always like push that silly oh naked Mallet I don't know why every time
• 26:30 - 27:00 it happens okay so um and then wrapping at the window so now instead of playing on a bar we're going to find another spot with our Mallet to tap but now that we're using our Mallet we don't want to hit too hard because these mallets we don't want them to break so just finding a nice place to Tap maybe on the floor I don't know or on the box um and then crying at the Lock instead of going like this with my hands and like putting my hands around my my mouth to like make my voice go for I'm going to put the mouths there crying at the lck F so that it's like it's like I'm putting my hands
• 27:00 - 27:30 around my mouth um to make my voice louder but I'm just doing Ms and then all the children are in bed you can either have them put the the mounts to sleep on the bars I teach this because then usually at the end of the lesson um kids will count on fingers then to eight or they'll tap somewhere with with their finger for eight but then I have the put the mount to sleep on the bars like Will's going to sleep because then they at the end of the poem they don't have a mount in their hand that they can play with that they can
• 27:30 - 28:00 just bang around and make sound with so at the very end of the poem we go all the children are in bed because it's 8 o'l one two three so they then would tap on a on a bar that's unobstructed right so it starts with teaching the poem as a narrative really helping them understand some of those words key Concepts archaic vocabulary then we uh play in another lesson we play around what else could he do what else can he he runs he skips he does whatever um and then eventually in
• 28:00 - 28:30 another lesson we'll bring it back and do that exploring again but now just with a pitch percussion instrument eventually with mallets you don't even have to do the stage with mallets but why not right um and so it's it's fun to get to try this poem in a variety of different ways when I first started teaching Elementary music I was like these nursy Rams are cool but they last like 10 seconds then what do you do with them well this is something you could do with it you can take it you can expand upon it you can add to it you can explore with it that there's so much fun stuff you can do um with pitchburg or or
• 28:30 - 29:00 or sorry with nursery rhymes that can either Lead You instruments or not this doesn't even have to be where you go with it it's just a possible option it's not the option it's a possible option if you want okay I hope this gave you some ideas for um nursery rhymes um you don't have to do this just with we Willy winky other nursery rhymes that this is so easy to do with um or like Jack be nimble Jack be quick or Jack and Jill went up the
• 29:00 - 29:30 hill um anything where there's movement or back and forth or language that seems like oh gosh hicky Dickory Doc is another good one except that one has a lot of it's a little bit trickier for kids but there's there's so much you can pull out and do with that so I would say find a nursery Ram you really like explore and see what kids can do if you want to do we Willy winky cool if you want to do another one cool um but try it out see if that works for you okay like I said at the beginning of the video a couple fun things if you're going to be at college music educators this Friday January 31st or Kentucky
• 29:30 - 30:00 music educators next week February 6 I'd love to see you I'm G to be there in person for a short time in Kentucky for a slightly longer time in Colorado so if you see me come say hi I'd love to like meet real people in person and not just talk to you through my computer um and if you want to jump start on Valentine's Day and you want to try something like what is a love song bulletin board all my Valentine's Day stuff is 20% off today today the 27th and tomorrow the
• 30:00 - 30:30 28th because TPT only lets me do up to 20% off and only for two days I don't know why it's how they I don't know it's how they do it so anyway um check that out if you're interested I hope that gives you sort of a jump start into Valentine's Day if you want and if you liked this nursery rhyme instrument lesson come find me on patreon I have a lot more stuff and I'm adding more stuff all the time with lessons just like this where you can see the extension you get a written lesson plan to go with it um lots of plans uh lots of options for fun exploring okay that's enough for tonight
• 30:30 - 31:00 um thanks for coming along with me tonight everyone I hope you have a great week and I hope we see many of you in person in Colorado or Kentucky or at other workshops coming up and um if not I hope I'll see you next week for another musical Monday's video thanks so much everyone have a great night