Music and Movement at the Farm — Teeny Tiny Library

Yee-haw! Let’s head down to the farm for some music and movement!

BOOKS:

We read Early One Morning by Mem Fox, illustrated by Christine Davenier and Clip-Clop! by Nicola Smee.

For Early One Morning, we practiced animal noises and moving around, climbing hay stacks and tractor tires. For Clip-Clop! we made animal sounds and then galloped around the room.

WARM-UPS:

“Shoe A Little Horse” from Intellidance

Sit on the floor with your legs spread out wide. For this warm-up, we’re going to work on crossing the midline of the body by reaching across our body to grab our opposite foot.

Shoe a little horsey Bend over and reach to tap your foot with your opposite hand
Shoe a little mare Keep tapping!
With a tap tap here
And a tap tap there Reach your hand back up and tap your foot on the ground

Switch sides and make your horse BIG and stretch as far as you can and SMALL and make small movements.

“Prance, Waddle, and Scamper” from Johnson County Library

Sung to the tune of “Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush”

This is the way the horses prance Lift your knees high to make prancing steps
The horses prance, the horses prance
This is the way the horses prance
Out of the barn!

2. This is the way the ducks waddle - Make wings with your arms, point your toes out and waddle like a duck

3. This the way the baby chicks scamper - Run around on tiptoe

4. This it he way the big pig sleeps - Lay on your back and roll from side to side

Then we listened to “Walkin’ Ol’ Joe” from Old Town School of Folk Music.

PROP AND INSTRUMENT SONGS:

I was lucky enough to get some funds from our local Music Boosters and I was able to use it to buy us a big stretchy band. I am ENAMORED with my stretchy band.

We sang “Trot to Grandma’s” from Makin’ Music, Rockin’ Rhythms and moved our stretchy band like reigns and up and down and side to side.

Then we passed out shakers and sang “Tingalayo”. This didn’t work as well as I would have liked, but that’s okay. It may have been that my audience wasn’t as familiar with the tune.

We hung on to our shakers and listened and sang along to “I Know a Chicken” by The Laurie Berkner Band.

CLOSING SONGS:

For our freeze dance, we listened to “The Tractor Song” by Rachel Farrow.

To cool down and stretch, we did some farmyard yoga - cat/cow, donkey kicks, chicken (Malasana), and pig (Happy Baby).

Our goodbye song was Skinnamarink with actions.