#703 in Children books
Use arrows to jump to the previous/next product
Reddit mentions of The Book of Beginning Circle Games (First Steps in Music series)
Sentiment score: 2
Reddit mentions: 2
We found 2 Reddit mentions of The Book of Beginning Circle Games (First Steps in Music series). Here are the top ones.
or
Specs:
| Height | 10 Inches |
| Length | 7 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Weight | 0.61 Pounds |
| Width | 0.34 Inches |
This book is a life saver for K and 1! You could probably even stretch these activities up to 2nd grade and make it fun for them (especially early 2nd grade). It is a bunch of circle games that use simple songs that you could play on the piano and the students can move to. You can tie in many different music concepts really easily to them as well. Really any book by Feierabend is full of great activities for the little ones! Hope this helps at least a little! Good luck!
http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Circle-Games-First-Steps/dp/1579992668
Elementary music teacher here. Do circle games. Kids that age love circle games. Farmer In The Dell, Little Sally Water, Sailor Sailor, etc. There's a million of them, and the lyrics tend to be very simple and repetitive, so they should be easy to translate. I highly recommend this book as a source for circle games. Also, do some movement to music activities. I use the songs and movements from this amazing resource, but I also create my own, and I'm sure you could, too. Especially if you have musical training and understand form. If you're feeling brave, teach them some folk dances from any of the Amidon books. I'm doing Kings and Queens from Sashay The Donut with my third graders right now and they LOVE IT. (Cute story: Last year when the royal wedding was happening, my tough inner city kids were BEGGING me to do the kings and queens dance so that they could pretend to be in the wedding! So cute!)
Good luck!