FILE FOLDER FUN

Welcome back!

As many of you may know, I have recently begun sharing ZOOM sessions with FILE FOLDER FUN activities.  I thought that since we are all returning to school shortly, this might be the time to return to blogging so that many of you have access to the file folder games on your own time frame.

Watch this space as each week, I'll share more about the file folder games we have done, add additional activities for new file folder games and share the LIVE how-to sessions for your to make your own.

It's so nice to hear from so many of you over the summer and I look forward to sharing more ideas with you each Saturday or Sunday.

Be well.

Thom

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New post on Monday

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE - BOOKS TO SING

The Itsy Bitsy Pumpkin
Adapted by Sonali Fry
Illustrated by Sanja Rescek
ISBN: 978-1-481-40505-8

This cute adaptation of the Eency Weency Spider invites children to join the bouncing pumping as he makes his way home on an Autumn day.  My students have LOVED singing this along withe the spider version all month.  It's a quick and easy, fun-filled, story that invites singing.

To create a B Section, you will need 4 cut-out pumpkins (or four wooden painted pumpkin shapes from your local craft store).  On each pumpkin, draw a single line and place a colored-in circle above or below the line.  This will create a set of high-low pumpkins.  Place magnets on the back for an magnetic white-board experience or simply use a pocket chart with a high and low pocket.  Place the four pumpkins in a line and sing the high-low pattern after each verse in the story (there are 2 complete verses in this board book).  Invite students to move the pumpkins around to create new hgh-low patterns and sing again.

Another option might be to sing one high-low pumpkin after each line in the song.  For example:
     The itsy bitsy pumpkin rolled down a spooky street.
          high-low-high-low
     He passed a ghoulish ghost and stinky goblin's feet.
          high-high-low-low

Enjoy and keep singing.

GR 4

Check back on Sunday evening or Monday for another classroom activity - this time from GR 4! Hope you have been successful with these past few weeks of postings.

MELODY / GR 3 D-R-M and PREPARING LA,

Spooky Hour
Written by Tony Mitton
Illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees
ISBN: 978-0-439-60373-7

So I'm looking for a book that I could reinforce m-r-d patterns and still prepare low la.  This book can be easily sung with simply m-r-d for the first three phrases of each "hour," then simply sing a reverse m-r-d pattern on the fourth phrase ending on low la.

Between each hour, I used my d-r-m cards to have students sing various d-r-m patterns - creating a B Section as I turned the page to reveal the following 4-line stanza of the story.

I have attached a recording of the melody that I'm using.  It can give you an idea of what I'm working with -- If i get better at this, I'll redo and attach a better version in the next day or two for you to hear.

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