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In a classroom with three year old children, it is important for Isabelle to be able to adapt quickly to her students. With that being said, she may need to work with different activities that would be suitable for her active group of three year olds. To incorporate the cognitive and motor skills into the activity I would advise Isabelle to start out with a watch and do activity song like "Teddy Bear", a song I have used in classrooms plenty of times before. From there, Isabella can create her own watch and do song for her students where she can incorporate using or making instruments in the activity.

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Teddy Bear Teddy Bear Turn Around - The Kiboomers Preschool Songs & Nursery Rhymes for Kids

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Class sorry for my late post due to loss in family.

My son had some issues when he was younger with moving and his coordination was a little bit off most of the time.  I developed a small plan when I played with him to assist him get stronger and help his motor skills.  Being in the military I had to teach grownups how to march in step and to a cadence to a rhythm and believe me when I say that was a challenge.
So, what I used to do with him was the same thing, put music and walk around calling his left and right steps, as he got stronger with his legs he got a little bit better each time.  So, we added music and I used to call cadence to him and he would have to sing it back to me and over time he got better and better.  We moved on to instruments and slowing moved from marching to letting him just express himself in whatever means he wanted.
In our own way there are many of nights we would sing cadence, songs and just have fun. Come to find out as he got older when he was diagnosed with a form of autism the doctor was impressed with his motor skills because basically what I did with him just having fun working on normal things in my opinion.

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Music is important in many aspects of development. As an adult I find it easier to memorize the lyrics to any song rather than the math or science lesson I have that week. Rhythm and movement through music. The more song and dance the more eagerness and involvement you will receive from 3 year olds. Each student learns differently, and incorporating different learning styles into one may result in a greater outcome. When learning numbers there are many songs and dances. In my time volunteering at UCP I have come across many I wish I could share but I would like to share a shape and number music video below. The students loved it and had no problem signing and joining along. Mimicry seems to be most important at a young age. If the students aren’t able to keep up with the videos they atleast have their peers along side them to help keep them going.

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The Singing Walrus - English Songs For Kids

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Counting 1-10 Song | Number Songs for Children | The Singing Walrus

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There are many benefits to using musical instruments with children in the early developmental stage. Introduction to music at a young age has been proven to correlate to strong critical thinking skills. It is important to allow young children to develop gross motor skills through kinesthetic experiences. This is possible through the use of procession instruments such as drums, tambourines, or bells. Inspiring a love for music at a young age can help a child find a love for all types of learning down the road. Encouraging children to explore music through free practice as opposed to strictly guided instruction will foster a spirit of exploration. Students will be able to overcome the fear of trying new things because they won’t be afraid to fail. The developmental stage is the perfect time to introduce children to music.

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When i was in school i remember singing to "Head,Shoulder,Knees, and Toes". Head,Shoulder,Knees, and Toes is great for three year olds because not only is it fun, but it keeps them active. It also allows the children to learn and recognize the different areas of their body. What i love about this song is that its repetitive and very easy to learn and remember!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZanHgPprl-0

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There are many benefits to using musical instruments with children in the early developmental stage. Introduction to music at a young age has been proven to correlate to strong critical thinking skills. It is important to allow young children to develop gross motor skills through kinesthetic experiences. This is possible through the use of procession instruments such as drums, tambourines, or bells. Inspiring a love for music at a young age can help a child find a love for all types of learning down the road. Encouraging children to explore music through free practice as opposed to strictly guided instruction will foster a spirit of exploration. Students will be able to overcome the fear of trying new things because they won’t be afraid to fail. The developmental stage is the perfect time to introduce children to music.

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Music class, for many children, is an exciting time of the day. When I was younger I clearly remember one of my favorite activities was when the teacher gave us the opportunity to incorporate our own ideas. At the time I just looked at the opportunity as a fun time but looking back it gave us the chance to put our thoughts onto paper and think about the types of beats we wanted to make ( Cognitive thinking). The teacher would write on the board a couple drawings that symbolized different sounds. For instance, Star= Clap, Heart= snap, square= stomp, and triangle= hit desk (many times, depending on age, you can let the kids come up with their own drawings and symbolizes). The teacher would pass out blanks sheets of paper and instructed us to make a two to four line song out of our drawings. Once each child was done we would take turns playing out each of our songs as a class. Triangle, triangle, star, star, heart, heart, heart= hit desk, hit desk, clap, clap, snap, snap, snap. A visual representation might be easier to follow along.  Here you go.

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Fourth grade class wrote some terrific "sound songs". I got this idea from another music teacher. Thank you! It was a hit.

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There are many benefits to using musical instruments with children in the early developmental stage. Introduction to music at a young age has been proven to correlate to strong critical thinking skills. It is important to allow young children to develop gross motor skills through kinesthetic experiences. This is possible through the use of procession instruments such as drums, tambourines, or bells. Inspiring a love for music at a young age can help a child find a love for all types of learning down the road. Encouraging children to explore music through free practice as opposed to strictly guided instruction will foster a spirit of exploration. Students will be able to overcome the fear of trying new things because they won’t be afraid to fail. The developmental stage is the perfect time to introduce children to music.

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I've been working with kids for a while now and i've learned a thing or two about music and songs that can help them grow and will also be fun to sing and dance to. One song that everyone must know is "Head shoulders knees and toes". It helps the children know and remember certain body parts and to add some more fun go faster and faster. I know for sure my kids love doing this. Heres a fun link to the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4eueDYPTIg
Incorporating music to learning is so awesome. They learn and play. Enjoying learning while playing.

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Incorporating music in a classroom with 3 year olds will save your life! I promise. Not only are you helping children developmentally grow with the power of music. It also makes teaching a bit easier because this is the time where are all students are focused and engaging. I work with 3 year olds and i make sure to incorporate music for just about everything we talk about or do. Recently, my class were having issues with following directions. So I decided to find a song with following directions. The rules rap song came up and that is my go to whenever I need to redirect them to follow directions. Music helps with memory and also language.

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The Rules Rap: Great Way to Learn and Review Classroom Rules - The Rules Rap

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I've read many of my peer's posts and unfortunately I do not have many experience with three year olds and pre-school classrooms. According to the class text, there are five different types of music activities for young children. These include, sound exploration, singing with and to children, exploring rhythm, moving to music, and listening to music. Like I said earlier, I do not have many experience myself, but I do vaguely remeber when I was a Teacher Aide in high school, both to K-3 and K-4, that the two different teachers I helped incorporated music one way or another. Isabelle could use some of these activities that those teachers used. One of the teachers, like one of my peers said above, used the cleaning song and the kids seemed to enjoy it. She also had a seperate time for story and worsship time, which the kids loved. The second teacher I helped incorporated music while the students worked on activities and such. She had classical music on while they finished activities, while they ate snacks and also while she called roll. Things like these could be incorporated in the classroom by Isabelle.

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In chapter three i loved how it talked about having the kids move with the music. Isabelle can use One that i remember observing while helping out in a preschool class was she played a cleanup son and had the children sing and dance along as they helped her clean up the classroom before class was over. I look back at this and think what a fantastic way to on have the students help with putting the tools away that they used throughout the day and second a fun way to still incorporate music into the classroom.
The kids had so much fun during this time that you can tell they were not groaning about having to help teacher clean up. They had so much fun just singing and dancing along to the music.

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I am a preschool teacher  and our day is surrounded by music. As kids enter I play soundtracks from their favorite movies. It's amazing to see how at age two they can sing along to different songs. To incorporate music into Isabelle's classroom she can have all of the kids gathered together on the carpet, giving each student a bell. To properly engage all of the children she can have them follow her lead by making either soft or loud noises. Ms. Isabelle can also sing to her kids while on the way to the playground making noise with her hands and feet. Having fun while learning is best because the children will look back and remember. This YouTube video shows how a preschool engages their children in music . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt3VK3VfuAA

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I used to be a preschool teacher and worked  with 2 1/2-3 year olds. I could never forget how curious and energetic that age is. Music is very important in a child's life, especially at 3 years old. They take in everything! Music helps develop their cognitive, physical, and social development. In my classroom, I used to always make songs up to the tune of a nursery rhyme. They caught on fast and actually listened better when I would make a song out of something. So if I needed them to line up for example I would sing; Line up, Line up, Everybody line up, line up, line up, behind (line leaders name). Tune: Clean up. I also sang to them in Spanish so they could learn another language. As far as movements, during circle time pretty much all of our songs included movements. They absolutely enjoyed guided singing and movements. The website below gives a few activity ideas for toddlers.
https://teaching2and3yearolds.com/music-and-movement-activities-for-toddlers-and-preschoolers/
Pinterest is my go to for ideas for anything, so here is a link for movement and songs for 3 year olds.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/282389839112463035/?lp=true

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I currently work at a daycare. I use to work in a three year old classroom and music was a big part of their day. They loved to play instruments, dance, and sing. My kids always loved to sing and dance to "The Wheels On the Bus". With this song they learn how to multitask in a way. They are listening to the words, singing the song, and doing the hand motions. Another thing my kids loved to do is have a music parade. They loved to pick out their own instruments and dance around the classroom. Since working at the daycare, I have noticed that kids love music and it helps them learn things faster and it is easier to remember when there is a song. So we incorporate music and movement into as much as possible. This way the kids are learning to their full potential.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9XZX3m06cE

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This is a great video of some of the things that are developmently appropriate for 3 year olds. Teaching good listening skills and also letting them handle certain instruments and have fun doing it! The shakers are a very good instrument to use as well because as she shows in the video she gives the opportunity to be very loud with them, and then very soft which also demonstrates good listening skills in a less structured manor.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H9AbIvFJk8

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     Isabelle can make instruments using easily accessible materials. For example, in page 50 of the text it tells you how to build a shaking tube. All you need to build this with is paper clips, buttons, marbles, toothpicks,coins,dried peas or beans, poster paper, electrical tape and colored markers. Also, in the text on page 51 it states that the most important sound to a young child id his own voice and children will often sing to themselves making them not only exercise language development but its good for musical nurturing as well. In conclusion, you can even make your own activity's up like singing duck duck goose and when it lands on someone they have to sing about what there doing in the day or something new going on. 

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     Isabelle can make instruments using easily accessible materials. For example, in page 50 of the text it tells you how to build a shaking tube. All you need to build this with is paper clips, buttons, marbles, toothpicks,coins,dried peas or beans, poster paper, electrical tape and colored markers. Also, in the text on page 51 it states that the most important sound to a young child id his own voice and children will often sing to themselves making them not only exercise language development but its good for musical nurturing as well. In conclusion, you can even make your own activity's up like singing duck duck goose and when it lands on someone they have to sing about what there doing in the day or something new going on. 

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Musical Activities that Nurture Young Children

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Musical Activities that Nurture Young Children

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Teaching 3-year-olds can be a handful, but the more you get them actively involved, the more they will love to learn all the activities you have for them.  Our text explains why music and movement is very important in helping with the learning skills in Early Childhood Education.  You can start with music early in the day with any type of greeting or Good Morning song to get the kids enthusiastic about the day ahead.  The “Roll Call Clap” is a great way to combine rhythm and movement to start the day.  In this activity you clap out the child’s name in a chant of “Who is Julie? Who is Julie?”, then have Julie stand up and move and clap back in a chant of “I am Julie! I am Julie!”.  Music and movement does not only have to be used during circle or play time , you can also use music and movement during the day by ending one activity to move on to the next.  The “Clean Up Song” is  a great way to let children know this activity is over, it is time to clean up, and move on to the next activity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFVjU-dsIM8
Link to Good Morning song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oY-H2WGThc8
Link to Clean Up Song

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According to our text, exploration is incredibly important to a child's learning process. During this stage, all senses are being explored, and the child is learning something new. Exploration is extremely important, because without it, children would not understand the object they are playing with. Exploration ties in with Music! With music, you should be singing to your students. This helps them to explore the sound of their own voice. With music, children can find their own voice. I know an activity I liked to do when I was a teacher with preschool age students, they really enjoyed learning chants and songs. When learning a chant, you are teaching the child memorization and listening skills. The child is memorizing and repeating what you are singing to them. Along with music, is movement. Movement is very important for children, because they are learning how to move their bodies, and they are making discoveries that enhance their cognitive development. When children do movement activities, they are interacting with other children, and this also helps with their social development. Bubble wrap is something fun, even for adults. A fun activity you could do to encourage movement, would be to do bubble wrap jumping. This combines both sound exploration and movement. They are listening to the different sounds of the bubble wrap, and jumping around interacting with each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x5Te-ctEzA

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In chapter 3, one of the five activities for musically nurturing children is moving to music. A good activity to do with three year olds to get them moving to music would be bubble wrap jumping. Having the children do this activity combines sound exploration with movement by having the children jump on bubble wrap to hear the sound. This activity also helps the children's cognitive abilities develop, because as they move through their world, they gather information. I know first hand that music is a major part of a child's development, because I have seen it with my own children, and with my students.

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I absolutely agree that music is essential in a child's development. Especially when it comes to younger children like three years old because their minds are like sponges. Music can help teach them important things, such as their ABC's, learning scripture verse and even learning how to tie your shoes. Sing-a-long and silly dance time is a great idea to incorporate into your classroom, it allows all the children to come together and release energy while still learning an important lesson. 

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I absolutely agree that music is essential in a child's development. Especially when it comes to younger children like three years old because their minds are like sponges. Music can help teach them important things, such as their ABC's, learning scripture verse and even learning how to tie your shoes. Sing-a-long and silly dance time is a great idea to incorporate into your classroom, it allows all the children to come together and release energy while still learning an important lesson. 

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I work with three year olds' all the time. They are a joy and can be very loud. I have noticed that they learn better with song. SO with our weekly bible verse we make a song and different movements that helps them memorize it. We also do different dances and songs on our mimo board. They enjoy it a lot. This is also how we are learning the different letter and sounds. Attached are the songs that we use for the alphabet and dances that we do. It is awesome to see when they know both the song and the movements without the song even playing! Other things we do to learn our numbers is they have to hit a certian instrument the number of times as the number of the week. When we were studying the letter Dd and the number 4 each student had to hit the drum 4 times. They really do enjoy it and they are learning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZhwagxWzOc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36IBDpTRVNE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqZsoesa55w

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I personally believe that, not only do children need hands on experience with music and musical instruments, but they need sometimes to excite them even more each day they walk in. For example, I teach kids in 4th, 5th, and 6th grade and kids in grades 9-12. For my younger students, I think it helps to have a video playing when they walk in to class each morning that will intrigue them enough to want to be like the person in the video. I will also base the video according to the instruments they play. On Monday's and Thursdays we have a 4th grade class that includes 15 kids who play violin or viola and on Tuesday's and Fridays we have 15 kids in 4th grade that all play cello. So, on certain days, I may play a violin/viola video and some days I might play a video with Yo Yo Ma in it or something. Although the kids in the class already want to play instruments, having a video of a professional gives them a huge confidence boosts and allows them to think ahead, like "ooooo maybe I can be like that some day!" and with that they are in a better mood and are ready to start their day and are excited to go home and practice. Also, sometimes I'll bring my cello in and play for them. With this, it allows them to not only hear me play, but they can ask me questions, touch the cello, so on and so forth. For younger kids, it's very easy to grab their attention, but it is also very easy to lose their attention. Playing videos on some days they come into class has really boosted the atmosphere in a positive way! I will attach a link of one of the classes favorite videos, they ask us to play it almost every day! haha! The video is the 2cellos playing Thunderstruck. I have shown them more classical videos as well, but this one they absolutely love!

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Music helps children learn different sounds and explore different activities. Their are many different ways to imply music in the classroom. For example the ABC's song because of the rhythm it helps 3 year olds remember and recognize their letters. In a 3 year old classroom you can also use songs to make transitions throughout the day so the children don't have any questions on what they are doing that day and they are use to a routine. Use can also use music to help children learn different movements and teach them how to listen. It is also important to allow 3 year olds to rest their brain and get all of their energy out so they could better focus. Here is a good brain break song!

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TheLearningStation - Kids Songs and Nursery Rhymes

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Brain Breaks - Action Songs for Children - Move and Freeze - Kids Songs by The Learning Station

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I am a Preschool teacher and I believe that music is a major importance in a Childs development. They not only learn to interact socially with their pears but they also build motor skills by dancing to music, they can learn their left from their rights and the parts of the body from the hokey pokey and much more. A few songs that we do in the morning that the kids love is a name song. Its starts off by saying “caydence caydence jump up and down, turn all around. Caydence caydence jump up and down, now sit back down! This helps them learn instructions and also to pay attention and stay focused. We also have a set of morning circle time songs that include a good morning song, alphabet, numbers, season, and a month song.

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I am a teacher of VPK 5 years ago, I began to work with young children. I learned that music is an essential part of the growth of our children. In the day-to-day felt like a song of clean up could be recorded all day, then I was learning to incorporate in different ways. In our curriculum is mandatory to include music, but it depends on the teacher what are you want to use. I am sure that the music and other artistic help children to express themselves better, help with the imagination, creativity and gives them confidence. If all the days’ music intervenes in the lives of young children promotes the ability to differentiate sounds, auditory memory, sequences, and the breathing rate. To meet the need and ability of each student in my morning routine we do our circle time every day. I have a song and different pace, what varies is the movement and the way they express themselves. This allows you to start the day with enthusiasm, because the students are waiting for a new song, it should be noted that the songs should be repeated, not because I have variety means that they can learn a song. Then we have phonemical that integrate the music to learn letter sounds, rhyming, etc. We finished our day with Music and Movement songs like Bear Hunt, Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes and a Tooty-Ta. Another important point early childhood classrooms are divided by areas, in my classroom, there is a corner of music and listening center. In the corner of music students can manipulate free-form the instruments and in the listening center listen to stories.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXqDxhJCNWg following Directions, Creative movements, patterning.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwoTsWlz60I Students attention, sequence, mental and physical activity.

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This is a great video of some of the things that are developmently appropriate for 3 year olds. Teaching good listening skills and also letting them handle certain instruments and have fun doing it! The shakers are a very good instrument to use as well because as she shows in the video she gives the opportunity to be very loud with them, and then very soft which also demonstrates good listening skills in a less structured manor.

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This is a great video of some of the things that are developmently appropriate for 3 year olds. Teaching good listening skills and also letting them handle certain instruments and have fun doing it! The shakers are a very good instrument to use as well because as she shows in the video she gives the opportunity to be very loud with them, and then very soft which also demonstrates good listening skills in a less structured manor.

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If there is one thing that i've learned from working with three year olds is that they more noise they can make the better. But they also enjoy following along and watching their teacher be silly. So for my class throughout the day I give them two 30-45 minute blocks where we are all actively involved in a music based activity. First, in the beginning of the day with our morning circle time where we practice our alphabet, counting, days of the week, months in a year, opposites, and we do some following direction songs as well https://youtu.be/TFVjU-dsIM8 . Then, during our outside time or if the weather is bad we do it inside our music and movement songs. These songs are mostly following directions but focus more on challenging the children's gross motor skills. I also allow the children to choose their whatever instrument that they want from or inhttps://youtu.be/j24_xH5uvdA 

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If there is one thing that i've learned from working with three year olds is that they more noise they can make the better. But they also enjoy following along and watching their teacher be silly. So for my class throughout the day I give them two 30-45 minute blocks where we are all actively involved in a music based activity. First, in the beginning of the day with our morning circle time where we practice our alphabet, counting, days of the week, months in a year, opposites, and we do some following direction songs as well https://youtu.be/TFVjU-dsIM8 . Then, during our outside time or if the weather is bad we do it inside our music and movement songs. These songs are mostly following directions but focus more on challenging the children's gross motor skills. I also allow the children to choose their whatever instrument that they want from or inhttps://youtu.be/j24_xH5uvdA 

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Good Morning Song - THE KIBOOMERS Preschool Songs for Circle Time

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One thing I remember doing in school, and that I believe is still very popular is the "Hokey Pokey" dance. I think this is a great song to get children up and moving, and work on their coordination. It is a great song for three years old to follow along, and get some of that energy out! It also has simple follow along steps like "you put your right foot in, you take your right foot out". This is going to teach them coordination, and also things like body parts, and their right from their left.
Here is a fun link to the song.
https://youtu.be/iZinb6rVozc

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In Chapter 3, one of the music enhanced activities is having the children dance and jump around on bubble wrap, allowing them to hear the noise and dance to the sound of their own music. With my class, when we go to our weekly music class we do a lot of different activities that allow us to not only use our voice but use some objects around us (that are sometimes provided) to make our own music. I attached a video of my students who are all around 3 years old, and they are playing with oil drums using their hands, fingers, nails to make different sounds to make it appear as if they are in a rain storm! Such an awesome idea for them to use their imagination as well as get the hands on affect of what they are trying to achieve.