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pre-school Activity week Day 3- Well-being Wednesday

29/2/2012

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Twinkle Twinkle Traffic Light

Welcome to day 3 of our Pre-school music activity week at Harmony Music Therapy Scotland. Today I'm going to share a teaching song about traffic lights. It's never to early to learn Road safety but this is not all about the traffic light. it encourages pitch and melody recognition, introduces colours, signing, instructions, and encourages communication and listening.

A video will follow tomorrow but here are some of the words to get you started :)

(Use the melody of twinkle twinkle little star)
Twinkle Twinkle traffic light
Around the corner shining bright
RED means STOP!
GREEN means GO!
YELLOW means moving very SLOW.
Twinkle Twinkle Traffic light 
Around the corner shining bright. 

I like to use coloured egg shakers that the children can shake when we sing the associated colour or I use colour flash cards and hold them up at the appropriate time. I also introduce signing for twinkle, stop, go, and moving slow. We then play an instrument game where the child will play the drum and if I hold up the red card they need to stop, if I hold up the green card they go and if its the yellow they slow down. This can be accompanied by the relevant signs at the same time. They can then get the chance to pick the stop and go cards and I can play the drum if encouraging independence and turn taking is a goal in their treatment plan. 

Stay tuned for more musical fun for the pre-school child tomorrow at harmony music therapy scotland. Remember if you live in the highlands of Scotland and would like more information on our services or would like to book a session please contact me at Kristen.MT@live.co.uk or visit the contact form on the website at www.harmonymusictherapyscotland.co.uk. 

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Pre-school Activity week Day 2- Tuneful Tuesday

28/2/2012

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Music & Books

Today I'm sharing an activity that I use with some of my higher functioning music therapy pre-school clients. this activity uses a colourful story book to introduce different instruments and sounds. One of my favourite books to use in this activity is 'Say hello to the Jungle Animals' by Ian Whybrow and Ed Eaves because it is tactile and sensory with lots of colours and 'touch and feel' felt on the animals. As each animal is introduced they use a different sound which encourages vocalisations and also sound exploration of the instruments, while increasing concentration and attention,  multi-tasking and encouraging imagination and patience for turn taking. Check out the video for an example of this book in action or let me know if you are interested in finding out about other books that I use with this client group to introduce music skills. 
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Pre-school Activity week- Movement Monday

27/2/2012

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It's pre-school week at Harmony Music Therapy Scotland. This week I am going to share some fun musical activities that you can recreate with your child at home. It will also give you an insight into some of the musical activities that might happen during a typical music therapy session for pre-school children. All activities will be focused on one or more of the following goal elements: To encourage socialisation, To promote cognitive functioning, to facilitate movement and rhythm, to increase communication and interaction, explore instrumental sounds and most importantly to have FUN!!

Today is MOVEMENT MONDAY!!!!
This activity is a song that encourages listening skills, movement and choice making and its called "Dancing in the middle"

LYRICS
___________________(child's name) is dancing in the middle,
___________________ (child's name) is dancing in the middle,
___________________(child's name) is dancing in the middle,
He/ she's going to dance, dance, dance.

He's going to dance,  x 6
And now its time to STOP

(pick a new movement eg jumping, stamping, hopping, clapping)
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Something exciting is happening next week...stay tuned!!

9/2/2012

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Next week is Pre-school week at harmony music therapy and each day this blog will bring you a musical activity that you can do with your child at home or give you a little insight to what a music therapy session could be like for your pre-school child.  Stay tuned for more on Music Monday at harmony music therapy Scotland :)
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    Kristen MT

    I'm a n MT-BC who loves to play piano, guitar, sing and dance!

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