Music enhances early literacy skills by:

•Creating a positive attitude towards learning.

•Music teaches a variety of language skills. http://www.singingsavvy.com/

•Music improves memory and attention.

• Music- creating it, listening to it, or performing it- creates unique

brain connections that contribute to the understanding of math concepts,

spatial reasoning, and other complex ideas.

• Music encourages self expression through movement and play.

Welcome Song

Hey, Hey, How do you do?Hey, Hey, How do you do?Hey, Hey, How do you do?Welcome to the library!

Hey there singers, how do you do?

Hey there dancers, how do you do?

Hey there dreamers, how do you do?

Welcome to the library!

Hey, Hey, How do you do?

Hey, Hey, How do you do?

Hey, Hey, How do you do?

Welcome to the library!

Action Based Learning- http://abllab.com/Brain science strongly supports the link of movement to learning. Exercise builds brain cells Movement activates the brain.•Keeping energy levels up provides the brain with oxygen- rich blood.

• Studies show that ABL improves memory retention, reinforce academic concepts, balance brain chemicals while experiencing whole-brain, whole-body learning.

Increases academic performance.

Research Supporting Movement & Brain Science

BRAIN AFTER SITTING QUIETLY

BRAIN AFTER 20 MINUTE WALK

Research/scan compliments of Dr. Chuck Hillman University of Illinois

Get in the ZONE

YO DJ pump this party! Be excited about your playlist. Enthusiasm ignites greatness!Know your music and modify your movements.Keep it fresh! Mix it up- variety of genre/manipulatives/instrumentsGive Shout Outs- keep the participants motivated Keep the class moving (mix it up)- Back to Front, Party Line, Rhythm Circle, Dance Battle (split the room), Limbo, Follow the Leader

“Facilitators of joy”. -Playground Theatre “Healthy music for a child’s heart, body, and mind.”- The Learning Station

“It’s all good.”- Pete the Cat

Playlists to use in the classroom Learning Through MusicSuperheroes of Knowledge- Stephen Fite

Put your Hands In the Air (Spanish)Superhero Workout (brain break)

Count By Fives (math)

RhymezwellHip Hop ABC

Good Morning/Good Bye

I Can Do It Myself

Making Music with Imagination!Turn It Down- Lisa LoebClap Your Hands- They Might

Be GiantsHands Are For Clapping- Jim

GillClapping Machine- Jack

HartmanBiz’s Beat of the Day- Biz

Markie Bluegrass Jamboree- Hap

Palmer

Just Dance!

The Monkey Dance- WigglesThe Mack Chicken Dance- Greg and SteveI Can Dance- RonnoRockin’ My Hips- The Learning StationPeppermint Twist- Oldie but GOODYToo Hot- Hip Hop Zumba FitnessDinosaur Dance- UnFROGettableEveryone Loves to Dance- Aaron Nigel Smith

Fun Early Literacy Parent/Child ActivitiesAction Cube Dance CardsParent Helpers

Wild About Themes with Community Partners

Campout Sing along HPLD L.A. Guitarist- Ian Rouge

Disney Karaoke Party Homemade MICSOpera Opera Singer- Mandy HeastonKids Fit Club WOW Insanity InstructorBelly Dancing Tribe SydyssanBugs Bug antennae's M&M’s Greatest HITS CP’s Favorite JamsMarching Band UNC Students/ Co. Early Literacy

GrantFiesta Grupo de Trullo

Summer Themes Special Performers

TribeTribeSidysaanSidysaan

Belly Belly DancersDancers

Theme:Marching

Band

Let It Go- F

rozenTheme: Disney Karaoke

Opera Opera DayDay

Kids Fit Kids Fit ClubClub

10 min circuits: marching, MB press, bear crawls, lunges, squats, triceps dips, bicep curl w/ tubing, incline push ups + small talk on why exercise is important/ healthy food choices, Q and A

Fiesta!

Orgullo Orgullo Dance Dance TroupeTroupe

“Let’s Move!” CampaignCreating Community Partnerships

DID YOU KNOW- Over the past three decades, childhood obesity rates in America have tripled, and today, nearly one in

three children in America are overweight or obese.

30 minutes of activity daily.

Community Partnership-

CP’s Kids Fit Club

Be open to learn from others. Work Out West Insanity Instructor- Jeremy Gregory

“Popcorn”- Insanity InstructorRefo

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Don’t you agree?

Andrea Cleland, MLIS, RYT-200, RCYT candidate

“Y” yoga for kids? Improves coordination

Crosses the midlineRelieves tension, stress, and anxietyBuilds confidencePromotes respect for self and othersDevelops mind/body connectionAllows for more restful sleep

Stress relieving Restless kiddos?

Try forward folds!

Greet the moon.

Modified Eagle

Kashyapa (tortoise) mudra

Books!Actual yoga books

Oral storytelling

Books with a yoga theme:Gratitude

Nature/ Animals

Growth

Breath

Emotions

Namaste Breath

Savasana

Mandalas

Preschool Dance Party

OverviewMusic and movement

program for preschoolers and toddlers (ages 2-5)

Popular!Fun!30-45 minutes dancing

Breakdown of the Party

• Movement book and/or story to start• Games• Dancing!• Parachute to end

Making an Awesome Playlist:• Pick a mix (old favorites, new

kids songs, pop/R&B/oldies)• The sillier, the better• Consider how you will dance

to it beforehand • Think about energy levels

when building your playlist• Use some of the same songs

every time

Don’t forget props!

Dance Party BenefitsEncourages imaginationGood parent/child

interactionsPopularWorkout for everyoneEarly literacy skills and

practicesFUN!