movement games/songs

[tanya23boy]

It seems that in another thread we've written about songs we sign that are more sitting down type songs. I'm interested to know of games/songs where the kids get up and moving. Which verbs do you use? How does the stop/go games work with music or without?

Thanks for the help

Tanya

[Teresa Jo]

"Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush" children walk in circle for the first verse (at Daniel's story time they walk around a parachute) and then stop to do signs for verses such as "This is the way we wash our hand, brush our teeth, iron our clothes etc.

Palmer Palmer has a great song called "Colors." The lyrics have four different colors stand and sit during the song. I used this at my playgroup once. We signed the colors, red, blue, green, blue, sit and stand while also standing and sitting as directed by the song. Each person was chosen to represent a color.

[tanya23boy]

I forgot about the stand/sit option. Can you get the palmer song on the internet?

btw-i will send you the songs i promised you...

And i can't believe how many signs your son has-absolutely fantastic!!! Does he do sentences as well??

Take care

Tanya

[Teresa Jo]

I got your email with your songs. Thanks a lot! Here are the lyrics to Hap Palmer's song. I'll get a video of the tune later and send it so you can hear it too. Daniel has used 2 or 3 signs together, so I guess you could say he has signed sentences! I sign sentences with him and not just a few key words.

Colors by Hap Palmer
(album: Learning Basics Skills Through Music Volume 1)

This is a song about colors, colors;
You see them all around.
There is red on a stop sign, green on a tree, blue in the sky and sea.
This is a song about colors, colors;
You see them all around.
Its about the happiest song in town;
All you have to do is stand up and sit down.
All you have to do is stand up and sit down.

RED stand up, BLUE stand up,
YELLOW and GREEN stand up.
RED sit down, BLUE sit down,
Yellow and GREEN sit down.
RED stand up, GREEN stand up,
RED and GREEN sit down.
BLUE stand up, YELLOW stand up,
BLUE and YELLOW sit down.

This is a song about colors, colors;
You see them all around.
There is yellow on banana and green on a tree, blue in the sky and sea.

RED stand up, GREEN stand up,
YELLOW and BLUE stand up.
RED sit down, RED stand up,
YELLOW and GREEN sit down.
BLUE sit down, YELLOW stand up.
GREEN and BLUE stand up.
GREEN sit down, BLUE sit down,
RED and YELLOW sit down.

This is a song about colors, colors;
You see them all around.
Its about the happiest song in town,
All you have to do is stand up and sit down,
All you have to do is stand up and sit down,
All you have to do is stand up and sit down.

[Teresa Jo]

There are several other good songs on the same album for signing. "What are you Wearing?", "Marching Around the Alphabet", and "Growing."

Learning Basic Skills Through Music. Volume 1 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00004TVSM/103-3943402-7470227?v=glance&n=5174)

[dmmetler]

There are several we use in Kindermusik classes to teach inhibitory control (starting and stopping) which are great for stop and go and can be adapted for sitting. "Walk and Stop" and "Stop on a Dot" both come to mind. Walk and stop is great for teaching movement words, either sitting or standing. Stop on a dot is great if you have a larger room, because then you can change the dots so you can stop on different colors, or animals, or whatever. Walk and Stop is on the Away we go CD and Stop on a Dot is on Confetti Days. I think they are on the Best of Kindermusik CD, too. (You can often get the home CDs from units inexpensively on Ebay used).

Another favorite site of mine for kids music is www.musick8kids.com. They have $.99 downloads of most of the songs from Music K-8 magazine through the years (which is a LOT of songs-5 issues a year and each has 10-15). Typically, they do several songs an issue which have full ASL versions in the magazine, and are great to sign to (usually these are ones where words are repeated frequently at not too fast of a pace, and are designed to make good production pieces on stage). If you search the music K-8 site for "sign language" you can get a list of the songs which are suggested for use with it, then download them from the K-8 kids site.

[c01dunlap]

Donna,

Somewhere along the line you gave us a website or something that included lesson plans (or something - my old, flu-infested brain can't seem to get access to the memory banks)... And, you seem to be a wealth of great resources on the web*. Any chance we could get you to start a thread posting you favorite resource sites? Kind of like what talorcamel posted in the "How Do You Sign..." thread (her "links to online dictionaries from Yahoo" sticky).

Are you up for the challenge? We'd love to have it :) , but I understand it might be a bit too much to pull together in one place.

* and in general, of course...

[dmmetler]

I'll see what I can do-can you do the sticky thing to keep it on top?

[c01dunlap]

I'll see what I can do-can you do the sticky thing to keep it on top?

Your thread has been "Stuck"!! :p That was indeed what I was hoping to do. Thanks a million!!

[Lynja_the_ninja]

I sung that song in music class in elementry school! I get it in my head every so often but couldn't remeber all of the words! thanks for the words. JaLyn:)