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Celebrates spring in all of its natural wonder. Everyone becomes worms, flowers, birds, sun, rain and more in this playful romp. We will be wiggling, blooming, flying, moving/singing-along throughout ... Read more
Celebrates spring in all of its natural wonder. Everyone becomes worms, flowers, birds, sun, rain and more in this playful romp. We will be wiggling, blooming, flying, moving/singing-along throughout the whole show. While embodying various animals and elements of nature, students will learn about plant growth, animal movement, adaptations, life cycles, ecological principles and interconnectedness. From the start, children will be singing and moving along with me. Some energetic, gross motor movement is mixed with other participation eliciting quieter focus. The sequence has been refined so that one piece sensibly segues into another making the presentation as seamless as possible. I ask questions frequently, not with the purpose of getting the right answer from an individual, but to get everyone thinking. A song will include the names of flowers that the students can think of; then we'll echo flower names and periodically boing up and down during the fun chorus. What creature underground helps these plants grow? They then follow me doing the Earthworm Dance, to the accompaniment of a funky music track. What does a plant need to grow? That is answered in the next zipper song done with participatory sign language. The song goes on to clearly teach the sequence of plant growth. With full body movements to another soundtrack, we become the seed ABSORBING water, SWELLING, GERMINATING, with the ROOT growing down first to soak up water and nutrients. Then after sprouting up into the warmth of the sun (ahh!), PHOTOSYNTHESIZE, grow a stem with LEAVES, BUD, and we culminate the process by singing: Look at me BLOOM, I am a FLOWER. I point out that after being POLLINATED, part of the flower MATURES and creates new SEEDS which start the LIFE CYCLE all over again. The seasonal cycle is reinforced when spring returns after everyone has become apple trees living through all of the four SEASONS: SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER…
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