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Man & Jen The
fairy Dancer
present…
TRANSPORTATION
Using Interactive Music
& Movement Activities
to Introduce
Transportation
Concepts to Children
All songs by Nick Young
Interactive music and videos available at teachers.playmotionmusic.com
Learning About Transportation
Providing the
foundation: The focus of this module is on modes of transportation.
Children will be sailing, swimming, hot air ballooning, running,
flying in an airplane, riding in an elevator and driving a tractor.
With call and response, directed movement and imaginative
movement the children will be exploring all the ways that we get
around our world.
TRANSPORTATION The children will be using the hand percussion instruments to
accompany songs, play rhythms and tell stories.
Using Interactive Music and Movement to Explore the World
of Transportation
This interactive music module is packed with highly interactive
and energetic songs about many modes of transportation that
• Learning about children love to explore. Children will be sailing on boats, flying in
Transportation a hot air balloon and an airplane, driving a tractor and so much
more. Then it’s instrument time. Pass out the drums, shakers,
• Using interactive music scrapers, bells and triangles and let us hear the music! The
to explore the world of children learn to read and play music notes with rhythm games
transportation using the included Rhythm Sound Cards and the the instruments
tell a musical story. Each of the 11 interactive songs, stories and
rhythm games comes with a teacher training video, an illustrated
Song Card and an interactive audio track.
Other areas of development:
• Understanding of Language
These interactive
music and • Responsiveness to Language
movement
activities don’t • Phonological Awareness
just enhance the
• Comprehension of English (Receptive English)
development of
children in Pre- • Knowledge of the Natural World
Science concepts..
• Perceptual-Motor Skills and Movement Concepts
• Gross Locomotor Movement Skills
There are many other
important areas of • Fine Motor Skills
development that are
addressed when children • Active Physical Play
participate in these fun and
engaging songs, stories • Music, Dance and Drama
and rhythm games. ____________________________________________
In addition children get a boost in their
academic performance and school readiness!
My Sailboat
My Sailboat
Lyrics:
My sail boat
A beautiful thing
I say it first and you say it after me. We like to sail
We like to sing
Yo ho
Helpful Tip: This is a fun call and Yo ho
response song to start the music We like to sing
time. Start with the children sitting Yo ho
in their group spot. Wind is blowing
We are going
We like to sing
Yo ho
Elevator Ride
Elevator Ride
Lyrics:
It’s time ride on an elevator! Bend
your knees and get down low.
Let’s ride the elevator
from the bottom to the top
Helpful Tip: Get ready for deep 1st floor, 2nd floor, 3rd floor stop!
knee bends! Have the children
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
stand in the circle and then bend
their knees and get down low. Now let’s go back down again
Lots of Ways to Get Around
Lots of Ways to Get Around
Now we get to move our Lyrics:
bodies like some different
kinds of transportation! Put on
There’s lots of ways to get around
your invisible bubble. Move
get around, get around
your body where there is room
There’s lots of ways to get around
to go without bumping your
Let’s go for a ride
friends.
Take a ride in a car, car X3
Riding in a car
Helpful Tip: This is an
imaginative movement
song. The children will be motor boat
moving their bodies freely bicycle
inside the group space. Be airplane
sure to remind them to put
race car
on their “invisible bubble”
before you start. space ship
We Swim
We Swim
Lyrics:
It’s time to go swimming! Show
We swim X 4
me how you can swim with your
Big arms X 2
big arms!
Swim up
Swim down
Helpful Tip: Start with the
Swim around and around
children sitting in their group We swim X4
spots. Model the motion of Swim up, up up
swimming by making big (slowly standing up)
swimming motions with your Swim in a circle
arms. Ask the friends to show
All around
you how they can swim with
their big arms. (turn around)
aaaaand splash!
(swing arms down)Hot Air Balloon
Hot Air Balloon
Lyrics:
People look up and see
Parents: Imagine that you are I’m a hot air balloon I’m flying so free
a balloon that has no air in it. laying the ground I wonder if they’d like
You’re all flat, just laying on waiting for my turn to take a ride with me
to float all around
the ground. Show me how you
Because I’m floating, floating
can lay down like a balloon Fill me up with air up here with the clouds
with no air inside. I blow up nice and round floating, floating
Take a big breath way up off the ground
Now I’m lifting off the ground
Now it’s time to come down
Helpful Tip: Have the Now I’m floating, floating I make a hissing sound
children lay down on the up here with the clouds Let out some air
floor like a balloon with no floating, floating Coming back to the ground
air inside. Model the way up off the ground
behavior of laying down to Shhhhhh…
encourage the children to I feel a little breeze Now I lay right down
do so as well. It carries me That sure was fine
I wonder where I’ll go Now I take a rest
I wonder what I’ll see until the next timeRunning, Stop!
Running, Stop!
Lyrics:
In this song, we are going run in
place. That means that we run Running, running, running
but we stay in one place. Show
Stop!
me how you can run in one spot.
Running, running, running
Stop!
Helpful Tip: With the children Running
standing on the edge of the Stop!
group space, demonstrate
Running
running in place. Remind the
children to run in place, but Stop!
not run around the room or Take a rest X 3
group space.
Jump up!Airplane Ride
Airplane Ride
Lyrics:
Let’s go to the airport We’re flying over the
Let’s go fly on a plane mountains
Let’s go to the airport Flying over the sea
Let’s go fly on a plane Flying over the city
Now it’s time to fly on an airplane! Show me
Fly, Fly, Fly on an Look how far you can see
with your arms how you fly on an airplane.
airplane
We’re coming in for a
Sit down on your seat landing
Helpful Tip: With the children sitting Put on your seat belt Put the wheels down
in their group spot, model the Sit down on your seat Coming in for a landing
movements with your arms of Put on your seat belt now we’re on the ground
driving to the airport, putting on Now it’s time for take off
your seat belt and flying on an Woo! Here we go! This is a brand new
airplane. You can do this song with airport
the children sitting or moving Fly, fly, fly, fly fly on an This is a brand new town
around the group space. airplane X 5 Let’s see what we can
see
Look out the window Come on let’s look
You can see the clouds around
Look out the window
at the rivers and townsInstrument Time
Helpful Tip: It’s time to pass out the About the Instruments: the other instruments if they
instruments! This is one of the children’s We like to use shakers, are played too loudly.
favorite parts of music class. We will be triangles, scrapers, bells and If you don’t have access to
playing rhythms and patterns, reading drums. Choose instruments any instrument you can
and playing music notes, playing that are safe for the children make instruments with
rhythmic songs and using the instruments to handle and that have a household items. A water
to tell musical stories. We invite the moderate volume. We don’t bottle with dry beans inside
children to begin trying out their recommend large symbols is a shaker. A plastic bowl
or tambourines because turned upside down is a
instrument as soon as they receive it.
they often have sharp edges drum. You can also clap your
Monitor the children to insure that they
and they may drowned out hands to make the rhythms.
are using their instrument safely.Drive A Tractor
Drive A Tractor
Show me how a tractor uses it scoop to Lyrics: Use a crane
dig a big hole in the ground. Now show pick it up
It’s time to build a house use a crane
me how a big crane reaches down with
We need to dig a big We just don’t stop
it’s tall arm to pick up a heavy pile of hole use a crane
wood. Now show me with your arms Get in your tractor It’s big and heavy to hold
how a steam roller rolls across the and roll, roll, roll! Come on roll, roll, roll
ground and squishes the ground flat as
Drive a tractor We need to make the
could be.
Scoop up the dirt ground very flat
Drive a tractor cause we’re gonna build
It’s hard work! a house on top of that
Drive a tractor
Helpful Tip: With the children sitting and dig a big hole Steam roller
in their group spot, model the Let’s roll, roll, roll! Roll across the ground
movements of digging a hole in the Steam roller
ground, picking up a heavy load Move a bunch of wood Squish the dirt right
with a crane and rolling your arms to one place to another down
show a steam roller flattening the Let’s use a crane Steam roller
ground. You can do this song with Come on sisters and Everything’s as flat as can
the children sitting or moving brothers be
around the group space. come on roll with meTraveling Instruments
Traveling Instruments
Lyrics:
I see an airplane I see a horse
up in the sky galloping by
Look at the airplane whoa there horsy
Play the rhythm of the song with your see it go by can I take a ride?
Please come down and Please stop for a
instruments.
let me take a ride moment
come in for a landing so I can climb on
I’m ready to fly We’ll ride across the
prairie
Helpful Tip: With the children
I see a sailing ship with our cowboy hats on
sitting in their group spot, pass out
out on the sea
the instruments. Ask the children
Please sailing ship I see a space ship
to play their instrument along with
is there room for me? with astronaut inside
the rhythm of the song.
Come into the harbor Please Mr. Astronaut
I will join your crew can I take a ride?
We will sail around the We can travel to the
world moon
across the ocean blue or maybe even Mars
Then we’ll take a journey
to the distant starsRhythm Sounds: To-o
Now it’s time for rhythm sounds. Ta
Today we get to learn a new sound:
To-o. To-o gets one loooong sound.
Let’s try it together. To-o. Good job!
Helpful Tip: It’s time to introduce
a new sound: To-o. To-o is Titi
actually a half note. This note has
one long sound. It lasts as longs
two Ta’s put together. Make one
sound and then let it ring out for
two counts. Keep your tempo
consistent when combining it
with the other rhythm sounds.
To-oThe Apple Tree Story
The Apple Tree Story
The Story:
Please help me tell the Apple
Hey friends, I heard that there is an apple tree deep in the forest that grows the most
Tree Story with your instruments. delicious apples you ever tasted. I’m really hungry for apples. Will you come and help
The shakers make the sound of
me find the apple tree? Okay, good. I think the tree is this way through the tall grass.
(Shakers make the sound of my legs brushing through the tall grass)
the tall grass, the bells and
Okay, we got through the tall grass.
triangles make the sound of tip-
Now we have to walk across this frozen river. Tip toe very lightly so we don’t crack the
toeing across the frozen river, the ice!
scrapers make the sound of (triangles and bells make the sound of tiptoeing across the ice)
cutting through the dense forest Now we have to use our saws to cut our way through the dense underbrush and the
thick bushes.
and the drum makes the sound of (scrapers)
the elephant walking. Oh boy, here’s our friend the elephant. He says he will give us a ride to the apple tree
with the delicious apples! (drums)
Look, here’s the amazing apple tree that we’ve been searching for! We finally made it!
Let’s try one of these yummy apples. Chomp, chomp, chomp! Mmmmmm! So delicious!
Helpful Tip: In this story, the
Uh oh, shhhhh! Who do I see sleeping under the apple tree… and just now waking
shakers make the sound of the up… it’s a big lion!
tall grass, the bells and Let’s get back on the elephant! (drums)
triangles make the sound of tip
Now we have to cut through the bushes! (scraper)
toeing across the frozen river,
the scrapers make the sound of Tip-toe across the ice! (triangles and bells)
cutting through the dense Run through the tall grass. (scrapers)
forest and the drum makes the We made it back home. But wait… look who's standing right behind you… it’s the lion!
sound of the elephant walking. Lion: Hello friends. Can I try a bite of that delicious apple? I’ve been waiting all day
under the apple tree for someone to come along and pick one for me. Chomp. Mmmm.Interactive music and videos available at teachers.playmotionmusic.com
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