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CREATE YOUR OWN CLASS
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8 Activities to Choose From
1. Melody Moment
Someone just called someone else a bad name. The kids are screaming or whining or bullying. This is a Melody Moment!
Melody Moments are teachable moments to use The Melodies lessons to bring Harmony to the Home. Instead of reacting to the whines with yelling, anger and frustration, a few little words can remind both child and parent that there is a better way!
Kids being mean to each other? Let’s See with our Hearts!
Running too fast in the store? Can You Walk like a slow Elephant?
Each song has a lesson for a typical situation every parent, teacher or caregiver encounters daily. As a teacher of The Melodies in Motion you can use The Melodies in Motion curriculum activates bring these lessons to life and encourage the dynamics of the life readiness lessons to come alive within each Melody Moment!
And with P.H.D. (Personal Happiness Development) program Teachers and Parents can learn how to use the lesson exercises when dealing with their own adults sized Melody Moments!
2. School Readiness Lesson
Use these simple school readiness topics for each song to incorporate into your school educational curriculum.
3. Life Readiness Lesson
We focus so much on preparing toddlers and preschoolers for the challenges of academic school lessons in today’s society, what is often left behind is the preparing them for the challenges of life! Social skills, the ability to handle the stress of academia, much less sitting still, playing nice and being able to handle the emotional upheaval of the huge life transition from home to school are all critical in what is seen as a child’s school success. The ABCs are much easier to learn than cooperation, sharing, healing a broken friendship or self controlling anger when someone takes your toy away! By giving young children the skills and tools to handle these situations with poise, respect, manners, understanding and confidence we can further enable them to not only be, but feel successful in school and in life.
4. The Melodies in Motion - Yoga Inspired Dance Movements
The Melodies in Motion are alive with motion! Using simple Yoga poses to inspire the movements, encouraging breathing, self-awareness, and self-control lessons within The Melodies lessons, the song movements are the core experience of bringing The Melodies to life!
The Melodies in Motion
uses Yoga Dance inspired movements, sign language, and hula dance to bring the songs to life!
Can be used as exercise or school/studio performances for parents!
5. Worksheets Coloring Pages
These coloring pages, mazes, games, and worksheets are great to use anytime during the school day. Download and print whenever you want to use!
6. Guided Relaxation
In this over stimulated society there are an increasing number of children who have lost the ability to sit still, be quiet, and just be able to just relax and enjoy life without screen stimulation. This constant outside stimulation has handicapped a generation of children in their life skills and in the ability to feel self-reliant, confident and independent in today’s society. The Melodies in Motion lessons are inspired by social and emotional mindfulness techniques that can lower stress, invoke inner creativity, confidence in body, mind and spirit that empowers children to express themselves in a calm, confident manner, free from constant outside approval. The use of these lessons allows children to gain better understanding of themselves and the world around them.
A Guided Relaxation is a simple way to create an atmosphere to allow the child to calm, cool and collect and gain control of the body. Using the tool of imagination, children are able to relax the body while creating the story in their mind!
7. Mindful Moment
Following the Go with the Flow Policy of The Melodies in Motion, the Mindful Moments were created to give opportunities to experience the lessons. These Mindful Moments are designed to allow children to experience The Melodies in Motion lessons firsthand inside and outside. Taking advantage of the time, place, movement and even mood of the students is a critical part of learning and creating an atmosphere of education on an experiential level.
Mindfulness can help kids pull our of worry, stress, or fear and into confidence, self-control, self-awareness, and resiliency. Teaching the tools of mindfulness is a skill that children can take with them and use throughout their lives. .
8. Song Art Activities
If you are a Preschool teacher, children’s museum facilitator or a parent who just love arts and crafts, these activities are for you! Designed to be simple projects with simple materials, these art activities add an interactive, fun opportunity for The Melodies in Motion students to create props to use while doing the dance movements or to use as a supplement to interact with the lessons on a physical basis. Pick and choose. Create what you feel is right for your class with the materials you have on hand with the artistic expression experience you have yourself. Feel free to come up with new projects or use the Go with the Flow Melodies in Motion policy and see what the children come up with on their own with the art materials!
Someone just called someone else a bad name. The kids are screaming or whining or bullying. This is a Melody Moment!
Melody Moments are teachable moments to use The Melodies lessons to bring Harmony to the Home. Instead of reacting to the whines with yelling, anger and frustration, a few little words can remind both child and parent that there is a better way!
Kids being mean to each other? Let’s See with our Hearts!
Running too fast in the store? Can You Walk like a slow Elephant?
Each song has a lesson for a typical situation every parent, teacher or caregiver encounters daily. As a teacher of The Melodies in Motion you can use The Melodies in Motion curriculum activates bring these lessons to life and encourage the dynamics of the life readiness lessons to come alive within each Melody Moment!
And with P.H.D. (Personal Happiness Development) program Teachers and Parents can learn how to use the lesson exercises when dealing with their own adults sized Melody Moments!
2. School Readiness Lesson
Use these simple school readiness topics for each song to incorporate into your school educational curriculum.
3. Life Readiness Lesson
We focus so much on preparing toddlers and preschoolers for the challenges of academic school lessons in today’s society, what is often left behind is the preparing them for the challenges of life! Social skills, the ability to handle the stress of academia, much less sitting still, playing nice and being able to handle the emotional upheaval of the huge life transition from home to school are all critical in what is seen as a child’s school success. The ABCs are much easier to learn than cooperation, sharing, healing a broken friendship or self controlling anger when someone takes your toy away! By giving young children the skills and tools to handle these situations with poise, respect, manners, understanding and confidence we can further enable them to not only be, but feel successful in school and in life.
4. The Melodies in Motion - Yoga Inspired Dance Movements
The Melodies in Motion are alive with motion! Using simple Yoga poses to inspire the movements, encouraging breathing, self-awareness, and self-control lessons within The Melodies lessons, the song movements are the core experience of bringing The Melodies to life!
The Melodies in Motion
uses Yoga Dance inspired movements, sign language, and hula dance to bring the songs to life!
Can be used as exercise or school/studio performances for parents!
5. Worksheets Coloring Pages
These coloring pages, mazes, games, and worksheets are great to use anytime during the school day. Download and print whenever you want to use!
6. Guided Relaxation
In this over stimulated society there are an increasing number of children who have lost the ability to sit still, be quiet, and just be able to just relax and enjoy life without screen stimulation. This constant outside stimulation has handicapped a generation of children in their life skills and in the ability to feel self-reliant, confident and independent in today’s society. The Melodies in Motion lessons are inspired by social and emotional mindfulness techniques that can lower stress, invoke inner creativity, confidence in body, mind and spirit that empowers children to express themselves in a calm, confident manner, free from constant outside approval. The use of these lessons allows children to gain better understanding of themselves and the world around them.
A Guided Relaxation is a simple way to create an atmosphere to allow the child to calm, cool and collect and gain control of the body. Using the tool of imagination, children are able to relax the body while creating the story in their mind!
7. Mindful Moment
Following the Go with the Flow Policy of The Melodies in Motion, the Mindful Moments were created to give opportunities to experience the lessons. These Mindful Moments are designed to allow children to experience The Melodies in Motion lessons firsthand inside and outside. Taking advantage of the time, place, movement and even mood of the students is a critical part of learning and creating an atmosphere of education on an experiential level.
Mindfulness can help kids pull our of worry, stress, or fear and into confidence, self-control, self-awareness, and resiliency. Teaching the tools of mindfulness is a skill that children can take with them and use throughout their lives. .
8. Song Art Activities
If you are a Preschool teacher, children’s museum facilitator or a parent who just love arts and crafts, these activities are for you! Designed to be simple projects with simple materials, these art activities add an interactive, fun opportunity for The Melodies in Motion students to create props to use while doing the dance movements or to use as a supplement to interact with the lessons on a physical basis. Pick and choose. Create what you feel is right for your class with the materials you have on hand with the artistic expression experience you have yourself. Feel free to come up with new projects or use the Go with the Flow Melodies in Motion policy and see what the children come up with on their own with the art materials!