TEST PAGE

THE MELODIES IN MOTION

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Social and Emotional Tools:
Using Imagination, Building Confidence, Self-Esteem

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Use your imagination. Can you be a butterfly?
Spirits store in this slow moving almost lullaby song
that lulls children into a rhythmic state
of fantasy and creativity. Strengthening the imagination muscles
with the power of visual, audio, and material images,
Can You Be a Butterfly helps children's mind body and spirit soar.
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Melody MOTTO:

  Imagine it First!

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Optional

•  Hang the Classroom Motto flier on the wall to remind kids and parents what Life Readiness Lesson you are learning today!
     •  Butterfly Song
     

1. Introduce the Melody MOTTO

​• Talk to kids about lesson. Use these LEADING QUESTIONS:

- Do you know how to use your Imagination? 
We use our imagination when we close our eyes and we think or see things in our mind's eye. If we are scared or think we can't do something, we can use our imagination to help us "Imagine it First!" That's the Melody MOTTO for the Butterfly song! 

2. Play audio and listen together

• Have kids close their eyes and listen to this short audio.
• Listen to Life Readiness Lesson Audio.

3. Discuss Life Readiness Lesson
    with kids!

• LEADING QUESTIONS to ask kids:

​- Can you close your eyes and imagine a butterfly? A bumblebee? 
- Can you see it? What does it look like?  
- Can you hear it? What does it sound like?
- Can you feel what it would feel like to be a butterfly?
-  How about a bumblebee or a hummingbird? What does it feel like? 

Now we are going to dance The Melodies in Motion to the song!
 *(Kids will be moving and pretending to be these during the song next!) 

4. Dance the Melodies in Motion!

• 1. Watch the video!
• 2. Teacher dance with the video in background. (Kids may join in.)
• 3. Everyone dance!
  *Repeat if you wish.

5. Color Worksheets

Choose (or do both!)
     •  Life Readiness Lesson Worksheet.
              Leading questions to ask as kids as they color:
        - Do you think the Butterfly is scared to fly? 
        - How do you think he learned how to fly?   
        - Can you help the butterfly fly? Imagine it First!
​          (Connect the dots.) 
        - How would it feel if you could fly like a butterfly? A bumblebee?
          A hummingbird?
             
     •  Matching Game. 
         - Color, cut out, and play the matching game!
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6. Listen to Guided Relaxation
*** Available next week***

IF YOU HAVE TIME:
​     •  Have kids lay down and close their eyes for a quiet time.
     •  Play the Guided Relaxation Audio! 
     •  Listen!

7. Color 

If there is time, or need to keep kids busy while waiting for next class, here is another coloring page with the song illustration and Melody Motto!
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     • Melody MOTTO coloring page 

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For Parents

•  Give to parents to take home if you wish!
     • Family Art Activity
     • Melody MOTTO Card
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     • Parent PhD flier (done soon)

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