Sing-Song Game

Ms. Kate recently brought in a new game she created called the

 "Sing-Song Game."   

It is a lovely addition to her morning music class.

When Ms. Kate arrived at school the other days, she was carrying a huge orange mat.  As soon as she unrolled it, the two children who were at school instantly began jumping on the mat and hopping onto colored shapes she had taped onto the mat.   It is always a good sign when the kids are excited right from the get-go.  

The objective of the games is to do the sound or action that is written out on a card.  When this is completed they hop the number of spaces that was indicated on the card.  Some examples were to make the sound of a trumpet, or thunder, or an animal.  Others were to sing their name or clap to three.  It is a wonderful way to help the children be comfortable singing or making sounds, especially in front of others, because most of the children were excited about the game aspect and were not aware of the audience as they performed.  Those children who were a little shy were encouraged by their friends by clapping, or others helping out with the sounds if they were too shy to do it themselves.

Summertime Games to Keep Cool

We started our Summer Camp last week, and it has been hot and humid!  To help the children keep cool but still enjoy being outside, my husband offered up this camp game.  The children were divided up into three teams.  Each team had a bowl of water and a measuring cup.  They had to fill their measuring cup and run it to the other side with it placed on top of their head.

Inevitably, if you are running with a container of water on your head, you are bound to get a little wet!

 

They would race to the other side and dump the water into another container.  The aim was to try to get as much water from one bowl into the container across the way, and cool off a little as they did so. 

Some of the kids realized how wet traveling with a container of water on their heads could get them, and got clever about it and just ran with their containers to the other side.

Even the big kids got in on the fun!!!

After the race we checked out the containers to see which one had the most water.

We first looked at the red ones that were the same size and determined which of the two had the most, and then we watered the plants with the container with the least amount.

After we emptied the container with the lesser amount of water, we then poured the clear container into the empty red container to see which of the two had the most.  It was a nice way to get a little measurement lesson thrown into the fun.  We talked about how a larger container looks like it has less, but when we place the contents in the same container as the one that looks like more, we can get a more accurate measurement (of course that works best when I don't accidentally pour some of that water on the ground:) 

Our fun continued with other outside play such as walking on balance beams...

And having a car wash, and boy did these cars need it!

Our cars looked wonderful when the day was done!