Kids Music Company’s Weblog

Finally, the new website is up and running. You may notice that I have the teaching material for one of our songs. It’s the tightrope song, and is a fabulous piece for helping children to be able to practice their balance and help to develop body awareness.
Each of our cd’s have an accompanying book that provides the main purposeand learning outcomes including musical outcomes and cross curricular outcomes. It also has notes that teach the songs step by step. I always found it great to have the learning outcomes already there for me when I was teaching in Kinder.
Do you have children in your class or at home that have poor body awareness and/or poor spacial awareness? You can tell through a number of different ways. They may walk over other children instead of walking around them. They will bump into others when doing a group activity. When they draw a picture of themselves, they are most likely to draw their head with arms and legs coming out of the head – no body.
One way to help children become aware of their bodies, and of the space around them, is to do lots of songs that include moving around the room in many different ways including walking, running, skipping, stomping, jumping and hopping.
Until next time, keep singing