Caitie is sharing suggestions for utilizing the preschool music “The Bear Went Over The Mountain” within the classroom and at residence for many enjoyable studying with little ones. She has a lot of nice concepts! And he or she’ll lead us by way of the music utilizing gestures – a wonderful method to introduce a music to youngsters. “The Bear Went Over The Mountain” is a basic nursery rhyme and in our model, we expanded on the unique to incorporate the prepositions over, throughout, by way of, and up, whereas the bear explores completely different components of the wilderness.
Attempt these concepts within the classroom or at residence!
- It is a nice music to introduce preposition vocabulary. Earlier than you sing the music, introduce the phrases over, throughout, by way of, and up by talking the phrase and demonstrating the gesture.
- Attempt utilizing a toy teddy bear as a prop to assist display the completely different prepositions within the music. You’ll be able to have the bear work together with gadgets within the classroom to carry the phrases to life. For instance, the bear went over the desk. The bear went up the guide shelf.
- Attempt making an image of a map that features the completely different components of the outside the bear explores within the music: the mountain, the river, the forest and the large tree. Have your college students make a line of the bear’s journey by way of the drawing ensuring the road goes over the mountain, throughout the river, by way of the forest, after which up the large tree.
- For a enjoyable lively exercise, strive making some fake obstacles in your classroom. You need to use an enormous cardboard field or an empty overturned rubbish can for the mountain, the river is usually a blanket laid on the bottom, the forest will be different college students standing tall and nonetheless pretending to be bushes, and the large tree is usually a chair. Have your college students fake to be the bear one by one and undergo the impediment course whereas the music performs within the background. As they go over, throughout, by way of and up within the impediment course, have all the scholars watching shout out the preposition phrases as they watch the coed within the course transfer by way of the obstacles. If you’re frightened concerning the security of your college students as they transfer by way of the obstacles, give your college students a toy bear and have them take the bear by way of the course, going over, throughout, by way of and up!
- For extra preposition vocabulary apply, strive singing Open Shut Them #3 which options preposition vocabulary reverse pairs like over and beneath, and up and down.
