Shape Focus

Music/Movement: 
Sing shape song or songs that have shape connections (or same number of sides, etc.)
Draw shapes in air with finger

Form shapes with body (yoga)

Move body in the motion of the shape.
Walk the shape on the ground (follow line)
Shape Dance Circle (put shapes in the middle and pick one out or have kids stand up and dance if they have a certain shape)

Books:
Look, Look, Look
Mouse Shapes
Line that bent into a shape...??

Activities
shape stories (felt, paper)- create the shape characters and tell a story with them
pattern blocks/tangrams
make patterns of shapes (train, bead bracelet, drawing, etc.)
geo board (to create shapes with rubber bands)
Draw shapes (help children listen--shape and color--then create picture)
Shapes scavenger hunt
Look for shapes in famous art pieces

paint with shapes cut of sponges or foam

Use shape bean bags or pieces to pass around a circle or catch with

Those Bones Song

Those bones, those bones,
those skeleton bones.
those bones, those bones,
those skeleton bones.
those bones, those bones,
those skeleton bones.
They help me move and shake!

The foot bone con-nected to the (pause) leg-bone,
The leg bone connected to the (') knee bone,
The knee bone connected to the (') thigh bone,
The thigh bone connected to the (') back bone,
The back bone connected to the (') neck bone
The neck bone connected to the (') head bone
They help me move and shake!

Those bones, those bones,
those skeleton bones.
those bones, those bones,
those skeleton bones.
those bones, those bones,
those skeleton bones.
They help me move and shake!

The head-bone connected to the neck-bone,
the neck-bone connected to the back-bone
The backbone connected to the thigh-bone
the thighbone connected to the kee-bone
the kneebone connected to the leg bone
the leg bone connected to the foot bone
They help me move and shake!

A-E-I-O-U Song

I made up a simple vowel song for three reasons

1. learn the vowels as being open sounds (unlike consonants which block air flow)
2. get familiar with a basic scale (going from one note up to the next and the next, etc.)
3. This is specifically sung in pentatonic scale, which is a good start for kids because you can play the notes all over the place without feeling like you are playing a wrong note. It build confidence in musical expression. A simple piano version of pentatonic scale is just playing the black notes. Try it....it's pretty. And may sound Asian, since I've heard they use it. (I do this key: d,e,g,a,b)

Come and sing a song
(d,e,g,a,b) - up the scale
Come and join along
(d,e,g,a,b)
Sing so openly
(d,e,g,a,b)
The vowel song
(b,a,g,e,d) - backwards down the scale

A-E-I-O-U
(d,e,g,a,b)
A-E-I-O-U
(d,e,g,a,b)
A-E-I-O-U
(d,e,g,a,b)
and sometimes Y
(b,a,g,e,d)

Shapes Song

Shapes Song

(Tune: 'Here We Go 'Round the Mulberry Bush')

This is a (square) as you can see.

It has (4 sides all the same).

This is a (square) as you can see.

Now draw it in the air with me!

Other verses:

Rectangle: 2 short sides and 2 long

Circle:  goes around without an end

Triangle: 3 corners and 3 sides

Oval: goes around, but is squished in

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Or a Shape Poem:

Shape Monster, Shape Monster
Munch, Munch, Munch...
How about a _________
For your lunch?

(choose different shapes that the child has to draw)
Then put them together into a shape monster.