FIRST STEPS IN MUSIC Curriculums & Lectures DVDs

Infants & Toddlers Curriculum Contents:

• Getting Started
• Setting Up Parent/Child Classes & Preparing Parents
• Bounces Wiggles Tickles
• Tapping Clapping
• Simples Songs
• Simple Circles
• Beat Motions With Recordings
• Lullabies Planning Lessons
• Sample Lessons Expanding Your Program

Preschool & Beyond Curriculum Contents:

• Getting Started
• The Musical Workout
• Pitch Exploration (Vocal Warm-ups)
• Song Fragments - Echo Songs and Call-and-Response Songs
• Simple Songs
• Arioso
• Song Tales
• Movement Exploration (developing expressive sensitivity through creative movement) - creative movement with and without classical music accompaniment
• Movement for Form and Expression (singing/speaking and moving with formal structure and expression)
  — Non-Locomotor (fingerplays, action songs, circle games, with recorded music)
  — Locomotor (circle games, with recorded music)
  — Beat Motion Activities (developing competencies in maintaining the beat in groups of 2 and 3)
  — Child-Initiated Songs and Rhymes - non-locomotor and locomotor
  — Teacher-Initiated Beat Motions - non-locomotor and locomotor
• Planning Lessons (templates)
• Sample Lessons (3 years, two semesters each year, 12 sessions each semester)
• Final Thoughts

Download PDF Supplement:

• 2020 Supplement to First Steps in Music for PreK & Beyond