A weekly evangelism program for pre-schoolers and their carers
Penny Morrison
Contents
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Welcome to DynaMites Music.....................................................4 What’s new in Year 2? Rhythm ribbons Tambourines Boomwhackers Bean bags Capes Packing away Songs from around the world
Resources..............................................................................................8 Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Suggested equipment and sources
Program guide: Year 2...................................................................25 Term 1 outline Term 2 outline Term 3 outline Term 4 outline
Weekly program ...............................................................................30 Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4
Alphabetical list of songs.........................................................57 Song words and actions...............................................................67
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term 1 Week 1
JESUS GREW UP Dancing (to recorded music) ‘If you’re happy’ ‘Action song’ ‘God our Father’ ‘Heads and shoulders’ (Extras: ‘Come on let’s jump’, ‘Here we go round the mulberry bush’)
Egg shakers Play with recorded music: ‘Shakin’ it’ ‘Eggs’
Unaccompanied singing and story time ‘If you’re happy and you know it’ ‘Three cheeky monkeys’ (finger puppets or felts) ‘Hey diddle diddle’ (felts) (Extras: ‘The wheels on the bus’, ‘Incy wincy spider’, ‘Wind the bobbin up’) ‘Twinkle, twinkle, little star’ Book: The story ‘Jesus grows up’ in Read with Me Bible for Toddlers pp. 160–167 Explain: Jesus didn’t stay a baby. You used to be a baby but you are growing up. Jesus grew up too.
Slide whistle: Play ‘growing up’. Pretend to be a baby, child and adult, moving to the sound of the slide whistle. Sing with recorded music: ‘When Jesus was a baby with his mum’ ‘When Jesus was a boy he grew up tall’
Ribbons ‘Precious’ ‘Giro giro tondo’
Parachute ‘Children hold the parachute’ ‘Where o where are all the children?’ ‘Up and down’
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term 2 Week 1
GOD MADE THE WORLD Dancing (to recorded music) ‘Let’s twist’ ‘Who made the world?’ ‘Standing on one leg’ (Extras: ‘Here we go round the mulberry bush’, ‘Stop!’) ‘1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Jesus Christ is now alive’
Tambourines ‘Play on your instruments’ ‘Action song’
Book: My Very First Big Bible Stories: In the Beginning by Lois Rock (or a similar book or tell the story of creation with felt pieces) (Extra book: Hey! Is That How God Made Animals? by Penny Morrison)
Musical Chairs ‘God made the pig’
Parachute ‘Boa constrictor’ ‘Easter Friday’ ‘Ring-a-ring a rosy’
Unaccompanied singing and story time ‘Wind the bobbin up’ ‘Humpty Dumpty’ (felts) ‘Five little ducks’ (finger puppets or felts) ‘My God is so big’ (Extras: ‘Twinkle, twinkle, little star’)
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term 3 Week 1
GREEN, GREEN Dancing (to recorded music) ‘Heads and shoulders’ ‘I belong to him’ (Extra: ‘Jump if you feel you want to’) ‘Who made the world?’ ‘God our Father’
Egg shakers ‘Robot’ ‘Shake!’ (your shaker eggs)
Unaccompanied singing and story time Slide whistle: ‘Jesus loved the people’ ‘Open, shut them’ ‘Dig a potato’ ‘Five little ducks’ (finger puppets or felt pictures) (Extras: ‘Galoomph’, ‘Where is Thumbkin?’) ‘Hey diddle diddle’ (felts) Book: Where is the Green Sheep? by Mem Fox Book: Wordless Book (The first colour is … ? It reminds us of …) (Extra book: In the Beginning by Lois Rock (Big Book)) ‘Green, green’ (with poster, see DynaMites Music CD-ROM)
Bean bags ‘Make a circle’ ‘Green, green’ (pass a green bean bag around the circle) ‘Catch your bean bag’ (Children and adults sit opposite one another to throw and catch. One bean bag per child.)
Parachute ‘Walking with the parachute’ ‘Boa constrictor’ ‘Where o where are all the children?’ ‘We’re going to the market’
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Little chicken In an egg (Source unknown) Little chicken in an egg, as quiet as quiet can be
Hide thumbs in fists
Crackle, crackle, crackle, crack
Jiggle one fist
Out pops he! Pop one thumb up Little chicken in an egg, as quiet as quiet can be Crackle, crackle, crackle, crack Out pops she! Move thumb-chicks Cheep, cheep, cheep! to ‘talk’ to each other
Open shut them Open shut them, open shut them
Open and shut your fists in front of you
Give a little clap
Clap
Open shut them, open shut them
Open and shut your fists in front of you
Lay them in your lap
Put your hands in your lap
Creep them, creep them
Creep hands up your body to your chin
Creep them, creep them Right up to your chin
Put your fingers on your chin
Open wide your little mouth
Open your mouth
But do not let them in
Put your hands behind your back
Shake them, shake them
Shake your hands in front of you
Shake them, shake them Shake them just like this Roll them, roll them
Roll your hands around each other
Roll them, roll them Blow a little kiss
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Kiss your hand, blow the kiss away