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#2877. Months of the year to the Macarena

Music, level: Kindergarten
Posted Wed Jun 4 23:58:24 PDT 2003 by Elouise Hollenbaugh (teacher@dnsonline.net).
Oregon-Davis Elem., Hamlet, US
Materials Required: None
Activity Time: five minutes
Concepts Taught: Learning months of the year

Kindergarten Music lesson.
Months of the year.
Sing the months of the year to the Macarena,using the Macarena movements.
January (right hand faces down)
February (left hand faces down)
March (right hand faces up)
April (left hand faces up)
May (right hand on left shoulder)
June (left hand on right shoulder)
July (right hand on right ear)
August (left hand on left ear)
September (right hand on left waist)
October (left hand on right waist)
November (right hand on right hip)
December (left hand on left hip)
Then wiggle hips and say twelve months in a year.
They like it when we jump and make a quarter turn after each time then repeat till we have done it four times.