We have recently been blessed with receiving a new helper in our nursery class. She stays the whole time to provide extra helping hands, but her main responsibility is to be the music leader. She does singing time with the kids and she does such an amazing job!
Last week she came wearing an apron that had about 5 pockets on it. In each pocket she had a different prop (i.e. a smurf figurine, the glove made into the spider, happy/sad face, etc.) each kid got to pick a pocket and we sang the corresponding song. The kids responded really well to it, especially being able to feel the lumpy pockets and pulling out the anonymous prop.
Also, I wanted to make a note about the smurf that she brought. I thought it was such a clever idea. When the child selected the pocket with the smurf she pulled him out and asked the kids if he had a head and then showed them where his shoulders were, and his knees, and his toes. After giving them a brief explanation about him we all jumped up and sang Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes. I thought it was such a great idea for the kids to be able to associate each body part on a figurine as well as on themselves.
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