Sing Along With Me
Posted by Hope Spencer on 18 May 2009 | Posted in: Teachers and Teaching
Last night, I had the chance to go to a kindergarten musical. I had the most fun watching those boys and girls! They were singing their hearts out like only kindergartners can. There was one little girl who was so serious about her singing that she stood high on her toes each time the music rose. She was precious.
Of course, there were a couple of spinners and a young man who had a hard time keeping his shirt down. It’s hard to know how a group of five- and six-year-olds will react when you put them in front of an audience. But, overall, the kids did what the teachers had asked them to do and the concert was adorable.
| Watching them perform song after song, some with hand motions, some with solos and speaking parts, I was completely impressed by the amount of work that must have gone into this 25-minute production. I kept thinking about those three teachers and all of the planning, practices, and props…wow! But when I looked around the auditorium at those beaming parents, I know those teachers felt like it was worth every minute. I have never seen so many cameras and video cameras in one place! |  |
I know you were proud after your last concert or play experience too! I’d love to hear all about it. Did anything funny or unexpected happen, or did things run like clockwork? How many concerts or plays do you do for parents each year? Let’s talk about it!
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I teach 2nd grade. We ended our year with a fun nursery rhyme play. The students recited or sang their nursery rhymes and printed them as posters so the audience could easily participate. It was great for Kind. and 1st all the way up to the grandmas who visited. My goal is to incorporate and share more singing in my classroom.
your concert interest me. i would like to know more.
my name is mora, iam owner/director of mora learning center in United State of America.
I might be interested in exchange program with your preschool.please tell me more about you.
Mora Jaiyeola
I teach four-year-old preschool in Illinois. We had our annual Preschool graduation the other night and the children sang their hearts out! They did a wonderful job. We laughed and we cried as we congratulated them on their promotion to kindergarten. When it came time for the diplomas we called each child up by name, shook his or her hand and handed them their diploma. One child came up when I called his name and smiled up brightly at me and said, “uh oh, I have gum in my mouth!” So when we shook hands I held the diploma up to “block” our hands and he put his chewed up gum into my hand and took his diploma from me and off he went! I loved it and will remember this forever. He remembered that we do not have gum in school.
I teach seventh grade and the English classes had a Shakespeare play that the students put together. The students had to audition and the ones that made the play had such an influence on them. One student who never did any homework during the school year started to do his work and come in for extra help during lunch. On the night of the performance, our school cafeteria was packed with parents and the hundreds of cameras and video cameras. The performance was terrific and the students did a wonderful job.
We just had a performance of kindergarten and first grade students singing about a growing garden. Students were dressed up with flower headbands, cabbage headbands, carrot necklaces and trashbags made to look like weeds! It was so cute and they sung every word. What struck me the most was a boy who had the solo to the weed song! He grabbed the mic and held it like he’s seen rappers do and belted that solo out for all the classes to respond to his call. He really felt important and the students liked how he rapped his part! Yes, he was only a first grade student with star power.
For our three-year-old preschool Christmas concert this year, one of the songs was “Jingle Bells.” The children were able to actually jingle some bells as they sang. One little boy held his hands over his ears for the entire song! The rest of the children really got into “jingling” their bells!
We have Christmas and Graduation music/drama. It is great! For Christmas we did a full costume telling of the Christmas story, and 6 songs with motions. For Graduation we did 6 songs with motions and tried the caps, but they kept falling off! The kids did so great, we had a minor hiccup when a little boy puked right as he was going on stage. Then I had to stop a three-some who decided to play a round of tag mid song. But the kicker was at the end, one of our cutest little guys was waving and saying “See ya later, thanks for comin’, see ya later!” It was adorable!
I teach SK at a Montessori school.Our students range in age from 2-6 yrs, and each class participates in all concerts. We have 4 concerts a year: Christmas, spring/Mother’s Day, Father’s Day , and graduation. The Christmas concert is usually the most productive as the JK/SK classes have been putting on plays, musicals, as well as the occasional piano playing or solos. We also try to have some French in there too.We have had a full house as all the aunts, uncles, and grandparents along with the Moms and Dads and siblings are invited.
hi,
I am a preschool teacher in India,one of the leading schools in the city of Mumbai. We have an annual show for the preschoolers. We call it THE ANNUAL PRESCHOOL CONCERT. Our preschool has three sections… the nursery,lower kindergarten and upper kg…. each section has 7 classes and each class has 45 kids. they all perform on stage. It’s very different from the kind of performances that most schools have.The kids sing,dance,act,deliver dialogues… and do whatever the teachers prepare them for… if u would like to know more do keep in touch…. i would like some feedback from teachers not in india.