Stretchy Band Movement Activity Song “I Want to Move Like?” Music, PE, Preschool

Stretchy Bands are fun movement activities. Get your students moving and learning with “I Want to Move Like an Animal” a stretchy band song that blends well with any of your music and movement lessons on animals or habitats. The professionally animated video will capture students’ attention and have them actively engaged in learning and exercising gross motor muscles.

You’ll find teaching ideas and activity directions to easily implement stretchy band activities into your lessons, activities and curriculum. This activity is best for Preschool through the 3rd grade.

* All Videos and Presentation are Easily uploaded and usable in Google Classroom or other Digital Learning Scenarios. Feel Free to email me with questions. [email protected]

*Please listen to the preview video for a sample of the audio files.

*Stretchy Band Songs and Activities can also be found in the STRETCHY BAND MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES RESOURCE. This song WITHOUT the ACTION story video or the TEACHING PRESENTATION is available in that resource.

STRETCHY BAND MOVEMENT ACTIVITIES

CONCEPTS:

Creative movement strengthens students’ abilities to CREATE, PERFORM, RESPOND, and CONNECT to learning goals because movement activities ask them to imagine, analyze, and express and:

Movement is a natural way for children to respond to music.

Movement is how many children learn.

Movement makes aural sound more real.

Creative movement activities provide opportunities for students to exercise fine and gross motor skills, practice social and team working skills and experience positive exercise!

RESOURCE INCLUDES:

TEACHING GUIDE

Pdf file with activity directions, song lyrics

MOVEMENT CARDS and/or POSTERS:

PDF file

Power point Presentation file with activity directions and movement cards

1 SONG

Vocal and Accompaniment Mp3 Tracks

1 ACTION VIDEO

Fully animated video for GOOGLE CLASSROOMS and/or classroom projecting.

STORYBOOK

POWER POINT PRESENTATION of Action Video for teaching each move/activity.

RULES

SAMPLE OF THE LYRICS:

“I Want to Move Like an Animal”

A (Repeating Section)

I want to move like an animal.

I want to move to day.

I want to swing like a monkey swings—

I want to stomp like an elephant stomps—

I want to walk like a crocodile—

I want to fly like an eagle—

I want to hop like a frog—

I want to gallop like a horse—

I want to crawl like a lizard—

I want to swim like a whale—

I want to slither like a snake—

I want to climb like a panda—

USE THIS RESOURCE:

For creative music activities

To learn music concepts- high/low, fast/slow

To learn math shapes and directional words- in/out, under/over, big/little, circle

To build classroom community- Teamwork, playing together, sharing, games

To develop gross motor skills- Big and little movements to help children exercise.

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Reward Days

Music and Movement Classes **This is a DIGITAL DOWNLOAD. No physical items will be mailed to you.** After purchase you will receive an email receipt with a link to download your purchase. You will receive a text file with the download link. The text file will have a LINK to your resource. You will open the text file and copy paste the LINK in your browser which will start the download. If you have any problems with the download. Please email us and we will get you the resource.Questions? Email [email protected]