Kindergarten: Leaving the Ant Hill!

2.  Rest and review.

1.  Warm up to the drums.

3.  We're leaving the ant hill HI HO!!

For the past few weeks the Kindergarten crew has had a wide variety of music incorporated into the PE curriculum.  We are now warming up using congas.  Different beats on the congas correspond to different movements.  Right now we are still working on jogging and skipping; however, we will soon be adding hopping and galloping.  In addition, we also sing songs and act out different movements that go along with the song.  So far we have learned two really fun songs that the kiddos are starting to master.  This week's song is called 'Leaving the Ant Hill.'  Students have to march (we are pretending to be ants) around the room and sing while I lead them in song with my guitar or ukelele.  Then after each refrain the kids are given a different movement (hop, side shuffle, gallop, etc).  Once given the movement the kids have to collect food from an unattended picnic and use that movement to bring the food back to the ant hill in the center of the room, and get back to the outer zone for more singing and marching!  One of the many things I love about this activity is if there are any frowns going into it there are certainly none leaving it!