January Music- by Miss Kathleen
What a wonderful start to our new year! This month we all read and sang along to There Was An Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow, and There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Frog.
I switched some of the words from the chorus sections so the kids can sing along and do some motions. For the Cold Lady and the Snow, we call her an old lady rather than a cold lady, and for the Old Lady and the Frog, it's "I don't know why she swallowed that frog...She's really a hog!" Of course, then all get to oink like piggies!
On the day we read and sang the Old Lady and the Frog, we also read the pop-up book Wide-Mouth Frog and sang along. We called him a bullfrog and used a really deep voice for him. Here's a version that substitutes eating bugs for flies, but the kids will recognize it: https://youtu.be/f77AslbcPKg .
We also spent some time singing our January Bible story song about Daniel in the Lions' Den. We just sang this chorus, but you can find the whole song at https://youtu.be/1_d_eLGamLY .
An angel came down to shut the lion's jaw
This big and scary lion couldn't even roar.
God sent an angel to shut the lion's jaw
He couldn't even roar.
And Daniel gave thanks like never before
We also sang some pajama day songs. We read the pop-up book Bedtime Bugs and sang “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and “Rock-a-bye Buggies” (instead of “Rock-a-bye Baby:!) We sang and danced to “Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed” and then pretended to put our pajamas on while we chanted “What time is it? Pajama Time!” until we got tired.
