Arthur's Music Jamboree Using the ARTHUR series as a springboard, these activities, games, songs, and crafts provide fun and exciting ways to integrate music into a preschool setting. This curriculum is geared toward teachers and caregivers of children ages 3-5. You can download this preschool activity guide, as well as additional activity sheets below. You'll also find Making Music with Arthur, a family brochure available in English and Spanish, as well as links to some related online activities right here on the ARTHUR Web Site. You'll need Adobe Reader to access these PDF files. THE PRESCHOOL ACTIVITY GUIDE You may either download the entire guide (3.3MB) or download it in sections as follows: About This Guide (924K) Explore what Arthur's Music Jamboree has to offer. Making Music (1.4MB) As they make their own music, children develop skills related to creativity, cooperation, self-confidence, language, and math. Moving to Music (980K) Dancing and other movement activities help children develop motor skills, coordination, body control, and self-expression. Resources (100K) This list of music resources can help caregivers integrate music into the preschool classroom. Activity Index (164K) Find any of the activities from Arthur's Music Jamboree indexed by subject matter. Activity Sheets You can also download the individual activity sheets from the Arthur's Music Jamboree guide: Shake that Shaker (320K) Make your own instrument out of common household items. Decorate a Drum (300K) An empty coffee can and ARTHUR artwork can be made into a homemade drum. If You're Arthur and You Know It! (224K) Kids adapt the song "If You're Happy and You Know It" by filling in the words and coloring in the characters. A Wonderful Kind of Day (184K) Enjoy singing and moving to the ARTHUR theme song. MAKING MUSIC WITH ARTHUR (Family Brochure) This brochure contains music activities for families, including instructions for making homemade instruments; easy, low- or no-cost suggestions for weaving music into family life; and information about the role music plays in a child's life. File available for download in: English (1MB) Spanish (1MB) Related Online Activities No kidding! There are some great activities here on the ARTHUR Web site that will fit right into your classroom's Music Jamboree plans: Crank It Up! In this online interactive game, children mix funky sounds made by everyday objects to create their own unique musical compositions. This feature not only allows children to create their own multi-layered rhythms, but also to use sounds coded to the computer keyboard to riff on top. (Children can even record their musical masterpieces and send them to friends!) The main goal of this feature is to enforce the idea that music is a form of self-expression that is accessible to everyone. Connect the World This is an interactive card game that children play online against Buster. Along the way, they learn interesting tidbits about some of the world's cultures (including musical instruments) and gain a greater awareness that they are part of a diverse world neighborhood. Supporting information is provided via an interactive world map. Hey, Francine! This feature is part of Letters To..., a collection of interactive letter-writing activities in which children customize a letter to an ARTHUR character, send it, and get a specific response. Designed to help kids exercise reading and letter-writing skills, each letter offers lots of creative possibilities. The letter to Francine is all about one of her favorite topics: music! Music Box Here's where children can access some of their favorite ARTHUR tunes. While they listen, they can practice some visual problem solving by unscrambling six simple jigsaw puzzles. Kids can challenge themselves with both skill levels: the four-piece puzzles and the nine-piece puzzles. Songbook A companion piece to Music Box, this feature includes six printable ARTHUR song sheets. Print the lyrics and have children sing along to their favorite online ARTHUR tunes. To learn more about classroom materials based on PBS programs, visit PBS Teachers. Arthur's Music Jamboree: Credits |
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