The purpose of the activity - Learning the harbingers of autumn, working on blowing or whistling and distinguishing between fast and slow music.
The set of activities for ages 0-3:
- about the song - An autumn song made up of four stanzas and a repeated chorus. The recurring motif is the wind, but other elements from autumn are mentioned in it. The song, like the wind, plays with a sweeping and fast rhythm that invites movement like the wind, and at the end one verse is slower, this sharpens the difference between a fast and a slow tempo. The chorus has two pauses that invite you to blow or whistle like the wind.
- at the meeting - We will tell the children a story - this morning I got up and suddenly I heard a strange sound (whistling), I was walking down the street and suddenly my hat flew off... when the goal is to lead the children to recognize that it is a wind. Whether it's in the sound or whether it's in its movement nature. We will show the children elements that herald autumn and appear in the song - hat, stone, clouds, wind (handkerchief) and we will ask the children when all these things come to us. We will talk about autumn, about the fact that sometimes it is hot and sometimes it is cold, that there are clouds and then the sun, that the stone is blooming.. and more..
- in space - We will fly with the children like the wind in space, we will turn around, we will fly high like clouds, we will fly low like a hat flying off our heads.
- in motion - We will move the different body parts according to the rhythm of the song. Each time the wind blows a different part of our body. Also, we will try to blow with the mouth like the wind.
- with accessory - The handkerchief symbolizes the wind for us, its movement is the same as the flying wind, and you can also blow on it. It is soft, it flies, you can walk around with it, throw it around and use it to illustrate the difference between slow music and fast music.
Activity set for Galai 3-6:
- about the song - An autumn song made up of four stanzas and a repeated chorus. The recurring motif is the wind, but other elements from autumn are mentioned in it. The song, like the wind, plays with a sweeping and fast rhythm that invites movement like the wind, and at the end one verse is slower, this sharpens the difference between a fast and a slow tempo. The chorus has two pauses that invite you to blow or whistle like the wind.
- at the meeting - We will show the children elements that herald autumn and appear in the song - hat, stone, clouds, wind (handkerchief) and we will ask the children when all these things come to us. We will talk about autumn, about the fact that sometimes it is hot and sometimes it is cold, that there are clouds and then the sun, that the rock is blooming... and more... We will look together for movements that are suitable for each of the elements that appear in the song.
- in space - We will fly with the children like the wind in space, we will turn around, we will fly high like clouds, we will fly low like a hat flying off our heads. The children can be divided into four groups and in each house another group will stand up to dance according to the words of the song.
- in motion - We will move the different parts of the body according to the rhythm of the song, as if each time the wind blows us a different part of the body and it is the same part that leads us through the room, until the teacher announces a new part. Also, we will try to blow with our mouth and make a real wind. With older children you can also try to whistle.
- in music - We will recognize in the song the tempo changes in the song, when the melody is faster and when suddenly it is slower. We will fly like the wind according to the melody - sometimes a quiet and slow wind and sometimes it blows strong and fast. We will notice that in the chorus there is an emphasis on the last sound in each sentence (for example in the first sentence the word autumn is emphasized): wind wind autumn / a song for us your song / wind wind autumn / We will sit on the back
- with accessory - The handkerchief symbolizes the wind for us, its movement is the same as the flying wind, and you can also blow on it. It is soft, it flies, you can walk around with it, throw it around and use it to illustrate the difference between slow music and fast music. It is possible for the handkerchief to symbolize a different element each time - sometimes it is a hat on the head, sometimes it is a stone, sometimes a leaf that falls and flies and runs away and more.
- without accessory - We will dance and move according to the words in the song - we will chase the hat that flew off our head and run away, we will stand like a stone and sway a little, we will walk among clouds, we will run after a fallen leaf and more. In a chorus where every last word is emphasized at the end of a sentence, we will decide that in the first two sentences we will jump up (to catch a balloon that the wind blew away) and in the last two sentences we will bend down (to pick up a leaf that fell)
- in the game - נשחק במשחקי רוח – ננשוף דרך קשית על צמר גפן במסלול בגן. משחק נוסף – "הרוח נושבת" – המורה/הגננת מכריזה הרוח נושבת על כל מי… (שיש לו חולצה כחולה/ שבא עם סנדלים/ שצבע השיער שלו חום וכדו') כל הילדים שעונים להגדרה קמים ומחליפים מקום.
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The lyrics -
Autumn spirit / lyrics and music: Ina Kribinski, production: Deat
autumn wind
after a chase
tickle my nose
My hat is flying off
autumn wind
Sing us your song
autumn wind
We will have our backs
autumn wind
We rocked the quarry
Leaves that have already fallen
on the ground
autumn wind…
Walk among clouds
gray skies
The stop hop came back
He didn't stop for a moment
autumn wind…
autumn wind
From the hand came a snatch
I ran after him
Stop! you are naughty
