Gross Motor Movement with a Drum with Laura Schandelmeier

Working with a drum and a mallet (drumstick), pot and wood spoon, or any homemade percussion instrument can encourage fine and gross motor movement, syllabication, one-to-one correspondence, self-regulation, patterning, and more!

You Have a Voice: Strategic Singing for Social Emotional Learning (SEL) with Caroline Ferrante

Support choices that help students work with others cooperatively and develop socially competent behavior with peers. Create music experiences that connect the student experience to the experience of classmates.

Welcome to this World: Motor Skills, Steady Beat, and Creating Character with Caroline Ferrante

Demonstrates a Native American invocation call-and-response song with drum and discusses how steady beat and non-locomotor movement are crucial in early childhood development. Includes benefits of crossing the midline and introduces the power of Total Physical Response (TPR) in vocabulary acquisition.

I Can Stop: Strategic Singing for Social Emotional Learning (SEL) with Caroline Ferrante

In this lesson, participants will explore moving in different directions while using elements of tap dance to create steady beat on their feet. Participants will follow along with the teaching artist engaging in song, movement, and creating beats on parts of the feet.

Knead the Bread (Amasando el Pan) with Ms. Maria

A tactile experience for our youngest children. Maria takes us through tapping, rolling and kneading to help babies brain development, motor skill development, language development and more! Enjoy this video as a morning routine or any time of the day!

What’s IN the box? Part 2 with Ms. Natasha

Let’s play and wiggle together with Ms Natasha while we discover what surprises can be in her Fun Box and learn animals and positional words IN and OUT.

What’s IN the box? Part 1 with Ms. Natasha

Let’s play and wiggle together with Ms Natasha while we discover what surprises can be in her Fun Box and learn animals and positional word IN.

Push and Pull Them Strategy Video with Ms. V

Caregivers will learn how to take the traditional themed song “open/shut them” and translate it into an experience for the whole body which focuses on weight shifting. This experience is beneficial for children preparing to move from rolling to crawling / crawling to walking / walking to “jumping”, etc.

Baby Artsplay™ Peekaboo Colors with Ms. Natasha / Part Two

Wiggle and learn colors and do some coordination exercises in this fun hiding and revealing yourself dance activity with Ms Natasha.

Baby Artsplay™ Peekaboo Colors with Ms. Natasha / Part One

Natasha Mirny Baby Artsplay™ Peekaboo Colors! Session One Wiggle and learn colors in this fun “hiding and revealing yourself” dance activity with Ms. Natasha. Back to the main page Audience Age Group(s)Ages 0-2Ages 2-4 Great for:CaregiversEducatorsMy Adult + Me Artist…

Tiny Seed (Pequeña Semilla) with Ms. Tripodi

Grow from a tiny seed into a big flower with Maria! With a baby (or two!) on your lap, join in and follow along with this tactile experience. ¡Crece de una pequeña semilla a una flor grande con Maria! Con un/a bebe (o dos!) en tu regazo, únete y sigue con esta experiencia táctica.

Body Parts and Positional Words with Ms. Natasha / Part Two

Wiggle around and learn body parts and positional words “up” and “down.”