2019 Term 1 Juniors

Follow this link to find a list of dances (J) means particularly suitable for juniors. 

FAVOURITE DANCES FOR JUNIORS:
Baby Shark   Can You Point Your Finger and do the Twist?  
Follow the Leader
The Freeze Game
Get Ready to Wiggle 
Get the Sillies Out 
Hold Still 
Hot Potato 
I Like to Move it. Move it 
Gummy Bear 
I'm Gonna Catch You 
I've been working on the Railroad 
Jump Up 
Mah Nah Mah Nah 
Skip to My Lou 
The Wheels on the Bus 
YMCA

NEW: 
Monsters of Jazz   follow a monster's dance movements to a jazz band's music. 
Boogiesaurus - follow a dinosaur - of sorts - to dance to rock 'n' roll music. 
Happy Farm -  A dancing chicken to follow. 

GRAND MARCH /MARCHING MUSIC  
The Ants go marching - Just dance version 
Radetsky March by Johann Strauss Senior 
March of the Toy Soldiers by Tchaikovsky 
British Grenadiers (Fife and drums) 
Colonel Bogey 
Liberty Bell (aka Monty Python theme) by John Philip Sousa

Here's some of our favourite songs: 
Hello, Nice Day 
Alice the Camel 
Five Little Ducks 
Taniwha Song 
Favourite Undies


Music for relaxation and creative dance. 
These are some beautiful lullabies  by NZ singer and songwriter Claudia Robin Gunn. 
Goodnight Moon 
Ship that Sails 
Lullaby  Time 

Nursery Rhymes:

Little Miss Muffett
The nursery rhyme Little Miss Muffet first appeared in print in 1805. It's origins and meanings are not known for sure.  

Vocabulary: 

tuffet - a low seat or footstool, completely covered in cloth so legs are not visible. 

curd  - (curdle) when milk starts to form solids

whey - the liquid left over after the milk has formed curds

arachnophobia - fear of spiders 

arachnid - spider

A tuffett

Curds and whey

A Bullwinkle cartoon about Little Miss Muffet 

Kermit the Frog Interviews Little Miss Muffet

Hey Diddle Diddle 

 Hey Diddle Diddle and cat and the fiddle.
Here's Kermit the Frog reporting for Sesame Street News about the cow jumping over the moon.

Here's the Teddy Rock version of Hey Diddle Diddle - time for air guitar!
And a jazz version 

Do check out this very old (1935) Terry Toons cartoon based on nursery rhymes. It shows nursery rhyme characters heading off to school for a quite different kind of education. See what happens when the parents turn up. Can you imagine your teachers doing what this teacher does?

Three Blind Mice 

Three Blind Mice   Sing along video 


Here's a Walt Disney cartoon called the Three Blind Mousketeers, from 1936. Listen and watch for how the animals' movements and actions become part of the music and rhythm patterns. 

And a Muppets version of Four Blind Mice - done as a round.
Something really different - a jazz version of Three Blind Mice from 1962 by Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers. What instruments can you identify? Listen to all the different drumming sounds and patterns. Can you identify the basic tune? 

And a Teddy Rock version of Three Blind Mice so you can practise you air guitar and air drumming skills.

Jack Be Nimble
The earliest known time that it appeared in writing was in 1815. Jumping candlesticks was a type of fortune telling and also a sport. If you jumped over the burning candle without the flame going out, it was believed you would have good luck. (It was obviously good luck because you didn't get burned!)

Here's a Sesame Street video clip about Jack be Nimble 

 Hickory Dickory Dock 


- One version of the song (Love to Sing) 
- Dance  
- Kermit the Frog interview  
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BODY PERCUSSION: 

Try this body percussion routine. You will need to practise it a few times to get it right, and then you might find yourself doing it all the time.