Engage your students with this Springtime Music and Movement Journey designed to teach beat, tempo, and pitch through immersive storytelling and activities.

This comprehensive Pre-K through 1st Grade resource bridges the gap between kinesthetic music exploration and foundational literacy standards.

Students will embark on a Nature Journey through ponds and meadows, physically embodying animals like fish, bees, and swans to master musical concepts.

Following the movement, they transition to literacy by retelling the story and completing a personal mini-book, ensuring they master narrative sequence through whole-body learning.

This resource includes instructional media such as the Springtime Dance video, audio files with both vocal and instrumental versions, and a dedicated teaching presentation.

Teachers receive methodology-based music lesson plans following Orff, Kodaly, and Dalcroze steps for exploring steady beat, fast/slow tempo, and high/low pitch.

The literacy lesson plans provide step-by-step guides for collaborative conversations, retelling story sequences, and defining new vocabulary.

You will also find printable visuals like full-color movement cards, music concept posters, and animal name and picture cards for classroom displays. Student worksheets feature the Nature Journey Map labeling activity and a color-and-trace emergent reader mini-book.

RESOURCE INCLUDES:

• Teaching Presentation
• Springtime Nature Journey Story
• Lesson Plans- Music and Literacy
• Learning Goals- Music and Literacy
• Teaching Steps- Music and Literacy
• Song Lyrics-Printable + Presentation
• Movement Cards & Posters
• Music Concept Cards & Posters
• Picture Cards & Posters
• Animal Name Cards & Posters
• Nature Journey Map-Label the Animals Worksheet
• Mini-Book Color and trace the concept words
• Pocket Chart Cards for Music Terms, Animals, Movement
• “Springtime Dance” Teaching Presentation
• “Springtime Dance” Video
• “Springtime Dance” Audio Files
• Links to resources

LYRICS:

“Everything’s Bloomin’ at the Springtime Dance”

Everything’s Bloomin’ at the Springtime Dance.

Everything’s Bloomin’ at the Springtime Dance.

Bees are buzzing!

Bunnies are hopping!

Birdies are flying!

And the flowers grow to the sun!

VERSE 2

Everything’s Bloomin’ at the Springtime Dance.

Everything’s Bloomin’ at the Springtime Dance.

Fish are swimming

Squirrels are climbing.

Butterflies floating.

And the flowers grow to the sun!

Everything’s Bloomin’ at the Springtime Dance.

Everything’s Bloomin’ at the Springtime Dance.

Everything’s Bloomin’!

MORE WAYS TO USE THIS RESOURCE:

• Brain Breaks
• PE Activities
• Team Building
• Music Class activities
• Reward Days
• Develop Gross and Fine Motor Skills.
• Develop skills to control and learn about the body.
• Explore how the body moves.
• Experience movement with music.
• Experience showing how music feels.
• Make Cross-Body Brain Connections.

Engage your students with this Springtime Music and Movement Journey designed to teach steady beat, tempo, and pitch as well as literacy skills through movement and storytelling.

This nature-themed lesson includes a music and literacy lesson plans, animal movement cards, and student mini-books.

Perfect for elementary music teachers, preschool classrooms, and spring-themed literacy centers as well as brain breaks.

Get your students learning and moving with music this spring using these hands-on activities for Preschool, Kindergarten and 1st Grade.

MORE APRIL MUSIC EDUCATION RESOURCES:

• “Shake Your Egg Any Color” Creative Movement Activity
• Game Song “Where’s the Easter Egg?”
• April Music Class Worksheets
• April Music Class Bundle of Lessons
• Vocal Explorations: Garden Themed-Animated
• Vocal Explorations: Bug Themed-Animated
• Game Song “Let’s Plant a Garden” Orff Arrangement
• Music and Movement Lesson “Funny Little Bunny”

***********************

ABOUT SING PLAY CREATE LLC.

All products and works are copyrighted by Sing Play Create LLC. Buyers may get Free store credit by going to "my purchases" and click on "Provide Feedback". Ratings and helpful feedback are welcomed.

Want a Freebie every month?  Subscribe to my Website Newsletter.

SING PLAY CREATE NEWSLETTER

QUESTIONS? Please use the "Ask a Question" section of my TpT store. Or, you can email me at sandra@singplaycreate.com

CONNECT WITH ME HERE:

Sing Play Create Teaching Tips YouTube Channel

Sing Play Create YouTube Channel

Sing Play Create Blog

Sing Play Create on Instagram

Sing Play Create on Facebook

Sing Play Create on Pinterest

Let’s Move and Learn with Music!

Sandra