SMMART MUSIC IDEAS on "GOOD THINGS UTAH"


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GOOD THINGS UTAH: SMMART MUSIC

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Watch "Good Things Utah" on May 27th, 10:00am on abc4

I'll be presenting SMMART MUSIC ideas to help your child's reading/spelling skills.

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THANKS!

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SMMART MUSIC: NAME SONG

Does your child have a name song?

Count out the number of letters in your child’s name and find a familiar tune that has the same number of notes.

For example, you can use the first line of “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” (5 notes) and substitute with the letters “J-A-M-E-S”.

Creating a name song with your child and singing it repetitively will help your child to recognize the letters that are in his name and help your child to know the order of those letters.

Here are some ideas for name song tunes, using the first phrase of each tune according to the number of letters in your child’s name:

3 Letters: The NBC station tune
4 Letters: Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes (could be for 5 letters too)
5 Letters: Row, Row, Row Your Boat
6 Letters: Once There Was a Snowman
Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack (hand clapping song)
7 Letters: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
8 Letters: We Are a Happy Family (last phrase of the tune)
9 Letters: Baa, Baa Black Sheep

If you improvise with spelling your child’s name within 5 beats, it may fit within the parameters of “B-I-N-G-O”. You could make up your own version, similar to this:

“There is a sweet girl/boy I know and Nicea/Daniel is her/his name-o
N-I-C-E-A / D-A-N-I-E-L
N-I-C-E-A / D-A-N-I-E-L
N-I-C-E-A / D-A-N-I-E-LAnd Nicea/Daniel is her/his name-o!”

Lisa

SMMART MATH: MONEY ACTIVITIES III

MONEY RUBBINGS

Tape every type of coin onto one side of a piece of paper. You can tape two of each type next to each other, so that you will see the front and back sides of each coin. Turn the paper over and let your child rub over the coins with a pencil or crayon so they can observe the details of the coins. Older children can make rubbings of certain monetary values. For example, ask your child to rub 35cents onto a piece of paper. How many ways can they rub this value?

EYE SPY

Let your child hold a dollar bill while you play a game of "eye spy". "I spy with my little eye...an eagle." Let your child point out the item that you spied and then your child can take a turn.

Lisa

...STILL ON VACATION...

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WATCH FOR A SMMART MONEY POST NEXT WEEK!