13. All about birds: a nursery rhyme, folk song and Vivaldi!

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Today’s episode is all about birds! Grab a scarf and let’s get started!

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Today we share three bird-themed activities:

• Little Bird: traditional folk song. Use your scarf to fly like a bird while we sing about lots of different kinds of birds. Do you have a favorite bird?

Little bird, little bird, fly through my window

Little bird, little bird, fly through my window

Little bird, little bird, fly through my window

Find molasses candy.

Fly through my window my sugar lump

Fly through my window my sugar lump

And find molasses candy.

(then substitute different birds for the words “little bird’)

• Vivaldi’s Four seasons: Spring concerto, 1st movement. Learn what a concerto is, and listen for the different springtime sounds that Vivaldi wrote into this piece: birds, a brook, and a thunder storm.
• 2 Little Blackbirds: nursery rhyme with melody by Kathryn Lieppman. We practice opposites with this fun fingerplay! If you’d like to watch a video of us teaching this song, go to https://www.clapforclassics.com/blog/2-little-blackbirds-fingerplay

What other verses can you come up with?

Two little blackbirds sitting on a hill.

One named Jack and one named Jill.

Fly away Jack, fly away Jill.

Come back Jack, come back Jill.

Two little blackbirds flying in the sky.

One named Low and one named High...

Sitting on the snow . . . 1 named fast, 1 named slow . . .

Sitting on a clover . . . 1 named under and one named over

Sitting on a lily… 1 was serious, the other was silly...

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