"Dinosaur Romp" Active Song goes DIGITAL!

"DINOSAUR ROMP!"

YIPPEE!!! I have translated another of my original children's songs into DIGITAL format! In the zipped file you get an MP3 version of the song, a powerpoint format of the lyrics and some Pdf's for some fine motor dino fun. 

The song has a hard-driving beat. 

Think AC/DC goes to PreK.

Think T-REX on wailing guitar. 

You're going to need your air guitars for this one! 

Let me demonstrate my AIR Guitar for you. 

That's how you really wail. 

Throw back your shoulder and it howl. 

That's a dinosaur hat on my head from the dollar store....

so be on the look-out! 

Here's another Dinosaur hat variation. 

I remember finding this on a vacation trip in a novelty store. 

Be on the look out. 

As I ALWAYS promise you: 

"If you put something on your head, you will have more eye contact from the kids!" 

The best way to go on a Dinosaur Romp is to think of playing "Follow the Leader." 

YOU get to be the leader -- unless you invite me! 

Here is a classroom of PreK's with their air guitars 

and following along as we stomp through the prehistoric swamp.

Dinosaurs make the PERFECT art project. 

They lend themselves to 'interpretation.' 

Take a look at an entire Bulletin Board full of handpainted and PERSONALIZED Dinosaurs in the Preschool setting. 

True Confessions................ 

The zipped file is not quite zipped up. 

We have safely arrived in sunny DENVER!!! 

Got back here to Clement central around 'our' east coast midnight. 

Still need to get this together, but the RockieWonders are monopolizing my heart. 

Maybe later today?

Or more likely..... tonight after they go to bed! 

Yes. That's the plan.

Zip and upload after they hit-the-hay! 

MusicMovementMotivation#2

This is all of us back together again (early childhood folks & children's librarians) after the brunch break.....I LUV having a 150 minute keynote slot!!!! Here we have lots of air guitarists showing their air riffs for my AC/DC-esque Dinosaur romp, which is a rap-style, no tune to follow, keep the beat extravaganza. I picked up the dinosaur hat the evening before at the Dollar Tree on the way to dinner. (Must stop at every Dollar Tree available -- amazing possibilities abound! Never know what you'll uncover.)

This is the group time "Higgeldy Biggeldy" multi-cultural dance number (if you stretch that concept just a bit.) Every fun phrase was one I heard while on my 'first' European tour years back with my dear friend Renee. We made presentations at our Air Force base in England on that trip, but went on to spend two weeks romping about France and Scotland while we were at it!

This is from the rousing conclusion of my contribution to the day. These are the children's librarians, or many of them -- those who were seated toward the front of the auditorium & could join me quickly. We are performing, "Going to the Library" in sign language..... with gusto.

That's one great big: "Oh, YEAH!!!!!!!!!!" for the final verse of, "librarians find the answer speedy as can be. I like going to the library............ oh, yeah!"

Dinosaur Romp

"Chomp your teeth now very loud, Tyrannosaurus was mighty proud......... thru the swamp......... join me in the Tyrannosaurus chomp." It's our own little version of 'guitar hero.' Everyone gets to play their own air guitar, with a few choosing air drums. Think AC/DC for the preschool set. Yet within all of this movement and flow of oxygen to the brain, there is definite follow-the-leader mentality. [BTW, I always get to be the leader, that's one reason that I graduated from college -- to be the leader. LOL.]

Air Guitar -- Rock Star

We're getting all warmed up on our "air guitars" so that we'll be ready for a great, big, follow-the-leader stomp in our "Dinosaur Romp." These are the big kiddos of the morning and we can have oodles of fun together, because they are such great listeners. We've been singing together for YEARS now, since they were the tiny tots. They have so many favorite songs of mine that we always run out of time before they run out of suggestions. Stay tuned for more fun ahead.

Air Guitar, Rock Star

Today was 'lucky duck day' and we had a special request for "Dinosaur Romp." Here's our big kids playing their air guitars as we romp around the large muscle room. And yes. For anyone keeping track..... those are indeed my ORIGINAL, "Happy Pants!! Purchased well over a decade ago at a thrift store with Noelle, up on the north end. They were my very first 'costume' piece. The kids just loved them everywhere I wore them -- and that's what instigated my whole current wardrobe-of-choice. LOL. I'm sure they've been washed several hundred times, and while not quite as bright as they were in the beginning, they still make a statement. Unfortunately the derriere is getting v-e-r-y thin and I fear they will need to be retired in the near future. I may have to quilt a whole new back side for them. In any case they will go to the Debbie Clement hall-of-fame upon their final retirement. Memories.