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The Syncopated Clock

By Leroy Anderson

Hi there,
This activity is all about clocks!
 
Please take a couple of minutes to  watch and listen to the music 's vodeo by yourself and get to know the sounds your child will learn in this activity.

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Let us learn about the clock:

Look at the clock  and ask your child:
How many numbers does the clock have and how many hands?
Listen to the tick tock sound of the clock and pay attention to the direction that it's hand is moving.
Can you  be a ticking clock and move your hand in the direction of the clock's hand?
Try to find different ways to make the tick tock sound:
By clapping, saying tick tock, stomping your foot, making sounds with your tongue etc.
Listen to the ringing sound of the clock .

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Can you  imitate the ringing  clock sound? 
Different types of clocks

There are different types of clocks! 

Please watch the video
What kind of clocks do you have at your home?
Let's hear the music

Let's hear and see the clock music video 

Please watch the video and move one finger from side to side with the clock pendulum
After watching the video, ask you child to tell you what did she/he saw in that video.
The clock sounds

Did you notice the unique clock's sounds that the composer  Leroy Anderson used in the music?  

 
The wooden percussion block imitated the sound of the clock’s tick tock.
Please listen:
There were also clock's ringing sounds in the music
At the end of the music, the clock broke down
 
 
one clock together
Tell your child that you want to find a way to become one big clock together and listen to the child's ideas.

Connect and be one clock together!                

 

Here are some ideas  to practice without music:
Decide together who will be the clock body and who will be the hands.
  • Make a ticking sound and move “The clock’s hands”.
  • When you stop making the ticking sound, stop moving.
  • Make a ringing sound and shake your bodies.
  • Make a whistle sounds and break down.

 
Now , put the music on and move with your child according to the music’s different parts:Ticking, no ticking, ringing, breaking down 
Preparing musical instruments

Let's recycle and  prepare our musical instruments

Take 2 spoons for playing the ticking sound
Take a newspaper for the no ticking part .
Take a plastic bottle , decorate it and filled half of it with matches or rice for a shaker for the ringing sounds.
 
 
 
Play your instruments without music and find different ways to produce a sound.
 
Decide who will:
Play the 2 spoons in the ticking part which we call A.
Rustle the newspaper in the no ticking part which we call B
Shake the bottle at the ringing sounds which are in part C•
The last part is the ending which we call in music Coda and no one plays with it.
 
After deciding who will play the different instruments please say the following words:
Ticking, No ticking; Ringing,Coda and practice playing the right instrument.
 
Put the music on and play your instruments with the music according to its different parts.

 

Switch roles and ask your child to be the announcer.
 
Paper clock

Do you want to make  a paper clock?

Please prepare:
•1 paper plate
•Round small stickers
•Scissors
•Paper fastener
•A piece of a purple construction paper
•Markersake
 
Please watch the video for instructions
 
 
 
 
directions

Directions and Orientation in space

Put the paper plate clock that you created on the floor.
Ask you child to move the long clock’s hand
from number 1 to number 2,3…. while saying the names of the numbers.
•Explain to your kid that the direction that the clock’s hand moved from number 1 until 12 is called
“The clockwise direction”.
Ask your child to walk around your clock in the clockwise direction•
Walking in the opposite direction of the clock’s hands is called :
"Counterclockwise direction".
•Ask your child to walk counterclockwise.
•Take the clock away and ask your child if he/she remembers how to walk clockwise and counterclockwise•
Back to the music:
 •When you hear the tick tock,  ask your child to walk clockwise in the room.
 •When you do not hear the tick tock, ask your child to walk counterclockwise.
•When you hear the ringing part , do not walk and count how many times the clock rings ? (8 times).
 
Clock designer

The special clock designer

•Take a construction paper or cardboard from one of the morning cereal’s boxes and draw on it a big circle and inside a small circle .
(Use big plate and small one to draw the circles).
 
•Do the mentioned above twice!
 
•Cut the small circles out, add the clock numbers to the big circles and ask your child to decorate the big circles.
•Now you have 2 number boards and you can design new clocks!
•Your clocks will be designed from your bodies and the circle numbers boards.
•Think together about the shape of your clocks.
• You can put it on your face , hold it with you hands , put it  on your shoulder ,on your knee or head etc.
  • Here are some pictures:
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Decide what to do  with the clocks in each part of the music,play the music and enjoy . 
 
 
 
 
 
cards game

Cards game for the  melody structures

Print  me

Please print the following cards:
 
 
 
 
 
 
Please cut your printed cards!
 
Explain to your child what does each card represents.
 
Let your child listen to the music and arrange the cards in the right order,according to the music.
The order of the cards should be:A,B, A, C, A, Coda(Ending)
 
In C part, ask your child to count the number of the ringing sounds by touching a different circle (from the circles which are on the left side of the card) at each ringing sound ,(8 ringings)
 
 
 
 
 
 
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