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My Many Colored Days (Parent Kit)

 
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This Fabulous Kit Contains:

  • The board book My Many Colored Days, by Dr. Seuss.
  • 10 durable 27” square, washable nylon scarves – 1 of each of the following 10 colors: purple, royal blue, gray, black, orange, red, kelly green, brown, pink and yellow.
  • IDEAS Colors Music CD with short sound/color segments, then entire pieces, all chosen for mood and movement.
  • Velcro to hang the scarves in a special place, where they can be put away easily and beautifully.

Use the kit to reinforce:

  • Color Recognition.
  • Reading Books.
  • Identifying and Exploring Mood.
  • Creating Movement to Match Music.
  • Starting and Stopping--Motor Control.
  • Joyful Times Spent with Parents, Teachers, Books, Music, and Movement.

How?

  • Read the book to your child(ren).
  • Explore the scarf colors. Move them through space. Make air pathways with them, then walk and turn with the scarves.
  • Read the story again, moving the matching scarf to the music for each page.
  • Switch colors and repeat this activity on many days.
  • Play the complete music pieces for longer movement experiences.
  • Play dress up, and dress up stuffed animals with scarves. Be sure to say the scarf color when it is chosen.

Play dress up, and dress up stuffed animals with scarves. Be sure to say the scarf color when it is chosen.

CD Tracks

Color Tracks:

Hear clips from all thirteen color tracks.

  1. Different Colored Days
  2. Red (Wild Horseman, Schumann)
  3. Blue
  4. Brown
  5. Yellow
  6. Gray
  7. Orange
  8. Green
  9. Purple
  10. Pink (Chinese Dance, Tchaikovsky)
  11. Black
  12. Mixed Up
  13. Different Colored Days

Complete Pieces:

Hear clips from all nine complete pieces.

  1. Contrasts, Jensen (Different Colored Days)
  2. Rondeau, Bach (Blue)
  3. The Elephant, Saint-Sa�ns (Brown)
  4. Flight of the Bumblebee, Rinsky-Korsakov (Yellow)
  5. The Entertainer, Joplin (Gray)
  6. Air, Bach (Orange)
  7. Moonlight Sonata, Beethoven (Purple)
  8. Russian Sailors' Dance, Gliere (Black)
  9. Batik, Worsley (Mixed Up)