Ukulele Story Time for Beginners

💙💜💛 Welcome to Sing Create Play!!

This is a fast-paced class filled with hands-on ukulele playing and giggles!

♪ This is an ongoing course for beginners ukulele students; we will learn the basic of ukulele playing and build on student's skills: learning to play beginners chords, simple strumming patterns and rhythms while learning new songs each week.

♪ This is an inclusive class and children of all abilities and disabilities are welcome. 

♪ Children don't need to know the story or have the book in order to enrol in this class.

🎶 Class Structure  🎸

1️⃣ Sing a cheerful “Hello” to start the class! 🎤
2️⃣ Warm-up game to get our hands and fingers ready to play! ✋
3️⃣ Practice rhythmic patterns for songs we’ll play! 🥁
4️⃣ Time to improvise and create our own melodies! 🎶🎸
5️⃣ Play each song, focusing on strumming, steady beat, and playing position! 🎵
6️⃣ Performance time! Students can share parts of the song if they want! 🌟

>> Please note that the songs have been modified to very simple and basic chords and melody so young ukulele beginner players can enjoy playing them. 

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>> The stories we will retell with the help of songs we will play on our ukulele:

Week beginning:

♪ February 3rd:   ''The Smartest Giant in Town''
♪ February 10th:   "The Wizard of Oz"
♪ February 17th:   "We're Going On A Bear Hunt"
♪ February 24th:   "Aladdin"

♪ March 3rd:     "Gruffalo"
♪ March 10th:    "Handa's Surprise"
♪ March 17th:    "How Tiger Got His Stripes"
♪ March 24th:    "Green Eggs and Ham"
♪ March 31st:    "Dear Zoo"

♪ April 7th:    "Tangled"
♪  April 14th:    "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
♪  April  21st:    "Some Dogs Do"
♪  April  28th:    "Tiki Tiki Tembo"

♪ May 5th:    "Sleeping Beauty"
♪ May 12th:    "Superworm"
♪ May 19th:    "Za Za's Baby Brother"
♪ May 26th:     "The Island of Bum Bum Ba Loo"

♪ June 2nd:     "Hairy Maclary From Donaldson's Dairy"
♪ June  9th:      "I'm not scared"
♪ June  16th:    "Room on the Broom"
♪ June 23rd:    "FunnyBones - The Pet Shop"
♪ June 30th: "Stick Man"

♪ July 7th: "The Elves and the Shoemaker"
♪ July 14th: "Gruffalo's Child"
♪ July 21st: "Puss in Boots"
♪ July 28th - "Jungle Book"

♪ August 4th - ''Beegu''
♪ August 11th -  ''Snow White''
♪ August 18th - "Pinocchio"
♪ August 25th - ''Peter Rabbit''

♪ September 2nd:  "The Three Little Pigs"
♪ September 9th:  "Room On The Broom"
♪ September 16th:  "If I Had A Dinosaur"
♪ September 23rd :  "The Gingerbread Man"
♪ September 30th:  "The Rainbow Fish"

♪ October 7th:  "Peter Pan"
♪  October 14th:  "Goldilocks and the Three Bears"
♪  October 21st:  "The Three Billy Goats Gruff"
♪  October  28th:  ''The Little Red Hen''

♪ November 4th:  "Beauty and the Beast" 
♪ November 11th:  ''Little Red Riding Hood''
♪ November 18th:  ''Cinderella''
♪ November 25th:  "Hansel and Gretel"

♪ December 2nd:   "Jungle Book"
♪ December 9th:  ''Beegu''
♪ December 16th:  ''Snow White''
♪ December 23rd :  "Pinocchio" 
♪ December 30th:  ''Peter Rabbit''

♪ January 6th:   ''The Ugly Duckling''
♪ January 13th:   "The Tiger Who Came to Tea" 
♪ January 20th:   ''Chicken Licken''
♪ January 27th:  ''Jack and the Beanstalk''

Please know that your child can jump in at any point to attend this class. It is a very flexible course, and they will benefit whenever they join! This class will meet the needs of each type of learner, that includes kinaesthetic, visual, and auditory. 

♪ Please note that I welcome beginner ukulele students as well as children who have never played the ukulele before. 

♪ If you want to, please check out my Absolute Beginners Ukulele Class before joining this course:  https://outschool.com/classes/1-2-ready-play-absolute-beginners-uke-xJlSzd63?sectionUid=71fc6606-4834-4791-b26c-1383f9a95799&showDetails=true 

♪ Students will improve their musical abilities, in general, and will also learn: 
-  how to play the ukulele, sing and strum at the same time;
-  how to hold a ukulele;
-  correct playing position;
-  proper hand position;
-  how to count and play chords (C Major and F major, Am, G7);
-  how to strum.

Other skills children will learn in this class:
- strum at different tempos (fast and slow)
- strum with different dynamics: loud, quiet, from quiet to loud building momentum;
- how to follow chord patterns (with animals and colours for children who can't read yet);
- how to play multiple songs