From my teaching experience I have realised that nursery students find it difficult to practice various rhythmical patterns at the same time. As a result, if your students managed to keep a steady beat while singing and playing their percussion instruments that would be fine! However, you can try and practise all rhythmical patterns mentioned in a lesson separately and only for fun! What matters is to motivate early learners and make them love English and Music!
Yet, as One Two Red Balloon is about teaching English at a pre-writing, pre-reading level, it can be used by anyone teaching in the 1st and 2nd grade of Primary School. In this case, you won't have any problems with the group work in the percussion instruments stage.
You can also cooperate with the Music teacher or Drama teacher at your school and perform some of the songs at a school event. For example, you can put on a show about the 4 Seasons based on the relevant lessons. As you will see, the music of Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer has the form of variations of the same theme and that's because when I wrote them I was thinking of them as a whole.
Please, don't hesitate to ask me anything you want and if you ever use some of this material, I would be happy to learn how things went.
Above all, adapt the material to your students' needs and don't stick to the book!
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