Beach Bird

It's new album week! And it is also AAPI month! So much to celebrate, such a good time.

Our Echo Song this week is I Got a Bicycle, an ode to two wheels and our planet. This is a Noodlino favorite song that made it on to Echo Songs, Vol. 2 now available in all the music places! Get on your bike and ride! ✪

Next up, we've got a round of Trivia in honor of AAPI Month. It's called Bird or Traditional Asian Instrument and it is a great way to learn about some musical instruments from China, Japan and Vietnam as well as brush up on your bird songs. It's a wild ride! ✪

We continue our riff on birds with a Rhyme Time game all about shore birds, birds that live by the ocean. This finish the rap couplet song will test your phonological quickness and prime you for any future rap crew hype person auditions. ✪

We hope you enjoy our music and games for preschoolers, kindergarteners and early elementary age kids! It's like a music lesson for kids that loves you back.

✪✪✪ Echo Songs, Vol. 2 OUT NOW!: https://noodleloaf.bandcamp.com/album/echo-songs-vol-2 ✪✪✪

✪✪✪ I have written three pictures books celebrating families. They make great gifts :) https://bookshop.org/lists/books-by-dan-saks ✪✪✪

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ Join our Patreon to get a show shout out, handwritten letter and phone jingle! www.patreon.com/noodleloaf

✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts

✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com.

✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir? The echo song and instructions are here: https://noodleloaf.com/choir

Find us on noodleloaf.com Twitter and Instagram or write to us at noodleloafshow@gmail.com

Magic Gloves

Great Bowls of Groovy Gemelli Noodlinos! It's a new Noodle Loaf noodlesode! Too much? Ok, I'll tone it down. Press play for fun music and games for kids. Thank you.

First up a special edition of our Trivia game called Instrument or Italian Cheese. This music appreciation game tests you knowledge of both Italian cheeses and orchestral instruments to make sure you never attempt to grate a piccolo over your pappardelle. ✪

This episode's echo song, called Before I Get Up, is a gentle wake up song that teaches morning mindfulness and may possibly help your child wake up happy and get ready faster. If nothing else it should help them develop a sense of pitch and rhythm. ✪

We end with a Time To Move game that involves magic gloves and finger dancing. I learned a version of this game from Dr. John Feierabend, an early music education wizard. It is a great game for teaching awareness of flow and tempo. It is also big time fun. ✪

We hope you enjoy our music and games for preschoolers, kindergarteners and early elementary age kids! It's like a music lesson for kids you can do on the way to your music lesson for kids.

I wrote a book!!!: ✪✪✪ FAMILIES GROW - an Amazon Best Book of the Month - by Dan Saks and Brooke Smart available from Penguin Random House ✪✪✪

https://bookshop.org/a/9590/9780593223673

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ Join our Patreon to get a show shout out and a handwritten letter! www.patreon.com/noodleloaf

✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts

✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com.

✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir? The echo song and instructions are here: http://noodleloaf.com/choir

Find us on noodleloaf.com Twitter and Instagram or write to us at noodleloafshow@gmail.com

Space Dancing

Gather up your toddlers, kindergarteners, elementary aged children and forever young grown ups for some singing, moving and good old fashioned trivia for kids. We continue our Black History celebration on this episode with music and movement, a call and response song; one of many black history songs for kids we'll enjoy this month, and of course, giggles.

Echo song - we'll sing about Dr. Mae Jemison in ""First Black Woman in Space"", an echo song for kids focused on pitch matching ✪

Time to Move - a creative movement activity practicing flow and weight, age appropriate for all kids. ✪

Trivia - Next up is Black History trivia for children where listeners must guess whether the stated object was a Motown Group or made by a Black Inventor. Great for general knowledge, and as always, music appreciation for kids. ✪

Links and Announcements

✪✪✪ FAMILIES BELONG - one of Amazon's Best Books of 2020 - by Dan Saks available from Penguin Random House ✪✪✪

https://bit.ly/familiesbelongbook

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ Join our Patreon to access bonus content and a handwritten letter!  www.patreon.com/noodleloaf 

✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts

✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com.  

✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir?
The echo song and instructions are here: http://www.noodleloaf.com/choir

Follow us on Twitter and Instagram or contact us via this website.

Totopos y Popotes

Today's song combines the power of growth mindset affirmations with the joy music fundamentals! Specifically solfege.  I think you're going to like it.  You'll also enjoy our Hispanic Heritage Month game "Instrument or Food" that celebrates those aspects of Latinx traditions.  And maybe you'll even enjoy a movement game that promotes spatial relations and body awareness.  Maybe not! Only one way to find out...press play :)

Trivia - Instrument or Food - A Hispanic Heritage Month quiz for kids about Latinx music and foods. I say a word, you guess if you'd prefer to eat it or play it. ✪

Call and Response / Echo Song - That's So Mi - Who couldn't use a little music for kids that introduces the concept Sol Sol Mi solfege while having kids recite positive affirmations? It's social emotional learning (SEL) combined with music fundamentals and it's fun to sing too. ✪

Time to Move - Two Part Show - This movement activity for kids develops the dance concepts of spatial relations and body awareness through play. This can be used in classrooms with preschoolers through early elementary students. ✪

We hope you enjoy our music and games for preschoolers, kindergarteners and early elementary age kids! It's like a music lesson for your commute to school.

✪✪✪ FAMILIES BELONG - the new board book from Dan Saks available from Penguin Random House ✪✪✪

https://bit.ly/familiesbelongbook

WAYS TO SHOW NOODLE LOVE:

✪ If Noodle Loaf brings some music education value to your life, please consider becoming a patron. Membership starts at $3:  www.patreon.com/noodleloaf 

✪ Donate: paypal.me/dansaks

✪ SUBSCRIBE and/or LEAVE A REVIEW on Apple Podcasts

✪ Get some Noodle Loaf gear at noodleloaf.threadless.com.  

✪ Want to add your voice to the Noodle Loaf choir?
The echo song and instructions are here:
http://noodleloaf.com/choir
Find us on noodleloaf.com Twitter, Facebook and Instagram or write to us at noodleloafshow@gmail.com

Periwinkle

You shared photos of forts with us.  We wrote a rhythm game about fortographs.  Balls in your court Noodlinos! 

Lots of fun on this show featuring contributions from special guests Ed Droste from Grizzly Bear and Piera Gelardi:

The kids went through a major fort phase during which we coined the term “fortograph.” You’re welcome English language. This Clap It Back rhythm game is all about forts, fortographs and developing a strong sense of rhythm ✪

Friend of the show (and family) Piera Gelardi wrote this All Day Pajamas song when her daughter was just a baby. She was envious of her child’s ability to wear pajamas all day without the judging stares of passersby. Piera sings lead on this Echo Song so Dan could stay home in his pajamas all day. ✪

Jokes (lolz) ✪

You know Ed Droste from the indie rock mega star band Grizzly Bear, but did you know that Ed is really good at knowing the differences between instruments and animals? That is why he is the special guest on this edition of Instrument or Animal, a trivia and music appreciation game where we say a word and you have to guess which category it falls under. ✪

✪✪✪NEW YOUTUBE CHANNEL!!!✪✪✪

Pluots on Pluto

Welcome to this show's show notes! Here's this star I mentioned during the outro: ✪  Pretty sweet right?

Trivia (General Knowledge / Music Appreciation) ✪

I Made A Costume pt.2 (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪

Vocal Jam (Part Singing / Voice-Body Percussion Combination) ✪

Swinging Swingily

Special instrument or animal expert Dave Zamboni of The Zambonis is on the show! Turns out he knows more than just hockey trivia. Plus a song about snails and I sing the Wikipedia entry on "Kites".

Trivia - Instrument or Animal (Music Appreciation / General Knowledge) ✪

Snail 2 3 4 (Echo Song / Pitch Matching) ✪

Time To Move (Creative Movement) ✪

Vocal Jam (Part Singing / Voice-Body Percussion Combination) ✪

Solfege It’s Been Good To Know Ya

Something for everyone in today's episode, be you interested in alternative Aardvark names or Ocarina fun facts, or just some good ol' fashioned Solfege pattern finishing.  Plus a So-Mi-So "Call and Response" song about a singing head cat.

Finish The Pattern (Pattern Recognition / Solfege) ✪

On My Head (Call and Response / Pitch Matching) ✪

Trivia - Instrument or Animal (Music Appreciation / General Knowledge) ✪ 

Correxico

Hello my mustachioed mammal friends! It's Noodle Loaf time.  Singing? check. Moving? check. Laughing? check check check.  Ready, Set, Noodle Loaf!!!

Time to Move (Creative Movement) ✪

Red Balloon (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪

Trivia (Music Appreciation) ✪ 

Dingo Bingo Bongo

We were sitting here eating gustew when who should stop by?  Adam Gardner from the big deal rock band Guster.  Not only is he a talented musician but he also knows a LOT about what's an instrument and what's an animal.  He helps us out with the today's trivia game.  We also have a very special echo song about all the kinds of beautiful families there are in the world and more!

A Family Can (Echo Song/Pitch Matching) ✪
Trivia: Instrument or Animal w/Adam Gardner (Music Appreciation) ✪
You Make The Story (Improvisation) ✪

GUEST: GUSTER's Adam Gardner

Razzle Dazzle

Mystery abounds in this edition of Noodle Loaf as we ask the eternal question, is it an animal or is it a musical instrument?  Even the echo song reverberates with enigma.  Where are we going and will you be awake when we get there?  One things for sure, a land expanse demands the clapping of our hands.

Trivia: Instrument or Animal edition (Music Appreciation) ✪
At the Top of the Hill - (Echo Song) ✪
Clap It Back (Rhythm Awareness) ✪