Muscles

My Heart

This is your warm-up number.  You should perform this at the beginning of each lesson to get the kids stretched out and their muscles warmed up.  Use this to highlight the lessons and sign language, and get the kids thinking about the muscle of the month, which is our Heart. Get as creative as you can with demonstrating your heart muscle – you can usually work a “love” theme into this if it’s appropriate for the local culture.

Choreography

Below is the choreography and lyric sheet for this number. Click on the PDF icon to download this file, and you can view or print it on your computer or mobile device.

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Below is the music in an mp3 file which you can download to your computer.

introduction

Tessa explains the basic ideas, exercises, and sign language for this warm-up number.

Dance Instruction

Tessa demonstrates how to teach and use this dance.

The favorite way to demonstrate your heart muscle is to have the kids check their heart rate (not by counting it, just a general sense) before you do this warm-up song, and then again afterwards. Of course, they should all say it’s beating faster and you can explain why.