The World Music Day is observed on 21 June each year. Slowly, the observance has become an event has been taken over by the commercial and consumerist world to sell the observance and make profits in the name of music.
However, meaningful teachers, educators and researchers deem music as part of human culture and stress the need for multiple applications of music and multi-disciplinary linkage of music as a discipline with other academic disciplines.
In India, the Foundation Education (3-8 years age group; NEP-2020) requires the linkage of the observance through body percussion rhythmic singing which is a blending of body-limb movements and sounds by human body itself is the musical instrument and can be used of rhythmic intelligence enhancement of pre-primary kids.
Here is a body-percussion poem to be used with pre-primary kids.
Clap-clap- clap
Clap your hands
Stomp-stomp-stomp
Stomp your feet
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Pat-pat-pat
Pat your thighs
Beat-beat-beat
Beat your chest
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Nod-nod-nod
Nod your head
Slap-slap-slap
Slap your cheeks
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Snap-snap-snap
Snap your fingers
Blink-blink-blink
Blink your eyes
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