Activity Instructions:

Play in background before class as students and parents enter. Allow children to play with an instrument not used in the lesson plan.

Activity Instructions:

Call children to circle. Start rhythm on Keyboard, and use each child’s name in the song.

I’m gonna rock rock rock with with my Tots
Rock, rock rock with my Tots
Rock, rock rock with my Tots
in Rockin’ Rhythms music class

Let’s all rock with [Name Here]
Let’s all rock with [Name Here or “together”]
Let’s all rock with [Name Here or “and have fun”]
in Rockin’ Rhythms music class

Activity Instructions:

Pass out the castanets – one to each student. Allow them to explore squeezing the castanets shut with one hand, the other hand, both hands, etc. Then introduce song.

Chomp Chomp Chomp goes the cas-ta-net
when my fin-gers squeeze it shut
Chomp Chomp Chomp goes the cas-ta-net
like a mouth try-ing to talk
Chomp chomp chomp, and click click click
o-pen shut it, just like this
Chomp chomp chomp goes my cas-ta-net
Chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp

Activity Instructions:

Have children sit in parent’s laps. Explore Bumping and Bouncing fast, and walking slowly with left or right leg up. This is a version of the tortise (turtle) and the hare (bunny). Use the turtle and the bunny in your lap.

[FAST- bounce Part 1, bump Part 2]
The turtle and the bunny met one day, met one day, met one day
The turtle and the bunny met one day, met one day, met one day
The turtle and the bunny met one day, met one day, met one day
and they decided to race

Hopalong bunny sped away, sped away, sped away
Hopalong bunny sped away, sped away, sped away
Hopalong bunny sped away, sped away, sped away
Hopalong bunny sped away
and the turtle began his chase

[SLOW – one knee up, other knee up, alternate]
Slow and steady wins the race
wins the race, wins the race
Slow and steady wins the race
Turtle followed at his own pace

[FAST- bounce Part 1, bump Part 2]
Hopalong bunny turned around, turned around, turned around
Hopalong bunny turned around, turned around, turned around
Hopalong bunny turned around, turned around, turned around
Couldn’t see the turtle so he sat down

Hopalong bunny, tired out, tired out, tired out
Hopalong bunny, tired out, tired out, tired out
Hopalong bunny, tired out, tired out, tired out
Shut his eyes and took a nap

[SLOWLY – one knee up, other knee up, alternate]
Mr. Turtle kept on walking
past the bunny’s napping place
Mr. Turtle kept on walking
Slow and steady wins the race

Activity Instructions:

Print and hang the animal pictures on the wall in your classroom space. Before beginning the activity, review the animals and their colors. As you sing the song, the children go and touch the animal picture that is hanging on the wall.

I am looking for a frog
looking for a green frog
I am looking for a frog
Help me find a green frog

Replace frog with:
Bird: Blue bird,
Duck:Yellow Duck,
Tiger:Orange Tiger,
Flamingo:Pink Flamingo

Activity Instructions:

Pass out Cage Bells to children. Allow them to explore shaking them and tapping them on the ground. Then begin song.

Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are,
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.

When the blazing sun is gone,
When he nothing shines upon,
Then you show your little light
Twinkle, twinkle, all the night
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.

Then the trav’ller in the dark
Thanks you for your tiny spark
He could not see where to go,
If you did not twinkle so
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
Thank you for your tiny spark.

In the dark blue sky you keep
Often through my curtains peep
For you never shut your eyes
Till the sun is in the sky
Twinkle Twinkle little star,
Thank you for your tiny spark.

Activity Instructions:

Tell the children you will be doing a dance to the ABC song this week. Introduce the moves in the chorus, jump, stomp, spin, clap, touch the ground. Then start the song, walk and sing during the ABC verses. Repeat if desired.

ABCDEFG
HIJKLMNOP
QRS TUV
WXY and Z
Now I know my ABCs
Won’t you sing and dance with me

Jumping to my ABCs, jump along with me
Stomping to my ABCs, stompin’ to the beat
Spinning to my ABCs, watch me spin around
Clapping to my ABCs, and then I touch the ground

ABCDEFG
HIJKLMNOP
QRS TUV
WXY and Z
Now I know my ABCs
Won’t you sing and dance with me

Jumping to my ABCs, Jump along with me
Stomping to my ABCs, stompin’ to the beat
Spinning to my ABCs, watch me spin around
Clapping to my ABCs, and then I touch the ground

ABCDEFG
HIJKLMNOP
QRS TUV
WXY and Z
Now I know my ABCs
Thanks for singin’ and dancin’ with me.

Activity Instructions:

Pass out echo microphones. Have children explore speaking into the top of them. Then ask for some of the classes favorite songs and sing them. Have the children echo solfege syllables, Do-Sol ascending and descending one syllable at a time. Teach the song by singing the syllables a little bit at a time and have children echo back. Then sing the song with regular lyrics.

Sol Sol Mi La Sol Mi
Sol Sol Mi La Sol Mi
Sol Mi Sol Mi Mi Sol Sol Do

Ring around the Rosie
a pocket full of posies
ashes, ashes, we all fall down.

Activity Instructions:

Pass out playground balls. Explore tapping the ball, rolling the ball, bouncing on top of the ball, and rolling on top the ball with your belly. Then play recorded song and follow directions.

v.1 Tap your hands on the ball
v.2 Use your hands to roll the ball
v.3 Bounce your bootie on the ball
v.4 Roll your belly on the ball

Activity Instructions:

Pegate is a Puerto Rican Plena dance song by Ricky Martin.  Grab some scarves and dance to the song!
Try to use the same dance moves the same time you do each of the different parts of the song.

Song form:

• Intro
• Verse
• Chorus
• Instrumental
• Verse 2
• Chorus
• Instrumental
• Bridge
• Chorus
• Instrumental
• Drum break/Ending

Activity Instructions:

Dump a variety bucket of instruments out for children to play and try different instruments. Teacher’s choice on background music, make sure that the song lyrics are clean and the topic is child-appropriate. You may want to find out some of your participants favorite popular songs and include them here!

Activity Instructions:

Print out pictures of Keyboard, Tuba, and Piccolo before class. Show the children each picture, and play the matching tone on the keyboard. Then hang the pictures around the room. The children will start in the center of the room. You will play a sound, and they have to go to the matching picture. Try to play in three different octaves (ie C3 tuba, C4 piano, C5 piccolo) so pitch as well as tone quality can help them distinguish between the different sounds.

Activity Instructions:

Talk about the life cycle of the butterfly. Then sing the song, using puppet and transforming it as you go from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. At the end of the song,  give butterfly kisses as desired.

Caterpillar caterpillar grows and eats
grows and eats lots of leaves
caterpillar, caterpillar grows and eats
grows and eats and eats lots of leaves
Caterpillar caterpillar grows and eats
He eats and eats lots of leaves

The caterpillar hides in a chrysalis
hides inside just like this
The caterpillar hides in a chrysalis
hides inside just like this
The caterpillar hides in a chrysalis
and undergoes metaphorphasis
 
Then out pops a beautiful butterfly
butterfly, butterfly
Then out pops a beautiful butterfly
butterfly, butterfly
Then out pops a beautiful butterfly
who flies and flies in the sky

Activity Instructions:

Start rhythm on keyboard. Then sing song, putting each child’s name in the song. Adjust the ending based on the number of children you have – feel free to repeat or not, and add goodbyes to mommies, daddies, instruments, etc, if needed to finish the musical phrasing, depending upon the size of your class.

Goodbye, Cya later, adios my friends
Our time in Rockin’ Rhythms class has come to an end
au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bon voyage, chiao
Until we meet again my friends, I’ll say goodbye for now

|: Goodbye [Name goes here]
    Goodbye [Name here]
    Goodbye [Name goes here]
    Goodbye [Name here]
    Goodbye [Name goes here]
    Goodbye [Name here]
    We’ll rock again next time :|

Activity Instructions:

Play in background before class as students and parents enter. Allow children to play with an instrument not used in the lesson plan.

Activity Instructions:

Call children to circle. Start rhythm on Keyboard, and use each child’s name in the song.

I’m gonna rock rock rock with with my big kids
Rock, rock rock with my big kids
Rock, rock rock with my big kids
in Rockin’ Rhythms music class

Let’s all rock with [Name Here]
Let’s all rock with [Name Here or “together”]
Let’s all rock with [Name Here or “and have fun”]
in Rockin’ Rhythms music class

Activity Instructions:

Pass out the castanets – one to each student. Allow them to explore squeezing the castanets shut with one hand, the other hand, both hands, etc. Then introduce song.

Chomp Chomp Chomp goes the cas-ta-net
when my fin-gers squeeze it shut
Chomp Chomp Chomp goes the cas-ta-net
like a mouth try-ing to talk
Chomp chomp chomp, and click click click
o-pen shut it, just like this
Chomp chomp chomp goes my cas-ta-net
Chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp

Activity Instructions:

Tell the children you will be doing a dance to the ABC song this week. Introduce the moves in the chorus, jump, stomp, spin, clap, touch the ground. Then start the song, walk and sing during the ABC verses. Repeat if desired.

ABCDEFG
HIJKLMNOP
QRS TUV
WXY and Z
Now I know my ABCs
Won’t you sing and dance with me

Jumping to my ABCs, jump along with me
Stomping to my ABCs, stompin’ to the beat
Spinning to my ABCs, watch me spin around
Clapping to my ABCs, and then I touch the ground

ABCDEFG
HIJKLMNOP
QRS TUV
WXY and Z
Now I know my ABCs
Won’t you sing and dance with me

Jumping to my ABCs, Jump along with me
Stomping to my ABCs, stompin’ to the beat
Spinning to my ABCs, watch me spin around
Clapping to my ABCs, and then I touch the ground

ABCDEFG
HIJKLMNOP
QRS TUV
WXY and Z
Now I know my ABCs
Thanks for singin’ and dancin’ with me.

Activity Instructions:

Show the children a picture of the letter A. Talk about the things in the song story that start with the Letter A: apple, ant, archer, arrow, alphabet, alligator, then sing the silly story several times.

The ARCHER he AIMED with his ARROW
For an APPLE on top of my head
But I shook and I shook ’cause that ARROW was scary
and down fell my APPLE instead

Then ANTS who were carrying french fries
while singing the ALPHABET SONG
They put down their french fries to lift up my APPLE
ANOTHER friend, He came along

Chomp chomp went my friend ALLIGATOR
Well, it looks like no APPLES for me.
The ‘gator he snuck in and ATE my poor APPLE
It’s now in the ‘gators belly.

Activity Instructions:

Pass out echo microphones. Have children explore speaking into the top of them. Then ask for some of the classes favorite songs and sing them. Have the children echo solfege syllables, Do-Sol ascending and descending one syllable at a time. Teach the song by singing the syllables a little bit at a time and have children echo back. Then sing the song with regular lyrics.

Sol Sol Mi La Sol Mi
Sol Sol Mi La Sol Mi
Sol Mi Sol Mi Mi Sol Sol Do

Ring around the Rosie
a pocket full of posies
ashes, ashes, we all fall down.

Activity Instructions:

Pass out Handbells. Allow children to explore hitting them on the ground freely. Then ask them to only hit when you cue them by pointing or calling out the color of the handbell. Have children play song several times through. Switch colors and repeat, if desired, depending upon time.

C-FFFFF
G-AAAAA
A-CCC
CC-AF
G-AA-GG-F

Activity Instructions:

If parents are actively participating, pass out sheets to students, have parents help them fill in the blanks. Otherwise, you the teacher fill in the blanks, asking each student for 2 animals, one action word (like jumping, spinning, flying, running), and one food that they like. Then sing everyone’s songs through several times.

I am writing,
I am writing,
I am writing my own song
ANIMAL1 and ANIMAL2 –
they are ACTION-
eating FOOD and having fun

Activity Instructions:

Pass out playground balls. Explore tapping the ball, rolling the ball, bouncing on top of the ball, and rolling on top the ball with your belly. Then play recorded song and follow directions.

v.1 Tap your hands on the ball
v.2 Use your hands to roll the ball
v.3 Bounce your bootie on the ball
v.4 Roll your belly on the ball

Activity Instructions:

Pegate is a Puerto Rican Plena dance song by Ricky Martin.  Grab some scarves and dance to the song!
Try to use the same dance moves the same time you do each of the different parts of the song.

Song form:

• Intro
• Verse
• Chorus
• Instrumental
• Verse 2
• Chorus
• Instrumental
• Bridge
• Chorus
• Instrumental
• Drum break/Ending

Activity Instructions:

Dump a variety bucket of instruments out for children to play and try different instruments. Teacher’s choice on background music, make sure that the song lyrics are clean and the topic is child-appropriate. You may want to find out some of your participants favorite popular songs and include them here!

Activity Instructions:

Print out pictures of Keyboard, Tuba, and Piccolo before class. Show the children each picture, and play the matching tone on the keyboard. Then hang the pictures around the room. The children will start in the center of the room. You will play a sound, and they have to go to the matching picture. Try to play in three different octaves (ie C3 tuba, C4 piano, C5 piccolo) so pitch as well as tone quality can help them distinguish between the different sounds.

Activity Instructions:

Talk about the life cycle of the butterfly. Then sing the song, using puppet and transforming it as you go from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. At the end of the song,  give butterfly kisses as desired.

Caterpillar caterpillar grows and eats
grows and eats lots of leaves
caterpillar, caterpillar grows and eats
grows and eats and eats lots of leaves
Caterpillar caterpillar grows and eats
He eats and eats lots of leaves

The caterpillar hides in a chrysalis
hides inside just like this
The caterpillar hides in a chrysalis
hides inside just like this
The caterpillar hides in a chrysalis
and undergoes metaphorphasis
 
Then out pops a beautiful butterfly
butterfly, butterfly
Then out pops a beautiful butterfly
butterfly, butterfly
Then out pops a beautiful butterfly
who flies and flies in the sky

Activity Instructions:

Start rhythm on keyboard. Then sing song, putting each child’s name in the song. Adjust the ending based on the number of children you have – feel free to repeat or not, and add goodbyes to mommies, daddies, instruments, etc, if needed to finish the musical phrasing, depending upon the size of your class.

Goodbye, Cya later, adios my friends
Our time in Rockin’ Rhythms class has come to an end
au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bon voyage, chiao
Until we meet again my friends, I’ll say goodbye for now

|: Goodbye [Name goes here]
    Goodbye [Name here]
    Goodbye [Name goes here]
    Goodbye [Name here]
    Goodbye [Name goes here]
    Goodbye [Name here]
    We’ll rock again next time :|

Activity Instructions:

Play in background before class as students and parents enter. Allow children to play with an instrument not used in the lesson plan.

Activity Instructions:

Call children to circle. Start rhythm on Keyboard, and use each child’s name in the song.

I’m gonna rock rock rock with with my families
Rock, rock rock with my families
Rock, rock rock with my families
in Rockin’ Rhythms music class

Let’s all rock with [Name Here]
Let’s all rock with [Name Here or “together”]
Let’s all rock with [Name Here or “and have fun”]
in Rockin’ Rhythms music class

Activity Instructions:

Pass out the castanets – one to each student. Allow them to explore squeezing the castanets shut with one hand, the other hand, both hands, etc. Then introduce song.

Chomp Chomp Chomp goes the cas-ta-net
when my fin-gers squeeze it shut
Chomp Chomp Chomp goes the cas-ta-net
like a mouth try-ing to talk
Chomp chomp chomp, and click click click
o-pen shut it, just like this
Chomp chomp chomp goes my cas-ta-net
Chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp

Activity Instructions:

Pass out scarves, explore, playing peek-a-boo. Then begin singing song as you play. Sing several times.
In vocal jazz, scat singing is vocal improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all.

Zit-dit-dit
Boop bop, be do be do
Zit dit dit
Boop bop be doo – Boo

Activity Instructions:

Print and hang the animal pictures on the wall in your classroom space. Before beginning the activity, review the animals and their colors. As you sing the song, the children go and touch the animal picture that is hanging on the wall.

I am looking for a frog
looking for a green frog
I am looking for a frog
Help me find a green frog

Replace frog with:
Bird: Blue bird,
Duck:Yellow Duck,
Tiger:Orange Tiger,
Flamingo:Pink Flamingo

Activity Instructions:

Tell the children you will be doing a dance to the ABC song this week. Introduce the moves in the chorus, jump, stomp, spin, clap, touch the ground. Then start the song, walk and sing during the ABC verses. Repeat if desired.

ABCDEFG
HIJKLMNOP
QRS TUV
WXY and Z
Now I know my ABCs
Won’t you sing and dance with me

Jumping to my ABCs, jump along with me
Stomping to my ABCs, stompin’ to the beat
Spinning to my ABCs, watch me spin around
Clapping to my ABCs, and then I touch the ground

ABCDEFG
HIJKLMNOP
QRS TUV
WXY and Z
Now I know my ABCs
Won’t you sing and dance with me

Jumping to my ABCs, Jump along with me
Stomping to my ABCs, stompin’ to the beat
Spinning to my ABCs, watch me spin around
Clapping to my ABCs, and then I touch the ground

ABCDEFG
HIJKLMNOP
QRS TUV
WXY and Z
Now I know my ABCs
Thanks for singin’ and dancin’ with me.

Activity Instructions:

Pass out Handbells. Allow children to explore hitting them on the ground freely. Then ask them to only hit when you cue them by pointing or calling out the color of the handbell. Have children play song several times through. Switch colors and repeat, if desired, depending upon time.

C-FFFFF
G-AAAAA
A-CCC
CC-AF
G-AA-GG-F

Activity Instructions:

Pass out echo microphones. Have children explore speaking into the top of them. Then ask for some of the classes favorite songs and sing them. Have the children echo solfege syllables, Do-Sol ascending and descending one syllable at a time. Teach the song by singing the syllables a little bit at a time and have children echo back. Then sing the song with regular lyrics.

Sol Sol Mi La Sol Mi
Sol Sol Mi La Sol Mi
Sol Mi Sol Mi Mi Sol Sol Do

Ring around the Rosie
a pocket full of posies
ashes, ashes, we all fall down.

Activity Instructions:

Pass out playground balls. Explore tapping the ball, rolling the ball, bouncing on top of the ball, and rolling on top the ball with your belly. Then play recorded song and follow directions.

v.1 Tap your hands on the ball
v.2 Use your hands to roll the ball
v.3 Bounce your bootie on the ball
v.4 Roll your belly on the ball

Activity Instructions:

Pegate is a Puerto Rican Plena dance song by Ricky Martin.  Grab some scarves and dance to the song!
Try to use the same dance moves the same time you do each of the different parts of the song.

Song form:

• Intro
• Verse
• Chorus
• Instrumental
• Verse 2
• Chorus
• Instrumental
• Bridge
• Chorus
• Instrumental
• Drum break/Ending

Activity Instructions:

Dump a variety bucket of instruments out for children to play and try different instruments. Teacher’s choice on background music, make sure that the song lyrics are clean and the topic is child-appropriate. You may want to find out some of your participants favorite popular songs and include them here!

Activity Instructions:

If parents are actively participating, pass out sheets to students, have parents help them fill in the blanks. Otherwise, you the teacher fill in the blanks, asking each student for 2 animals, one action word (like jumping, spinning, flying, running), and one food that they like. Then sing everyone’s songs through several times.

I am writing,
I am writing,
I am writing my own song
ANIMAL1 and ANIMAL2 –
they are ACTION-
eating FOOD and having fun

Activity Instructions:

Print out pictures of Keyboard, Tuba, and Piccolo before class. Show the children each picture, and play the matching tone on the keyboard. Then hang the pictures around the room. The children will start in the center of the room. You will play a sound, and they have to go to the matching picture. Try to play in three different octaves (ie C3 tuba, C4 piano, C5 piccolo) so pitch as well as tone quality can help them distinguish between the different sounds.

Activity Instructions:

Talk about the life cycle of the butterfly. Then sing the song, using puppet and transforming it as you go from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. At the end of the song,  give butterfly kisses as desired.

Caterpillar caterpillar grows and eats
grows and eats lots of leaves
caterpillar, caterpillar grows and eats
grows and eats and eats lots of leaves
Caterpillar caterpillar grows and eats
He eats and eats lots of leaves

The caterpillar hides in a chrysalis
hides inside just like this
The caterpillar hides in a chrysalis
hides inside just like this
The caterpillar hides in a chrysalis
and undergoes metaphorphasis
 
Then out pops a beautiful butterfly
butterfly, butterfly
Then out pops a beautiful butterfly
butterfly, butterfly
Then out pops a beautiful butterfly
who flies and flies in the sky

Activity Instructions:

Start rhythm on keyboard. Then sing song, putting each child’s name in the song. Adjust the ending based on the number of children you have – feel free to repeat or not, and add goodbyes to mommies, daddies, instruments, etc, if needed to finish the musical phrasing, depending upon the size of your class.

Goodbye, Cya later, adios my friends
Our time in Rockin’ Rhythms class has come to an end
au revoir, auf wiedersehen, bon voyage, chiao
Until we meet again my friends, I’ll say goodbye for now

|: Goodbye [Name goes here]
    Goodbye [Name here]
    Goodbye [Name goes here]
    Goodbye [Name here]
    Goodbye [Name goes here]
    Goodbye [Name here]
    We’ll rock again next time :|