Activity Instructions:

Play music as parents and students are coming in.

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 on parents laps, and follow directions in the song!

Chug Chug Chug Goes the cho-choo train [bounce children on lap]
Chug Chug Chug down the tracks
Chug Chug Chug goes the choo-choo train
Clickety Clickety Clack

Chug Chug Chug goes the choo-choo train [move legs together up and down]
Chug Chug Chug up and down
Chug Chug Chug goes the choo-choo train
Bumping all the people around [alternate legs quickly]

Toot toot toot goes the engineer [bounce on lap]
Toot toot toot pull the horn [pretend to pull train whistle]
Toot toot toot goes the engineer [bounce on lap]
The train’s comin’ through this morn

Chug Chug Chug Goes the cho-choo train [bounce children on lap]
Chug Chug Chug down the tracks
Chug Chug Chug goes the choo-choo train
Clickety Clickety Clack

Chug Chug Chug goes the choo-choo train [move legs together up and down]
Chug Chug Chug up and down
Chug Chug Chug goes the choo-choo train
Bumping all the people around [alternate legs quickly]

Toot toot toot goes the engineer [bounce on lap]
Toot toot toot pull the horn [pretend to pull train whistle]
Toot toot toot goes the engineer [bounce on lap]
The train’s comin’ round this morn

Yeah
The train’s comin’ round this morn

Activity Instructions:

Dump out a bucket of objects… have children bring you the right color “flowers.”

(Mary had a Little Lamb)

Playing in the flowerpatch
Find me a (purple, red, yellow, green, blue) flower

Activity Instructions:

Explore shaking, tapping together, tapping on floor, shaking high and low. Then introduce song.

I am shaking my maracas, then I stop,
I am shaking my maracas then I stop!
I am shaking my maracas x2
I am shaking my maracas then I stop

Possible Variations:
I am tapping on the ground
I am tapping them together
I am shaking them up high
I am shaking them down low
I am shaking with my right hand
I am shaking with my left had

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 in 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.

Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol
Fa Fa Mi Mi Re Re Do
Sol Sol Fa Fa Me Mi Re
Sol Sol Fa Fa Me Mi Re
Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol
Fa Fa Mi Mi Re Re Do

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

Activity Instructions:

Have children pair up. Practice rolling, bouncing, ball on head, nose, knees, toes.

[INTRO]
Will you roll the spiky ball
Will you roll the spiky ball
Will you roll the spiky ball to a friend
(repeat)

[BREAK, introduce bouncing]

Will you bounce the spiky ball
Will you bounce the spiky ball
Will you bounce the spiky ball with your hands
(repeat)

BRIDGE
Put the ball on your head
Put the ball on your nose
Put the ball on your knees
Put the ball on your toes

Activity Instructions:

Pass out scarves, and have children bounce, dance, etc.

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:

Get out small parachute, have children hold the edge. Raise parachute when the your singing gets louder, and lower when your singing gets softer. You can also bounce back and forth quickly between loud and soft. The movement helps the children hear and distinguish the concept of dynamics/crescendo/descrescendo.

Activity Instructions:

Share some alligator facts from the song with the kids. Then sing song, using puppet chomping his teeth to the beat.
At the end, ask Mr. Alligator if he will be nice? Not eat the kids? Then give alligator kisses if desired.

Mr. Alligator, was swimmin’ in the swamp
Mr. Alligator says hello! Chomp Chomp

Mr. Alligator, he’s a reptile
Look at all those teeth in his great big smile

Mr Alligator he can really grow in size
10-15 feet long, and 1000 pounds!

Mr. Alligator, He was almost extinct?
C’ya later Alligator
Thanks for not eating me!

Mr. Alligator, was swimmin’ in the swamp
Mr. Alligator says hello! Chomp Chomp

Mr. Alligator, he’s a reptile
Look at all those teeth in his great big smile

Mr Alligator he can really grow in size
10-15 feet long, and 1000 pounds!

Mr. Alligator, He was almost extinct?
C’ya later Alligator
Thanks for not eating me!

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 music as parents and students are coming in.

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:

Have children find the letter “M” on an alphabet chart, or show children a picture of the letter M.
Talk about the words that start with the letter M in the song. Then sing the silly letter M song, having children tap to the beat while you sing.

Mommy and the Monkey went to get some Money
to buy Milk from the Masked Man in the Moon
Mommy Made Me Meatballs to go with the Milk
from the Man in the Moon whose cow who says Moo

Activity Instructions:

Pass out microphones to children. Ask for some of their favorite songs, and sing them together. Then sing through solfege syllables, allowing class to echo. Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, Fa, Mi, Re, Do. Then introduce song for the week.

Do Re Mi Do
Do Re Mi  Do
Mi Fa Sol
Mi Fa Sol
Sol La Sol  Fa  Mi  Do
Sol La Sol Fa Mi Do
Do Sol Do
Do Sol Do

Are you sleeping
Are you sleeping
Brother John
Brother John
Morning bells are ringing
Morning bells are ringing
Ding dong ding
Ding dong ding

Frère Jacques,
Frère Jacques,
Dormez-vous?
Dormez-vous?
Sonnez les matines!
Sonnez les matines!
Ding, dong, ding.
Ding, dong, ding.

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:

We are going to work on writing song lyrics for our composition activity again. Distribute Mad lib sheet and crayons to parent/child pairs. Have them fill in the blanks, then sing each child’s unique song. Make sure you have enough printables ready for this before class!

Thank you for the______  (Food)
Thank you for the ____ (Toy)
Thank you for my _____(Person)
I thank you, I give thanks.

Thank you for the thanksgiving song [CHILD NAME] wrote
Thank you for her/his thanksgiving song
Thank you for the thanksgiving song [CHILD NAME] wrote
Thank you for her/his thanksgiving song

Activity Instructions:

Have children pair up. Practice rolling, bouncing, ball on head, nose, knees, toes.

[INTRO]
Will you roll the spiky ball
Will you roll the spiky ball
Will you roll the spiky ball to a friend
(repeat)

[BREAK, introduce bouncing]

Will you bounce the spiky ball
Will you bounce the spiky ball
Will you bounce the spiky ball with your hands
(repeat)

BRIDGE
Put the ball on your head
Put the ball on your nose
Put the ball on your knees
Put the ball on your toes

Activity Instructions:

Pass out scarves, and have children bounce, dance, etc.

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:

Get out small parachute, have children hold the edge. Raise parachute when the your singing gets louder, and lower when your singing gets softer. You can also bounce back and forth quickly between loud and soft. The movement helps the children hear and distinguish the concept of dynamics/crescendo/descrescendo.

Activity Instructions:

Share some alligator facts from the song with the kids. Then sing song, using puppet chomping his teeth to the beat.
At the end, ask Mr. Alligator if he will be nice? Not eat the kids? Then give alligator kisses if desired.

Mr. Alligator, was swimmin’ in the swamp
Mr. Alligator says hello! Chomp Chomp

Mr. Alligator, he’s a reptile
Look at all those teeth in his great big smile

Mr Alligator he can really grow in size
10-15 feet long, and 1000 pounds!

Mr. Alligator, He was almost extinct?
C’ya later Alligator
Thanks for not eating me!

Mr. Alligator, was swimmin’ in the swamp
Mr. Alligator says hello! Chomp Chomp

Mr. Alligator, he’s a reptile
Look at all those teeth in his great big smile

Mr Alligator he can really grow in size
10-15 feet long, and 1000 pounds!

Mr. Alligator, He was almost extinct?
C’ya later Alligator
Thanks for not eating me!

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 music as parents and students are coming in.

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 pulling away and saying “boo.” Then sing through song, interacting with parents and children.

I am looking
for [a friend, my mom, my dad, mom-mom]
I am looking for [ ]
Look, now, I found them, BOO!

To the tune of London Bridge

Activity Instructions:

Dump out a bucket of objects… have children bring you the right color “flowers.”

(Mary had a Little Lamb)

Playing in the flowerpatch
Find me a (purple, red, yellow, green, blue) flower

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 in 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.

Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol
Fa Fa Mi Mi Re Re Do
Sol Sol Fa Fa Me Mi Re
Sol Sol Fa Fa Me Mi Re
Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol
Fa Fa Mi Mi Re Re Do

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

Activity Instructions:

Have children pair up. Practice rolling, bouncing, ball on head, nose, knees, toes.

[INTRO]
Will you roll the spiky ball
Will you roll the spiky ball
Will you roll the spiky ball to a friend
(repeat)

[BREAK, introduce bouncing]

Will you bounce the spiky ball
Will you bounce the spiky ball
Will you bounce the spiky ball with your hands
(repeat)

BRIDGE
Put the ball on your head
Put the ball on your nose
Put the ball on your knees
Put the ball on your toes

Activity Instructions:

Pass out scarves, and have children bounce, dance, etc.

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:

We are going to work on writing song lyrics for our composition activity again. Distribute Mad lib sheet and crayons to parent/child pairs. Have them fill in the blanks, then sing each child’s unique song. Make sure you have enough printables ready for this before class!

Thank you for the______  (Food)
Thank you for the ____ (Toy)
Thank you for my _____(Person)
I thank you, I give thanks.

Thank you for the thanksgiving song [CHILD NAME] wrote
Thank you for her/his thanksgiving song
Thank you for the thanksgiving song [CHILD NAME] wrote
Thank you for her/his thanksgiving song

Activity Instructions:

Get out small parachute, have children hold the edge. Raise parachute when the your singing gets louder, and lower when your singing gets softer. You can also bounce back and forth quickly between loud and soft. The movement helps the children hear and distinguish the concept of dynamics/crescendo/descrescendo.

Activity Instructions:

Share some alligator facts from the song with the kids. Then sing song, using puppet chomping his teeth to the beat.
At the end, ask Mr. Alligator if he will be nice? Not eat the kids? Then give alligator kisses if desired.

Mr. Alligator, was swimmin’ in the swamp
Mr. Alligator says hello! Chomp Chomp

Mr. Alligator, he’s a reptile
Look at all those teeth in his great big smile

Mr Alligator he can really grow in size
10-15 feet long, and 1000 pounds!

Mr. Alligator, He was almost extinct?
C’ya later Alligator
Thanks for not eating me!

Mr. Alligator, was swimmin’ in the swamp
Mr. Alligator says hello! Chomp Chomp

Mr. Alligator, he’s a reptile
Look at all those teeth in his great big smile

Mr Alligator he can really grow in size
10-15 feet long, and 1000 pounds!

Mr. Alligator, He was almost extinct?
C’ya later Alligator
Thanks for not eating me!

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 :|