Activity Instructions:

Play music while children enter the room. Allow them to play with an instrument you are not using later in the plan while 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:

Explore shaking, tapping, hiding the bell. Then sing song while performing the activities.

See the bell, see the bell, hiding in the cage so well
See the bell, see the bell, this is my cage bell

Shake the bell, shake the bell, hiding in the cage so well
Shake the bell, shake the bell, this is my cage bell

Tap the bell, tap the bell, hiding in the cage so well
Tap the bell, tap the bell, this is my cage bell

See the bell, see the bell, hiding in the cage so well
Shake the bell, shake the bell, shake then hide it well

Activity Instructions:

There is an American Holiday called Thanksgiving coming up later in the month. We are going to learn a little song with some history about the holiday.

VERSE 1
The pligrims sailed the sea in 1620,
6 sails unfurled, and powered by the wind
The Mayflower, she hit a storm
The storm it changed the ships due course
The ended far up north, not in virginnie

VERSE 2
The pilgrims sailed the sea for 65 days
They landed in November, it was cold
The Wampanoag, they came along
they helped the folks at Plymouth Rock
They showed them how to hunt, and fish, and grow crops

CHORUS
The first Thanksgiving feast
was in 1621
to celebrate the first successful harvest
The coat-men and the Wampanoag
ate duck and deer, and squash and corn
at a weeklong feast, with games and tests of skill

Activity Instructions:

Print out the shapes and hang on the wall before class. Review the shapes, then sing the song, and have children run to the item that you are singing about.

I am looking for a [SHAPE], looking for a [SHAPE]
I am looking for a [SHAPE], looking for a [SHAPE]

Rhombus, Trapezoid, Star, Heart 

Activity Instructions:

Explore different things you can do with egg shaker. Then introduce the song.

I am shaking my egg shaker then I stop
I am shaking my egg shaker then I stop
I am shaking my egg shaker
I am shaking my egg shaker
I am shaking my egg shaker then I stop

v2 I am passing it back and forth
v3 I am passing to a friend
v4 I am shaking my egg shaker then it hides

Activity Instructions:

Turn on the music and follow the directions with the song to be the leaves.

[walk around in a circle]
The leaves are changing color color color 
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground
The leaves are changing color color color
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground
[spin in a circle]
V1 The leaves are spinning through the air, through the air, through the air
      The leaves are spinning through the air, through the air, through the air
[walk around in a circle]
The leaves are changing color color color
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground

V2 The leaves are jumping in the wind [jump]
V3 The leaves they run across the ground [run]
V4 The leaves are rolling on the ground [roll on ground]

Activity Instructions:

Pass out microphones, explore speaking into them. Then ask children for some of their favorite songs, and sing them together.
Introduce Solfege Syllables. Sing – Do – Sol – Do. Then introduce song. Sing a phrase at a time while parents/children echo.
The sing song with words.

Mi Re Do
Mi Re Do
Do do do do 
Re re re re
Mi re do
Mi re do

Hot cross buns
Hot cross buns
One a-penny two-a-penny
Hot cross buns
Hot cross buns

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:

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:

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:

Use dinosaur puppet. Start with egg covered with a few scarves. Use track for this one. Repeat if desired.

|: Dinosaur, Dinosaur, Dinosaur Egg
In a nest in the ground, covered with plants
Hangin’ out with up to 21 eggs!
Dinosaur, Dinosaur Egg

Out popped the dinosaur, out of his egg
He’s a little tiny baby, but he grew up fast
The “Terrible Lizard”gained 30 pounds a day
Dinosaur Dinosaur Big :|

Dinosaur Dinosaur Big x3

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 while children enter the room. Allow them to play with an instrument you are not using later in the plan while 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:

Explore shaking, tapping, hiding the bell. Then sing song while performing the activities.

See the bell, see the bell, hiding in the cage so well
See the bell, see the bell, this is my cage bell

Shake the bell, shake the bell, hiding in the cage so well
Shake the bell, shake the bell, this is my cage bell

Tap the bell, tap the bell, hiding in the cage so well
Tap the bell, tap the bell, this is my cage bell

See the bell, see the bell, hiding in the cage so well
Shake the bell, shake the bell, shake then hide it well

Activity Instructions:

Turn on the music and follow the directions with the song to be the leaves.

[walk around in a circle]
The leaves are changing color color color 
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground
The leaves are changing color color color
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground
[spin in a circle]
V1 The leaves are spinning through the air, through the air, through the air
      The leaves are spinning through the air, through the air, through the air
[walk around in a circle]
The leaves are changing color color color
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground

V2 The leaves are jumping in the wind [jump]
V3 The leaves they run across the ground [run]
V4 The leaves are rolling on the ground [roll on ground]

Activity Instructions:

Show the children a picture of the letter B and talk about the sound it makes. Then ask the children to identify things that start with the Letter B, the ones in the song are: baby, ball, bounce, bed, birthday balloon. Sing the silly story several times.

The BABY loves the BALL, loves the BALL
The BABY loves the BALL, loves the BALL
The BABY loves the BALL, as it BOUNCES down the hall
The BABY loves the BALL, loves the BALL

The BABY loved to BOUNCE on the BED
The BABY loved to BOUNCE on the BED
The BABY loved the BED, till he BOUNCED upon his head (oh no!)
The BABY loved to BOUNCE on the BED

The BABY loves his BIRTHDAY BALLOON
The BABY loves his BIRTHDAY BALLOON
The BABY loves his BIRTHDAY , he loves his BALLOON
The BABY loves his BIRTHDAY BALLOON

Activity Instructions:

Pass out microphones, explore speaking into them. Then ask children for some of their favorite songs, and sing them together.
Introduce Solfege Syllables. Sing – Do – Sol – Do. Then introduce song. Sing a phrase at a time while parents/children echo.
The sing song with words.

Mi Re Do
Mi Re Do
Do do do do 
Re re re re
Mi re do
Mi re do

Hot cross buns
Hot cross buns
One a-penny two-a-penny
Hot cross buns
Hot cross buns

Activity Instructions:

Pass out handbells. Allow children to explore ringing them. Then call out colors and have children practice ringing bells when their color is called. Then call out colors and help children play the song.

Red Green Green
Turquoise Blue Green Green
Yellow Orange Turquoise Turquoise,
Green yellow red red

Red Green Green
Turquoise Blue Green Green
Green Turqoise Turquoise
Green Yellow Green

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:

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:

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:

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:

Use dinosaur puppet. Start with egg covered with a few scarves. Use track for this one. Repeat if desired.

|: Dinosaur, Dinosaur, Dinosaur Egg
In a nest in the ground, covered with plants
Hangin’ out with up to 21 eggs!
Dinosaur, Dinosaur Egg

Out popped the dinosaur, out of his egg
He’s a little tiny baby, but he grew up fast
The “Terrible Lizard”gained 30 pounds a day
Dinosaur Dinosaur Big :|

Dinosaur Dinosaur Big x3

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 while children enter the room. Allow them to play with an instrument you are not using later in the plan while 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:

Explore shaking, tapping, hiding the bell. Then sing song while performing the activities.

See the bell, see the bell, hiding in the cage so well
See the bell, see the bell, this is my cage bell

Shake the bell, shake the bell, hiding in the cage so well
Shake the bell, shake the bell, this is my cage bell

Tap the bell, tap the bell, hiding in the cage so well
Tap the bell, tap the bell, this is my cage bell

See the bell, see the bell, hiding in the cage so well
Shake the bell, shake the bell, shake then hide it well

Activity Instructions:

Use hands instead of scarves. Introduce the song, sing several times through.

I hide behind my hands
I hide behind my hands
[v1 I peek left and peek right
 v2 I peek high and peek low
v3 I open shut and open shut]
I hide behind my hands, Boo!

Activity Instructions:

Print out the shapes and hang on the wall before class. Review the shapes, then sing the song, and have children run to the item that you are singing about.

I am looking for a [SHAPE], looking for a [SHAPE]
I am looking for a [SHAPE], looking for a [SHAPE]

Rhombus, Trapezoid, Star, Heart 

Activity Instructions:

Turn on the music and follow the directions with the song to be the leaves.

[walk around in a circle]
The leaves are changing color color color 
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground
The leaves are changing color color color
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground
[spin in a circle]
V1 The leaves are spinning through the air, through the air, through the air
      The leaves are spinning through the air, through the air, through the air
[walk around in a circle]
The leaves are changing color color color
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground

V2 The leaves are jumping in the wind [jump]
V3 The leaves they run across the ground [run]
V4 The leaves are rolling on the ground [roll on ground]

Activity Instructions:

Pass out handbells. Allow children to explore ringing them. Then call out colors and have children practice ringing bells when their color is called. Then call out colors and help children play the song.

Red Green Green
Turquoise Blue Green Green
Yellow Orange Turquoise Turquoise,
Green yellow red red

Red Green Green
Turquoise Blue Green Green
Green Turqoise Turquoise
Green Yellow Green

Activity Instructions:

Pass out microphones, explore speaking into them. Then ask children for some of their favorite songs, and sing them together.
Introduce Solfege Syllables. Sing – Do – Sol – Do. Then introduce song. Sing a phrase at a time while parents/children echo.
The sing song with words.

Mi Re Do
Mi Re Do
Do do do do 
Re re re re
Mi re do
Mi re do

Hot cross buns
Hot cross buns
One a-penny two-a-penny
Hot cross buns
Hot cross buns

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:

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:

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:

Use dinosaur puppet. Start with egg covered with a few scarves. Use track for this one. Repeat if desired.

|: Dinosaur, Dinosaur, Dinosaur Egg
In a nest in the ground, covered with plants
Hangin’ out with up to 21 eggs!
Dinosaur, Dinosaur Egg

Out popped the dinosaur, out of his egg
He’s a little tiny baby, but he grew up fast
The “Terrible Lizard”gained 30 pounds a day
Dinosaur Dinosaur Big :|

Dinosaur Dinosaur Big x3

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 :|