Activity Instructions:

Play music as children are entering at the start of class. Allow them to explore with an instrument not used in the rest of class.

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, and rolling the rainstick. Then sing song, following directions in the song.

See my rainstick standing tall
Turn it over
Watch the balls
Falling down from high to low
Turn it over there they go
See my rainstick standing tall
Turn it over
Watch the balls

Hold my rainstick side to side
Shake it shake it,
make it hide
Rainstick rainstick where are you?
Come back let me play with you!
Hold my rainstick side to side
Shake it shake it,
make it hide

Activity Instructions:

Have children sit in parents lap. Start track, and sing along and bounce the children. Repeat if desired.

Driving my car in a race today (bounce fast) 
Yeah I’m driving fast, gonna zoom away
I’m in first, no, You can’t catch me
Wave goodbye, See ya later  – Beep Beep (wave, pretend beep)
I’m a racecar driver (pretend to steer car)
I’m a racecar driver
I’m a racecar driver
Watch me zoom across the finish line

Driving my car in a race today (bounce fast) 
Yeah I’m driving fast, gonna zoom away
I’m in first, no, You can’t catch me
Wave goodbye, See ya later  – Beep Beep (wave, pretend beep)
I’m a racecar driver (pretend to steer car)
I’m a racecar driver
I’m a racecar driver
Watch me zoom across the finish line.

Activity Instructions:

Print out and post fruit on the wall before class. Have children identify the five fruits and their colors. Then sing song, and have children run and touch the picture on the wall when you sing about the fruit.

Find me find me a red strawberry
Find me find me a red strawberry
Find me find me a red strawberry
Find me a red strawberry

Fruit Colors – Red Strawberry, Orange Orange, Yellow Bananna, Green Grapes, Blue Blueberries

Activity Instructions:

Pass out cage bells. Allow children to explore shaking them high and low, tapping them on the ground, and making them hide. Then sing song several times.

I am tapping the bell on the ground
tapping it on the ground
(repeat)

I am shaking the bell in my hand
shaking it way up high
(repeat)

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Activity Instructions:

Introduce song to children. Have them practice bowing and spinning. Then play song waltzing. Repeat if desired.

Instrumental Verse (walk/waltz 123, 123)

SECTION A
123 123 Come now and waltz with me (continue)
Watch me as I take a bow (stop and take a bow)
123 123 Come now and waltz with me (walk/waltz 123, 123)
Watch me as I spin around (spin around)

SECTION B
123 123 Spinning so gracefully (freestyle)
Waltzing now in Section B
123 123 Spinning so gracefully
Come now and waltz with me

Instrumental Verse (walk/waltz 123, 123)

SECTION A
123 123 Come now and waltz with me (continue)
Watch me as I take a bow (stop and take a bow)
123 123 Come now and waltz with me (walk/waltz 123, 123)
Watch me as I spin around (spin around)

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 Do Do Do  Me Sol Sol Me Do  
Do Re Re Re Re  Do Ti Ti La Sol
Do Do Do Do  Me Sol Sol Me Do
Re Re Sol La Ti Do Do

Here we go round the Mulberry Bush
The Mulberry Bush The Mulberry Bush
Here we go round the mulberry bush
So early in the morning

Activity Instructions:

Pass out balls to children. Explore tapping on the ball, and rolling the ball from legs up to head and back down again.
Then start song and follow directions in the lyrics.

123, 456, 789, and 10,
Tap My hands on the ball, Counting up to 10
Roll the ball to my head
Roll it down count again
123, 456, 789 and 10

123, 456, 789, and 10,
Tap My hands on the ball, Counting up to 10
Roll the ball to my nose
Roll it down to my toes
123, 456, 789 and 10

Activity Instructions:

Originated in Puerto Rico, with Latin American and Carribean Influences

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:

Explain to children that in music, the places where we don’t sing or play in the song are called rests.

We are going to play the rest stop game. When the music is playing, they can dance and move.

When the music rests – when there is no sound but silence instead of music – the children need to stop.

Use a free session pattern on the keyboard, or any favorite song, and start and stop the music.

If using the keyboard, feel free to also be silly by adjusting the tempo faster and slower, too.

Activity Instructions:

Use shark puppet if you have one, introduce song. Sing several times.

Gen-tle gi-ant whale shark
swim-ming through the deep
search-ing for his din-ner:
*spoken* “Shark please don’t eat me!”

I may be a gi-ant,  (use a silly shark voice)
big and hea-vy too,
but I on-ly eat plank-ton
I’m not gon-na eat you!

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 children are entering at the start of class. Allow them to explore with an instrument not used in the rest of class.

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 cage bells. Allow children to explore shaking them high and low, tapping them on the ground, and making them hide. Then sing song several times.

I am tapping the bell on the ground
tapping it on the ground
(repeat)

I am shaking the bell in my hand
shaking it way up high
(repeat)

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Activity Instructions:

Introduce song to children. Have them practice bowing and spinning. Then play song waltzing. Repeat if desired.

Instrumental Verse (walk/waltz 123, 123)

SECTION A
123 123 Come now and waltz with me (continue)
Watch me as I take a bow (stop and take a bow)
123 123 Come now and waltz with me (walk/waltz 123, 123)
Watch me as I spin around (spin around)

SECTION B
123 123 Spinning so gracefully (freestyle)
Waltzing now in Section B
123 123 Spinning so gracefully
Come now and waltz with me

Instrumental Verse (walk/waltz 123, 123)

SECTION A
123 123 Come now and waltz with me (continue)
Watch me as I take a bow (stop and take a bow)
123 123 Come now and waltz with me (walk/waltz 123, 123)
Watch me as I spin around (spin around)

Activity Instructions:

Show the children the letter K and talk about the different things in the song that start with the letter K in the song. Then sing the song, and have children tap the beat.

(to the tune of London Bridge)
Kitty and the Kangaroo
Flew a Kite, played Kazoo
Kicked the ball, Kissed the King
Kid and Koala bear played Keys

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 Do Do Do  Me Sol Sol Me Do  
Do Re Re Re Re  Do Ti Ti La Sol
Do Do Do Do  Me Sol Sol Me Do
Re Re Sol La Ti Do Do

Here we go round the Mulberry Bush
The Mulberry Bush The Mulberry Bush
Here we go round the mulberry bush
So early in the morning

Activity Instructions:

Pass out Handbells. Allow children to explore shaking them. Then ask them to only shake when you cue them by pointing or calling out the color of the handbell. Practice muting on the ground when they are not playing. Have children play song several times through. Switch colors and repeat, if desired, depending upon time.

CCCC D EEE DCDEC
EEFGG FEFGE
CCD EE DCDEC
CCCC D EEE DCDEC

Activity Instructions:

Have children point to rhythms on a sheet, and sing what they point to.

Ta = quarter note
Ti Ti = eight notes
Tika-Tika-Tika-Tika = Sixteenth
Too = Half Note
Syncopa = Eighth Quarter Eighth

Activity Instructions:

Pass out balls to children. Explore tapping on the ball, and rolling the ball from legs up to head and back down again.
Then start song and follow directions in the lyrics.

123, 456, 789, and 10,
Tap My hands on the ball, Counting up to 10
Roll the ball to my head
Roll it down count again
123, 456, 789 and 10

123, 456, 789, and 10,
Tap My hands on the ball, Counting up to 10
Roll the ball to my nose
Roll it down to my toes
123, 456, 789 and 10

Activity Instructions:

Originated in Puerto Rico, with Latin American and Carribean Influences

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:

Explain to children that in music, the places where we don’t sing or play in the song are called rests.

We are going to play the rest stop game. When the music is playing, they can dance and move.

When the music rests – when there is no sound but silence instead of music – the children need to stop.

Use a free session pattern on the keyboard, or any favorite song, and start and stop the music.

If using the keyboard, feel free to also be silly by adjusting the tempo faster and slower, too.

Activity Instructions:

Use shark puppet if you have one, introduce song. Sing several times.

Gen-tle gi-ant whale shark
swim-ming through the deep
search-ing for his din-ner:
*spoken* “Shark please don’t eat me!”

I may be a gi-ant,  (use a silly shark voice)
big and hea-vy too,
but I on-ly eat plank-ton
I’m not gon-na eat you!

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 children are entering at the start of class. Allow them to explore with an instrument not used in the rest of class.

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 cage bells. Allow children to explore shaking them high and low, tapping them on the ground, and making them hide. Then sing song several times.

I am tapping the bell on the ground
tapping it on the ground
(repeat)

I am shaking the bell in my hand
shaking it way up high
(repeat)

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Activity Instructions:

Pass out scarves, explore, playing peek-a-boo. Then sing song.

I am playing peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo
I am playing peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo with you, BOO!

(To the tune of “The Muffin Man”)

Activity Instructions:

Print out and post fruit on the wall before class. Have children identify the five fruits and their colors. Then sing song, and have children run and touch the picture on the wall when you sing about the fruit.

Find me find me a red strawberry
Find me find me a red strawberry
Find me find me a red strawberry
Find me a red strawberry

Fruit Colors – Red Strawberry, Orange Orange, Yellow Bananna, Green Grapes, Blue Blueberries

Activity Instructions:

Introduce song to children. Have them practice bowing and spinning. Then play song waltzing. Repeat if desired.

Instrumental Verse (walk/waltz 123, 123)

SECTION A
123 123 Come now and waltz with me (continue)
Watch me as I take a bow (stop and take a bow)
123 123 Come now and waltz with me (walk/waltz 123, 123)
Watch me as I spin around (spin around)

SECTION B
123 123 Spinning so gracefully (freestyle)
Waltzing now in Section B
123 123 Spinning so gracefully
Come now and waltz with me

Instrumental Verse (walk/waltz 123, 123)

SECTION A
123 123 Come now and waltz with me (continue)
Watch me as I take a bow (stop and take a bow)
123 123 Come now and waltz with me (walk/waltz 123, 123)
Watch me as I spin around (spin around)

Activity Instructions:

Pass out Handbells. Allow children to explore shaking them. Then ask them to only shake when you cue them by pointing or calling out the color of the handbell. Practice muting on the ground when they are not playing. Have children play song several times through. Switch colors and repeat, if desired, depending upon time.

CCCC D EEE DCDEC
EEFGG FEFGE
CCD EE DCDEC
CCCC D EEE DCDEC

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 Do Do Do  Me Sol Sol Me Do  
Do Re Re Re Re  Do Ti Ti La Sol
Do Do Do Do  Me Sol Sol Me Do
Re Re Sol La Ti Do Do

Here we go round the Mulberry Bush
The Mulberry Bush The Mulberry Bush
Here we go round the mulberry bush
So early in the morning

Activity Instructions:

Pass out balls to children. Explore tapping on the ball, and rolling the ball from legs up to head and back down again.
Then start song and follow directions in the lyrics.

123, 456, 789, and 10,
Tap My hands on the ball, Counting up to 10
Roll the ball to my head
Roll it down count again
123, 456, 789 and 10

123, 456, 789, and 10,
Tap My hands on the ball, Counting up to 10
Roll the ball to my nose
Roll it down to my toes
123, 456, 789 and 10

Activity Instructions:

Originated in Puerto Rico, with Latin American and Carribean Influences

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:

Have children point to rhythms on a sheet, and sing what they point to.

Ta = quarter note
Ti Ti = eight notes
Tika-Tika-Tika-Tika = Sixteenth
Too = Half Note
Syncopa = Eighth Quarter Eighth

Activity Instructions:

Explain to children that in music, the places where we don’t sing or play in the song are called rests.

We are going to play the rest stop game. When the music is playing, they can dance and move.

When the music rests – when there is no sound but silence instead of music – the children need to stop.

Use a free session pattern on the keyboard, or any favorite song, and start and stop the music.

If using the keyboard, feel free to also be silly by adjusting the tempo faster and slower, too.

Activity Instructions:

Use shark puppet if you have one, introduce song. Sing several times.

Gen-tle gi-ant whale shark
swim-ming through the deep
search-ing for his din-ner:
*spoken* “Shark please don’t eat me!”

I may be a gi-ant,  (use a silly shark voice)
big and hea-vy too,
but I on-ly eat plank-ton
I’m not gon-na eat you!