Activity Instructions:

Play music as children are entering at the start 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:

Pass out castanets. Allow children to explore clicking with one hand, the other hand, and both hands along with the rhythm of the words.

Click click click my castanet
Click click click my castanet
Click click click my castanet
Click my castanet

Chomp chomp chomp my castanet
Chomp chomp chomp my castanet
Chomp chomp chomp my castanet
Chomp my castanet

Talking with my castanet x4

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Activity Instructions:

Bounce during verse. Follow directions during chorus, roll backwards for upside down.

C’mon and bounce along with me
C’mon and bounce along with me

We’re going up and down
and up and down
and bumping
bumping all around

We’ll go up and down
and up and down
rock side to side
and fall upside down.

C’mon and bounce along with me
C’mon and bounce along with me

We’re going up and down
and up and down
and bumping
bumping all around

We’ll go up and down
and up and down
rock side to side
and fall upside down.

C’mon and bounce along with me
C’mon and bounce along with me

We’re going up and down
and up and down
and bumping
bumping all around

We’ll go up and down
and up and down
rock side to side
and fall upside down.

Activity Instructions:

Review the shapes with children. Then have them run to the items on the wall as you sing about them.

(Hot Cross Buns)
Find the bus, Find the bus
Where’s it hanging, find it for me
Find the bus, Find the bus

Bus, Train, Plane, Car, Motorcycle

Activity Instructions:

Pass out instruments to children. Allow them time to explore hitting the drum with their hands, fingertips, and mallets. Tap the drum on the word “tap,” then keep the beat in the final 2 measures. Repeat several times.

Tap, tap, tap (x6)
Tapping on my drum

Activity Instructions:

Introduce the chorus moves. Then start the song, and follow the directions in the song.

Walk like an elelphant (x8)

CHORUS
Turn around
Touch the ground
Touch your toes
Touch your nose

Walk like a monkey (x8)

CHORUS

Walk like a bear (x8)

CHORUS

Run like a lion (x8)

Fly through the air like you don’t care

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

The itsy bitsy spider
Went up the water spout
Down came the rain and
Washed the spider out
Out came the sun and
dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider
Went up the spout again

Activity Instructions:

Pass out playground balls. Explore tapping the ball, bouncing the ball, rolling the ball, and bouncing on top of the ball. Then start song and follow directions in song.

|: I’m tapping my ball :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
|: I’m bouncing my ball  :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
|: I’m rolling my ball  :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
|: I bounce on my ball  :| now it’s time for this song to end

Activity Instructions:

Ajmal Gharam is a Syrian song by Zein Al-Jundi from the Putumayo Arabic CD.  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.

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:

Shake a small parachute to the tempo of your singing.

Activity Instructions:

Use fish puppet to sing song.

Izzie Ichthyologist studies the fish in the school
the fish in the school, the fish in the school
Izzie Ichthyologist studies the fish in the school
The fish, fish in the school

The fish has gills instead of lungs
to filter oxygen from the water
The fish has fins to help him swim
they live their lives under the water

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.

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 instruments to children. Allow them time to explore hitting the drum with their hands, fingertips, and mallets. Tap the drum on the word “tap,” then keep the beat in the final 2 measures. Repeat several times.

Tap, tap, tap (x6)
Tapping on my drum

Activity Instructions:

Introduce the chorus moves. Then start the song, and follow the directions in the song.

Walk like an elelphant (x8)

CHORUS
Turn around
Touch the ground
Touch your toes
Touch your nose

Walk like a monkey (x8)

CHORUS

Walk like a bear (x8)

CHORUS

Run like a lion (x8)

Fly through the air like you don’t care

Activity Instructions:

Talk to children about letter O words in the song, have them point out the letter O on the alphabet chart. The sing song, have children use their hands to tap the beat.

Olive the Otter climbed Onto the Oak Tree
to look for the Ocean blue
Olive the Otter climbed Off Of me
and she climbed Onto you.

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

The itsy bitsy spider
Went up the water spout
Down came the rain and
Washed the spider out
Out came the sun and
dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider
Went up the spout again

Activity Instructions:

Have children make a line. Pass out boomwhackers for children in pitches from C-G. Allow children to explore hitting them on the floor. Teacher asks “who has red? who has orange? etc. and make sure each child knows what color they have” Ask children to hit the boomwhacker on the ground when you say the name of the color they have. As they hit the boomwhacker on the ground, you also hit the same note/color on the xylophone. Then introduce song, saying color names and hitting xylophone note as children hit boomwhackers on the floor.

Activity Instructions:

Before class, print out color composing sheets, and pull crayons that match whatever instrument you are going to play the student compositions on.
(Boomwhackers, handbells, or xylophone)

Have students color the squares, and then play their compositions.

Activity Instructions:

Pass out playground balls. Explore tapping the ball, bouncing the ball, rolling the ball, and bouncing on top of the ball. Then start song and follow directions in song.

|: I’m tapping my ball :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
|: I’m bouncing my ball  :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
|: I’m rolling my ball  :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
|: I bounce on my ball  :| now it’s time for this song to end

Activity Instructions:

Ajmal Gharam is a Syrian song by Zein Al-Jundi from the Putumayo Arabic CD.  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.

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:

Shake a small parachute to the tempo of your singing.

Activity Instructions:

Use fish puppet to sing song.

Izzie Ichthyologist studies the fish in the school
the fish in the school, the fish in the school
Izzie Ichthyologist studies the fish in the school
The fish, fish in the school

The fish has gills instead of lungs
to filter oxygen from the water
The fish has fins to help him swim
they live their lives under the water

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.

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 instruments to children. Allow them time to explore hitting the drum with their hands, fingertips, and mallets. Tap the drum on the word “tap,” then keep the beat in the final 2 measures. Repeat several times.

Tap, tap, tap (x6)
Tapping on my drum

Activity Instructions:

Pass out scarves, play peek-a-boo. Sing song, looking around for baby like you can’t find them, until you notice them at “There he is!”, pull scarf off at final hello if desired.

My ba-by is hi-ding, oh where could he be,
My ba-by is hi-ding, he’s hi-ding from me
My ba-by is hi-ding, oh where did he go
My ba-by is hi-ding, [SPOKEN: There he is!] hel-lo!

My ba-by is hi-ding, oh where could she be,
My ba-by is hi-ding, she’s hi-ding from me
My ba-by is hi-ding, oh where did she go
My ba-by is hi-ding, [SPOKEN: There he is!] hel-lo!

Activity Instructions:

Review the shapes with children. Then have them run to the items on the wall as you sing about them.

(Hot Cross Buns)
Find the bus, Find the bus
Where’s it hanging, find it for me
Find the bus, Find the bus

Bus, Train, Plane, Car, Motorcycle

Activity Instructions:

Introduce the chorus moves. Then start the song, and follow the directions in the song.

Walk like an elelphant (x8)

CHORUS
Turn around
Touch the ground
Touch your toes
Touch your nose

Walk like a monkey (x8)

CHORUS

Walk like a bear (x8)

CHORUS

Run like a lion (x8)

Fly through the air like you don’t care

Activity Instructions:

Have children make a line. Pass out boomwhackers for children in pitches from C-G. Allow children to explore hitting them on the floor. Teacher asks “who has red? who has orange? etc. and make sure each child knows what color they have” Ask children to hit the boomwhacker on the ground when you say the name of the color they have. As they hit the boomwhacker on the ground, you also hit the same note/color on the xylophone. Then introduce song, saying color names and hitting xylophone note as children hit boomwhackers on the floor.

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

The itsy bitsy spider
Went up the water spout
Down came the rain and
Washed the spider out
Out came the sun and
dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider
Went up the spout again

Activity Instructions:

Pass out playground balls. Explore tapping the ball, bouncing the ball, rolling the ball, and bouncing on top of the ball. Then start song and follow directions in song.

|: I’m tapping my ball :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
|: I’m bouncing my ball  :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
|: I’m rolling my ball  :| now I’ll pass it to a friend
|: I bounce on my ball  :| now it’s time for this song to end

Activity Instructions:

Ajmal Gharam is a Syrian song by Zein Al-Jundi from the Putumayo Arabic CD.  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.

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:

Before class, print out color composing sheets, and pull crayons that match whatever instrument you are going to play the student compositions on.
(Boomwhackers, handbells, or xylophone)

Have students color the squares, and then play their compositions.

Activity Instructions:

Shake a small parachute to the tempo of your singing.

Activity Instructions:

Use fish puppet to sing song.

Izzie Ichthyologist studies the fish in the school
the fish in the school, the fish in the school
Izzie Ichthyologist studies the fish in the school
The fish, fish in the school

The fish has gills instead of lungs
to filter oxygen from the water
The fish has fins to help him swim
they live their lives under the water

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 :|