Tot Rock

• Coming in Classical: Stravinsky – The Firebird

  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.

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• Tot Rock Hello

  

  CASIO-SA-77:
  Pattern 01, Tempo 5

  
  

  Activity Instructions:

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

  Lyrics:
  

  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

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• Song w/Instrument: Clicking in my fingers

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out castanets. Explore clicking open and shut, then sing song, clicking with the rhythm of the words.

  Lyrics:
  

  Castanet Castanet 115442
  Clicking in my fingers 777221
  Castanet Castanet 115442
  Click it closed with me 77721
  (repeat)

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• Lapride: Fly Like Superman

  Activity Instructions:

  Have children sit in parents laps. Bounce, bump, etc during song. Bouncing to the beat of the music helps children feel the rhythm with their bodies.

  Lyrics:
  

  I’m gonna fly like a bird (Gentle Bounce)
  Fly like a plane
  Fly like superman
  I’m gonna Fly up high in the air
  and fly back to the ground

  Watch me spread my arms out wide
  as Up and Down I fly
  Watch me spread my arms out wide
  as Up and Down I fly
  Watch me spread my arms out wide
  as Up and Down I fly
  Watch me fly, Watch me fly, Watch me fly, Watch me fly.
  (Parents up and down both legs together)

  I’m gonna fly like a bird (Gentle Bounce)
  Fly like a plane
  Fly like superman
  I’m gonna Fly up high in the air
  and fly back to the ground

  Watch me spread my arms out wide
  as side to side I fly

  Watch me spread my arms out wide
  as Side to side I fly

  Watch me spread my arms out wide
  as Side to side I fly
  Watch me fly, Watch me fly, Watch me fly, Watch me fly.

  I’m gonna fly like a bird (Gentle Bounce)
  Fly like a plane
  Fly like superman
  I’m gonna Fly up high in the air
  and fly back to the ground

  Watch me spread my arms out wide
  I’m bouncing through the sky

  Watch me spread my arms out wide
  I’m bouncing through the sky

  Watch me spread my arms out wide
  I’m bouncing through the sky
  Watch me fly, Watch me fly, Watch me fly, Watch me fly
  Watch me fly, Watch me fly, Watch me fly, Watch me fly, Watch me fly.

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• Color or Shape Song w/Instrument: Fruit Colors

  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.

  Lyrics:
  

  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

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• Song w/Instrument: I Shake My Bell

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out bells. Explore shaking, tapping, and making the bell hide. Then sing song with bells.

  Lyrics:
  

  I shake my bell
  I shake my bell
  I use my hand to shake my bell
  Shake it high, shake it low
  Tap the ground, then where’d it go? (hide bell)

  I found it I found it
  I found my bell I found it
  Shake it high, Shake it low
  Tap the ground, and then no more!

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• Body Awareness: Swing Jam

  Activity Instructions:

  Play song, dance and follow motions/movement in lyrics.

  Lyrics:
  

  C’mon my friends and dance with me,
  C’mon my friends and dance with me,
  We’ll dance and play and have some fun,
  sing some songs ’til the day is done
  C’mon my friends and dance with me.

  V1) C’mon and clap (x4)
  V2) C’mon and tap (x4)
  V3) C’mon and stomp (x4)
  V4) C’mon and dance (x4)

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• Solfege Song: Farmer in the Dell

  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.

  Lyrics:
  

  |: Do Do Do Do Do Do
  Re Mi Mi Mi Mi Mi
  Sol Sol Sol Sol Me Do
  Re Mi Mi Re Re Do :|

   

  The Farmer in the Dell,
  The Farmer in the Dell,
  Hi-ho, the derry-o,
  The farmer in the dell!

  The Farmer takes a Wife…
  The Wife takes a Child…
  The Child takes a Cow …
  Cow takes a Pig…
  Pig takes a Dog…
  Dog takes a Cat…
  Cat takes a Mouse…
  Mouse takes the Cheese…
  The Cheese stands alone.

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• Song w/Ball: Ring Around the Ball Song

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Distribute Balls to children. Explore tapping with hands and feet, rolling, and rolling around selves. Then play song and follow directions.

  Lyrics:
  

  I’m tapping on the ball, tapping on the ball
  Tapping tapping, tapping with my hands

  I’m tapping on the ball, tapping on the ball
  Tapping tapping, tapping with my feet

  Rolling to a friend, rolling to a friend
  rolling rolling the ball to a friend

  Roll the ball around me roll the ball around me
  around, and around, and around around around

  I’m passing to a friend, passing to a friend
  Passing, Passing, Passing to a friend

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• World Music Dance: Canada – Le Boogie

  Activity Instructions:

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

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• Musical Exploration

  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!

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• Musical Game: FACE Space Song

  Activity Instructions:

  Have children repeat after you “FACE” the notes for the spaces in the treble clef, from the bottom to the top.

  Then show children each of the notes on the wall. Sing song, indicating which line to run to each time you sing through.

  With Kid Rock, test knowledge on music carpet after playing the game by grabbing an egg shaker and placing it on the spaces, prompt students if they need help by counting up each line using FACE.

  Lyrics:
  

  (The Bear went over the Mountain)
  My face tells me the spaces
  My face tells me the spaces
  My face tells me the spaces
  in the treble clef
  F-A-C-E , F-A-C-E
  My face tells me the spaces in the treble clef
  Show me where’s the “F”

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• Puppet: Hello Hippopotomus

  Activity Instructions:

  Use puppet to sing song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Hello Hippopotamus, How are you today?
  Hello Hippopotamus, Swimming in the lake!
  You stay in the water to beat the heat
  Underwater You  can wait five minutes to breathe
  Hello, Hippopotamus, thanks for coming to play!

  Hello Hippopotamus, How are you today?
  Hello Hippopotamus, Swimming in the lake!
  You looks for grass to eat at night
  You lives with the herd , the hippopotami,
  Hello, Hippopotamus, thanks for coming to play!

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• Goodbye Song

  

  CASIO-SA-77:
  Pattern 12, Tempo 8

  
  

  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.

  Lyrics:
  

  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 :|

Kid Rock

• Coming In Classical: Stravinsky – The Firebird

  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.

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• Kid Rock Hello Song

  

  CASIO-SA-77:
  Pattern 01, Tempo 5

  
  

  Activity Instructions:

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

  Lyrics:
  

  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

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• Song w/Instrument: I Shake My Bell

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out bells. Explore shaking, tapping, and making the bell hide. Then sing song with bells.

  Lyrics:
  

  I shake my bell
  I shake my bell
  I use my hand to shake my bell
  Shake it high, shake it low
  Tap the ground, then where’d it go? (hide bell)

  I found it I found it
  I found my bell I found it
  Shake it high, Shake it low
  Tap the ground, and then no more!

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• Body Awareness: Swing Jam

  Activity Instructions:

  Play song, dance and follow motions/movement in lyrics.

  Lyrics:
  

  C’mon my friends and dance with me,
  C’mon my friends and dance with me,
  We’ll dance and play and have some fun,
  sing some songs ’til the day is done
  C’mon my friends and dance with me.

  V1) C’mon and clap (x4)
  V2) C’mon and tap (x4)
  V3) C’mon and stomp (x4)
  V4) C’mon and dance (x4)

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• Alphabet Song w/Instrument: Letter J – Jump goes the Jellyfish

  Activity Instructions:

  Talk about things that begin with the letter J. Children jump from polyspot to polyspot ringing bells during the song, and freeze when the teacher stops singing.

  Lyrics:
  

  Jump goes the Jellyfish, Jiggling like Jello
  Jump goes the Jellyfish, Jingling his bells
  Jump goes the Jellyfish, Jiggling like Jello
  Jump goes the Jellyfish, Jiggling his bells

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• Solfege Song: Farmer in the Dell

  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.

  Lyrics:
  

  |: Do Do Do Do Do Do
  Re Mi Mi Mi Mi Mi
  Sol Sol Sol Sol Me Do
  Re Mi Mi Re Re Do :|

   

  The Farmer in the Dell,
  The Farmer in the Dell,
  Hi-ho, the derry-o,
  The farmer in the dell!

  The Farmer takes a Wife…
  The Wife takes a Child…
  The Child takes a Cow …
  Cow takes a Pig…
  Pig takes a Dog…
  Dog takes a Cat…
  Cat takes a Mouse…
  Mouse takes the Cheese…
  The Cheese stands alone.

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• Song w/Pitched Instrument: ABC Song

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out boomwhackers. Have children practice hitting them on the ground, then call out colors and have them tap up the scale and down the scale. Use printable to lead children through the song on boomwhackers.

  Make sure to pull just low C-A for this song.

  Lyrics:
  

  CCGG AAG
  FFEE DDDC
  GGF EED
  GGGF EED
  CCGG AAG
  FFEE DDC

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• Composing Activity: Word Rhymes

  Activity Instructions:

  The most memorable songs are the ones where the ends of the lines rhyme with each other.

  For example,
  Twinkle twinkle little STAR, how I wonder what you ARE.  

  STAR and ARE rhyme.

  Just like BAT and CAT.  Or AROUND and GROUND.

  Ask the children for a couple of  words that rhyme, then make up a silly song.

  When we write the words to a song, we are writing lyrics.

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• Song w/Ball: Ring Around the Ball Song

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Distribute Balls to children. Explore tapping with hands and feet, rolling, and rolling around selves. Then play song and follow directions.

  Lyrics:
  

  I’m tapping on the ball, tapping on the ball
  Tapping tapping, tapping with my hands

  I’m tapping on the ball, tapping on the ball
  Tapping tapping, tapping with my feet

  Rolling to a friend, rolling to a friend
  rolling rolling the ball to a friend

  Roll the ball around me roll the ball around me
  around, and around, and around around around

  I’m passing to a friend, passing to a friend
  Passing, Passing, Passing to a friend

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• World Music Dance: Canada – Le Boogie

  Activity Instructions:

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

---

• Musical Exploration

  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!

---

• Musical Game: FACE Space Song

  Activity Instructions:

  Have children repeat after you “FACE” the notes for the spaces in the treble clef, from the bottom to the top.

  Then show children each of the notes on the wall. Sing song, indicating which line to run to each time you sing through.

  With Kid Rock, test knowledge on music carpet after playing the game by grabbing an egg shaker and placing it on the spaces, prompt students if they need help by counting up each line using FACE.

  Lyrics:
  

  (The Bear went over the Mountain)
  My face tells me the spaces
  My face tells me the spaces
  My face tells me the spaces
  in the treble clef
  F-A-C-E , F-A-C-E
  My face tells me the spaces in the treble clef
  Show me where’s the “F”

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• Puppet: Hello Hippopotomus

  Activity Instructions:

  Use puppet to sing song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Hello Hippopotamus, How are you today?
  Hello Hippopotamus, Swimming in the lake!
  You stay in the water to beat the heat
  Underwater You  can wait five minutes to breathe
  Hello, Hippopotamus, thanks for coming to play!

  Hello Hippopotamus, How are you today?
  Hello Hippopotamus, Swimming in the lake!
  You looks for grass to eat at night
  You lives with the herd , the hippopotami,
  Hello, Hippopotamus, thanks for coming to play!

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• Goodbye Song

  

  CASIO-SA-77:
  Pattern 12, Tempo 8

  
  

  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.

  Lyrics:
  

  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 :|

Family Rock

• Coming In Classical: Stravinsky – The Firebird

  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.

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• Family Rock Hello Song

  

  CASIO-SA-77:
  Pattern 01, Tempo 5

  
  

  Activity Instructions:

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

  Lyrics:
  

  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

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• Song w/Instrument: I Shake My Bell

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out bells. Explore shaking, tapping, and making the bell hide. Then sing song with bells.

  Lyrics:
  

  I shake my bell
  I shake my bell
  I use my hand to shake my bell
  Shake it high, shake it low
  Tap the ground, then where’d it go? (hide bell)

  I found it I found it
  I found my bell I found it
  Shake it high, Shake it low
  Tap the ground, and then no more!

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• Peek-a-boo: Peek-a-boo Sixteenth Drone

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out scarves, then practice playing peek a boo.  Then sing songs several time. Make sure to pop up on the final boo. The children love the repitition in the delayed peek-a-boo.

  Lyrics:
  

  Peek-a x12 Peek-a-boo, Boo!

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• Color or Shape Song: Fruit Colors

  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.

  Lyrics:
  

  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

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• Body Awareness: Swing Jam

  Activity Instructions:

  Play song, dance and follow motions/movement in lyrics.

  Lyrics:
  

  C’mon my friends and dance with me,
  C’mon my friends and dance with me,
  We’ll dance and play and have some fun,
  sing some songs ’til the day is done
  C’mon my friends and dance with me.

  V1) C’mon and clap (x4)
  V2) C’mon and tap (x4)
  V3) C’mon and stomp (x4)
  V4) C’mon and dance (x4)

---

• Song w/Pitched Instrument: ABC Song

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out boomwhackers. Have children practice hitting them on the ground, then call out colors and have them tap up the scale and down the scale. Use printable to lead children through the song on boomwhackers.

  Make sure to pull just low C-A for this song.

  Lyrics:
  

  CCGG AAG
  FFEE DDDC
  GGF EED
  GGGF EED
  CCGG AAG
  FFEE DDC

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• Solfege Song: Farmer in the Dell

  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.

  Lyrics:
  

  |: Do Do Do Do Do Do
  Re Mi Mi Mi Mi Mi
  Sol Sol Sol Sol Me Do
  Re Mi Mi Re Re Do :|

   

  The Farmer in the Dell,
  The Farmer in the Dell,
  Hi-ho, the derry-o,
  The farmer in the dell!

  The Farmer takes a Wife…
  The Wife takes a Child…
  The Child takes a Cow …
  Cow takes a Pig…
  Pig takes a Dog…
  Dog takes a Cat…
  Cat takes a Mouse…
  Mouse takes the Cheese…
  The Cheese stands alone.

---

• Song w/Ball: Ring Around the Ball Song

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Distribute Balls to children. Explore tapping with hands and feet, rolling, and rolling around selves. Then play song and follow directions.

  Lyrics:
  

  I’m tapping on the ball, tapping on the ball
  Tapping tapping, tapping with my hands

  I’m tapping on the ball, tapping on the ball
  Tapping tapping, tapping with my feet

  Rolling to a friend, rolling to a friend
  rolling rolling the ball to a friend

  Roll the ball around me roll the ball around me
  around, and around, and around around around

  I’m passing to a friend, passing to a friend
  Passing, Passing, Passing to a friend

---

• World Music Dance: Canada – Le Boogie

  Activity Instructions:

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

---

• Musical Exploration

  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!

---

• Musical Composition Activity: Word Rhymes

  Activity Instructions:

  The most memorable songs are the ones where the ends of the lines rhyme with each other.

  For example,
  Twinkle twinkle little STAR, how I wonder what you ARE.  

  STAR and ARE rhyme.

  Just like BAT and CAT.  Or AROUND and GROUND.

  Ask the children for a couple of  words that rhyme, then make up a silly song.

  When we write the words to a song, we are writing lyrics.

---

• Musical Game: FACE Space Song

  Activity Instructions:

  Have children repeat after you “FACE” the notes for the spaces in the treble clef, from the bottom to the top.

  Then show children each of the notes on the wall. Sing song, indicating which line to run to each time you sing through.

  With Kid Rock, test knowledge on music carpet after playing the game by grabbing an egg shaker and placing it on the spaces, prompt students if they need help by counting up each line using FACE.

  Lyrics:
  

  (The Bear went over the Mountain)
  My face tells me the spaces
  My face tells me the spaces
  My face tells me the spaces
  in the treble clef
  F-A-C-E , F-A-C-E
  My face tells me the spaces in the treble clef
  Show me where’s the “F”

---

• Puppet: Hello Hippopotomus

  Activity Instructions:

  Use puppet to sing song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Hello Hippopotamus, How are you today?
  Hello Hippopotamus, Swimming in the lake!
  You stay in the water to beat the heat
  Underwater You  can wait five minutes to breathe
  Hello, Hippopotamus, thanks for coming to play!

  Hello Hippopotamus, How are you today?
  Hello Hippopotamus, Swimming in the lake!
  You looks for grass to eat at night
  You lives with the herd , the hippopotami,
  Hello, Hippopotamus, thanks for coming to play!

---

• Goodbye Song

  

  CASIO-SA-77:
  Pattern 12, Tempo 8

  
  

  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.

  Lyrics:
  

  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 :|