Tot Rock

• Coming in Classical: Beethoven – 5th Symphony, 1st movement

  Activity Instructions:

  Play as children are entering.

  Historical information:

  The Symphony No. 5 in C minor of Ludwig van Beethoven, Op. 67, was written between 1804–1808. It is one of the best-known compositions in classical music, and one of the most frequently played symphonies. First performed in Vienna’s Theater an der Wien in 1808, the work achieved its prodigious reputation soon afterward. E. T. A. Hoffmann described the symphony as “one of the most important works of the time”. The symphony consists of four movements. The first movement is Allegro con brio; the second movement is Andante con moto; the third movement is a Scherzo Allegro; the fourth movement is Allegro.

  It begins by stating a distinctive four-note “short-short-short-long” motif twice

  

  The symphony, and the four-note opening motif in particular, are known worldwide, with the motif appearing frequently in popular culture, from disco versions to rock and roll covers, to uses in film and television.

  Since the Second World War it has sometimes been referred to as the “Victory Symphony.” “V” is the Roman character for the number five; the phrase “V for Victory” became well known as a campaign of the Allies of World War II. That Beethoven’s Victory Symphony happened to be his Fifth (or vice versa) is coincidence. Some thirty years after this piece was written, the rhythm of the opening phrase – “dit-dit-dit-dah” – was used for the letter “V” in Morse code, though this is probably also coincidental.

  The BBC, during World War Two, prefaced its broadcasts to Europe with those four notes, played on drums.

  (from Wikipedia)

  
  

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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: I Am Shaking My Egg Shaker

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

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

  Lyrics:
  

  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

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• Lapride: Elephant Ride

  Activity Instructions:

  Have children sit on parents laps, and follow directions in the song!

  Lyrics:
  

  Riding on my elephant, swaying side to side
  Riding on my elephant, on this jungle ride
  Riding on my elephant, feel this jungle breeze
  Riding on my elephant, through the jungle trees

  Riding on my elephant, bumping up and down
  Riding on my elephant, bumping all around
  Riding on my elephant, feel the jungle breeze
  Riding on my elephant, through the jungle trees

  Riding on my elephant, bouncing all around
  Riding on my elephant, hear the jungle sounds
  Riding on my elephant, feel the jungle breeze
  Riding on my elephant, through the jungle trees

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• Color or Shape Song w/Instrument: 3D Shapes – Cone, Cube, Cylinder, Sphere

  Activity Instructions:

  Make sure to gather items of the three 3D shapes before class.
  Suggestions: A traffic cone for the cone, a square tissue box for the cube, a ball for the sphere and a coffee can or tea can for the cylinder. 

  Put the shapes in four spots around the room, review what each of them are. Then sing the song, and have the children run to the objects as you sing the song.

  Lyrics:
  

  123, in 3D, looking for a shape
  123, in 3D, looking for a shape 
  123, in 3D, looking for a shape 
  I am looking for a [Cone, Cube, Cylinder, Sphere]
  looking for a shape

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• Song w/Instrument: Shake My Rainstick

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out rainsticks. Explore shaking, tapping, turning over, rolling, and hiding behind back. Then sing song several times and follow motions in song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Shake my Rainstick
  Shake my rainstick in the sky
  Turn it over, watch the balls fall
  I can make it rain inside

  Tap my rainstick
  Tap my rainstick
  Tap my rainstick on the floor
  Turn it over watch the balls fall
  Shake it like I did before

  Roll my rainstick
  Roll my rainstick
  Roll my rainstick side to side
  Stand it up tall and then tap it
  Hold it still, and make it hide

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• Body Awareness: Touch my toes and stand up

  Activity Instructions:

  Introduce motions in song. Then use track for complete song 2-3 times.

  Lyrics:
  

  Walk and walk and walk and stop x3
  Touch my toes and stand up

  Clap and clap and clap and stop x3
  touch my toes and stand up

  Spin and spin and spin and stop x3
  Touch my toes and stand up

  Tap and tap and tap and stop x3
  Touch my toes and stand up

  Run and run and run and stop x3
  Touch my toes and stand 

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• Solfege Song: Mary had a Little Lamb

  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.

  Lyrics:
  

  Mi Re Do Re Mi Mi Mi,
  Re Re Re, Mi Sol Sol
  Mi Re Do Re Mi Mi Mi  
  Mi Re Re Mi Re Do

  Mary had a little lamb,
  little lamb, little lamb
  Mary had a little lamb
  Whose fleece was white as snow

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• Song w/Ball: Roll to Beethoven’s 5th

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out balls and explore tapping, bouncing, and rolling the balls. Ask the children if they remember the song during the Coming in time. (Beethoven’s 5th). Then tell them that we have a special ball song with the motif from the symphony. Repeat once or twice.

  Lyrics:
  

  V1. I tap my ball
  V2. I bounce my ball
  V3. I roll my ball
  (repeat all)

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• World Music Dance: Japan – One More Time – Twice

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out scarves, and have children bounce, dance, etc. Use different moves in different parts of the song.
  This song is by a female group from Japan and is J-Pop, Japanese Pop.

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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: Cutoff & Conduct

  Activity Instructions:

  This is a variation on redlight greenlight. The teacher will stand on the opposite side of the room from the students. The students should walk to you while you are conducting and singing any children’s song of your choice, and then stop when you indicate a cutoff, by freezing with both hands in closed fists. When you resume the song, keep going wherever you paused in the song.

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• Puppet: Ladybug and Bee

  Activity Instructions:

  Use ladybug and bee puppets to sing song.

  Lyrics:
  

  VERSE 1
  Ladybug and Bee were sitting in a tree
  Enjoying the sunny weather
  Ladybug and Bee were sitting in a tree
  having some fun together
  Ladybug: “Did you know that I’m a beetle,
  my real wings hide?
  My hard shell protects
  the wings folded inside!”
  Ladybug and bee were sitting in a tree
  learning about each other

  VERSE2
  Ladybug and Bee were sitting in a tree
  Enjoying the sunny weather
  Ladybug and Bee were sitting in a tree
  having some fun together
  Bee: “Did you know I’m an insect?
  I also have wings?
  Gather pollen from the flowers
  Be careful I sting”
  Ladybug and bee were sitting in a tree
  Learning about each other
  Ladybug and bee were sitting in a tree
  Learning about each other

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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: Beethoven – 5th Symphony, 1st movement

  Activity Instructions:

  Play as children are entering.

  Historical information:

  The Symphony No. 5 in C minor of Ludwig van Beethoven, Op. 67, was written between 1804–1808. It is one of the best-known compositions in classical music, and one of the most frequently played symphonies. First performed in Vienna’s Theater an der Wien in 1808, the work achieved its prodigious reputation soon afterward. E. T. A. Hoffmann described the symphony as “one of the most important works of the time”. The symphony consists of four movements. The first movement is Allegro con brio; the second movement is Andante con moto; the third movement is a Scherzo Allegro; the fourth movement is Allegro.

  It begins by stating a distinctive four-note “short-short-short-long” motif twice

  

  The symphony, and the four-note opening motif in particular, are known worldwide, with the motif appearing frequently in popular culture, from disco versions to rock and roll covers, to uses in film and television.

  Since the Second World War it has sometimes been referred to as the “Victory Symphony.” “V” is the Roman character for the number five; the phrase “V for Victory” became well known as a campaign of the Allies of World War II. That Beethoven’s Victory Symphony happened to be his Fifth (or vice versa) is coincidence. Some thirty years after this piece was written, the rhythm of the opening phrase – “dit-dit-dit-dah” – was used for the letter “V” in Morse code, though this is probably also coincidental.

  The BBC, during World War Two, prefaced its broadcasts to Europe with those four notes, played on drums.

  (from Wikipedia)

  
  

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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: Shake My Rainstick

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out rainsticks. Explore shaking, tapping, turning over, rolling, and hiding behind back. Then sing song several times and follow motions in song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Shake my Rainstick
  Shake my rainstick in the sky
  Turn it over, watch the balls fall
  I can make it rain inside

  Tap my rainstick
  Tap my rainstick
  Tap my rainstick on the floor
  Turn it over watch the balls fall
  Shake it like I did before

  Roll my rainstick
  Roll my rainstick
  Roll my rainstick side to side
  Stand it up tall and then tap it
  Hold it still, and make it hide

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• Body Awareness: Touch my toes and stand up

  Activity Instructions:

  Introduce motions in song. Then use track for complete song 2-3 times.

  Lyrics:
  

  Walk and walk and walk and stop x3
  Touch my toes and stand up

  Clap and clap and clap and stop x3
  touch my toes and stand up

  Spin and spin and spin and stop x3
  Touch my toes and stand up

  Tap and tap and tap and stop x3
  Touch my toes and stand up

  Run and run and run and stop x3
  Touch my toes and stand 

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• Alphabet Song w/Instrument: Letter B – The Baby loves the Ball

  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.

  Lyrics:
  

  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

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• Solfege Song: Mary had a Little Lamb

  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.

  Lyrics:
  

  Mi Re Do Re Mi Mi Mi,
  Re Re Re, Mi Sol Sol
  Mi Re Do Re Mi Mi Mi  
  Mi Re Re Mi Re Do

  Mary had a little lamb,
  little lamb, little lamb
  Mary had a little lamb
  Whose fleece was white as snow

---

• Song w/Pitched Instrument: Baa Baa Black Sheep

  Activity Instructions:

  Tell the children that they will be learning the tune to Baa Baa Black Sheep on the Handbells today. Pass out the bells (C1-A). Explore ringing, then have children play the notes ascending (CDEFGA) and descending (AGFEDC). Then teach the song, and play through several times.

  Lyrics:
  

  Red Red Turqouise Turqouise 
  Blue Blue Blue Blue Turqoise
  Yellow Yellow Green Green Orange Orange Red
  Turqoise Turqoise Yellow Yellow Green Green Orange
  Turqoise Turqoise Yellow Yellow Green Green Orange
  Red Red Turqouise Turqouise 
  Blue Blue Blue Blue Turqoise
  Yellow Yellow Green Green Orange Orange Red

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• Composing Activity: Note Values – Pizza

  Activity Instructions:

  Before the lesson, make sure you have posterboard or tape a line on the wall with four measures, and have printed the printables for this activity. Explain that each block (measure) has to have a whole pizza pie. Students will decide how to order the pizza slices to make a simple four measure rhythm, with four beats in each measure. Then have students play the rhythm together on percussion instruments from the variety bucket. Repeat as desired.

  whole pizza = whole note = 4 beats
  half pizza = half note = 2 beats
  quarter pizza = quarter note = 1 beat
  eighth pizza = eighth note = 1/2 beat

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• Song w/Ball: Roll to Beethoven’s 5th

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out balls and explore tapping, bouncing, and rolling the balls. Ask the children if they remember the song during the Coming in time. (Beethoven’s 5th). Then tell them that we have a special ball song with the motif from the symphony. Repeat once or twice.

  Lyrics:
  

  V1. I tap my ball
  V2. I bounce my ball
  V3. I roll my ball
  (repeat all)

---

• World Music Dance: Japan – One More Time – Twice

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out scarves, and have children bounce, dance, etc. Use different moves in different parts of the song.
  This song is by a female group from Japan and is J-Pop, Japanese Pop.

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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!

---

• Musical Game: Cutoff & Conduct

  Activity Instructions:

  This is a variation on redlight greenlight. The teacher will stand on the opposite side of the room from the students. The students should walk to you while you are conducting and singing any children’s song of your choice, and then stop when you indicate a cutoff, by freezing with both hands in closed fists. When you resume the song, keep going wherever you paused in the song.

---

• Puppet: Ladybug and Bee

  Activity Instructions:

  Use ladybug and bee puppets to sing song.

  Lyrics:
  

  VERSE 1
  Ladybug and Bee were sitting in a tree
  Enjoying the sunny weather
  Ladybug and Bee were sitting in a tree
  having some fun together
  Ladybug: “Did you know that I’m a beetle,
  my real wings hide?
  My hard shell protects
  the wings folded inside!”
  Ladybug and bee were sitting in a tree
  learning about each other

  VERSE2
  Ladybug and Bee were sitting in a tree
  Enjoying the sunny weather
  Ladybug and Bee were sitting in a tree
  having some fun together
  Bee: “Did you know I’m an insect?
  I also have wings?
  Gather pollen from the flowers
  Be careful I sting”
  Ladybug and bee were sitting in a tree
  Learning about each other
  Ladybug and bee were sitting in a tree
  Learning about each other

---

• 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: Beethoven – 5th Symphony, 1st movement

  Activity Instructions:

  Play as children are entering.

  Historical information:

  The Symphony No. 5 in C minor of Ludwig van Beethoven, Op. 67, was written between 1804–1808. It is one of the best-known compositions in classical music, and one of the most frequently played symphonies. First performed in Vienna’s Theater an der Wien in 1808, the work achieved its prodigious reputation soon afterward. E. T. A. Hoffmann described the symphony as “one of the most important works of the time”. The symphony consists of four movements. The first movement is Allegro con brio; the second movement is Andante con moto; the third movement is a Scherzo Allegro; the fourth movement is Allegro.

  It begins by stating a distinctive four-note “short-short-short-long” motif twice

  

  The symphony, and the four-note opening motif in particular, are known worldwide, with the motif appearing frequently in popular culture, from disco versions to rock and roll covers, to uses in film and television.

  Since the Second World War it has sometimes been referred to as the “Victory Symphony.” “V” is the Roman character for the number five; the phrase “V for Victory” became well known as a campaign of the Allies of World War II. That Beethoven’s Victory Symphony happened to be his Fifth (or vice versa) is coincidence. Some thirty years after this piece was written, the rhythm of the opening phrase – “dit-dit-dit-dah” – was used for the letter “V” in Morse code, though this is probably also coincidental.

  The BBC, during World War Two, prefaced its broadcasts to Europe with those four notes, played on drums.

  (from Wikipedia)

  
  

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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

---

• Song w/Instrument: Shake My Rainstick

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out rainsticks. Explore shaking, tapping, turning over, rolling, and hiding behind back. Then sing song several times and follow motions in song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Shake my Rainstick
  Shake my rainstick in the sky
  Turn it over, watch the balls fall
  I can make it rain inside

  Tap my rainstick
  Tap my rainstick
  Tap my rainstick on the floor
  Turn it over watch the balls fall
  Shake it like I did before

  Roll my rainstick
  Roll my rainstick
  Roll my rainstick side to side
  Stand it up tall and then tap it
  Hold it still, and make it hide

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• Peek-a-boo: I am hiding, You can’t see me

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out scarves, and play peek-a-boo, having parents or you pull the scarves away, and say boo!
  Then sing song with scarves. Take the time to interact with each child and sing to them, if class size allows.

  Lyrics:
  

  I am hiding, You can’t see me
  When I make a silly face [make silly face]
  I am hiding you can’t see me
  Till I pull my scarf away, boo! [pull scarf away on “boo”]

  I am playing peek a boo
  Playing peek a boo with (“you” OR child’s name )
  I am playing peek a boo
  Playing peek a boo, boo! [pull scarf away on second “boo”]

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• Color or Shape Song: 3D Shapes – Cone, Cube, Cylinder, Sphere

  Activity Instructions:

  Make sure to gather items of the three 3D shapes before class.
  Suggestions: A traffic cone for the cone, a square tissue box for the cube, a ball for the sphere and a coffee can or tea can for the cylinder. 

  Put the shapes in four spots around the room, review what each of them are. Then sing the song, and have the children run to the objects as you sing the song.

  Lyrics:
  

  123, in 3D, looking for a shape
  123, in 3D, looking for a shape 
  123, in 3D, looking for a shape 
  I am looking for a [Cone, Cube, Cylinder, Sphere]
  looking for a shape

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• Body Awareness: Touch my toes and stand up

  Activity Instructions:

  Introduce motions in song. Then use track for complete song 2-3 times.

  Lyrics:
  

  Walk and walk and walk and stop x3
  Touch my toes and stand up

  Clap and clap and clap and stop x3
  touch my toes and stand up

  Spin and spin and spin and stop x3
  Touch my toes and stand up

  Tap and tap and tap and stop x3
  Touch my toes and stand up

  Run and run and run and stop x3
  Touch my toes and stand 

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• Song w/Pitched Instrument: Baa Baa Black Sheep

  Activity Instructions:

  Tell the children that they will be learning the tune to Baa Baa Black Sheep on the Handbells today. Pass out the bells (C1-A). Explore ringing, then have children play the notes ascending (CDEFGA) and descending (AGFEDC). Then teach the song, and play through several times.

  Lyrics:
  

  Red Red Turqouise Turqouise 
  Blue Blue Blue Blue Turqoise
  Yellow Yellow Green Green Orange Orange Red
  Turqoise Turqoise Yellow Yellow Green Green Orange
  Turqoise Turqoise Yellow Yellow Green Green Orange
  Red Red Turqouise Turqouise 
  Blue Blue Blue Blue Turqoise
  Yellow Yellow Green Green Orange Orange Red

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• Solfege Song: Mary had a Little Lamb

  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.

  Lyrics:
  

  Mi Re Do Re Mi Mi Mi,
  Re Re Re, Mi Sol Sol
  Mi Re Do Re Mi Mi Mi  
  Mi Re Re Mi Re Do

  Mary had a little lamb,
  little lamb, little lamb
  Mary had a little lamb
  Whose fleece was white as snow

---

• Song w/Ball: Roll to Beethoven’s 5th

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out balls and explore tapping, bouncing, and rolling the balls. Ask the children if they remember the song during the Coming in time. (Beethoven’s 5th). Then tell them that we have a special ball song with the motif from the symphony. Repeat once or twice.

  Lyrics:
  

  V1. I tap my ball
  V2. I bounce my ball
  V3. I roll my ball
  (repeat all)

---

• World Music Dance: Japan – One More Time – Twice

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out scarves, and have children bounce, dance, etc. Use different moves in different parts of the song.
  This song is by a female group from Japan and is J-Pop, Japanese Pop.

---

• 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: Note Values – Pizza

  Activity Instructions:

  Before the lesson, make sure you have posterboard or tape a line on the wall with four measures, and have printed the printables for this activity. Explain that each block (measure) has to have a whole pizza pie. Students will decide how to order the pizza slices to make a simple four measure rhythm, with four beats in each measure. Then have students play the rhythm together on percussion instruments from the variety bucket. Repeat as desired.

  whole pizza = whole note = 4 beats
  half pizza = half note = 2 beats
  quarter pizza = quarter note = 1 beat
  eighth pizza = eighth note = 1/2 beat

---

• Musical Game: Cutoff & Conduct

  Activity Instructions:

  This is a variation on redlight greenlight. The teacher will stand on the opposite side of the room from the students. The students should walk to you while you are conducting and singing any children’s song of your choice, and then stop when you indicate a cutoff, by freezing with both hands in closed fists. When you resume the song, keep going wherever you paused in the song.

---

• Puppet: Ladybug and Bee

  Activity Instructions:

  Use ladybug and bee puppets to sing song.

  Lyrics:
  

  VERSE 1
  Ladybug and Bee were sitting in a tree
  Enjoying the sunny weather
  Ladybug and Bee were sitting in a tree
  having some fun together
  Ladybug: “Did you know that I’m a beetle,
  my real wings hide?
  My hard shell protects
  the wings folded inside!”
  Ladybug and bee were sitting in a tree
  learning about each other

  VERSE2
  Ladybug and Bee were sitting in a tree
  Enjoying the sunny weather
  Ladybug and Bee were sitting in a tree
  having some fun together
  Bee: “Did you know I’m an insect?
  I also have wings?
  Gather pollen from the flowers
  Be careful I sting”
  Ladybug and bee were sitting in a tree
  Learning about each other
  Ladybug and bee were sitting in a tree
  Learning about each other

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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 :|