Tot Rock

• Coming in Classical: Rossini – William Tell Overture

  Activity Instructions:

  Play song as children enter

  Historical information:

  The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell), whose music was composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini’s 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement, although he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal music. The overture is in four parts, each following without pause.

  There has been repeated use (and sometimes parody) of parts of this overture in both classical music and popular media, most famously as the theme music for The Lone Ranger in radio, television and film. Franz Liszt prepared a piano transcription of the overture in 1838 (S.552) which became a staple of his concert repertoire.

  
  

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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: Yankee Doodle Rhythm Sticks

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out rhythm sticks. Explore tapping them together, tapping them on the ground, tapping one stick or the other, and/or hitting them like a hammer and stake. Then sing song, following the motions in the song.

  Lyrics:
  

  I’m tapping with my rhythm sticks
  [I’m tapping them together]* 
  I’m tapping with my rhythm sticks
  [I’m tapping them together]* 

  Tap your rhythm sticks with me
  Tap your sticks together
  Tap your rhythm sticks with me
  Tap your sticks together

  *
  v2 I’m tapping on the ground now
  v3 I’m tapping like a hammer

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• Lapride: Pop Goes the Weasel

  Activity Instructions:

  Have grownups sit children in their lap. Bounce children to the beat, and follow directions with the lyrics.

  Lyrics:
  

  All around the mulberry bush,

  The monkey chased the weasel.

  The monkey thought ’twas all in fun, 

  Pop! goes the weasel.

  A penny for a spool of thread,
  A nickel for a needle—
  That’s the way the money goes,
  Pop! goes the weasel.

  My mother taught me how to sew,

  And how to thread the needle,

  Every time my finger slips,

  Pop! goes the weasel.

  You may try to sew and sew,

  And never make something regal,

  So roll it up and let it go,

  Pop! goes the weasel.

  I went a-hunting in the woods,

  It wasn’t very legal,

  The dog and I were caught with the goods,

  Pop! goes the weasel.

  I said I didn’t hunt or sport,

  The warden looked at my beagle,

  He said to tell it to the court,

  Pop! goes the weasel.

  All around the cobbler’s house,
  The monkey chased the people.
  And after them in double haste,
  Pop! goes the weasel.

  All around the cobbler’s house,
  The monkey chased the people.
  And after them in double haste,
  Pop! goes the weasel.

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• Color or Shape Song w/Instrument: Playing in the flowerpatch

  Activity Instructions:

  Dump out a bucket of objects… have children bring you the right color “flowers.”

  Lyrics:
  

  (Mary had a Little Lamb)

  Playing in the flowerpatch
  Find me a (purple, red, yellow, green, blue) flower

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• Song w/Instrument: Mulberry Days

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out drums, and explore tapping with one hand, both hands, alternating hands, etc. Then introduce the days of the week, and sing song, keeping the beat with the drums.

  Lyrics:
  

  Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
  Friday, Saturday, Sunday too
  I tap my drum all week long
  I’m Rocking through the week with you

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• Body Awareness: Marching Band

  Activity Instructions:

  Show children how to march, and show them pictures of the different instruments. Then start song and march together. You can pretend to play trumpet, tuba, and piccolo, and conduct.  You may want to vary walking in a circle in A section with facing center and marching forward and back on B section.

  With Kid Rock, you may choose to show them the four four pattern with your hands (down in out up).

  Lyrics:
  

  Marching Song: Trumpet, Tuba, Piccolo, Conductor

  I’m marching with my instrument listen to the sound
  I’m marching with my instrument come and hear me now
  I’m marching with my instrument come hear the trumpet play [fill x2]
  Come hear the trumpet play [fill x1]
  I’m marching with my instrument hear the trumpet play

  I’m marching in the marching band Marching down the street
  I’m marching in the marching band Marching with my feet
  I’m marching in the marching band Listen to me now
  I’m marching marching marching marching Marching all around

  V2) Tuba
  V3) Piccolo

  V4) I’m marching as the drum major watch me lead the band
  I’m marching as the drum major watch me move my hands
  I’m marching as the drum major watch me conduct the group, 1,2,3,4 down in out up
  Watch me conduct the group 1,2,3,4  Watch me conduct the group
  I’m marching as the drum major
  Watch me conduct the group

  I’m marching in the marching band Marching down the street
  I’m marching in the marching band Marching with my feet
  I’m marching in the marching band Watch me lead the band
  I’m marching marching marching marching Marching ’til the end

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• Solfege Song: NOT YET ADDED
  Content Not Yet Added

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• Song w/Ball: Ball in a minor key

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

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

  Lyrics:
  

  1. Roll the ball around myself
  2. Tap the ball with my hands
  3. Bounce the ball in front of me
  4. bounce myself upon the ball
     [  ] in a minor key

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• World Music Dance: Ireland – Dance Above the Rainbow – Michael Flatley – Irish Step

  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: Musical Hula Hoops

  Activity Instructions:

  This game is like musical chairs. Lay out hula hoops on the ground. Play some music, and when the music stops, each person needs to get into a hoop.
  (If you don’t have hula hoops, you could use chairs, cardstock, or any object!)

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• Puppet: Dabbling & Diving Ducks

  Activity Instructions:

  Use duck puppets to sing song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Quack Quack Quack goes my dabbling duck
  as she eats on land or water
  Quack Quack Quack goes my dabbling duck
  as she searches for her food
  Quack Quack Quack goes Mrs. Hen
  Preening cleaning once again
  Quack Quack Quack goes my dabbling duck
  Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack

  Quack Quack Quack goes my diving duck
  as he dives under the water
  Quack Quack Quack goes my diving duck
  As he dives down for his food
  Quack Quack Quack goes Mr. Drake
  As he searches for his mate
  Quack Quack Quack goes my diving duck
  Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack

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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: Rossini – William Tell Overture

  Activity Instructions:

  Play song as children enter

  Historical information:

  The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell), whose music was composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini’s 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement, although he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal music. The overture is in four parts, each following without pause.

  There has been repeated use (and sometimes parody) of parts of this overture in both classical music and popular media, most famously as the theme music for The Lone Ranger in radio, television and film. Franz Liszt prepared a piano transcription of the overture in 1838 (S.552) which became a staple of his concert repertoire.

  
  

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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: NOT YET ADDED
  Content Not Yet Added

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• Body Awareness: Marching Band

  Activity Instructions:

  Show children how to march, and show them pictures of the different instruments. Then start song and march together. You can pretend to play trumpet, tuba, and piccolo, and conduct.  You may want to vary walking in a circle in A section with facing center and marching forward and back on B section.

  With Kid Rock, you may choose to show them the four four pattern with your hands (down in out up).

  Lyrics:
  

  Marching Song: Trumpet, Tuba, Piccolo, Conductor

  I’m marching with my instrument listen to the sound
  I’m marching with my instrument come and hear me now
  I’m marching with my instrument come hear the trumpet play [fill x2]
  Come hear the trumpet play [fill x1]
  I’m marching with my instrument hear the trumpet play

  I’m marching in the marching band Marching down the street
  I’m marching in the marching band Marching with my feet
  I’m marching in the marching band Listen to me now
  I’m marching marching marching marching Marching all around

  V2) Tuba
  V3) Piccolo

  V4) I’m marching as the drum major watch me lead the band
  I’m marching as the drum major watch me move my hands
  I’m marching as the drum major watch me conduct the group, 1,2,3,4 down in out up
  Watch me conduct the group 1,2,3,4  Watch me conduct the group
  I’m marching as the drum major
  Watch me conduct the group

  I’m marching in the marching band Marching down the street
  I’m marching in the marching band Marching with my feet
  I’m marching in the marching band Watch me lead the band
  I’m marching marching marching marching Marching ’til the end

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• Alphabet Song w/Instrument: Letter I – Instruments In the Igloo

  Activity Instructions:

  Show the children a picture of the letter I and talk about the sound it makes. Then prompt the children to guess the things that start with the Letter I in the song. Sing several times while tapping the beat.

  Lyrics:
  

  I imagine Instruments
  inside the igloo x 3
  I imagine instruments
  inside the igloo
  the igloo floating on the iceberg

  What do I spy?
  I spy [ ]x3
  What do I spy?
  I spy []
  in the igloo floating on the iceberg

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• Solfege Song: NOT YET ADDED
  Content Not Yet Added

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• Song w/Pitched Instrument: London Bridge

  Activity Instructions:

  Lyrics:
  

  London Bridge
  GAGF EFG, DEF, EFG, GAGF EFG, DGEC

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• Composing Activity: Choose a Color

  Activity Instructions:

  Have the children put colored objects into a row… then use the color order to play a song.

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• Song w/Ball: Ball in a minor key

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

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

  Lyrics:
  

  1. Roll the ball around myself
  2. Tap the ball with my hands
  3. Bounce the ball in front of me
  4. bounce myself upon the ball
     [  ] in a minor key

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• World Music Dance: Ireland – Dance Above the Rainbow – Michael Flatley – Irish Step

  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: Musical Hula Hoops

  Activity Instructions:

  This game is like musical chairs. Lay out hula hoops on the ground. Play some music, and when the music stops, each person needs to get into a hoop.
  (If you don’t have hula hoops, you could use chairs, cardstock, or any object!)

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• Puppet: NOT YET ADDED
  Content Not Yet Added

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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: Rossini – William Tell Overture

  Activity Instructions:

  Play song as children enter

  Historical information:

  The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell), whose music was composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini’s 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement, although he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal music. The overture is in four parts, each following without pause.

  There has been repeated use (and sometimes parody) of parts of this overture in both classical music and popular media, most famously as the theme music for The Lone Ranger in radio, television and film. Franz Liszt prepared a piano transcription of the overture in 1838 (S.552) which became a staple of his concert repertoire.

  
  

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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: Yankee Doodle Rhythm Sticks

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out rhythm sticks. Explore tapping them together, tapping them on the ground, tapping one stick or the other, and/or hitting them like a hammer and stake. Then sing song, following the motions in the song.

  Lyrics:
  

  I’m tapping with my rhythm sticks
  [I’m tapping them together]* 
  I’m tapping with my rhythm sticks
  [I’m tapping them together]* 

  Tap your rhythm sticks with me
  Tap your sticks together
  Tap your rhythm sticks with me
  Tap your sticks together

  *
  v2 I’m tapping on the ground now
  v3 I’m tapping like a hammer

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• Peek-a-boo: I am hiding (Frere Jacques)

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

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

  Lyrics:
  

  [I am/— is] hiding
  behind my hands
  You won’t find me
  ’till the song ends

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• Color or Shape Song: Playing in the flowerpatch

  Activity Instructions:

  Dump out a bucket of objects… have children bring you the right color “flowers.”

  Lyrics:
  

  (Mary had a Little Lamb)

  Playing in the flowerpatch
  Find me a (purple, red, yellow, green, blue) flower

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• Body Awareness: FINGER PLAY: Tick, Tock, goes the Clock

  Activity Instructions:

  Lyrics:
  

  Tick tock goes the clock all around the circle
  The little hand it shows us, shows us the hour
  The clock is striking 1 (ding) x2
  Tick tock goes the clock
  The clock is striking 1

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• Song w/Pitched Instrument: London Bridge

  Activity Instructions:

  Lyrics:
  

  London Bridge
  GAGF EFG, DEF, EFG, GAGF EFG, DGEC

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• Solfege Song: NOT YET ADDED
  Content Not Yet Added

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• Song w/Ball: Ball in a minor key

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

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

  Lyrics:
  

  1. Roll the ball around myself
  2. Tap the ball with my hands
  3. Bounce the ball in front of me
  4. bounce myself upon the ball
     [  ] in a minor key

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• World Music Dance: Ireland – Dance Above the Rainbow – Michael Flatley – Irish Step

  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 Composition Activity: Choose a Color

  Activity Instructions:

  Have the children put colored objects into a row… then use the color order to play a song.

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• Musical Game: NOT YET ADDED
  Content Not Yet Added

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• Puppet: Dabbling & Diving Ducks

  Activity Instructions:

  Use duck puppets to sing song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Quack Quack Quack goes my dabbling duck
  as she eats on land or water
  Quack Quack Quack goes my dabbling duck
  as she searches for her food
  Quack Quack Quack goes Mrs. Hen
  Preening cleaning once again
  Quack Quack Quack goes my dabbling duck
  Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack

  Quack Quack Quack goes my diving duck
  as he dives under the water
  Quack Quack Quack goes my diving duck
  As he dives down for his food
  Quack Quack Quack goes Mr. Drake
  As he searches for his mate
  Quack Quack Quack goes my diving duck
  Quack Quack Quack Quack Quack

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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 :|