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 tambourines. Explore tapping, hitting, tapping on head, knees, elbows, shoulder, etc, then sing through tapping in different ways.
When we count 16th notes, there are four in a beat. We say 1 e and a to count them.

1 e and a 2 e and a tapping on my tambourine
1 e and a 2 e and a that’s how I count sixteenth notes

Activity Instructions:

There is an American Holiday called Thanksgiving coming up later in the month. We are going to learn a little song with some history about the holiday.

VERSE 1
The pligrims sailed the sea in 1620,
6 sails unfurled, and powered by the wind
The Mayflower, she hit a storm
The storm it changed the ships due course
The ended far up north, not in virginnie

VERSE 2
The pilgrims sailed the sea for 65 days
They landed in November, it was cold
The Wampanoag, they came along
they helped the folks at Plymouth Rock
They showed them how to hunt, and fish, and grow crops

CHORUS
The first Thanksgiving feast
was in 1621
to celebrate the first successful harvest
The coat-men and the Wampanoag
ate duck and deer, and squash and corn
at a weeklong feast, with games and tests of skill

Activity Instructions:

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

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

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

Activity Instructions:

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

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

Activity Instructions:

Turn on the music and follow the directions with the song to be the leaves.

[walk around in a circle]
The leaves are changing color color color 
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground
The leaves are changing color color color
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground
[spin in a circle]
V1 The leaves are spinning through the air, through the air, through the air
      The leaves are spinning through the air, through the air, through the air
[walk around in a circle]
The leaves are changing color color color
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground

V2 The leaves are jumping in the wind [jump]
V3 The leaves they run across the ground [run]
V4 The leaves are rolling on the ground [roll on ground]

Activity Instructions:

Pass out microphones. Say hi to the children by name. Then ask them what songs they’d like to sing today.  After singing a few, then have children repeat syllables for do-re-mi-fa-sol-fa-mi-re-do.  Then sing song a little bit at a time with syllables. Afterwards, sing with english words.

So Mi Mi, Fa Re Re
Do Re Mi Fa Sol Sol Sol
Sol Mi Mi Fa Re Re
Do Mi So So Do

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

Lightly row, lightly row,
O’er the glassy waves we go!
Smoothly glide, smoothly glide,
On the silent tide!

Let the winds and waters be
Mingled with our melody.
Sing and float, sing and float
In our little boat! 

Activity Instructions:

A chromatic scale is a scale where every half step is played. (All of the white and black keys on the piano). 

Pass out balls and have children practice tapping, rolling from their toes to their head and back down again, and bouncing on their booties. Then play song and follow motions.

VERSE
I am tap-ping the ball with my hands like it’s a drum
Rum, pum, pum, pum, pum, pum, pum, pum,
Rum pum pum pum pum
 (Repeat)

B SECTION
This is a chro-ma-tic ball song
Up and down in lit-tle half steps
This is a chro-ma-tic ball song
Up and down in lit-tle half steps

VERSE 2
I am rol-ling the ball from my toes up to my head
I am rolling the ball from my head down to my toes

VERSE 3
I am sit-ting on the ball and boun-cing up and down

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.

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:

Tape three emojis to the wall for happy, sad, and angry. Have children identify the emotion. Then sing something happy (light and bouncy), angry (stacatto, fast, may be on same note), and sad (downward moving, with chromatic notes, in a minor key)

Activity Instructions:

Use bird puppets to sing song. Give children kisses with the puppet afterwards.

Three little birdies in a tree, singing now so prettily
Three little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la
Three little birdies in a tree, singing now so prettily
Three little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la
One little birdie said to me, I’ve got to fly, people to see
Two little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la

Two little birdies in a tree, singing now so prettily
Two little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la
Two little birdies in a tree, singing now so prettily
Two little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la
One little birdie said to me, I’ve got to fly, people to see
One little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la

One little birdie in a tree, singing now so prettily
One little birdie in a tree, sings tra la la la la
One little birdie in a tree, singing now so prettily
One little birdie in a tree, sings tra la la la la
That little birdie said to me, I’ve got to fly, people to see
No little birdies in a tree, but then they all came back to me
Tra la la x4
Five little birdies came back to me
Tra la la la la

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 tambourines. Explore tapping, hitting, tapping on head, knees, elbows, shoulder, etc, then sing through tapping in different ways.
When we count 16th notes, there are four in a beat. We say 1 e and a to count them.

1 e and a 2 e and a tapping on my tambourine
1 e and a 2 e and a that’s how I count sixteenth notes

Activity Instructions:

Turn on the music and follow the directions with the song to be the leaves.

[walk around in a circle]
The leaves are changing color color color 
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground
The leaves are changing color color color
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground
[spin in a circle]
V1 The leaves are spinning through the air, through the air, through the air
      The leaves are spinning through the air, through the air, through the air
[walk around in a circle]
The leaves are changing color color color
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground

V2 The leaves are jumping in the wind [jump]
V3 The leaves they run across the ground [run]
V4 The leaves are rolling on the ground [roll on ground]

Activity Instructions:

Have children point out the letter S on the alphabet poster. Help them to guess the letter “S” words in the song. Then sing and tap through several times.

Slimy Snake and Silly Spider
Slipped on their Socks and Shoes
Slipped on their Socks and Shoes
Slipped on their Socks and Shoes
Slimy Snake and Silly Spider
Slipped on their Socks and Shoes
So they could Swing and Sing Super Songs
with the Sun and Stars

Activity Instructions:

Pass out microphones. Say hi to the children by name. Then ask them what songs they’d like to sing today.  After singing a few, then have children repeat syllables for do-re-mi-fa-sol-fa-mi-re-do.  Then sing song a little bit at a time with syllables. Afterwards, sing with english words.

So Mi Mi, Fa Re Re
Do Re Mi Fa Sol Sol Sol
Sol Mi Mi Fa Re Re
Do Mi So So Do

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

Lightly row, lightly row,
O’er the glassy waves we go!
Smoothly glide, smoothly glide,
On the silent tide!

Let the winds and waters be
Mingled with our melody.
Sing and float, sing and float
In our little boat! 

Activity Instructions:

Tape long horizontal line with three vertical lines dividing it, and pie slices on the wall.  Whole pie = whole note. Half pie = half note. Quarter pie = quarter note. Each measure gets a full pie, then play rhythm for this representational composing activity.

Activity Instructions:

A chromatic scale is a scale where every half step is played. (All of the white and black keys on the piano). 

Pass out balls and have children practice tapping, rolling from their toes to their head and back down again, and bouncing on their booties. Then play song and follow motions.

VERSE
I am tap-ping the ball with my hands like it’s a drum
Rum, pum, pum, pum, pum, pum, pum, pum,
Rum pum pum pum pum
 (Repeat)

B SECTION
This is a chro-ma-tic ball song
Up and down in lit-tle half steps
This is a chro-ma-tic ball song
Up and down in lit-tle half steps

VERSE 2
I am rol-ling the ball from my toes up to my head
I am rolling the ball from my head down to my toes

VERSE 3
I am sit-ting on the ball and boun-cing up and down

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.

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:

Tape three emojis to the wall for happy, sad, and angry. Have children identify the emotion. Then sing something happy (light and bouncy), angry (stacatto, fast, may be on same note), and sad (downward moving, with chromatic notes, in a minor key)

Activity Instructions:

Use bird puppets to sing song. Give children kisses with the puppet afterwards.

Three little birdies in a tree, singing now so prettily
Three little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la
Three little birdies in a tree, singing now so prettily
Three little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la
One little birdie said to me, I’ve got to fly, people to see
Two little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la

Two little birdies in a tree, singing now so prettily
Two little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la
Two little birdies in a tree, singing now so prettily
Two little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la
One little birdie said to me, I’ve got to fly, people to see
One little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la

One little birdie in a tree, singing now so prettily
One little birdie in a tree, sings tra la la la la
One little birdie in a tree, singing now so prettily
One little birdie in a tree, sings tra la la la la
That little birdie said to me, I’ve got to fly, people to see
No little birdies in a tree, but then they all came back to me
Tra la la x4
Five little birdies came back to me
Tra la la la la

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:

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

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

Activity Instructions:

Pass out transparent scarves. Pull off, and say boo! Interact with each of the children. Then sing the song, interacting with each of the children.

Do Re Me, 123,
Where could my baby be? Boo!

and/or 

Do Re Me, 123,
Where could [name] be? Boo!

Activity Instructions:

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

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

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

Activity Instructions:

Turn on the music and follow the directions with the song to be the leaves.

[walk around in a circle]
The leaves are changing color color color 
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground
The leaves are changing color color color
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground
[spin in a circle]
V1 The leaves are spinning through the air, through the air, through the air
      The leaves are spinning through the air, through the air, through the air
[walk around in a circle]
The leaves are changing color color color
The leaves are changing color and falling to the ground

V2 The leaves are jumping in the wind [jump]
V3 The leaves they run across the ground [run]
V4 The leaves are rolling on the ground [roll on ground]

Activity Instructions:

Pass out microphones. Say hi to the children by name. Then ask them what songs they’d like to sing today.  After singing a few, then have children repeat syllables for do-re-mi-fa-sol-fa-mi-re-do.  Then sing song a little bit at a time with syllables. Afterwards, sing with english words.

So Mi Mi, Fa Re Re
Do Re Mi Fa Sol Sol Sol
Sol Mi Mi Fa Re Re
Do Mi So So Do

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

Lightly row, lightly row,
O’er the glassy waves we go!
Smoothly glide, smoothly glide,
On the silent tide!

Let the winds and waters be
Mingled with our melody.
Sing and float, sing and float
In our little boat! 

Activity Instructions:

A chromatic scale is a scale where every half step is played. (All of the white and black keys on the piano). 

Pass out balls and have children practice tapping, rolling from their toes to their head and back down again, and bouncing on their booties. Then play song and follow motions.

VERSE
I am tap-ping the ball with my hands like it’s a drum
Rum, pum, pum, pum, pum, pum, pum, pum,
Rum pum pum pum pum
 (Repeat)

B SECTION
This is a chro-ma-tic ball song
Up and down in lit-tle half steps
This is a chro-ma-tic ball song
Up and down in lit-tle half steps

VERSE 2
I am rol-ling the ball from my toes up to my head
I am rolling the ball from my head down to my toes

VERSE 3
I am sit-ting on the ball and boun-cing up and down

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.

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:

Tape long horizontal line with three vertical lines dividing it, and pie slices on the wall.  Whole pie = whole note. Half pie = half note. Quarter pie = quarter note. Each measure gets a full pie, then play rhythm for this representational composing activity.

Activity Instructions:

Tape three emojis to the wall for happy, sad, and angry. Have children identify the emotion. Then sing something happy (light and bouncy), angry (stacatto, fast, may be on same note), and sad (downward moving, with chromatic notes, in a minor key)

Activity Instructions:

Use bird puppets to sing song. Give children kisses with the puppet afterwards.

Three little birdies in a tree, singing now so prettily
Three little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la
Three little birdies in a tree, singing now so prettily
Three little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la
One little birdie said to me, I’ve got to fly, people to see
Two little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la

Two little birdies in a tree, singing now so prettily
Two little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la
Two little birdies in a tree, singing now so prettily
Two little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la
One little birdie said to me, I’ve got to fly, people to see
One little birdies in a tree, sing tra la la la la

One little birdie in a tree, singing now so prettily
One little birdie in a tree, sings tra la la la la
One little birdie in a tree, singing now so prettily
One little birdie in a tree, sings tra la la la la
That little birdie said to me, I’ve got to fly, people to see
No little birdies in a tree, but then they all came back to me
Tra la la x4
Five little birdies came back to me
Tra la la la la

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 :|