Activity Instructions:

Play music as children are entering at the start of class. This is a shorter song, so you may want to put it on repeat.

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 Rhythm Sticks. Allow children to explore hitting them together, hitting them on the ground, etc. Older children can also hold one up straight and use the other to tap the top like a hammer. Tap the beat and sing the song. You may also choose to use a train whistle to enhance the activity.

I’ve been work-ing on the railroad
All the live-long day.
I’ve been working on the rail-road
Just to pass the time away.
Can’t you hear the whistle blowing,
Rise up so early in the morning;
Hear the engine driver shouting,
“Children, come along!”

Children, won’t you come
Children, won’t you come
Children, won’t you come along along
Children, won’t you come
Children, won’t you come
Children, won’t you come along

Sing-‘in fee, fie, fid-dl-y-i-o
Fee, fie fid-dl-y-i-o-i-o-o
fee, fie, fid-dl-y-i-o
Children, won’t you come along

Activity Instructions:

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

Chug Chug Chug Goes the cho-choo train [bounce children on lap]
Chug Chug Chug down the tracks
Chug Chug Chug goes the choo-choo train
Clickety Clickety Clack

Chug Chug Chug goes the choo-choo train [move legs together up and down]
Chug Chug Chug up and down
Chug Chug Chug goes the choo-choo train
Bumping all the people around [alternate legs quickly]

Toot toot toot goes the engineer [bounce on lap]
Toot toot toot pull the horn [pretend to pull train whistle]
Toot toot toot goes the engineer [bounce on lap]
The train’s comin’ through this morn

Chug Chug Chug Goes the cho-choo train [bounce children on lap]
Chug Chug Chug down the tracks
Chug Chug Chug goes the choo-choo train
Clickety Clickety Clack

Chug Chug Chug goes the choo-choo train [move legs together up and down]
Chug Chug Chug up and down
Chug Chug Chug goes the choo-choo train
Bumping all the people around [alternate legs quickly]

Toot toot toot goes the engineer [bounce on lap]
Toot toot toot pull the horn [pretend to pull train whistle]
Toot toot toot goes the engineer [bounce on lap]
The train’s comin’ round this morn

Yeah
The train’s comin’ round this morn

Activity Instructions:

Before your first class, construct your color or shape monster (a piece of foam board with two eyes and a cutout mouth).
Cut out shapes to feed the monster. (Circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles) Review the shapes with children. Then have them put the shapes into the monster’s mouth as you sing about them.

Will you feed the shape monster?
Will you feed him squares?
Will you feed the shape monster?
Will you feed him squares?

“Feed me, feed me, feed me please
Bring me squares so I can eat!”
Will you feed the shape monster
Will you feed him squares?

Activity Instructions:

Pass out the castanets – one to each student. Allow them to explore squeezing the castanets shut with one hand, the other hand, both hands, etc. Then introduce song.

Chomp Chomp Chomp goes the cas-ta-net
when my fin-gers squeeze it shut
Chomp Chomp Chomp goes the cas-ta-net
like a mouth try-ing to talk
Chomp chomp chomp, and click click click
o-pen shut it, just like this
Chomp chomp chomp goes my cas-ta-net
Chomp chomp chomp chomp chomp

Activity Instructions:

Practice playing air guitar, jumping, spinning, shaking hands, and twisting. Then turn on the music and follow the directions in the song. Prompt the children to play air guitar during the guitar breaks in the song.

CHORUS
C’mon and dance your blues away
Sing with me today
Laugh, let’s have some fun
‘Til the day is done

C’mon and move those happy feet
Feel this rockin’ beat
Play your air guitar
till the song is done

VERSES
V1. We’re gonna jump and jump and jump and STOP (x4)
V2. We’re gonna spin and spin and spin and spin and STOP (x4)
V3. We’re gonna shake and shake and shake and shake and STOP (x4)
V4. We’re gonna twist and twist and twist and twist and STOP (x4)

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.

Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol
Fa Fa Mi Mi Re Re Do
Sol Sol Fa Fa Me Mi Re
Sol Sol Fa Fa Me Mi Re
Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol
Fa Fa Mi Mi Re Re Do

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
how I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
How I wonder what you are

Activity Instructions:

Pass out balls. Have children practice following the directions in the song, as you speak them. Then start song and follow along.

Put the ball on your head
Put the ball on your nose
Put the ball on your knees
Put the ball on your toes

Roll the ball up your legs
and make it a hat
Roll the ball to the floor
and make the ball go splat

Activity Instructions:

Pass out scarves, and have children bounce, dance, etc. This song was the theme of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, and features Pitbull, Jennifer Lopez and Claudia Leitte.

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:

Teacher walks around the room with drum in hand and plays fast and slow. Fast and slow tempo = fast and slow steps as you walk/run around the circle. Stop drumbeat for children and teacher to stop altogether.

Activity Instructions:

Share some alligator facts from the song with the kids. Then sing song, using puppet chomping his teeth to the beat.
At the end, ask Mr. Alligator if he will be nice? Not eat the kids? Then give alligator kisses if desired.

Mr. Alligator, was swimmin’ in the swamp
Mr. Alligator says hello! Chomp Chomp

Mr. Alligator, he’s a reptile
Look at all those teeth in his great big smile

Mr Alligator he can really grow in size
10-15 feet long, and 1000 pounds!

Mr. Alligator, He was almost extinct?
C’ya later Alligator
Thanks for not eating me!

Mr. Alligator, was swimmin’ in the swamp
Mr. Alligator says hello! Chomp Chomp

Mr. Alligator, he’s a reptile
Look at all those teeth in his great big smile

Mr Alligator he can really grow in size
10-15 feet long, and 1000 pounds!

Mr. Alligator, He was almost extinct?
C’ya later Alligator
Thanks for not eating me!

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. This is a shorter song, so you may want to put it on repeat.

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 Rhythm Sticks. Allow children to explore hitting them together, hitting them on the ground, etc. Older children can also hold one up straight and use the other to tap the top like a hammer. Tap the beat and sing the song. You may also choose to use a train whistle to enhance the activity.

I’ve been work-ing on the railroad
All the live-long day.
I’ve been working on the rail-road
Just to pass the time away.
Can’t you hear the whistle blowing,
Rise up so early in the morning;
Hear the engine driver shouting,
“Children, come along!”

Children, won’t you come
Children, won’t you come
Children, won’t you come along along
Children, won’t you come
Children, won’t you come
Children, won’t you come along

Sing-‘in fee, fie, fid-dl-y-i-o
Fee, fie fid-dl-y-i-o-i-o-o
fee, fie, fid-dl-y-i-o
Children, won’t you come along

Activity Instructions:

Practice playing air guitar, jumping, spinning, shaking hands, and twisting. Then turn on the music and follow the directions in the song. Prompt the children to play air guitar during the guitar breaks in the song.

CHORUS
C’mon and dance your blues away
Sing with me today
Laugh, let’s have some fun
‘Til the day is done

C’mon and move those happy feet
Feel this rockin’ beat
Play your air guitar
till the song is done

VERSES
V1. We’re gonna jump and jump and jump and STOP (x4)
V2. We’re gonna spin and spin and spin and spin and STOP (x4)
V3. We’re gonna shake and shake and shake and shake and STOP (x4)
V4. We’re gonna twist and twist and twist and twist and STOP (x4)

Activity Instructions:

Have children find the letter “M” on an alphabet chart, or show children a picture of the letter M.
Talk about the words that start with the letter M in the song. Then sing the silly letter M song, having children tap to the beat while you sing.

Mommy and the Monkey went to get some Money
to buy Milk from the Masked Man in the Moon
Mommy Made Me Meatballs to go with the Milk
from the Man in the Moon whose cow who says Moo

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.

Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol
Fa Fa Mi Mi Re Re Do
Sol Sol Fa Fa Me Mi Re
Sol Sol Fa Fa Me Mi Re
Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol
Fa Fa Mi Mi Re Re Do

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
how I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
How I wonder what you are

Activity Instructions:

Pass out Boomwhackers. Allow children to explore hitting them on the ground freely. Then ask them to only hit when you cue them by pointing or calling out the color of the boomwhacker. Have children play song several times through. Switch colors and repeat, if desired, depending upon time.

EDCD EEE
DDD EGG

EDCD EEEE
DD EDC

Activity Instructions:

Have children throw the bean bags onto the music carpet, or staff lines taped onto the floor.
Play the notes of the melody they create on the keyboard or xylophone.

Activity Instructions:

Pass out balls. Have children practice following the directions in the song, as you speak them. Then start song and follow along.

Put the ball on your head
Put the ball on your nose
Put the ball on your knees
Put the ball on your toes

Roll the ball up your legs
and make it a hat
Roll the ball to the floor
and make the ball go splat

Activity Instructions:

Pass out scarves, and have children bounce, dance, etc. This song was the theme of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, and features Pitbull, Jennifer Lopez and Claudia Leitte.

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:

Teacher walks around the room with drum in hand and plays fast and slow. Fast and slow tempo = fast and slow steps as you walk/run around the circle. Stop drumbeat for children and teacher to stop altogether.

Activity Instructions:

Share some alligator facts from the song with the kids. Then sing song, using puppet chomping his teeth to the beat.
At the end, ask Mr. Alligator if he will be nice? Not eat the kids? Then give alligator kisses if desired.

Mr. Alligator, was swimmin’ in the swamp
Mr. Alligator says hello! Chomp Chomp

Mr. Alligator, he’s a reptile
Look at all those teeth in his great big smile

Mr Alligator he can really grow in size
10-15 feet long, and 1000 pounds!

Mr. Alligator, He was almost extinct?
C’ya later Alligator
Thanks for not eating me!

Mr. Alligator, was swimmin’ in the swamp
Mr. Alligator says hello! Chomp Chomp

Mr. Alligator, he’s a reptile
Look at all those teeth in his great big smile

Mr Alligator he can really grow in size
10-15 feet long, and 1000 pounds!

Mr. Alligator, He was almost extinct?
C’ya later Alligator
Thanks for not eating me!

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. This is a shorter song, so you may want to put it on repeat.

Activity Instructions:

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

I’m gonna rock rock rock with with my families
Rock, rock rock with my families
Rock, rock rock with my families
in Rockin’ Rhythms music class

Let’s all rock with [Name Here]
Let’s all rock with [Name Here or “together”]
Let’s all rock with [Name Here or “and have fun”]
in Rockin’ Rhythms music class

Activity Instructions:

Pass out Rhythm Sticks. Allow children to explore hitting them together, hitting them on the ground, etc. Older children can also hold one up straight and use the other to tap the top like a hammer. Tap the beat and sing the song. You may also choose to use a train whistle to enhance the activity.

I’ve been work-ing on the railroad
All the live-long day.
I’ve been working on the rail-road
Just to pass the time away.
Can’t you hear the whistle blowing,
Rise up so early in the morning;
Hear the engine driver shouting,
“Children, come along!”

Children, won’t you come
Children, won’t you come
Children, won’t you come along along
Children, won’t you come
Children, won’t you come
Children, won’t you come along

Sing-‘in fee, fie, fid-dl-y-i-o
Fee, fie fid-dl-y-i-o-i-o-o
fee, fie, fid-dl-y-i-o
Children, won’t you come along

Activity Instructions:

Pass out scarves, explore, playing peek-a-boo. Then begin singing song as you play. Sing several times. You may also subsitite the child’s name for “baby.”

Where is baby? Where did he go?
I can’t find him! Oh No!
Where is baby where did he go?
Five four three two one: Peek-a-boo!

Activity Instructions:

Before your first class, construct your color or shape monster (a piece of foam board with two eyes and a cutout mouth).
Cut out shapes to feed the monster. (Circles, triangles, squares, and rectangles) Review the shapes with children. Then have them put the shapes into the monster’s mouth as you sing about them.

Will you feed the shape monster?
Will you feed him squares?
Will you feed the shape monster?
Will you feed him squares?

“Feed me, feed me, feed me please
Bring me squares so I can eat!”
Will you feed the shape monster
Will you feed him squares?

Activity Instructions:

Practice playing air guitar, jumping, spinning, shaking hands, and twisting. Then turn on the music and follow the directions in the song. Prompt the children to play air guitar during the guitar breaks in the song.

CHORUS
C’mon and dance your blues away
Sing with me today
Laugh, let’s have some fun
‘Til the day is done

C’mon and move those happy feet
Feel this rockin’ beat
Play your air guitar
till the song is done

VERSES
V1. We’re gonna jump and jump and jump and STOP (x4)
V2. We’re gonna spin and spin and spin and spin and STOP (x4)
V3. We’re gonna shake and shake and shake and shake and STOP (x4)
V4. We’re gonna twist and twist and twist and twist and STOP (x4)

Activity Instructions:

Pass out Boomwhackers. Allow children to explore hitting them on the ground freely. Then ask them to only hit when you cue them by pointing or calling out the color of the boomwhacker. Have children play song several times through. Switch colors and repeat, if desired, depending upon time.

EDCD EEE
DDD EGG

EDCD EEEE
DD EDC

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.

Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol
Fa Fa Mi Mi Re Re Do
Sol Sol Fa Fa Me Mi Re
Sol Sol Fa Fa Me Mi Re
Do Do Sol Sol La La Sol
Fa Fa Mi Mi Re Re Do

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
how I wonder what you are
Up above the world so high
Like a diamond in the sky
Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
How I wonder what you are

Activity Instructions:

Pass out balls. Have children practice following the directions in the song, as you speak them. Then start song and follow along.

Put the ball on your head
Put the ball on your nose
Put the ball on your knees
Put the ball on your toes

Roll the ball up your legs
and make it a hat
Roll the ball to the floor
and make the ball go splat

Activity Instructions:

Pass out scarves, and have children bounce, dance, etc. This song was the theme of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, and features Pitbull, Jennifer Lopez and Claudia Leitte.

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:

Have children throw the bean bags onto the music carpet, or staff lines taped onto the floor.
Play the notes of the melody they create on the keyboard or xylophone.

Activity Instructions:

Teacher walks around the room with drum in hand and plays fast and slow. Fast and slow tempo = fast and slow steps as you walk/run around the circle. Stop drumbeat for children and teacher to stop altogether.

Activity Instructions:

Share some alligator facts from the song with the kids. Then sing song, using puppet chomping his teeth to the beat.
At the end, ask Mr. Alligator if he will be nice? Not eat the kids? Then give alligator kisses if desired.

Mr. Alligator, was swimmin’ in the swamp
Mr. Alligator says hello! Chomp Chomp

Mr. Alligator, he’s a reptile
Look at all those teeth in his great big smile

Mr Alligator he can really grow in size
10-15 feet long, and 1000 pounds!

Mr. Alligator, He was almost extinct?
C’ya later Alligator
Thanks for not eating me!

Mr. Alligator, was swimmin’ in the swamp
Mr. Alligator says hello! Chomp Chomp

Mr. Alligator, he’s a reptile
Look at all those teeth in his great big smile

Mr Alligator he can really grow in size
10-15 feet long, and 1000 pounds!

Mr. Alligator, He was almost extinct?
C’ya later Alligator
Thanks for not eating me!

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 :|