Activity Instructions:

Play music as children enter. Allow them to play with an instrument or dance while waiting for class to start.

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:

Explore shaking, tapping, and rolling the rainstick. Then sing song, following directions in the song.

See my rainstick standing tall
Turn it over
Watch the balls
Falling down from high to low
Turn it over there they go
See my rainstick standing tall
Turn it over
Watch the balls

Hold my rainstick side to side
Shake it shake it,
make it hide
Rainstick rainstick where are you?
Come back let me play with you!
Hold my rainstick side to side
Shake it shake it,
make it hide

Activity Instructions:

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

Yo-ho ho-ho
a Pirate’s life for me
Sailing up and sailing down
Across the deep blue sea
The waves may toss my ship around
But buried treasure will be found
Yo-ho ho-ho
a Pirate’s life for me

Yo-ho Ho-ho
a Pirate’s life for me
Hoist the anchor, raise the sails
We’re off across the seas
The map shows where the treasure lies
Gold and silver are our prize
Yo-ho Ho-ho
A Pirate’s life for me

Yo-ho Ho-ho
a pirates life for me
Lads and lasses, gather round
me Hearties, You we need
Wear ye cutlass, eyepatch too
We’ll find the booty, me and you
Yo-ho Ho-ho
a Pirate’s life for me

Activity Instructions:

Children feed the color monster squares of different shapes. (Beanbags are great for this, otherwise, cardstock or construction paper squares will work).

The color monster’s hungry, he needs something to eat
The color monster’s hungry, he needs a tasty treat
The color monster’s hungry, he needs something to eat
Would you feed me something [GREEN, BLUE, RED, YELLOW, PURPLE]

Activity Instructions:

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

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

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

Activity Instructions:

This song is instrumental… meaning there are instruments, but no words.

The instrumental repeats four times, with an extended ending on the fourth verse.

v1. Run and stop
v2. Tap your knees – and stop
v3. Spin- and stop
v4. Dance – and stop

Activity Instructions:

Pass out microphones to children. Ask for some of their favorite songs, and sing them together. Then sing through solfege syllables, allowing class to echo. Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, Fa, Mi, Re, Do. Then introduce song for the week.

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

Are you sleeping
Are you sleeping
Brother John
Brother John
Morning bells are ringing
Morning bells are ringing
Ding dong ding
Ding dong ding

Frère Jacques,
Frère Jacques,
Dormez-vous?
Dormez-vous?
Sonnez les matines!
Sonnez les matines!
Ding, dong, ding.
Ding, dong, ding.

Activity Instructions:

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

I am tapping, tapping on my ball
I am tapping, tapping on my ball
Fast as fast can be tap the ball with me
I am tapping tapping on my ball

I am rolling, rolling side to side
I am rolling, rolling side to side
Fast as fast can be, roll the ball with me
I am rolling rolling side to side

I am bouncing, bouncing up and down
I am bouncing, bouncing up and down
Fast as fast can be, bounce on the ball with me
I am bouncing bouncing up and down

I am rolling, rolling to a friend
I am rolling rolling to a friend
Fast as fast can be, roll the ball with me
I am rolling, rolling to a friend

Activity Instructions:

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

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:

Similar to identifying instruments. Play the four .mp3s and post the notes on the wall. Have children run to the sign of what they hear

Activity Instructions:

Use turtle puppet to sing song.

Tommy Turtle teach us how to always be nice
asking we say please
receiving we say thanks
Tommy Turtle teach us how to always be nice
teach us all to be polite

We say please when we ask for a need
We say thank you when we receive
Please and Thank you they are kind
Teach us how to be polite

Tommy Turtle teach us how to always be nice
asking we say please
receiving we say thanks
Tommy Turtle teach us how to always be nice
teach us all to be polite

We say please when we ask for a need
We say thank you when we receive
Please and Thank you they are kind
Teach us how to be polite

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 enter. Allow them to play with an instrument or dance while waiting for class to start.

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

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

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

Activity Instructions:

This song is instrumental… meaning there are instruments, but no words.

The instrumental repeats four times, with an extended ending on the fourth verse.

v1. Run and stop
v2. Tap your knees – and stop
v3. Spin- and stop
v4. Dance – and stop

Activity Instructions:

Introduce letter Q words(Queen, Quiet, Question, Quick) and Questions – who, what, where.

The Quiet Queen she Questioned me
quickly quickly who art thee?

The Quiet Queen she questioned me
My name’s _______, let me be

The Quiet Queen she Questioned me?
Quickly, quickly, what do you see?
The Quiet Queen she Questioned me
I see ____________ with me    

The Quiet Queen she Questioned me
Quickly, Quickly, Where art thee?
The quiet queen she questioned me
I’m at ________ with thee

Activity Instructions:

Pass out microphones to children. Ask for some of their favorite songs, and sing them together. Then sing through solfege syllables, allowing class to echo. Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, Fa, Mi, Re, Do. Then introduce song for the week.

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

The itsy bitsy spider
Went up the water spout
Down came the rain and
Washed the spider out
Out came the sun and
dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider
Went up the spout again

Activity Instructions:

Before class, print out color composing sheets, and pull crayons that match whatever instrument you are going to play the student compositions on.
(Boomwhackers, handbells, or xylophone)

Have students color the squares, and then play their compositions.

Activity Instructions:

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

I am tapping, tapping on my ball
I am tapping, tapping on my ball
Fast as fast can be tap the ball with me
I am tapping tapping on my ball

I am rolling, rolling side to side
I am rolling, rolling side to side
Fast as fast can be, roll the ball with me
I am rolling rolling side to side

I am bouncing, bouncing up and down
I am bouncing, bouncing up and down
Fast as fast can be, bounce on the ball with me
I am bouncing bouncing up and down

I am rolling, rolling to a friend
I am rolling rolling to a friend
Fast as fast can be, roll the ball with me
I am rolling, rolling to a friend

Activity Instructions:

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

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:

Similar to identifying instruments. Play the four .mp3s and post the notes on the wall. Have children run to the sign of what they hear

Activity Instructions:

Use turtle puppet to sing song.

Tommy Turtle teach us how to always be nice
asking we say please
receiving we say thanks
Tommy Turtle teach us how to always be nice
teach us all to be polite

We say please when we ask for a need
We say thank you when we receive
Please and Thank you they are kind
Teach us how to be polite

Tommy Turtle teach us how to always be nice
asking we say please
receiving we say thanks
Tommy Turtle teach us how to always be nice
teach us all to be polite

We say please when we ask for a need
We say thank you when we receive
Please and Thank you they are kind
Teach us how to be polite

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 enter. Allow them to play with an instrument or dance while waiting for class to start.

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 shakers. Allow children time to explore shaking them. Practice shaking and passing to the right to a friend. Then introduce the song.

Shake (x12) and Stop 1111111111123
Shake (x12) and Stop 3333333333321
Shake (x12) and Stop 1111111111123
And pass it to a friend 3 v55 221

Activity Instructions:

Pass out scarves, explore, playing peek-a-boo. Then begin singing song as you play. Sing several times.
In vocal jazz, scat singing is vocal improvisation with wordless vocables, nonsense syllables or without words at all.

Zit-dit-dit
Boop bop, be do be do
Zit dit dit
Boop bop be doo – Boo

Activity Instructions:

Children feed the color monster squares of different shapes. (Beanbags are great for this, otherwise, cardstock or construction paper squares will work).

The color monster’s hungry, he needs something to eat
The color monster’s hungry, he needs a tasty treat
The color monster’s hungry, he needs something to eat
Would you feed me something [GREEN, BLUE, RED, YELLOW, PURPLE]

Activity Instructions:

This song is instrumental… meaning there are instruments, but no words.

The instrumental repeats four times, with an extended ending on the fourth verse.

v1. Run and stop
v2. Tap your knees – and stop
v3. Spin- and stop
v4. Dance – and stop

Activity Instructions:

Pass out microphones to children. Ask for some of their favorite songs, and sing them together. Then sing through solfege syllables, allowing class to echo. Do, Re, Mi, Fa, Sol, Fa, Mi, Re, Do. Then introduce song for the week.

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

The itsy bitsy spider
Went up the water spout
Down came the rain and
Washed the spider out
Out came the sun and
dried up all the rain
And the itsy bitsy spider
Went up the spout again

Activity Instructions:

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

I am tapping, tapping on my ball
I am tapping, tapping on my ball
Fast as fast can be tap the ball with me
I am tapping tapping on my ball

I am rolling, rolling side to side
I am rolling, rolling side to side
Fast as fast can be, roll the ball with me
I am rolling rolling side to side

I am bouncing, bouncing up and down
I am bouncing, bouncing up and down
Fast as fast can be, bounce on the ball with me
I am bouncing bouncing up and down

I am rolling, rolling to a friend
I am rolling rolling to a friend
Fast as fast can be, roll the ball with me
I am rolling, rolling to a friend

Activity Instructions:

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

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:

Before class, print out color composing sheets, and pull crayons that match whatever instrument you are going to play the student compositions on.
(Boomwhackers, handbells, or xylophone)

Have students color the squares, and then play their compositions.

Activity Instructions:

Similar to identifying instruments. Play the four .mp3s and post the notes on the wall. Have children run to the sign of what they hear

Activity Instructions:

Use turtle puppet to sing song.

Tommy Turtle teach us how to always be nice
asking we say please
receiving we say thanks
Tommy Turtle teach us how to always be nice
teach us all to be polite

We say please when we ask for a need
We say thank you when we receive
Please and Thank you they are kind
Teach us how to be polite

Tommy Turtle teach us how to always be nice
asking we say please
receiving we say thanks
Tommy Turtle teach us how to always be nice
teach us all to be polite

We say please when we ask for a need
We say thank you when we receive
Please and Thank you they are kind
Teach us how to be polite

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 :|