Activity Instructions:

Play as children are entering.

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

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

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:

Hang construction paper around the room on the wall. Have children identify the colors of each sheet. Then have them run to the color on the wall when you sing the song. Feel free to shorten to the first two lines as the children catch on.

It has four sides, It has four sides
two sides short, two sides long,
Find the red rectangle, find the red rectangle
Sing along, sing a shape song
(repeat with orange, yellow, green, blue, purple etc)

Activity Instructions:

Pass out tambourines, allow children to explore shaking tambourine, tapping it with hands on the floor like a drum, and hitting it with one hand while holding in the other hand.

I’m gonna shake my tambourine x3
I’m gonna shake and shake and STOP

I’m gonna tap my tambourine x3
I’m gonna tap and tap and STOP

I’m gonna hit my tambourine x3
I’m gonna hit and hit and STOP

Activity Instructions:

Start song seated. Show children chorus motions, then begin song. (Don’t worry about demonstrating the whole song, there’s too much in this one!)

Touch your head, touch your toes
Touch your knees, touch your nose
Put your hands on the floor (and drum)
Touch your head, touch your toes
Touch your knees, touch your nose
Stand up tall, turn around, Let’s dance

Stomp x3 clap x2, Turn around
Stomp x3 clap x2, Touch the ground
Stomp x3 clap x2, Turn around
Stomp x3 clap x2, Sit down

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.

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

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:

Tape pictures of Drums, Clarinet, and Trombone on walls. Play provided .mp3s and ask students to identify the sound they are hearing by running to that picture on the wall.

Activity Instructions:

Tell the children you have a song about Mr. Snowman to sing today. The song talks about building him, and then him melting when it gets warm… but that’s okay because when it gets cold we will build Mr. Snowman again.

Do you like my snowman
With his carrot nose
His scarf and his top hat
and eyes made out of coal
He likes it when its cold out
That’s when he comes to play
But when it gets too warm out
My snowman melts away

Bye snowman, cya later
By snowman, my snowman melts away
Bye snowman, cya later
But when it gets cold out
We’ll build you once again

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 as children are entering.

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

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

Activity Instructions:

Start song seated. Show children chorus motions, then begin song. (Don’t worry about demonstrating the whole song, there’s too much in this one!)

Touch your head, touch your toes
Touch your knees, touch your nose
Put your hands on the floor (and drum)
Touch your head, touch your toes
Touch your knees, touch your nose
Stand up tall, turn around, Let’s dance

Stomp x3 clap x2, Turn around
Stomp x3 clap x2, Touch the ground
Stomp x3 clap x2, Turn around
Stomp x3 clap x2, Sit down

Activity Instructions:

Ask students if they are able to tell you the name of animals or bugs beginning with the letter F. Help them to guess frog, fish, fox, and fly, and talk about their spelling as they guess each one. Then sing the song.

There was a Farmer had a frog
and FROG it was his name-o
FROG Frog, FROG Frog, FROG Frog
and FROG it was his name-frog
no, that’s not right? Hmm…

There was a farmer had a fish
and fish it was his name-o
FISH fish, FISH fish, FISH fish
and fish it was his name Fish!

There was a farmer had a fox
and fox it was his name-o
FOX that’s fox x3
and fox it was his name-o

There was a famer had a fly
and fly it was his name-o
FLY that’s fly x3
and fox it was his name-o

Activity Instructions:

Pass out handbells for CDEF and G. Then have them practice ringing the bells in the air and muting them on the ground. Ask the children what color they have. Then have them play one color at a time up and down the bells from C-G-C. Then have the children play the song, by cuing the colors.

GEE, FDD, CDEFGGG, GEE, FDD, CEGGC

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 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.

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

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:

Tape pictures of Drums, Clarinet, and Trombone on walls. Play provided .mp3s and ask students to identify the sound they are hearing by running to that picture on the wall.

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 as children are entering.

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 up and down, side to side, pass back and forth between hands, and tap on the ground. Then introduce the song.

I’m sha-king my egg up and down
up and down, up and down
I’m sha-king my egg up and down
Shake shake shake shake shake

I’m sha-king my egg side to side
side to side side to side
I’m sha-king my egg side to side
Shake shake shake shake shake

I’m pass-ing my egg back and forth
back and forth back and forth
I’m pass-ing my egg back and forth
Shake shake shake shake shake

I’m tap-ping my egg on the ground
on the ground on the ground
I’m tap-ping my egg on the ground
shake shake shake shake shake

Activity Instructions:

Have children practice hiding behind hands and opening them like a door on the word “boo.” Then sing through song.

123, you can’t see me,
hiding behind my hands – boo! x2
I23, you can’t see me, (peek right)
I23, you can’t see me, (peek left)
123, you can’t see me,
hiding behind my hands – boo!

Activity Instructions:

Hang construction paper around the room on the wall. Have children identify the colors of each sheet. Then have them run to the color on the wall when you sing the song. Feel free to shorten to the first two lines as the children catch on.

It has four sides, It has four sides
two sides short, two sides long,
Find the red rectangle, find the red rectangle
Sing along, sing a shape song
(repeat with orange, yellow, green, blue, purple etc)

Activity Instructions:

Start song seated. Show children chorus motions, then begin song. (Don’t worry about demonstrating the whole song, there’s too much in this one!)

Touch your head, touch your toes
Touch your knees, touch your nose
Put your hands on the floor (and drum)
Touch your head, touch your toes
Touch your knees, touch your nose
Stand up tall, turn around, Let’s dance

Stomp x3 clap x2, Turn around
Stomp x3 clap x2, Touch the ground
Stomp x3 clap x2, Turn around
Stomp x3 clap x2, Sit down

Activity Instructions:

Distribute instruments. Allow children to explore tapping with fingers, hands, and shaking. Then introduce song. Repeat several times.

I see a big circle,  (keep the beat)
little circles too,
Tambourine, tambourine
Right in front of you

Tap with your fingers (follow directions)
Tap with your hands
Pick it up and shake it
And put it down again

Activity Instructions:

Pair up students, then allow children to practice rolling the ball, then begin song. Depending upon age and ability level, see if children can roll the ball to their partner when you say “roll” in the song. Repeat several times. With a small class, you might sit in a circle and play with everyone instead of pairing off.

One Two Three
Roll the ball to me
One Two
I roll the ball to you

One two three
Roll the ball to me
One Two
I roll the ball to you.

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:

Tell the children you have a song about Mr. Snowman to sing today. The song talks about building him, and then him melting when it gets warm… but that’s okay because when it gets cold we will build Mr. Snowman again.

Do you like my snowman
With his carrot nose
His scarf and his top hat
and eyes made out of coal
He likes it when its cold out
That’s when he comes to play
But when it gets too warm out
My snowman melts away

Bye snowman, cya later
By snowman, my snowman melts away
Bye snowman, cya later
But when it gets cold out
We’ll build you once again

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 :|