Tot Rock

• Coming in Classical: Vivalidi – Spring, from The Four Seasons

  Activity Instructions:

  Allow children to listen as they enter. Pick an instrument you are not using for them to play with.

  Historical information:

  The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives a musical expression to a season of the year. They were written about 1721 and were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight additional violin concerti, as Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (“The Contest Between Harmony and Invention”).

  The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi’s works. Unusually for the time, Vivaldi published the concerti with accompanying poems (possibly written by Vivaldi himself) that elucidated what it was about those seasons that his music was intended to evoke. It provides one of the earliest and most-detailed examples of what was later called program music—music with a narrative element.

  Vivaldi took great pains to relate his music to the texts of the poems, translating the poetic lines themselves directly into the music on the page. In the middle section of the Spring concerto, where the goatherd sleeps, his barking dog can be marked in the viola section. Other natural occurrences are similarly evoked. Vivaldi separated each concerto into three movements, fast-slow-fast, and likewise each linked sonnet into three sections

  Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_(Vivaldi)]

  
  

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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: Maracas Hi, Low, Scale

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out maracas, explore shaking and high and low pitches. Then sing song several times.

  Lyrics:
  

  I am shaking my maracas
  Way up high
  Way up high
  Way up high
  I am shaking my maracas way up high
  Way up high in the air

  I am shaking my maracas
  Way down low
  Way down low
  Way down low
  I am shaking my maracas way down low
  Shaking them near the ground

  I am tapping my maracas
  to the scale
  Do re me fa so la ti do
  I am shaking my maracas
  to the scale
  Do re me fa so la ti do

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• Lapride: Turtle and the Bunny (Tortoise and the Hare)

  Activity Instructions:

  Have children sit in parent’s laps. Explore Bumping and Bouncing fast, and walking slowly with left or right leg up. This is a version of the tortise (turtle) and the hare (bunny). Use the turtle and the bunny in your lap.

  Lyrics:
  

  [FAST- bounce Part 1, bump Part 2]
  The turtle and the bunny met one day, met one day, met one day
  The turtle and the bunny met one day, met one day, met one day
  The turtle and the bunny met one day, met one day, met one day
  and they decided to race

  Hopalong bunny sped away, sped away, sped away
  Hopalong bunny sped away, sped away, sped away
  Hopalong bunny sped away, sped away, sped away
  Hopalong bunny sped away
  and the turtle began his chase

  [SLOW – one knee up, other knee up, alternate]
  Slow and steady wins the race
  wins the race, wins the race
  Slow and steady wins the race
  Turtle followed at his own pace

  [FAST- bounce Part 1, bump Part 2]
  Hopalong bunny turned around, turned around, turned around
  Hopalong bunny turned around, turned around, turned around
  Hopalong bunny turned around, turned around, turned around
  Couldn’t see the turtle so he sat down

  Hopalong bunny, tired out, tired out, tired out
  Hopalong bunny, tired out, tired out, tired out
  Hopalong bunny, tired out, tired out, tired out
  Shut his eyes and took a nap

  [SLOWLY – one knee up, other knee up, alternate]
  Mr. Turtle kept on walking
  past the bunny’s napping place
  Mr. Turtle kept on walking
  Slow and steady wins the race

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• Color or Shape Song w/Instrument: Egg Decorations

  Activity Instructions:

  Point out decorated eggs on the wall to the children. Review the colors and patterns. Then have the children go to the wall and touch the egg that you are describing.

  Lyrics:
  

  Hop like a bunny 
  Hop like a bunny
  Find the egg that has [*green stripes]
  Hop like a bunny 
  Hop like a bunny
  Find the egg that has [*green stripes]

  *pink polka dots, purple zig zags, green stripes, solid blue

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• Song w/Instrument: Egg Shaker BUNNY

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out shakers, allow children to explore making different sounds with the eggs. Then sing song. Introduce spelling BUNNY and CHICK.

  Lyrics:
  

  There was a girl/boy who had a pet
  and bunny was its name o
  B U N N Y
  B U N N Y
  B U N N Y
  and bunny was it’s name o

  There was a girl/boy who had a pet
  and chick it was its name o
  C H I C K
  C H I C K
  C H I C K
  and chick it was its name o

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• Body Awareness: Hop Mr. Rabbit

  Activity Instructions:

  Practice hopping, wiggling your nose, chomping your teeth, scratching your ears. Then play song and follow motions.

  Lyrics:
  

  Hop hop Mr. Rabbit,
  Hop hop down the trail

  Wiggle your nose, Mr. Rabbit
  Wiggle your nose, down the trail

  Chomp your teeth Mr. Rabbit
  chomping on an orange carrot

  Scratch your ear Mr. Rabbit
  Scratch your ear with your paws

  Hop hop Mr. Rabbit,
  Hop hop down the trail

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• Solfege Song: Row Your Boat

  Activity Instructions:

  Hand out microphones. Say hello to each of the kids. Ask the children what songs they would like to sing.
  Then transition into solfege. Have them sing Do, Re, Mi Fa, Sol, Fa, Mi, Re, then Do (repeat several times, be silly)
  Sing syllables one phrase at a time, repeat phrase with parents.
  Afterwards, sing song on words.

  Lyrics:
  

  Do, Do, Do Re Me – 11123
  Mi Re Mi Fa Sol  – 32345
  Do Do Do Sol Sol Sol Mi Mi Mi Do Do Do  – 888 555 333 111
  Sol Fa Mi Re Do  – 54321

   

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• Song w/Ball: Roll the Spiky Ball

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Have children pair up. Practice rolling, bouncing, ball on head, nose, knees, toes.

  Lyrics:
  

  [INTRO]
  Will you roll the spiky ball
  Will you roll the spiky ball
  Will you roll the spiky ball to a friend
  (repeat)

  [BREAK, introduce bouncing]

  Will you bounce the spiky ball
  Will you bounce the spiky ball
  Will you bounce the spiky ball with your hands
  (repeat)

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

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• World Music Dance: Africa – He Lives in You from Lion King- African Tribal Music

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out scarves for children to dance with

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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: 123, Indentify Me Review

  Activity Instructions:

  Show children pictures of instruments on the wall, tell them their names and let them listen to the sound with the .mp3 player. Have them run to the pictures on the wall and touch the instrument. Have them identify each instrument a couple of times.

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• Puppet: Three Little Bunnies

  Activity Instructions:

  Use bunny finger puppets to sing song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Three little bunnies jumping on the bed
  One fell off and bumped his head
  Mamma called the doctor and the doctor said
  No more bunnies jumping on the bed

  You may jump but on the ground
  Where you will be safe and sound
  You may hop and play around
  But you must do it on the ground

  (continue with 2 and 1…)

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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: Vivalidi – Spring, from The Four Seasons

  Activity Instructions:

  Allow children to listen as they enter. Pick an instrument you are not using for them to play with.

  Historical information:

  The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives a musical expression to a season of the year. They were written about 1721 and were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight additional violin concerti, as Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (“The Contest Between Harmony and Invention”).

  The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi’s works. Unusually for the time, Vivaldi published the concerti with accompanying poems (possibly written by Vivaldi himself) that elucidated what it was about those seasons that his music was intended to evoke. It provides one of the earliest and most-detailed examples of what was later called program music—music with a narrative element.

  Vivaldi took great pains to relate his music to the texts of the poems, translating the poetic lines themselves directly into the music on the page. In the middle section of the Spring concerto, where the goatherd sleeps, his barking dog can be marked in the viola section. Other natural occurrences are similarly evoked. Vivaldi separated each concerto into three movements, fast-slow-fast, and likewise each linked sonnet into three sections

  Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_(Vivaldi)]

  
  

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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

---

• Song w/Instrument: Maracas Hi, Low, Scale

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out maracas, explore shaking and high and low pitches. Then sing song several times.

  Lyrics:
  

  I am shaking my maracas
  Way up high
  Way up high
  Way up high
  I am shaking my maracas way up high
  Way up high in the air

  I am shaking my maracas
  Way down low
  Way down low
  Way down low
  I am shaking my maracas way down low
  Shaking them near the ground

  I am tapping my maracas
  to the scale
  Do re me fa so la ti do
  I am shaking my maracas
  to the scale
  Do re me fa so la ti do

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• Body Awareness: Hop Mr. Rabbit

  Activity Instructions:

  Practice hopping, wiggling your nose, chomping your teeth, scratching your ears. Then play song and follow motions.

  Lyrics:
  

  Hop hop Mr. Rabbit,
  Hop hop down the trail

  Wiggle your nose, Mr. Rabbit
  Wiggle your nose, down the trail

  Chomp your teeth Mr. Rabbit
  chomping on an orange carrot

  Scratch your ear Mr. Rabbit
  Scratch your ear with your paws

  Hop hop Mr. Rabbit,
  Hop hop down the trail

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• Alphabet Song w/Instrument: Letter J – Jump goes the Jellyfish

  Activity Instructions:

  Talk about things that begin with the letter J. Children jump from polyspot to polyspot ringing bells during the song, and freeze when the teacher stops singing.

  Lyrics:
  

  Jump goes the Jellyfish, Jiggling like Jello
  Jump goes the Jellyfish, Jingling his bells
  Jump goes the Jellyfish, Jiggling like Jello
  Jump goes the Jellyfish, Jiggling his bells

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• Solfege Song: Row Your Boat

  Activity Instructions:

  Hand out microphones. Say hello to each of the kids. Ask the children what songs they would like to sing.
  Then transition into solfege. Have them sing Do, Re, Mi Fa, Sol, Fa, Mi, Re, then Do (repeat several times, be silly)
  Sing syllables one phrase at a time, repeat phrase with parents.
  Afterwards, sing song on words.

  Lyrics:
  

  Do, Do, Do Re Me – 11123
  Mi Re Mi Fa Sol  – 32345
  Do Do Do Sol Sol Sol Mi Mi Mi Do Do Do  – 888 555 333 111
  Sol Fa Mi Re Do  – 54321

   

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• Song w/Pitched Instrument: Pop Goes the Weasel

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out boom whackers. Allow children to explore hitting them on the ground. Practice cueing colors. Then play the song, a few notes at a time.

  Lyrics:
  

   CCDD EGECC CCDDEC CCCDDEGEC ADFEC

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• Composing Activity: Animal Composing Card

  Activity Instructions:

  Make sure to print the printable before class – and practice this one. This is a representational composing activity. Point to a picture, and sing the short melody associated with each picture. Then have the children point, and sing the matching melody for what they point to. They are composing the melody based on what picture they point to.

  Lyrics:
  

  Elephant  – do do do
  Panda Bear – do re mi
  Lion – do sol
  Tiger – do mi
  Zebra – do fa

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• Song w/Ball: Roll the Spiky Ball

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Have children pair up. Practice rolling, bouncing, ball on head, nose, knees, toes.

  Lyrics:
  

  [INTRO]
  Will you roll the spiky ball
  Will you roll the spiky ball
  Will you roll the spiky ball to a friend
  (repeat)

  [BREAK, introduce bouncing]

  Will you bounce the spiky ball
  Will you bounce the spiky ball
  Will you bounce the spiky ball with your hands
  (repeat)

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

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• World Music Dance: Africa – He Lives in You from Lion King- African Tribal Music

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out scarves for children to dance with

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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!

---

• Musical Game: 123, Indentify Me Review

  Activity Instructions:

  Show children pictures of instruments on the wall, tell them their names and let them listen to the sound with the .mp3 player. Have them run to the pictures on the wall and touch the instrument. Have them identify each instrument a couple of times.

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• Puppet: Three Little Bunnies

  Activity Instructions:

  Use bunny finger puppets to sing song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Three little bunnies jumping on the bed
  One fell off and bumped his head
  Mamma called the doctor and the doctor said
  No more bunnies jumping on the bed

  You may jump but on the ground
  Where you will be safe and sound
  You may hop and play around
  But you must do it on the ground

  (continue with 2 and 1…)

---

• 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: Vivalidi – Spring, from The Four Seasons

  Activity Instructions:

  Allow children to listen as they enter. Pick an instrument you are not using for them to play with.

  Historical information:

  The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives a musical expression to a season of the year. They were written about 1721 and were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight additional violin concerti, as Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (“The Contest Between Harmony and Invention”).

  The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi’s works. Unusually for the time, Vivaldi published the concerti with accompanying poems (possibly written by Vivaldi himself) that elucidated what it was about those seasons that his music was intended to evoke. It provides one of the earliest and most-detailed examples of what was later called program music—music with a narrative element.

  Vivaldi took great pains to relate his music to the texts of the poems, translating the poetic lines themselves directly into the music on the page. In the middle section of the Spring concerto, where the goatherd sleeps, his barking dog can be marked in the viola section. Other natural occurrences are similarly evoked. Vivaldi separated each concerto into three movements, fast-slow-fast, and likewise each linked sonnet into three sections

  Source: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Seasons_(Vivaldi)]

  
  

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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

---

• Song w/Instrument: Maracas Hi, Low, Scale

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out maracas, explore shaking and high and low pitches. Then sing song several times.

  Lyrics:
  

  I am shaking my maracas
  Way up high
  Way up high
  Way up high
  I am shaking my maracas way up high
  Way up high in the air

  I am shaking my maracas
  Way down low
  Way down low
  Way down low
  I am shaking my maracas way down low
  Shaking them near the ground

  I am tapping my maracas
  to the scale
  Do re me fa so la ti do
  I am shaking my maracas
  to the scale
  Do re me fa so la ti do

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• Peek-a-boo: Peek-a-boo, I see you

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

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

  Lyrics:
  

  Peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo
  I see you, I see you
  Peek-a-boo, peek-a-boo
  I see you, I see you, boo!
  (repeat)

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• Color or Shape Song: Egg Decorations

  Activity Instructions:

  Point out decorated eggs on the wall to the children. Review the colors and patterns. Then have the children go to the wall and touch the egg that you are describing.

  Lyrics:
  

  Hop like a bunny 
  Hop like a bunny
  Find the egg that has [*green stripes]
  Hop like a bunny 
  Hop like a bunny
  Find the egg that has [*green stripes]

  *pink polka dots, purple zig zags, green stripes, solid blue

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• Body Awareness: Hop Mr. Rabbit

  Activity Instructions:

  Practice hopping, wiggling your nose, chomping your teeth, scratching your ears. Then play song and follow motions.

  Lyrics:
  

  Hop hop Mr. Rabbit,
  Hop hop down the trail

  Wiggle your nose, Mr. Rabbit
  Wiggle your nose, down the trail

  Chomp your teeth Mr. Rabbit
  chomping on an orange carrot

  Scratch your ear Mr. Rabbit
  Scratch your ear with your paws

  Hop hop Mr. Rabbit,
  Hop hop down the trail

---

• Song w/Pitched Instrument: Pop Goes the Weasel

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out boom whackers. Allow children to explore hitting them on the ground. Practice cueing colors. Then play the song, a few notes at a time.

  Lyrics:
  

   CCDD EGECC CCDDEC CCCDDEGEC ADFEC

---

• Solfege Song: Row Your Boat

  Activity Instructions:

  Hand out microphones. Say hello to each of the kids. Ask the children what songs they would like to sing.
  Then transition into solfege. Have them sing Do, Re, Mi Fa, Sol, Fa, Mi, Re, then Do (repeat several times, be silly)
  Sing syllables one phrase at a time, repeat phrase with parents.
  Afterwards, sing song on words.

  Lyrics:
  

  Do, Do, Do Re Me – 11123
  Mi Re Mi Fa Sol  – 32345
  Do Do Do Sol Sol Sol Mi Mi Mi Do Do Do  – 888 555 333 111
  Sol Fa Mi Re Do  – 54321

   

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• Song w/Ball: Roll the Spiky Ball

  Equipment:
  

  Activity Instructions:

  Have children pair up. Practice rolling, bouncing, ball on head, nose, knees, toes.

  Lyrics:
  

  [INTRO]
  Will you roll the spiky ball
  Will you roll the spiky ball
  Will you roll the spiky ball to a friend
  (repeat)

  [BREAK, introduce bouncing]

  Will you bounce the spiky ball
  Will you bounce the spiky ball
  Will you bounce the spiky ball with your hands
  (repeat)

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

---

• World Music Dance: Africa – He Lives in You from Lion King- African Tribal Music

  Activity Instructions:

  Pass out scarves for children to dance with

---

• 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!

---

• Musical Composition Activity: Animal Composing Card

  Activity Instructions:

  Make sure to print the printable before class – and practice this one. This is a representational composing activity. Point to a picture, and sing the short melody associated with each picture. Then have the children point, and sing the matching melody for what they point to. They are composing the melody based on what picture they point to.

  Lyrics:
  

  Elephant  – do do do
  Panda Bear – do re mi
  Lion – do sol
  Tiger – do mi
  Zebra – do fa

---

• Musical Game: 123, Indentify Me Review

  Activity Instructions:

  Show children pictures of instruments on the wall, tell them their names and let them listen to the sound with the .mp3 player. Have them run to the pictures on the wall and touch the instrument. Have them identify each instrument a couple of times.

---

• Puppet: Three Little Bunnies

  Activity Instructions:

  Use bunny finger puppets to sing song.

  Lyrics:
  

  Three little bunnies jumping on the bed
  One fell off and bumped his head
  Mamma called the doctor and the doctor said
  No more bunnies jumping on the bed

  You may jump but on the ground
  Where you will be safe and sound
  You may hop and play around
  But you must do it on the ground

  (continue with 2 and 1…)

---

• 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 :|